Separated By a Common Language - US and UK

[NothingToSeeHere]

Nope...not at all like sweetcorn. Different flavor and texture entirely. - Hominy. Perhaps you might be able to buy it in a can over there. Or not.

Does. Not. Compute. I guess this is one of those things where we have no common ground to aid understanding. Either that or I'm just being dense... any minute now someone else will pop up to say we have this stuff in the uk and I'll be all embarrassed

 

[NothingToSeeHere]

Crescents in Canada, croissants in my province.

If you call roundabouts croissants, what do you call actual croissants?

 

[Mia]

If you call roundabouts croissants, what do you call actual croissants?

The same, croissants. Lots of french words have many different meanings, some are spelled exactly the same way, pronounced differently but mean something else. The language has remained essentially unchanged since the eighteenth century. Joile is used as the language has progressed over the centuries but has not been officially updated.

Recently France added courriel to the language, for email.

 

[Judge]

Does. Not. Translate. I guess this is one of those things where we have no common ground to aid understanding. Either that or I'm just being dense... any minute now someone else will pop up to say we have this stuff in the uk and I'll be all embarrassed

Buy hominy, boil it and simply crush it into a paste. Voila! Y'all got grits.

It's a bit better with salt, pepper, butter and even bits of bacon.

Tropical Sun White Hominy Corn 500g: Amazon.co.uk: Grocery

 

[Judge]

Ahhhh! "Gobstoppers". Those props Marlon Brando used in his mouth for "The Godfather".

Ok, now I get it...lol.

Jawbreakers.

 

[Streetwise]

English muffin is English its circular bread product slightly heavier than a bread bun slightly stodgy chewier

 

[NothingToSeeHere]

English muffin is English its circular bread product slightly heavier than a bread bun slightly stodgy chewier

Seriously? How have I never come across this? Is it a regional thing? I googled them and apparently the things called 'english muffins' in america are marketed as 'american muffins' here.

 

[Judge]

Seriously? How have I never come across this? Is it a regional thing? I googled them and apparently the things called 'english muffins' in america are marketed as 'american muffins' here.

"Sources attribute the muffins to a version invented in the United States by an English immigrant, Samuel Bath Thomas."

English muffin - Wikipedia

 

[Fridgemagnetman]

Eccles cakes

 

[Streetwise]

nah its your age ,served with tea ,toast,crumpets,scones,on an afternoon big on bread in England , you can get them in non German named supermarkets some bakers
m&s used to sell cheese or marmite muffins (yum with butter or marg )
loved pikelets for a while (a very thin crumpet(also

Seriously? How have I never come across this? Is it a regional thing? I googled them and apparently the things called 'english muffins' in america are marketed as 'american muffins' here.

 

[Streetwise]

remember the song have you seen the muffin! man the muffin man have you seen the muffin man who lives down drury lane !

Seriously? How have I never come across this? Is it a regional thing? I googled them and apparently the things called 'english muffins' in america are marketed as 'american muffins' here.

 

[Streetwise]

no its a dish from the south of the us originally made by the indigenous peoples as maize is indigenous to the us.remember the song have you seen the muffin! man the muffin man have you seen the muffin man who lives down drury lane !

Seriously? How have I never come across this? Is it a regional thing? I googled them and apparently the things called 'english muffins' in america are marketed as 'american muffins' here.

Does. Not. Compute. I guess this is one of those things where we have no common ground to aid understanding. Either that or I'm just being dense... any minute now someone else will pop up to say we have this stuff in the uk and I'll be all embarrassed

 

[Streetwise]

ah my blasted phone again it hates me

no its a dish from the south of the us originally made by the indigenous peoples as maize is indigenous to the us.remember the song have you seen the muffin! man the muffin man have you seen the muffin man who lives down drury lane !

 

[Judge]

no its a dish from the south of the us originally made by the indigenous peoples as maize is indigenous to the us.remember the song have you seen the muffin! man the muffin man have you seen the muffin man who lives down drury lane !

Corn itself came from indigenous peoples. That's no secret. Europeans had to venture to the new world just to discover it existed.

But if you ask for "grits" on an Indian Reservation, they're likely to just stare at y'all.

 

[Streetwise]

wasnt saying grits meant hominy

Corn itself came from indigenous peoples. That's no secret. Europeans had to venture to the new world just to discover it existed.

But if you ask for "grits" on an Indian Reservation, they're likely to just stare at y'all.

 

[Judge]

wasnt saying grits meant hominy

You have to mash hominy down to make it into grits. Though technically with the germ removed. As I recall Quaker Oats makes instant grits, which apparently have a few links to Britain for sale in the UK.

But then "instant" anything is usually a turn-off for me. LOL..but who knows? That might be what the restaurants actually serve.

 

[Streetwise]

croissants in the UK

If you call roundabouts croissants, what do you call actual croissants?

 

[clg114]

What is a truck called in the UK?

 

[Judge]

What is a truck called in the UK?

Lorry....forgot about that one.

Learned that one as a small child with the original British Matchbox cars. Toys I loved.

I think what I liked best about Matchbox were that these British cars and trucks for the most part didn't exist on this side of the pond. Makes and models never seen or heard of here.

 

[Judge]

Yanks/Yankees - A term often used by the British to describe Americans. Contemptuously or otherwise.

Yanks/Yankees - A term that means different things to different people in America. Often used disparagingly by Southerners to describe Northerners. Or a baseball team that has the finest players money can buy. Which isn't necessarily a kind thing to say either.

Growing up in 60s Virginia I knew it was never a term used in a kind or benevolent way.