10+ Popular Foods That Are Different in the US
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Published 2019-06-01
From Great Britain to Australia, there are many food items that differ from those in the USA. Here're the main things from America’s menus that have really confused the rest of the world and we’ll present them to you right away to save you from having a food panic attack during your next trip around the world.
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TIMESTAMPS:
Pancakes 0:31
Toast 1:24
Pigs in a blanket 2:02
Bacon 2:47
Pudding 3:28
Eggs 4:19
Breadsticks 5:03
Ketchup 5:43
Chips 6:28
Cookies 7:19
Jelly 8:00
Pie 8:42
Milky Way bars 9:20
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SUMMARY:
- Before they were officially dubbed “pancakes” in America, they used to be called “Indian Cakes.” Crepes, on the other hand, have nothing to do with pancakes in terms of origin since they date back to 13th-century France.
- American “toast” is just a toasted piece of bread. But if you’ve ever had French toast, well, you know it’s a sweet delight of white bread soaked in a mixture of beaten eggs, milk, sugar, vanilla, and cinnamon.
- If you’re in the UK, pigs in a blanket would involve wrapping hotdogs in bacon. Now here’s where it gets trippy: the equivalent of American pigs in a blanket is called a “sausage roll” in the UK.
- Bacon in the US comes from the pig’s belly and is served in thin crispy strips coated with fat. In the UK, “bacon” is from the pig’s back, and it’s less fatty, thicker, chewy, and served in round slices.
- Americans will imagine a creamy custard dessert when they think of pudding. If you were to travel to the UK, you’d get something way different. The British definition of pudding is anything that’s been boiled in something else.
- In some parts of Europe, they leave the original coating on the eggs, and that coating protects them from contamination. In other parts, they vaccinate hens to keep the eggs disease-free.
- When we ask for breadsticks in an American restaurant, we get soft pieces of doughy bread and garlic that we can dip in sauce. But if you were having lunch in an Italian restaurant and asked for breadsticks, you’d actually get the original version of “grissini” – crispy baked breadsticks that can accompany your salad or be crunched on as a snack on its own.
- Ketchup is another one of those culinary items that got lost in translation. In America, you know that familiar red paste made from tomato, vinegar, sugar, and all the accompanying spices. However, if you go to Australia and ask for ketchup on your burger, the waiter might give you a funny look and say, “You mean tomato sauce?”
- What people in the UK call “chips” are what Americans know as “French fries.” On the flipside, in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, what we call chips (the round things sold in half-empty bags), they call crisps.
- In most other English-speaking countries except for Canada, cookies are called “biscuits.” In fact, they only use the term “cookies” to describe the chocolate chip ones in particular.
- If you’re in the UK, you’re probably imagining me hopelessly trying to spread some Jell-O on my bread because for you, “jelly” is my Jell-O and my “jelly” is your jam!
- If you love American Milky Ways, wait until you try the European version! It’s also made of chocolate and nougat, of course, but it doesn’t have that layer of caramel in it.
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All Comments (21)
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Hey there, BrightSiders, do you prefer pancakes or eggs for breakfast?
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UK bacon is nothing like Canadian bacon and we don't use hot dogs in sausage rolls or pigs in blankets, we use sausages.
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In the UK breadsticks are also crispy and usually served with hummos or various other dips and Pudding is just another name for dessert
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In Arizona, we call quesadillas “cheese crisps” Ask any Arizonan and They’ll tell you what a cheese crisps is, but if you go to any other state and ask for a cheese crisp they’ll stare at you with your head sideways.
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5:30 for us Indians, breadsticks are also crispy also we most likely wouldn’t dip it in sauce, we dip it in butter or soup. And are indeed used as a light snack when you craving something before a proper meal.
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In the UK Biscuits should snap cleanly when you break them , and go soft if you leave them unsealed overnight. Cookies are softer and most tend to dry harder overnight.
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🇬🇧 We have been using ‘Pudding’ to describe Dessert quite often for a long time, but we will also use the names ‘Black-Pudding’ & ‘Steak & Kidney-Pudding’ for those non-dessert foods. I found it interesting how US & Canadian Bacon apparently comes from a Pig’s Belly. I noticed how different American Bacon tastes too compared to ours when I visited some friends of mine from Florida back in 2018, and although I liked it, I still prefer ours at the end of the day!
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I love your videos and the only thing I can tell you about food and my region is that it's mostly fried
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I’m from Scotland so with some meaning got my head turning too 😵💫
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I live in Europe, and when he said ketchup, I was like, wait, do they have different ketchup in the US? We in Europe call ketchup the same thing as Americans do.
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Better health care system, better food, better houses, better infrastructure. I stay right here!
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We call it Ketchup in Australia mostly so you might want to double check that
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Pudding is also a general word for dessert in the UK.
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When he talks about Europe, he thinks it's only the UK, but the UK is way different than most Europian countries. I'm Dutch and the way he pronounces 'koekje' is hilarious 😂
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I’m talking from the UK’s perspective, but this guy does not do his research
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In 🇦🇺 Australia we don’t call crisps crisps we call them chips 🍟 🍟
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A pudding in the UK is usually a sweet dessert (we don't call it flan but tart) and includes all desserts. We do have black pudding and steak pudding etc. - very old traditional food.
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As someone from the uk, a lot of this is wrong, sorry
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It's called a milky way because its made by Mars. Space theme. Like Galaxy
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I’m Australian and we don’t call them crisps we still call them chips whether there fried and long or round
