For my dear americans - what are the following.......?!
1. if jelly is jello, what is jelly for you?
2. if jam is jelly, whats jam for you?
3. if a biscuit is a cookie, whats a biscuit for you?
4. if you eat xmas dinner for thanksgiving, what do you eat for xmas?
5. whats a tart with a sweet filling called?
6. whats a pie with savoury filling called? like chicken and mushroom pie or steak and onion we have here in UK.
7. do you have a word for pudding? like we havebread and butter pudding.
8. do you like british food? if so whats your favourite? if not, y not?
9. have you ever had a toad in the hole?
10. whats a sloppy joe?
11. do you eat roast dinners with gravy, roast potatoes and veg? or anything similar?
12. what do you eat for thanksgiving traditionally with the turkey?
13. if crisps are chips, what are crisps to you?
and i would like to say a huge thank you! im visiting the usa for the first time!
Answers: hello. im from the uk, and am a little lost sometimes when i read the food forums. please could you tell me......
1. if jelly is jello, what is jelly for you?
2. if jam is jelly, whats jam for you?
3. if a biscuit is a cookie, whats a biscuit for you?
4. if you eat xmas dinner for thanksgiving, what do you eat for xmas?
5. whats a tart with a sweet filling called?
6. whats a pie with savoury filling called? like chicken and mushroom pie or steak and onion we have here in UK.
7. do you have a word for pudding? like we havebread and butter pudding.
8. do you like british food? if so whats your favourite? if not, y not?
9. have you ever had a toad in the hole?
10. whats a sloppy joe?
11. do you eat roast dinners with gravy, roast potatoes and veg? or anything similar?
12. what do you eat for thanksgiving traditionally with the turkey?
13. if crisps are chips, what are crisps to you?
and i would like to say a huge thank you! im visiting the usa for the first time!
hello. im from the uk, and am a little lost sometimes when i read the food forums. please could you tell me......
1. if jelly is jello, what is jelly for you?
jelly for me is jam for you
2. if jam is jelly, whats jam for you?
jam for me is confiture for you and the french
3. if a biscuit is a cookie, whats a biscuit for you?
a biscuit for me is a bread roll for you
4. if you eat xmas dinner for thanksgiving, what do you eat for xmas?
for thanksgiving yes, we eat what you eat for xmas, and for xmas we eat ham.
5. whats a tart with a sweet filling called?
oh a pie. like a rubarb tart would be a rhubarb pie.
6. whats a pie with savoury filling called? like chicken and mushroom pie or steak and onion we have here in UK.
its called a pot pie, it has pastry just the same. and to you "pot pie" would sound like a stew.lol I like pukka pies from the chippy in uk. :-(
7. do you have a word for pudding? like we havebread and butter pudding.
im not sure on this one, i think we eat our pies more. like apple, pumpkin etc.
8. do you like british food? if so whats your favourite? if not, y not?
i like lancashire hotpot, toad in the hole, fish and chips with salt and vinegar and curry sauce and mushy peas and i like roast beef with yorkshire pudding and ofcourse, pizza supper and battered mars bars! i ate these whilst i lived in england and scotland. forgive me for being cheeky, but i also like colcannon!
9. have you ever had a toad in the hole?
yes its delicious with alot of english mustard
10. whats a sloppy joe? hamburger with a tangy sauce,
11. do you eat roast dinners with gravy, roast potatoes and veg? or anything similar?
yes we have the same sunday roast as you do, but i miss proper british ones.
12. what do you eat for thanksgiving traditionally with the turkey?
same as you have for xmas, but we also have bread rolls, mac and cheese and different dessert, whereas you''d have christmas pudding with brandy sauce, we dont
13. if crisps are chips, what are crisps to you? crisps to you are potato chips, but to me theyre nothing
to the person who said british food is bland - go and have a chicken tikka massala.
and to the person who said "british restaurants" dont do well outside of england, - HAHAHAHA. british = england, scotland, wales.
i know for a fact british food does excellently in pubs outside of britain. ive been to many through out western (spain, portugal) and eastern (czech republic, germany, austria, croatia etc) europe, austrailia, new york, and even as far as thailand and india!
srry but im not ur dear American
sorry im mexican
not american
Love if or leave it!!
jelly is fruit preserves you spread on toast
jam is the same but has more actual fruit
biscuit is a roll (bread)
do NOT eat xmas dinner for t'giving...eat Turkey...Xmas is usually ham
Tart (but not used too much)
pot pie
our puddings are only sweet desserts
your breakfasts are good
9-no
ground beef in b-b-q sauce
11-yes, we call it roast beef or pot roast
sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, some green veggie
no such thing as crisps
1. if jelly is jello, what is jelly for you? I don't understand this.
