British & American English: Food Vocabulary

Hi there

My name is Ronnie

I'm going to teach you one of my favorite things in the world it is food and drink who likes food

Legs drinking me water. Thank you

Today, I'm going to teach you the differences between British and North American food vocabulary

[what's] important to realize is that a lot of

Different places around in Britain and in North America will have different words for things

it's interesting for me because if I look at Canadian and

English we have [a] mixture of british and American and

a lot of our words are based on French words, so

Canadian English and American English [and] [British] English

Some of the words. We share with British some of them. We share with American, so

This is why I've called this North American

So it might vary so just keep [that] in mind as we go through

The first one now searches so that you understand me

And we understand each other all of [the] words that are predominantly used in Britain. I

Put with a red beautiful red marker and all the North American words. I've used black. So the first one is Aubergine

This is curious for me

Because this is a french word, but in Canada and in America. We say eggplant

I'm

Surprised that in Canada. We do not use the French word [of] Aubergine, so if you get a

Menu in the uk and it says Aubergine

You might be confused because maybe you learned eggplant eggplant

Aubergine is a

purple colored vegetable I

Will attempt to draw out a number two?

Very good drawing by the way. It's shaped a little bit like this and

It's usually a dark purple color

Like this, so it's this color

And this shape. It's used a lot in Italian food

Truly tasty and it's a vegetable

The next one is really really popular at the [pabre] at the bar in the uk they're called crisps [in]

Canada

We call them chips or potato chips

So crisps or potato chips are fried potatoes

very thinly sliced with seasoning and the seasoning varies from

Country to country area to area you can get some crazy chip flavors or crisp flavors

the next one is Chips [I]

Told you that in Canada. We use potato chips as chips in the uk. It's really really common to get fish and chips

When they use the word chips in Canada and North America or America. We say French fries

They're not french. I don't know why we call them french fries. We would also shorten it to just a fries

So if you went to a fast food restaurant in Canada that had hamburgers it would say hamburger and fries

[it] would not say chips if you went to a chippy shop in the uk it would say fish and chips

But they're the same

the next one is

Jacket Potatoes, [I] don't know why are they wearing a jacket are they cold, huh?

Not too sure in North America. We say baked potatoes. I guess the jacket is the skin makes sense

[do] you get to choose the jacket like a Canada [goose] one [pears] so jacket potatoes?

We call baked potatoes the next one is another French. Word that we don't use in Canada. This is core. Je and

in Canada we use the

Italian word of zucchini zucchini is a kind of squash. It's usually green sometimes they are

Yellow a zucchini is a squash it looks like this

Kind of like a cucumber

Mm. Can like a cucumber [it] [suzuki]. It [sasquatch] believe me just go to the supermarket and buy one so you can see

[its] vegetable

That's a vegetable

the next one is

A very strange spelling, I think rocket ok in

Canada If

We look at the French spelling of it

We say Rocket the same pronunciation different spelling, but in North America

We call it, Arugula, Arugula Rula

Arugula is um

another vegetable it's Green and

It kind of looks like a little leaf we usually use it in salads

It's become really really popular and replacing lettuce

Because it's healthier than regular lettuce. So you might get a sandwich with ham and Arugula or

ham and Rock it in the

[next] one very important is a bitter

[if] you go to a pub

They have different kinds of beer they have bitter lager and ale

We don't really make a distinction between these in Canada. We just say I'd like a beer please [in] the uk

They're more precise, and they said like a bitter or a lager, or ale

Very Tasty mm-Hm

Next one these are more of a sweet

Combination on your tongue have you ever heard the expression sweet tooth?

someone might tell you I have a sweet tooth and

You might wonder what that is if someone says they have a sweet tooth it means they really like sweets

or

Candy they like sweet things like cakes or pies and pies

The first one is biscuit a lot of people and in my family my grandmother would always have tea and biscuits

In North America. We say cookie so you can have a chocolate biscuit. We say chocolate chip cookie, but they're the same thing

the next one is putting a

[pudding] in North America is usually chocolate pudding or banana cream pudding or coconut pudding

caramel pudding

pudding in the uk is

dessert

So pudding can be cake pie

Anything that you would eat after your main course in

North America, we call it dessert A

Pudding in North America is a kind of dessert, so it's a little confusing um

The next [one] are sweets sweets are anything that we would classify in North America's Candy

[so] you can go to sweet shop. We would say candy store usually when we're children

another really popular thing

If you go to a fair or an amusement [park] is Candy floss

In North America, We say Cotton Candy Candy floss or Cotton candy

Here's a pink it [can] be blue, but [what] it is is it's spun sugar

on A

stick

[when] I lived in Japan it was really popular to have this in Japan as well in the translation is actually cotton

So you guys get it from America

candy floss is spun sugar with food coloring to make it beautiful [and]

the last one if you don't want a

bitter a lager a beer you can have what some people call a fizzy drink a

fizzy drink

may also be called a pop or

soda

Now predominantly in Canada. We say Pop I

research this on the internet and in

America the North part of America to the Northern States say Pop where the Southern States a soda

some people say Soda Pop it's

More common in Britain to say a fizzy drink

Fizzy means it's effervescent, or it bubbles in your mouth which makes sense

So we have fizzy drink or a still drink which would be

unfit

Are you hungry?

It doesn't matter where you go if you go to britain or if you go to North America now

you know the differences, and you can order some yummy food [by]

you