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Foods With Funny-Sounding Names...?

We make Papas Con Huevos (potatoes and eggs). One time my wife was texting other family members about it and the talk-to-text feature transcribed it as “Popeye’s Gone Weebles.”

So that’s what we call it sometimes.
 
@Outdated has so far (tastefully) omitted mentioning the Aussie favourite - the “snot block”, a (traditionally bright yellow) vanilla custard confectionery. (The proper, polite name is a “vanilla slice”.)
 
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Here they're called Snags if they're made from beef.

The Brits probably win the prize for funny food names though. As Mary mentioned, they have a desert called Spotted Dick. There's also:

Toad In The Hole - a tray of Yorkshire Pudding with beef sausages in it.
Bubble and Squeak - the previous evening's left over vegetables pressed in to patties and fried.

I used to get both of those packed in my school lunch as a kid.

Aussie language tends to confuse Americans a bit too. If they come here and ask for "pie" with no other adjective what they're going to get is a hot Beef pie. In Australia if it doesn't have pastry over the top then it's not a pie, it's a Tart if it's sweet or a Flan if it's savoury. A Pizza is not a pie here, it's a Flan.

Also in Australia the word Burger refers to the type of bun the food is in, not to a beef patty. So you can ask for a chicken burger or a fish burger. Here a Sandwich means ordinary sliced bread instead of a burger bun so if you ask for a chicken sandwich that's exactly what you'll get.
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The differences between the UK and the USA when it comes to defining biscuits, muffins, cookies, scones and crackers are legendary.
 
Mary Terry said:
The differences between the UK and the USA when it comes to defining biscuits, muffins, cookies, scones and crackers are legendary.
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And Aussies speak very British English so it's much the same here. Cookies and Crackers aren't words that exist in our vocabulary.

What the US calls a Cookie we call a Biscuit.
What the US calls a Cracker is to us a Dry Biscuit.
What the US calls a Biscuit is to us something like a Scone.

We also don't use the word Soda, here they're called Soft Drinks.
 
Mush. (Particularly if you repeat it a few times.)

Also, the first time I heard of slush, I thought it sounded funny.

There’s also a brand of baked beans called B&M. Doesn’t that sound appetizing?
 
NDR2 said:
Mush. (Particularly if you repeat it a few times.)

Also, the first time I heard of slush, I thought it sounded funny.

There’s also a brand of baked beans called B&M. Doesn’t that sound appetizing?
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I haven't heard "mush" for decades! We used to have mush all the time growing up.
 
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