2. if jam is jelly, whats jam for you? We do see the difference between jam and jelly
3. if a biscuit is a cookie, whats a biscuit for you? Cookies are cookies and a biscuit is a biscuit
4. if you eat xmas dinner for thanksgiving, what do you eat for xmas? turkey is for thanksgiving and ham is for christmas
5. whats a tart with a sweet filling called? A tart or a doughnut
6. whats a pie with savoury filling called? like chicken and mushroom pie or steak and onion we have here in UK.
A quiche
7. do you have a word for pudding? like we havebread and butter pudding.
Yes, pudding.
8. do you like british food? if so whats your favourite? if not, y not?
I like fish and chips but all in all, I find most british food to be bland.
9. have you ever had a toad in the hole?
Pardon?
10. whats a sloppy joe?
Hamburger with a thick sauce over a hamburger bun
11. do you eat roast dinners with gravy, roast potatoes and veg? or anything similar?
Yes. All of that. Delicious
12. what do you eat for thanksgiving traditionally with the turkey?
Stuffing, green been casserole, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie, pecan pie
13. if crisps are chips, what are crisps to you?
Crisps? We don't have crisps.
jelly is something we spread on toast, like jam
jam is another type of jelly
a biscuit is a hearty roll we like to eat with gravy during breakfast
Christmas dinner
a tart
a pot pie
dessert
I do like british food, steak and kidney pie, and of course the fish and chips
I have had toad in a hole
a sloppy joe is hamburger meat with a sweet and tangy sauce all cooked together and eaten on a hamburger bun
We do eat roast dinners like yours, typically on Sunday after church (well at least my family does)
With Thanksgiving my family eats stuffing, mashed potatos and gravy, homemade noodles, mac and cheese, veggies, rolls, pie
crisps are potato chips
Have a great visit!!!! I had a great time when I was in England, so I hope you have a great time in the states =)
1. jam
2. jelly
3. a breakfast bread that you would spread jam or jelly on.
4. turkey or ham
5. pie?
6. pot pie? I am not sure what you have there.
7. either just pudding or bread pudding
8. not sure I have tried any. What are some types of british food?
9. toad in the what?
10. it is like hamburger meat ground up with a type of barbeque sauce on a bun.
11. I love roast with carrots, potatoes and celery
12. candied sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, stuffing, green beans, and pie such as pumpkin, sweet potato or pecan.
13. crisps are nothing.
Enjoy your visit.
I'm from the U.S and I love bangers 'n mash and fish and chips. That's probably the most "authentic" UK food I've had.
As far as beers...Belhaven Scottish Ale is my favorite/favourite beer of all.
Oh, and here traditional Christmas dinner and traditional Thanksgiving dinner usually have similiar items -- turkey, stuffing, veggies, and pumpkin pie and apple pie for dessert.
- Jelly and jam are both viewed as the same thing- a fruit spread for toast.
- A biscuit is a non-sweet, usually buttered, baked bread normally served for breakfast.
- As for xmas dinner? Do you mean the type of food we eat? Everyone has their own xmas dinner traditions, but thanksgiving is pretty universal- turkey, stuffing, cranberries, etc.
- a tart with a sweet filling is called a pie
- savory pies are still called pies, they just need a modifier to describe the filling. i.e. Shepherd's pie, pot pie
- nope bread and rice pudding stay the same
- Love fried fish fillets, bangers and mash, and those little chocolate cookies you have at Christmas. And TEA!
- no idea what a toad in the hole is! =)
- a sloppy joe is a sandwich. browned hamburger meat in a tomato-ish sauce is piled high on a bun. It tends to fall out all over the place, hence the term "sloppy"
- roast it all I say, I'll eat it!
