Food
Are you Peckish? (Are you Hungry?)
What's for afters? Have you had your pudding yet?
Are you feeling peckish (hungry)?
That food looks very scrummy (delicious)
British English
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American English
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Scone |
Biscuit |
Fairy Cake |
Cup Cake |
Courgette |
Zucchini |
Sweets |
Candy |
Sausage / Banger |
Sausage |
Crisps |
Chips |
Chips
(French Fries in McDonald's) |
French Fries |
Starter |
Appetizer |
Puddings / Afters / Dessert /
Sweets |
Dessert |
Jacket Potato / Baked Potato |
Baked Potato |
Jam |
Jelly or Jam |
Jelly (a dessert in the UK) |
Jell-o (flavoured gelatin) |
Aubergine |
Eggplant |
Sandwich / Butty / Sarny |
Sandwich |
Ice lolly |
Popsicle |
Bill (at restaurant) |
check |
Grill (oven grill) |
Broil (oven broil) |
Food / Grub / Nosh |
Food |
Rasher |
A slice of bacon |
Eggy bread (fried) |
French Toast |
Runner beans |
Green beans |
| broad bean |
lima bean |
Soldiers
(We dip soldiers in our soft boiled eggs) |
Finger sized slices of toast. |
| bap |
hamburger bun |
Take-away |
Take out |
| biscuit (sweet) |
cookie |
| corn flour |
corn starch |
| desiccated (coconut) |
shredded |
| icing sugar |
powdered sugar |
| icing sugar |
confectioner’s sugar |
| kipper |
smoked herring |
| marrow |
squash |
| semolina |
cream of wheat |
| sorbet |
sherbet |
| Swiss roll |
jelly roll |
| black treacle |
molasses |
| black or white?(coffee) |
with or without? |
| candyfloss |
cotton candy |
Flapjacks in England are oats mixed with honey and/or golden syrup and baked then cut into slices. sometimes raisins are added to the mixture. |
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