help an american get the uk lingo :)

[MrsKTB]

Bucks Fizz - Mimossa

 

[myasmumma]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnhzA9GrF1o
lol this reminded me of a youtube video i came across

 

[mafiamom]

so is Christmas pudding a special kind of dessert or just desserts (general) you have around christmas?

also, grits come from corn. they are very regional. i know a lot of people from the northern part of the US who have never had them.

 

[YorkieMom]

so is Christmas pudding a special kind of dessert or just desserts (general) you have around christmas?

also, grits come from corn. they are very regional. i know a lot of people from the northern part of the US who have never had them.

Christmas pudding is an actu dessert. It's made months before with dried fruit, spices and alcohol and then aged until you eat it. It's steamed to bake it and comes out as a solid lump which you then cut kind of like a cake. It's served hot at Christmas with warm custard, which they don't really have in north America, so if it was eaten there, they'd probably serve it with ice cream.

My family live near Vancouver and no one there or in the Seattle area has see. Grits sold in stores. It's very southern.

 

[feedindy]

Hey ladies! This thread is great!

To all the UK ladies... what are some American foods that you don't understand or aren't the same. I think so far we've had grits and bacon on this thread.

Have any of you ladies tried collard greens or scrapple for example? Philadelphia cheesesteaks? Oh now I'm hungry!

 

[jocelynmarie]

I have never had grits before, I've heard of them, but its definitely a southern thing!!

 

[xsarahbellax]

Have any of you ladies tried collard greens or scrapple for example? Philadelphia cheesesteaks?

I don't know what any of those are!!

 

[Lysal]

Bucks Fizz - Mimossa

I always wondered what a mimossa was when it was mentioned on american tv shows.

 

[jocelynmarie]

So are vests like onesies? I never hear you ladies in the UK say onesies, so thats what I've always assumed you meant when you say vests.

 

[wasey]

I say onsies, but they've only really started to become popular again lately (Where i'm from anyway). A vest is like... a little strappy top that people wear under clothes/in summertime on it's own.

We used to have to do PE in vests & knickers :'(

 

[BabyBG]

And don't forget fannypack and bum-bag!
As an American living in the UK, I always thought a bum-bag was for people with incontinence problems!

 

[Love_Krystal]

Porridge is similar to what we refer to as "oatmeal"

I am from the southern us. Grits are a normal everyday breakfast food here...they are made from ground dried corn which is boiled until it becomes soft & thickened sort of like oatmeal but a grainy texture not soft. Some people eat them sweet but mostly we add salt butter bacon (the streaky kind lol) or cheese and some people mix them with their eggs etc

I love this thread!

 

[MizzDeeDee]

https://www.spiceplace.com/blog/2007/01/15/what-the-heck-is-scrapple/

So very very good.

Christmas pudding sounds like fruit cake a bit.

 

[MommaBear90]

ice lollies? are those popsicles? a "lolly" here would be like a sucker. and yeah Christmas Pudding sounds like fruit cake.

What do you call soda? Here we say "pop", but "soda" is common too. I have relatives from southern USA that refer to it all as "coke".

 

[Jess812]

ice lollies? are those popsicles? a "lolly" here would be like a sucker. and yeah Christmas Pudding sounds like fruit cake.

What do you call soda? Here we say "pop", but "soda" is common too. I have relatives from southern USA that refer to it all as "coke".

yeah we usually say 'pop' or 'coke' if the drink is coke

 

[BECC4]

Just wanted to clear up the lucozade, coke discussion that appeared earlier because it caught my eye and made me wonder.

I looked on my bottle of lucozade, love the stuff, and there is 0.012% caffeine which equates to roughly 0.012g per 100ml. Coca-cola's website says there is 32mg or 0.032g in a 330ml can which equates to roughly 0.01g per 100ml (rounded up). So there is fractionally more caffeine in lucozade, but diet coke however has more caffeine in it than full sugar coke, 42mg in 330ml which works out as 0.013g per 100ml.

So the upshot is, lucozade has slightly more caffeine than full sugar coke but slightly less than diet coke. Lets face it the difference is minuscule, drink whichever you prefer

 

[Lettuce]

ice lollies? are those popsicles? a "lolly" here would be like a sucker. and yeah Christmas Pudding sounds like fruit cake.

What do you call soda? Here we say "pop", but "soda" is common too. I have relatives from southern USA that refer to it all as "coke".

yeah we usually say 'pop' or 'coke' if the drink is coke

To add to confusion, in Scotland we refer to fizzy juice as "Ginger" in some areas! Lol

 

[Maid Marian]

ice lollies? are those popsicles? a "lolly" here would be like a sucker. and yeah Christmas Pudding sounds like fruit cake.

What do you call soda? Here we say "pop", but "soda" is common too. I have relatives from southern USA that refer to it all as "coke".

yeah we usually say 'pop' or 'coke' if the drink is coke

To add to confusion, in Scotland we refer to fizzy juice as "Ginger" in some areas! Lol

Wow, never heard of that! Is it a Glasgow thing?

 

[Lettuce]

ice lollies? are those popsicles? a "lolly" here would be like a sucker. and yeah Christmas Pudding sounds like fruit cake.

What do you call soda? Here we say "pop", but "soda" is common too. I have relatives from southern USA that refer to it all as "coke".

yeah we usually say 'pop' or 'coke' if the drink is coke

To add to confusion, in Scotland we refer to fizzy juice as "Ginger" in some areas! Lol

Wow, never heard of that! Is it a Glasgow thing?

probably! My granny used to call it Skoosh as well! often ginger is used as a description of that classic, irn bru, but it's commonly used to refer to all fizzy drinks.

 

[Jellybean0k]

In the UK pants are underwear ie knickers whereas in America pants refer to trousers get it lol.

Lynda

I call pants trousers not underwear !!