- we eat dressing/stuffing, green beans, sweet potatoes or yams, rolls, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie
- we call them all "chips" and chips for you are french fries to us.
Have fun visiting! What region will you be going to? They each have their own specialty foods that you should try.
1 jelly is not jello...jello is a wiggly fruity dessert and jelly is something you put on a sandwich
2 jam is another name for jelly
3 a biscuit is not a cookie, its more of a bread
4 you don't you eat thanksgiving dinner on thanksgiving, christmas dinner on christmas
5 what do you mean by tart? like...pastry? we have donuts, turnovers, pies etc...
6 that would be a pot pie
7 we just call it pudding, and the flavor ie...chocolate pudding
8 i'm not sure i've had it
9 nope
10 its ground beef with a special sauce made of barbeque and mustard (its made all different ways) put on a hamburger bun
11 yes
12 stuffing, mashed potatoes, ham, vegies, cranberry sauce
13 um... well i guess crumbs...like apple crisp is a dessert with apples and crumbly stuff on top
1. jello is jello. jelly is jelly. (but u'd call it jam.)
2. jam is when u f**** up yer finger playing basketball)
3. a biscuit wud be what u call a roll.
4. for thanksgiving we eat turkey ham sweet potates fried potatoes stuffing rolls gravy. for xmas we eat ham lamb potatoes and practically the things we eat at thanksgiving.
5. a poptart.
6. cassarole
7. nope. just pudding. or maybe in some rich parts of the country you'd call it custard.
8. eh whats the diffrence?
9. no?
10. YUMM!!!!! its like a hamburger but the meet has this really good seasoning and they dont mold the ground beef into a patty so its just the beef on a hamburger bun. so thats why its SLOPPY.
11. yea i do. but thats just because my mom is from ireland so she still cooks the similar to how her family did when she was growing up.
12. stuffing and gravy. sometimes cranberries.
13. crisps arent really anything. you'd use CRISPY to say that the chicken is crispy. as in crunchy.
HAVE FUN IN THE U.S!!!!!!!!!
-Jelly is usually grape jelly and is firmer than jam.
-Jam is usually strawberry, is sweeter than jelly and is not as firm.
-A biscuit is a dinner roll, just bread.
-Xmas dinner, pretty much the same thing as T-day except some don't have the turkey, turkey isn't as important on xmas
-A tart I guess, guess a jelly doughnut is the closest thing
-Pot Pie
-Pudding is just pudding. Chocolate, butterscotch, bread, rice, etc.
-Don't think I've had any British food that isn't popular in america.
-Don't know what "toad in the hole" is
-A sloppy joe is a sandwich on hamburger buns made from ground hambuger fried and then mixed with a brown tangy sauce. It's called sloppy cause the stuff tends to fall out from between the bread - I don't like it, really.
-Yes, sides for roasts include either and often both
-Stuffing, mash potatoes, cranberry sauce
-don't call anything crisps, think you are thinking of fries.
I can answer some, but not all....
1. if jelly is jello, what is jelly for you? I don't consider jello jelly. Jello is gelatin. Jelly is well, like jam.
2. if jam is jelly, whats jam for you? Jam to me is the same as Jelly...I'm sure there is a different, but I don't pay attention.
3. if a biscuit is a cookie, whats a biscuit for you? A biscuit is either a dog treat, or baked dough, kind of like bread but fluffier.
4. if you eat xmas dinner for thanksgiving, what do you eat for xmas? For Thankgiving, it's a tradition to eat turkey - for christmas some eat turkey, but my family eats ham.
5. whats a tart with a sweet filling called? Not sure.
6. whats a pie with savoury filling called? Pot pie
7. do you have a word for pudding? just pudding or breadpudding
8. do you like british food? if so whats your favourite? if not, y not? I don't know of any british food?
9. have you ever had a toad in the hole? No, no clue what that is.
10. whats a sloppy joe? ground beef or ground turkey mixed with ketchup or any kind of tomato sauce (Manwich is a good brand of sauce) Put this on a bun and you have a sloppy joe! They're good.
