International Food Differences

@Juliestcyr So this is the fridge milk section pic in HK i mentioned earlier - there was a few things 'wrong' with this that made me take the photo (i am pretty sure thisv section contains more gallon plastic containers in the US (that looks like they're designed for those that need to feed an army to me)

1. i'm pretty sure it's just labelled 'milk' here or 'full-cream', not 'whole' (our milk in the fridge has 'Australian' in tiny print and 'Lite Milk' big on the label and the dairy section here is basically 50/50 light and regular 'full cream' cows milk with some small quantities of specialty milks) but it has a big 'Australian' on the label and then in small print under the '75yrs of service' logo thing, it says 'Kowloon Dairy' and Kowloon is in HK so I doubt it could be Aussie milk but maybe it's Aussie-style milk?? the price sticker, shelf label says it 'Aust'n Whole Milk Drink' - the word 'drink' there just seems odd to me - like they have to differentiate it from a food? Does bottled water need to be called 'bottled water drink'?
2. if we buy milk in cartons here (instead of plastic bottles in the fridge section), they don't have that lid/twisty cap thing on it, it looks like the milk cartons on the right with the ?Chinese characters on it where you physically open the side flap bitsat the top of the carton and make a pouring spout
3. the cartons on the left, are the UHT (longlife) not refridgerated type containers so i'm not used to seeing them in the fridge section

 

lol i'd much rather scrap than record my voice
and yep i havent read the whole thread either and gotta do stuff so i'll pop back later

 

I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!

there was a time in which we did record something and posted our videos?
I need to find that, so you can hear my Latina- English Brit accent!!!!!

 

Scones like the UK make - sweet buttery dense muffin like - serve with tea

 

Scone has a K sound in it, but otherwise, yes, it sounds like shown and shone - and rhymes with drone, bone and moan.

Now in the USA we do have different ways of saying "creek" and "pecan" depending on where you live.
creek (long e) and crick (like ick in Mick)
People in the South tend to say pee-can (like the thing you use when you can't get out of the hospital bed). But other parts of the country call them pa-con.

 

i know -everything is overloaded with sugar, it is unreal. when i bake i always cut the sugar amount by about half! oreos are crazy sweet!

 

I meant to say Ireland. I got yelled at by @MrsPeel for not seeing there (n England) when I was in Ireland- so I think England was on my brain!

 

tom-ay-toe, tom-art-oh, let's call the whole thing off

 

I love this thread waaay too much. At work we're hosting a bunch of American and British guests for a week-long workshop. At lunch, when the desert tray came out, none of our guests knew what Nanaimo bars (pron. nah-NIGH-moe) were. They are the kind of thing that you can expect to see on any desert tray, and sold in every coffee shop in Canada. They're named after the city of Nanaimo, in British Columbia. So spell it with a capital "N". They are perfect for bake sales and cookie exchanges. During the holiday season you can dress them up with nuts, or even candy cane bits and some peppermint flavour in the filling layer.

 

When I was in Canada years ago, I had a salad with what I thought was grated carrot, it was cheese! Our cheese in NZ is yellow rather than orange so it freaked me out for a second

 

@littlekiwi where in Canada did you visit?

Your story brought to mind a cheese-horror I experienced in England this summer. I was there for work, and at some point, we were offered a lunch with sandwich trays. There was something that at first I thought was egg salad, but it didn't look right. One of the Brits told me it was a "cheese and onion" sandwhich. My colleague from Trinidad called it "cheese paste". She said it's what you pack your kids for lunch when you forget to do the groceries. Essentially, it's grated cheese, with a bit of grated onion, and held together with a generous amount of mayonnaise. I ate it, because vegetarians at sandwhich buffets are desperate people, but beurk! Even worse than egg salad.

 

so i've never heard of that - the food nor the place in BC! nor would i have pronounced it right! looks yummy though - what did your int'nat'l guests think?

 

let me save you a long costly plane trip - it does swirl the opposite way but y'know what? we shut the lid to flush and it's not something we think about & here's basically the contents of my fridge for colour comparison (i remember the cheese being pretty orange and the butter/margarine as being pretty white from our trip) - that's our margarine in the round tub and 2 kinds of cheese, tasty (the sliced)is our normal cheese, and equivalent to cheddar internationally; mozzarella we personally put on anything that needs shredded cheese generally but use shredded/grated tasty as well; the orange mango juice and milk is just for colour comparison (and there's some green tinged and overripe bananas in the bkgrd as well)

 

@Juliestcyr Vancouver, British Columbia

@bestcee this is the colour of the cheese I’m used to


where as the cheese I had during that trip was more in the vain of the top left hand ones

 

Oh, and we have TimTams in Australia - the BEST biscuit to dunk in anything!

@jenn mccabe I should try my DS on an Arrowroot. I hadn't thought of it till you mentioned it.

Scones - we pronounce it to rhyme with "on" - are the cause of a constant battle between DH and I. I eat them the Australian way (jam first, then cream) whereas he eats them the Devonian way (cream then jam).

 

You must have had chedder cheese. Some of the packaged chedder is orange.

 

omg Tim Tams are the best! we can get them here in the US in Walmart.. also looks like Target too.. they are extremely addictive! My husband has an Australian Artist friend who told him about it so I went in search of. They are delightful and my mot favorite store bought cookie!