Separated By a Common Language - US and UK

[Mia]

But if you ask for "grits" on an Indian Reservation, they're likely to just stare at y'all.

They would, they call it 'corn mush' here, and they've made it for centuries. Although it's made essentially the exact same way, minus the butter.

 

[Mia]

Or a baseball team that has the finest players money can buy. Which isn't necessarily a kind thing to say either.

Didn't know that one. Interesting.

 

[Judge]

Didn't know that one. Interesting.

The era of George Steinbrenner. Who some arguably believe simply bought his way to the World Series.

 

[Streetwise]

i was talking about a dish of hominy( not grits) mixed colour of white and blue hominy in a cafe featured on diners drive ins and dives on food network

You have to mash hominy down to make it into grits. Though technically with the germ removed. As I recall Quaker Oats makes instant grits, which apparently have a few links to Britain for sale in the UK.

But then "instant" anything is usually a turn-off for me. LOL..but who knows? That might be what the restaurants actually serve.

 

[Mia]

i was talking about a dish of hominy( not grits) mixed colour of white and blue hominy in a cafe featured on diners drive ins and dives on food network

Many cultures have hominy as part of their diet, personally I don't like the taste of the treated corn. Prefer grits over hominy.

 

[Streetwise]

i try not to use food miles that is only buy as local as possible
loved the colour of blue hominy

 

[Judge]

i was talking about a dish of hominy( not grits) mixed colour of white and blue hominy in a cafe featured on diners drive ins and dives on food network

I buy my hominy right off the shelf at Walmart. But it wouldn't surprise me if they don't sell it in every location.

 

[Streetwise]

I buy my hominy right off the shelf at Walmart. But it wouldn't surprise me if they don't sell it in every location.

it was a cafe in the south wish i could remember the place the colour was intriguing
saw another word today presse
its always on bottles like elderflower or apple
loved the colour -rose pink-rose and lemon presse

 

[Streetwise]

i only hear Americans people stopped saying that 20 or 30 years ago
and its about any American

The South shall rise!!!

 

[NothingToSeeHere]

nah its your age ,served with tea ,toast,crumpets,scones,on an afternoon big on bread in England , you can get them in non German named supermarkets some bakers
m&s used to sell cheese or marmite muffins (yum with butter or marg )
loved pikelets for a while (a very thin crumpet(also

Learn something new everyday I love pikelets, we toasted them over the fire when I was a child whenever we had a power cut.

 

[Streetwise]

if you say rubber to some people in the UK it means condom

George Bernard Shaw said: "England and America are two countries separated by a common language." That is a true statement. It caused me to think about some of the phrases used between the two countries and I thought it would be interesting to compare.

US - Car trunk
UK - Boot

US - Fries
UK - Chips

What others can you think of?

 

[Streetwise]

pasty( beef ,turnip(swede) potato ,onion ,pepper ,salt ,egg glaze on top (cornish miners had savoury at one end sweet (fruit) at the other end pastry was thrown away /empanada is near to it ,so are perogis polish
pasties are a lot less spicy than an empanada

Hood/Bonnet
Adjustable Spanner/Monkey Wrench
Bangers/Sausages
Quid/Pound
Morris Garage/Metal Garbage
Tart/Slut
Bobby/Cop
Rubbish/Garbage
Barrister/Attorney
Cheeky/Big Brass Ones
Mind The Gap/Watch Your Step
Cock-up/Botch
Gassed/Blotto
Knickers/Panties
Loo/Restroom
Nutter/Whacko
Slag/Slacker
Snog/French Kissing

 

[Mia]

pasty

Pasties (singular pasty or pastie) are patches that cover a person's nipples and areolae which are affixed with adhesive. Though pasties are commonly associated with strippers, burlesque shows ... In parts of the United States, erotic dancers wear pasties in strip clubs to avoid prosecution under local public indecency laws.

 

[Streetwise]

yeh

Pasties (singular pasty or pastie) are patches that cover a person's nipples and areolae which are affixed with adhesive. Though pasties are commonly associated with strippers, burlesque shows ... In parts of the United States, erotic dancers wear pasties in strip clubs to avoid prosecution under local public indecency laws.

i knew trying not to think about it

 

[Streetwise]

chemist/drugstore

yeh
i knew trying not to think about it

 

[Judge]

Pasties (singular pasty or pastie) are patches that cover a person's nipples and areolae which are affixed with adhesive. Though pasties are commonly associated with strippers, burlesque shows ... In parts of the United States, erotic dancers wear pasties in strip clubs to avoid prosecution under local public indecency laws.

It is funny to think that both terms can be found in the US.

But I suspect one definition stands out more than the other.

 

[tree]

Did I miss something?
I thought you guys were talking about
pasties. "a" as in "ah"
But it seems you were not.
Michigan Pasty (Meat Hand Pie)

 

[Judge]

Did I miss something?
I thought you guys were talking about
pasties. "a" as in "ah"
But it seems you were not.
Michigan Pasty (Meat Hand Pie)

That's the odd thing. The spelling and how it seems to vary here.

But then I suppose edible pasties make it even more complicated.

 

[Alaska]

telly is correct
bloody is taken from a blasphemy-bloody then hell( a lot of people WOULDNT know that in the UK )just use it

The UK "bloody" originally came from "blood of Christ" or "Gd's blood", so it is quite blasphemous.

 

[Alaska]

In Canada as well, it's a round ball of candy popularized in the movie 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory' it was know as a 'Jawbreaker' in Canada.

It was jawbreaker in the US also, or was when they came in little candy machines. Not sure they even exist in the US now.

Merry-go-round - roundabout (playground item)
Zucchini - courgettes
Pregnant - stuffed
Bathroom, ladies room, powder room, ladies, gents, restroom, - toilet
Asphalt - tarmac
Power outage - power cut
Chickens - chooks
Tired - knackered
Knocked on door - knocked up
Knocked up - stuffed