11. do you eat roast dinners with gravy, roast potatoes and veg? or anything similar? Yes, we eat stuff like that.
12. what do you eat for thanksgiving traditionally with the turkey? mashed potatoes with gravy, sweet potatoes/yams. Cranberries in a can, corn, fruit salads, jello salads, green bean casserole, rolls (bread), stuffing.
13. if crisps are chips, what are crisps to you? I don't know this one.
Hope this helps some! :) Enjoy your visit!
1)Jelly is jam-smashed up fruit used on bread
2)jam is just another name for jelly
3)biscuit is bread usually for dinner or breakfast
4)Christmas dinner and thanksgiving dinner are pretty much the same thing, only replace the turkey for Thanksgiving with a ham for Christmas
6) probably a pot pie, we have chicken pot pie here (filled with chicken and vegetables) but other than that I have no idea
7)pudding is pudding
8)can't say I've had anything authentically British
9)?????
10) a sloppy joe is chopped up hamburger meat (I think) with lots of seasoning on it, it's a really good sandwich
11) I eat baked potatoes and vegetables, but usually there is something else with it
12)stuffing, potatoes, sweet potatoes, broccoli casserole, pumpkin pie, devil eggs...
13)we don't have crisps as far as I know
have fun on your trip
1. Jelly is a sort of grape mixture that you spread onto things, like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. It is basically another form of jam.
2. Jam is a tarter form of jelly.
3. A biscuit is a bread product, it is kind of like a square-like form of your crumpets.
4. xmas dinner isn't as well defined as our thanksgiving dinner, it is more or less just some sort of big meal.
5. not sure, sorry :( just eat donuts.
6. chicken pot pies! Or just steak pies I guess, there's probably more specific names.
7. Pudding for us is a thick milky desert...I don't know what you're talking about.
8. We have every food in the world over here. Tastes vary a lot.
9. ...no
10. A ground beef sandwich.
11. Yessir, that's fairly common.
12. Cranberry sauces, stuffing, yams, mashed potatoes & gravy, green bean casserole, ham, and give or take a few other items. Those are the main ones.
13. Not sure..
1. Jelly is much like jam but without actual chunks of fruit in it. It is smooth but still fruit flavored for your toast or whatever it is you're used to putting jam on!
2. So, there is a difference between jam and jelly... Jam just has bits of fruit in it.
3. Cookies are generally sweet and biscuits are generally not and for things like breakfast to go with sausage gravy or just with butter for dinner. They are not sweet.
4. We don't eat xmas dinner for Thanksgiving, they're just both very similar! We usually have a nice ham or roasted chicken for xmas dinner instead of turkey!
5. just a tart!
6. We just call savory pies Pot Pie generally... or we get more descriptive and will name it by what is in it... Like chicken pot pie and so on.
7. We don't really have bread and butter pudding but I guess the closest thing we have is french toast, and that's not even baked!
8. I haven't really had much brit food but I'm sure I'd like it just fine! I do have a brit friend and what he talks about cooking sounds divine to me!
9. Never had a toad in the hole but it sounds really yummy!
10. A sloppy joe is a sandwich generally with a filling of ground beef cooked in some sort of skillet (or on the stove) with tomato sauce or paste, generally quite seasoned. It has "sloppy" in its name because these can get quite messy!
11. Yes we do eat roast dinners, some families more than others!
12. We traditionally have mashed potatoes with gravy, stuffing, green bean casserole, a nice salad, rolls or biscuits, cranberry sauce and lots of pie! Pumpkin seems to be the most popular thanksgiving pie but my family often has many kinds of fruit pie to chose from!
13. We don't really have anything called a crisp here...
Good luck on your trip!
For number 6, there used to be a pie with raisins, beef, and something else in it and it was called minced beef pie. Now hardly anyone puts the beef in the pies anymore. (Don't know why they stopped). Now the pie is called minced pie. For number eight I've never had British food before, but I would love to someday! What is a toad in the hole? (Please tell me). For munber 10, a sloppy joe is a kind of sandwhich. It has hamburger and some kind of sauce(usually tomato sauce or spaghetti sauce) people make it in so many different ways. It is called a sloppy joe because the sauce makes it kind of messy when you eat it. For number 11, my family eats pork and sauer kraut with carrots, potatoes, and celery. For number 12, my family eats(of course) the turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and dinner rolls. Well talk to you later.
