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Black pudding is lovely you just have to be able to not think about what it is while you're eating it, but I thought you had this in the USA and just called it blood sausage.

Bangers are of course sausages, and I don't actually know anyone who's eaten eel, I certainly wouldn't I'd expect it to be crunchy and gelatininous sort of like crunchy snot.

Something we both have under different names is head cheese/brawn, the mere thought of it makes me feel bilious.

I have no idea what piggy pudding is, and my husband always used to ask me for spotted dick as he loved it at school lunches, I always used to say no you're not having that it's foul, then I tasted it, yum well made spotted dick is delicious, although it might sell better as sultana suet pudding.

I've never eaten haggis but I've smelt it and that was enough haggis to last me a lifetime.

Toad in the hole is sausages cooked in batter, perhaps we have too many sausage related terms, I rename it bangers in bed.

Faggots are just mashed up meat, they're actually very nice but strangely the only faggots to get are Brain's Faggots, not the best brand name for a meat product.

Marmite is made from the devils poo, anyone who loves it can't be entirely sane (it's actually yeast extract but it's disgusting).

A few years ago there was some sort of debate about British chocolate not really being chocolate, I can't remember the exact details but UK and USA chocolate is very different, to me American chocolate tastes like what we call chocolate flavoured candy, it doesn't quite have the same feel in the mouth as our stuff, a grittiness and it doesn't melt in the same way.

Oh I forgot tripe - puke.
 

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Marmite is food of the gods.. I can quite happily eat it straight out of the jar.

Oh, and I love curry... i reckon i could live on it if given half the chance.
Trouble is out there in America curry is damn disgusting. I went to Richmond, VA and went to supposidly the best curry house in town only to find out all you order is the type of meat and whether you wanted it mild, medium or hot. Being a fan of Chicken Tikka Madras I ordered hot only to discover it was mild enough to feed to my 5 year old son. Bah!
 

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A few years ago there was some sort of debate about British chocolate not really being chocolate, I can't remember the exact details but UK and USA chocolate is very different, to me American chocolate tastes like what we call chocolate flavoured candy, it doesn't quite have the same feel in the mouth as our stuff, a grittiness and it doesn't melt in the same way.

This is true. I prefer how english chocolate melts on your mouth and it tastes better too.
 

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SpoiledPrincess, what most people in USA call chocolate is actually chocolate candy. Many are unaware of that distinction. But I don't know what British chocolate is, though.
 

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Black pudding is lovely you just have to be able to not think about what it is while you're eating it, but I thought you had this in the USA and just called it blood sausage. I can't not think about it...so I'll have to pass.

Bangers are of course sausages, and I don't actually know anyone who's eaten eel, I certainly wouldn't I'd expect it to be crunchy and gelatininous sort of like crunchy snot. I like bangers and mash. I've eaten eel in sushi. It's actually my favorite sushi, that and the salmon.

Something we both have under different names is head cheese/brawn, the mere thought of it makes me feel bilious.

I have no idea what piggy pudding is, and my husband always used to ask me for spotted dick as he loved it at school lunches, I always used to say no you're not having that it's foul, then I tasted it, yum well made spotted dick is delicious, although it might sell better as sultana suet pudding.

I've never eaten haggis but I've smelt it and that was enough haggis to last me a lifetime.

Toad in the hole is sausages cooked in batter, perhaps we have too many sausage related terms, I rename it bangers in bed. That sounds good. I'd eat that.

Faggots are just mashed up meat, they're actually very nice but strangely the only faggots to get are Brain's Faggots, not the best brand name for a meat product.

Marmite is made from the devils poo, anyone who loves it can't be entirely sane (it's actually yeast extract but it's disgusting). Is this like Vegemite in Australia? And no, I haven't tried it.

A few years ago there was some sort of debate about British chocolate not really being chocolate, I can't remember the exact details but UK and USA chocolate is very different, to me American chocolate tastes like what we call chocolate flavoured candy, it doesn't quite have the same feel in the mouth as our stuff, a grittiness and it doesn't melt in the same way. Any chocolate is good to me. :smile:

Oh I forgot tripe - puke. Yep...won't eat tripe, either. Since moving to San Antonio, I have found places here that sell tripe tacos. I won't eat those. I like tacos but give me just regular ground beef ones, thank you.

Toad in the hole sounds a lot like what we in the US call "pigs in a blanket" actually. Does anyone know if it's really the same thing?
 

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SpoiledPrincess, what most people in USA call chocolate is actually chocolate candy. Many are unaware of that distinction. But I don't know what British chocolate is, though.

The foods mentioned here are mostly stereotypes, I've found for the most part people eat broadly the same on both sides of the pond. Meat (beef, chicken, fish etc), vegetables, salads and other greens, pasta etc as well as the usual sweet things. Some of the names (and presentation) may be different is all. There are regional specialities in the US of course as there are here.

British chocolate is, IMO far better than American chocolate which to me tastes more like doggie chox. Still, British chocolate is very far from the best. One needs to move a couple of hundred miles east for that, but naturally with most things edible, 'best' is subjective.

BTW BD, Bangers are sausages as I suspect you knew (thus hardly unknown in the US) and Haggis is Scottish not English.:smile:

P.S. Marmite is evil.
 

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Ox Tail Soup.

Liked it 'til I learned it really was made from ox tails.

So much for quaint-sounding names.
 

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Dong, perhaps British chocolate is what we call premium chocolate? Example brands: Godiva, Lindt.

Yes, although the brands you mention are not in fact British; Godiva being Belgian and Lindt being Swiss. A popular high street brand in Britain is Cadbury, I've bought it overseas but often it's made locally under license and not the same.

This made me smile....

The Volokh Conspiracy - British Chocolate:
 

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Ox Tail Soup.

Liked it 'til I learned it really was made from ox tails.

So much for quaint-sounding names.
Hahaha that is exactly why I have never eaten ox-tail soup

English (and Scottish, and Irish - never tried Welsh) tripe is indeed puke...

Take it across the cahnnel and pronounce it 'trreeep' and suddenly it's pretty damn good. Seriously - properly done French tripe, made by a big fat Jean-Yves with a curly moustache, is deeee-lish!

Weird, huh?

You are much more brave than I am. If I try something like tripe once and don't like, it I am NEVER eating it again. Then again if you cover most anything in a fancy French sauce it will be palatable. :biggrin1:
 

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when talking to people from the USA there are quite a few food items you have that sound absolutely disgusting to me, chimmychungas (if that's how it's spelled), tater tots, grits, chitlings - what do we in the uk eat that you think sounds foul. We have our popcorn with sugar on, peanut butter with jam makes me feel pukey, what do we eat that's vomit inducing in your eyes?
I think its a perfect example of the wonderfull world we live in. I find the topic of different cultures very interesting.:smile:
 

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