What do they call that (food) in the UK?

Hope this will help some others out there 

Feel free to add to it if you find something I'm missing.

American	UK
Skim Milk	Skimmed Milk (Red Top)
2%  Milk	Semi Skimmed Milk (Green Top)
Whole Milk	Whole Milk (Blue Top)
Bacon	Streaky Bacon
Baked Potato	Jacket Potato
Baking Soda	Bicarbonate of Soda
Basic Pie Dough	Shortcrust dough
Beef Stock	Brown Stock
Bell Pepper	Capsicum
Cafe au Lait	White coffee
Captain Crunch	Gorilla Munch
Chips	Crisps
Clams	Donax
Cookies	Biscuits
Cole slaw dressing	Salad cream
Confectioners Sugar	Icing Sugar
Corned Beef	Bully Beef
Cornstarch	Cornflour
Cotton Candy	Candy Floss
Crayfish	Langoustines
Cream Cheese	Soft Cheese
Cup Cake	Fairy Cake
Eggplant	Aubergine
Endive	Chicory
English Muffins	White Muffins
French Fried Onions	Onion Salad Crispies
French Fries	Chips
Ginger Snap	Ginger nut
Gingerbread	Treacle Sponge
Golden Raisin	Sultana
Ground Beef	Minced Beef
Heavy Cream	Double Cream
Hot Dogs	Frankfurters
Jello	Jelly
Jelly or Preserves	Jam
Kettle Corn	Sweet popcorn
Lamb Chop	Chump Chop
Lemonade	Lemon Juice
Light Cream	Single Cream
Lima Beans	Broad Beans
Mashed potatoes	Mash or Mashers
Molasses	Treacle
Pudding	Custard
Raw Brown Sugar	Demara
Romaine Lettuce	Cos Lettuce
Rutabaga	Swede
Saltines	Doriano Italian Crackers
Scallion	Spring Onion
Shortening (Crisco)	Cookeen, Trex or White Flora
Shrimp	Prawns
Slivered Almonds	Flaked Almonds
Sprite	Lemonade
String Bean	French or Runner Bean
Superfine Sugar	Caster Sugar
Sweet Butter	Unsalted Butter
Tater Tots	Potato Croquettes
Tenderloin Steak	Filet steak
Vanilla Bean	Vanilla Pod
Whipped Cream	Squirty Cream
Wholewheat	Wholemeal
Zucchini	Courgettes

Wow, there were quite few I didn't know, but I copied and pasted this list into my online journal. Thanks!

Donax?
I've never heard of that one.
I've lived in Scotland most of my adult life and they've always been called clams!

oh btw, if anyone in Glasgow is looking for saltines, i saw them in the Chinese market up at Dobbie's Loan.

I think Whipped Creamd is calle Whipped Cream. And custard is custard.  Pudding doesn't really have a name.  I've never heard it called anything else.  Good list though.

Corned beef is corned beef.
Gingerbread is gingerbread.

Americans say both hot dogs and frankfurters. I have only heard hot dog used in the UK.

Saltines and Tater Tots are brand names. I have never heard them used generically, but only for that particular brand with the word on the label. The term potato croquettes is used in America.

I'm British but I've never actually heard of some of the British versions of food you have here - are you sure they are all regularly used in the UK?

I haven't heard of 'brown' stock, 'bully' beef or 'chump' chop - they are just beef stock, corned beef (the stuff in the cans/at the meat counter) and lamb chop as far as I know - and I have no idea what Gorilla Munch or Donax are. I would say that clams and crayfish are just clams and crayfish in the UK... I don't know of them being called anything else, although I don't eat seafood, so I can't say for sure. I don't think there is an equivalent to Salad Cream in the US - at least, I don't know of anything that's the same (my aunt has lived there for 30 years and still imports Salad Cream from the UK because she can't get it there).

Although I guess pudding is kind of like custard, I don't really think of 'custard' when I see those puddings in the US - for me, custard is always a hot, creamy sauce that you put on apple pie or apple crumble .

As far as I'm aware, Sprite is Sprite everywhere - UK or US. Sprite is lemon-lime flavour drink, but UK lemonade is just lemon flavour, no lime. If you want Sprite in the UK, you ask for/buy Sprite. However, if you want UK lemonade in the US, the closest thing you'll find is Sprite, but it's not quite the same.

Gingerbread is gingerbread cake in the UK - treacle sponge has no ginger in it, just sponge cake and treacle. You can buy a gingerbread cake made by Tate and Lyle which is ginger-flavoured .

As far as I'm aware, Sprite is Sprite everywhere - UK or US. Sprite is lemon-lime flavour drink, but UK lemonade is just lemon flavour, no lime. If you want Sprite in the UK, you ask for/buy Sprite. However, if you want UK lemonade in the US, the closest thing you'll find is Sprite, but it's not quite the same.

People do ask for lemonade when they mean Sprite or 7up.  I get that a lot at work.

People do ask for lemonade when they mean Sprite or 7up.  I get that a lot at work.

That is my experience as well.

I haven't found any difference between US custard and UK custard.

Custard and pudding are different things in the US.

I'm assuming Gorilla Munch is a brand name for a breakfast cereal.

There's a similar list in the Just Do It section here. Maybe your post could be combined with that one?

I have only seen crawfish called crawfish here..

thought a langoustine was a very large shrimp???

AHH just Wikipedia'd it


The Norway lobster, Nephrops norvegicus, (also called Dublin Bay prawn, langoustine or scampo), is a slim, orange-pink lobster


interesting list..some I haven't ever heard of before....maybe some of them are regional??

Isn't Corned Beef called Salt Beef? Also, I don't think ginger nuts are gingersnaps. Ginger nuts are just ginger biscuits.

I don't think whole-meal and whole-wheat are the same.

Beef stock = beef stock
Bell pepper = bell pepper, or just pepper.
Clams = clams
Corned beef = corned beef
Crayfish = crayfish
English muffins   = sometimes called white muffins, other times called "oven-bottom muffins"
Gingerbread = gingerbread
Hot dogs = hot dogs, or "American hot dogs"
Lamb chop = lamb chop
Lemonade = cloudy lemonade (or, at Sainsbury's, "Sicilian lemonade")
Lima beans = no UK equivalent.  Broad beans are NOT the same!
Pudding   = not custard
Saltines = a US brand name.  For nausea, cream crackers are the closest equivalent I've found.
Shrimp = JUMBO KING GIGUNDO prawns, if you're trying to find medium-sized 26-30 shrimp.
Sprite = Sprite
String bean = dwarf beans.  Runner beans are something entirely different.  I prefer "stringless" beans, which are essentially pole beans.
Sweet butter = Unsalted butter (but it's called the same thing in the US!)
Tater Tots = a US brand name.
Tenderloin steak = tenderloin steak, or "fillet" steak
Whipped cream = whipped cream, if referring to ready-made cream in an aerosol can, or "whipping cream" if referring to the cream itself, in a pot.

Many of the "UK" names on your list are regional variations, not UK equivalents.  I'm sure SOMEONE in the UK calls aerosol whipped cream "squirty cream", for example, but it's sold in the stores as "whipped cream."

My husband calls it squirty cream.

Also, I don't think Lemonade is called lemon juice.   I mean, lemon juice is just lemon juice. 

Many of the "UK" names on your list are regional variations, not UK equivalents. 

Agreed! There are some on there that I've never heard of!

My husband calls it squirty cream.

Also, I don't think Lemonade is called lemon juice.   I mean, lemon juice is just lemon juice. 

I think Squirty Cream might be a brand name as well - at least that's what it said on the can when I bought some at Tesco.