I answered below each question outta laziness.
1. if jelly is jello, what is jelly for you?
Jelly and Jello are two differnt things. Jello is a brand name for the clear , colored Gell like snack or desert.
2. if jam is jelly, whats jam for you?
In America I think people throw the words Jello, and Jam and preserves around a lot when they don't exactly mean what they are sayin. Jelly is more spreadable. Jam is thinker,and harder to spread.
3. if a biscuit is a cookie, whats a biscuit for you?
A Biscuit is a flakey, fluffy dinner roll.
4. if you eat xmas dinner for thanksgiving, what do you eat for xmas?
Many folks eat badically the same thing at bothe Thanksgiving and Christmas. Some folks have Duck, and or Ham on Christmas rather than Turkey, since they just had it at Thanksgiving.
5. whats a tart with a sweet filling called?
hmmm, not too sure about this one. Other than a sweet-tart.
6. whats a pie with savoury filling called? like chicken and mushroom pie or steak and onion we have here in UK.
This is called a Potpie.
7. do you have a word for pudding? like we havebread and butter pudding.
mostly we call it Pudding, some folks call it custard.
8. do you like british food? if so whats your favourite? if not, y not?
I love a Shepherd pie. Is that British?
9. have you ever had a toad in the hole?
I have had "egg in the hole"
This is bread with a circle cut out. Buttered, and fried with an egg in the middle covered with cheese.
10. whats a sloppy joe?
BBQ ground beef flavored with tomato, onions and other spices served on a bun.
11. do you eat roast dinners with gravy, roast potatoes and veg? or anything similar?
A lot of folks love to make dinner all day long in their crock-pots while they are doing other things like work ect. And mostly this is roasts with veggies. YUM!
12. what do you eat for thanksgiving traditionally with the turkey?
Stuffing, green bean cassarole, Beats (cranberry) Cressant rolls. Corn. Mashed Potatoes. Gravy. Broccoli casserole. Yams (yuck)
13. if crisps are chips, what are crisps to you?
Don't hear "crisps" too often. When I hear it thought, I think of Apple Crisps.
Hope this gives some insight.
Too many questions.
Jello is gelatin
Jelly is a fruity gelatin/preserve
Jam is a thicker preserve.
A biscuit is a light small puck sized piece of bread. A cookie is a piece of bread made with sugar.
Turkey is for Thanksgiving, Ham is for Christmas.
A tart is a tart
6) is a Pot pie. a pie is a sweet desert.
Pudding here is a desert also, and no we do not have blood pudding.
British foods have been modified to fit the American menu by adding more sugar and fat, and changing the name of the food.
9) A what?
10) browned hamburger meat with a sauce then it is place inside a bun. Half of it usually ends up in your lap.
11) That's Sunday dinner
12) Corn, beans, sweet potato's, rolls
13) Thin sliced potato's are chips, long cuts potato's are French Fries.
Enjoy your visit.
1- jelly is jelly, jello is jello
2- jam has real fruit, jelly is a flavored gelatin.
3- biscuit is a biscuit, cookie is a cookie
4- Christmas dinner for Christmas, Thanksgiving dinner for Thanksgiving
5- A Tart
6- Name specific; like chicken pot pie, or chicken friande.
7- pudding is pudding
8-Yes, I had my Bangers and Beans, tomatoes, poached eggs, rack of dark toast, and porridge, just 7 weeks ago in Edinburgh, Carslile, Petersborough, London and Brighton. I guess that qualifies!
9-Nope
10- Ground beef cooked in a skillet with a Sloppy Joe (tomato based) gravy and put between 2 hamburger buns.
11- Roast dinners like roasted chicken, roasted pork loin, roasted turkey, yes with gravy. We also have roasted veggies etc.
12- Cornbread, or cornbread stuffing, cranberries, sweet potato's, mashed potato's, green beans (green bean casserole).
13- chips are chips, crisps are baked chips that are differentiated mostly as a marketing effort to separate from chips.
Great to have you visit us from across the pond.
By the way, I really enjoyed the food in UK.
