17 British Food Words I REFUSE to Say

Some of these are just WRONG OKAY

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If you're new to my channel and videos, hi! I'm Evan Edinger, and I make weekly "comedy" videos every Sunday evening. As an American living in London I love noticing the funny differences between the cultures and one of my most popular video series is my British VS American one. I'm also known for making terrible puns so sorry in advance. Hope to see you around, and I'll see you next Sunday! :)

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[micheleosullivan]

This cracked me up! Also an American and have lived in England for nearly eleven years. My British husband and I have these fun arguments all the time. lol, It's All in good fun, we don't actually fight. This video had me chuckling like crazy!

[bes]

In my 28 years I have never heard a Brit call a bell pepper a "capsicum". That's an Australian thing. We just call them "peppers".

[brightspark]

Born and bred in the U.K. and no one has ever said ‘grill’ for BBQ. We just call it a BBQ.

We don’t have a lot of grape flavoured things because we have very very strict rules about artificial flavourings. The grape flavour you have in things is extremely artificial. Also blackcurrants are a lot more readily available and are a stronger flavour.

It’s ‘knife, fork and spoon’

I’ve never heard anyone say ‘soft baton’ ever

We don’t call them Capsicums, you’re confusing us with Australians. It’s just peppers here. And we do say jalapeño etc

We don’t call cakes a ‘sandwich cake’. We occasionally call Victoria sponge a Victoria sandwich but we don’t refer to them as sandwich cakes.

When we order an ice cream from the ice cream van an ‘ice cream’ means a Mr Whippy. Or as you would say - soft serve. Anything else we would name the item or brand name

[scatterkeir]

UK person here, I think I've only ever heard parmesan pronounced 'parmezan', never with a soft s. Being quite old one thing the bugs me about 'takeaway' now is that I'm often using it in reference to something I'm having delivered, which makes me uncomfortable. I don't recall ever hearing 'soured cream', just 'sour cream'.

[sophielane]

I'm British and I've never heard a single person utter the words "soured cream", "soft baton" or "capsicum" in my life

[fairyscience]

I’ve never heard anyone call a barbecue a grill. We have two different words - barbecue for outside and grill for inside. No confusion 😁

[lloroshastar]

Evan can call things whatever he wants but this video just made me want to use the British terms even more

[sambest]

Evan: “why would you say Macaroni cheese it’s two separate ingredients”

Also Evan: Eggplant Parmesan

[verzrc]

As an English person, I’ve never said capsicum, soft baton, sandwich cake, grill (meaning bbq), or soured cream. But it’s interesting learning words used in different dialects lol

[SquirrelNutkins]

I will not take a berating for sweetcorn being on a savoury plate from a country that serves marshmallows with their thanksgiving turkey! 😂

[jenniferbeckett]

As a Brit I would never use the word Capsicum. I would just use the word Pepper.

[sangfroidian]

Capsicum is the Australian name, Bell Peppers is the American name and in UK they're called Red, Green or Yellow Peppers, collectively sweet peppers. Research failure there I think. Hot peppers are called Chilli peppers here and are frequently abbreviated to chillies.

[theskintexpat-themightygreegor]

I'm with you about the grill/broil thing. I used to live in New Zealand, and this one drove me nuts until I got my head around it. It took me a while, but I weaned myself off of "silverware" though. By the way, I also have found that I use the British pronunciation of "can't", and that was a conscious decision, and I stand by it. It just prevents so much misunderstanding.

[darriendastar]

"The UK has an aversion to grapes"

Has Evan never walked down the wine aisle in a supermarket?

[Zomoniac]

The hill I will die on: Skim is a verb, skimmed is an adjective. You skim milk, and then you have skimmed milk. The milk has been skimmed through the process of skimming. It’s an extension of my biggest hate, when people describe things as “chill”. It’s just wrong. Nobody would say they’re feeling “relax”, but somehow “feeling chill” is fine despite clearly being wrong.

I’ll stop ranting now, sorry.

[ChristineStables]

I am a 67 year of English woman and I have never in my life heard of 'sandwich cake'. The only sandwich I can think of in relation to cakes is a Victoria sandwich, which is just two layers: one sponge cake on top of another with a layer of jam between, and a sprinkling of icing sugar on top.

[utterlee]

Nobody in the UK has ever called a BBQ a “grill”. It’s a barbecue.

[richardspurr]

It's funny watching someone be 100% wrong for 17 minutes!

[MartijnterHaar]

Channeling my late grandmother: "It's a fork, not a shovel!"

[iancomputerscomputerrepair]

I'm British and I have never referred to a cake as a Sandwich cake. I do believe in the next couple of days the Government will be asking you to leave.