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