I even brought back some DIGESTIVES! Ha!
1. if jelly is jello, jelly is jam without seeds
2. if jam is jelly, then jam is jelly with seeds
3. if a biscuit is a cookie, a biscuit is a bread roll that isn't sweet
4. we don't eat xmas dinner for thanksgiving, we eat thanksgiving dinner for thanksgiving
5. a tart with a sweet filling is a tart
6. a pie with savory filling is still called a pie, but sometimes people call it a "meat pie"
7. i don't know
8. i like british fish & chips, it's a lot different than it is here in the US
9. i don't know what that is.
10. a sloppy joe is a kind of hamburger except usually the beef isn't made into a patty and there's usually BBQ sauce on it.
11. yes
12. with the turkey we usually eat mashed potatoes, gravy, and usually in my family we make something with cranberries, oh yeah, and stuffing
13. i don't think i call anything a crisp, there are probably others that do though
1. Jelly is jam of fruit preserves(like what we put on toast
2. Jam is the same thing as jelly to me but sometimes people call the lint inbetween their toes toe jam- gross
3. a biscuit is similiar to a roll but a more dense texture
4. I eat thanksgiving dinner on thanksgiving like turkey and on Christmas we have special dinner but it can be whatever we feel like.
5. A pop tart :)
6. They are called "pot pies"
7. We call pudding, pudding but if you are not talking about the kind like "jello pudding" we have bread pudding
8. I like all kinds of food.
9. I don't know what a toad in the hole is!
10. Sloppy joe is ground beef mixed with a tomatoe based sauce and slapped in a kaiser roll.
11. yes and we call it "pot roast" I love it yum
12. mashed potatoes, cream corn, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, yams, stuffing, salad, yummmmmmmm!
13. crisps are not anything to me.
Have fun in the US
1. jelly is like jam/preserves fruit...strawberry is my favorite.
2.jam is not as jiggly as jelly...spreads much more easily than jelly, but i would consider same catorgory as jelly/preserves
3.a biscuit is not a cookie to me. a buscuit a bread cripsy outside browned in the oven. a cookie is a sweet desert. ever heard of chocolate chip cookies or an oreo?
4. we eat turkey for thanksgiving with dressing/some people call it stuffing., sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, green peas, corn, rolls, for x-mas we usually have a spiral sliced ham with all the side dishes again. alot of americans make a green bean cassorole with french's onions on the top.
5.tart with a sweet filling........hmmmm a pop-tart
6.a pt pie
7.pudding is a desert chocalate or vanilla. some people make rice pudding or a bread pudding too.
8.i do not know what traditional british food is
9.toad in hole? what is that?
10.a sloppy joe is ground beef cooked, drained of grease. mix in sloppy joe sauce. we have a brand called manwhich. it is basically a loose meat sandwhich. tomato based sauce with spices.
11.yes we eat roasts. like pot raost with potato carrots, celery
12.answered on number 4
13.chips are chips.....potatos fried sliced thin. i know you refer to fish and chips as ....the chips are frys........crisps....hmmmmmmm pringles
1.Jelly is a processed fruit flavored spread for toast.
2.Jam is similar to jelly but ir usually softer and has chunks of fruit in it.
3.a biscuit is a bread item that you can eat at basically any meal.
4.Most people eat turkey or Ham with all kinds of traditional side dishes for their family.
5. a turn-over
6.those kinds of pies aren't too common over here, but there are Shepherd's pie ( ground beef, mashed potatoe corn) and Pork pie at Christmas in my family.
7.pudding here is a dessert item, usually chocolate or vanilla.
8. I LOVE Bubble and squeak, and bangers and mash.
9.no, but I know what it is. : )
10.cooked ground beef in a sauce, put on a hamburger bun. very messy but very tasty.
11. Yes, that is a common dinnerhere as well.
12. stuffing, mashed potatoes, squash, bread, green bean casserole.....lots of tasty things.
13.I would say thats not a common name for anything here....though we have a kind of chip with that as the brand name.
Hope that helps, enjoy your visit!
