Biggest food mix up...

Coffee cake.  I'm not sure this is strictly a US-UK thing though...

In my universe, coffee cake is one of those streusel-ly type cakes that you eat with coffee.  So when DH offered to get me a slice of coffee cake, I thought - lovely!  Only it was coffee flavoured cake instead. 

I like drinking coffee, but I don't like coffee flavoured things - not coffee flavoured cake, not coffee flavoured ice cream, etc.  Blech.  Chocolate covered coffee beans are okay because that's real coffee, not coffee flavoured...

I'm sure there are others, but that's the first one that came to mind.

Oh & I really struggle to find Chinese food in the UK that I really like - here, it often didn't taste quite right, not like the Chinese food I remembered liking back in the US.  So I just went off Chinese food altogether, more or less, since moving here - it was always such a big disappointment whenever I got something, expecting it to taste one way & its tasting another way instead.

Until I found Red Chilli, which is supposed to be authentic Beijing & Sichuan stuff - it draws more actual Chinese and/or east Asian customers than most places I've ever been.  And I have liked it most of the times I've gone - although once it was overly salty.

Funny thing is a number of native Brits I know who've gone there - well they complained it didn't taste like they think Chinese food ought to taste... 

Coffee cake.  I'm not sure this is strictly a US-UK thing though...

In my universe, coffee cake is one of those streusel-ly type cakes that you eat with coffee.  So when DH offered to get me a slice of coffee cake, I thought - lovely!  Only it was coffee flavoured cake instead. 

Happened the other way with me. DW said she'd made coffee cake and I thought "lovely", when I tasted it I said "theres not much coffee in that"!