Only prepared differently, but we have what we call Pigs in a Blanket, very similar to your Toads in a Hole. Sloppy Joes are awesome, ground beef (minced meat) with a tomato based (BBQ sauce), put into a hamburger bun, so sloppy while eating, hence the name. Stick around, lots more to come to you. ;-)
Not sure I understand or agree with all your comments, but here goes:
1. Jelly is something you spread on bread. Jello is a trademarked brand of gelatin. I've never heard of either one being confused with the other.
2. Jelly is fruit-flavored sandwich spread, usually without any fruit pulp in it. Jam is similar but with fruit pulp.
3. A biscuit is like a small baked piece of bread.
4. I eat Thanksgiving dinner on Thanksgiving, and Christmas dinner on Christmas. ???
5. Could be called many things. A fruit roll maybe. Or a jelly roll.
6. Usually called a potpie.
7. Don't know. Pudding is traditionally a sweet dessert.
8. Have not eaten much British food. I don't like some of the more stereotyped British dishes, like steak and kidney pie or blood pudding, but I'm sure your other food is quite tasty.
9. Toad in the hole? Doubt it. Sounds a bit risque.
10. Sloppy Joe is a loose meat sandwich, usually tomato flavored. My son used to call it chili (a thick American spicy meat soup) on a bun.
11. Sure. Pretty common in America, as well as the rest of the world.
12. My Thanksgiving dinner is usually turkey, ham, sweet potatoes, green beans, cranberry sauce, rolls, pies and other desserts.
13. Don't know. We have some salty snack foods similar to crackers that are called "crisps" but it is not a common name to me.
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Hello my dear Brit.
I felt compelled to answer your question to further confuse you because I am Canadian and though we use alot of the same terms as our American neighbours we have alot of terms that are different (ie. how we spell neighbor).
1. jelly is any liquid that has been gelatinized. Jell-O is a brand name.
2.jelly is cooked fruit or vegetables that is strained through cheese cloth to extract the juice. Jam is preserved with the fruit or vegetable left it. In Canada peanut butter and jam sandwiches are more popular.
3. English speaking Canadians call biscuits cookies, French speaking Canadians call cookies biscuits.
4. Canada celebrates Thanksgiving in October but we eat pretty much the same traditional meals that Americans do. What do we eat for Christmas? Pretty much everything we see!
5. A tart.
6. A pie. French Canadians have a traditional tourtiere that they eat at Christmas. It is a meat pie traditionally made with pork.
7. Pudding.
8. I grew up eating a combination of British (my Dad) and Maritime (east coast of Canada) food. Interesting. Do I make my family eat that way? Absolutely not.
9. Yes but I took medication and it went away. Just kidding. We have Yorkshire pudding or Popovers with roast beef but leave out the sausage baked in.
10. A sloppy joe is a mixture of ground beef and tomatoe sauce and spices (I always use a mix so not sure how to make from scratch) and served on a toasted hamburger bun. Yummy. Try one while you're in the U.S.
11. Yes, plus popovers.
12. Mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, brussels sprouts, candied yams, corn...........waayyyy too much food.
13. Crisps are chips in Britain.
After reading over the answers, I am amazed how varied some answers are. I have lived in different parts of the US and find it is sometimes family or local geographic areas that dictate diet. In the deep south Macaroni and Cheese is a staple at holiday meals. In the north, east, and west, it is not.
A toad in the hole is my version of chicken in a basket. A hole in a slice of bread large enough to break an egg into and fry on both sides in butter.
Crisps are fruit (usually apples or peaches, sometimes pears with oat/flour/sugar/butter mix baked on top until it is brown and crispy; hence, crisps.
I recently made sticky toffee pudding for a friend of mine that was raised in England. I found it amazingly good.
Enjoy your visit. You will find diversities in each state and sometimes in each city. New Orleans food is far different than any other in the US. It's spicy and made with lots of shrimp or crawfish. The northern states are filled with beef, pork, chicken, sausages, and potato. West coast is lots of pasta, veggies, fruit, and seafood. East coast is lots of wonderful chowders (usually potato, creamy, seafood soup) and seafood, especially lobster and crab, and in the west central like Colorado, Utah, Wyoming you will find more wild game consumed along with lots of beef.
Come back often and try to visit a different region each time you come.
Bon Appetit!