More food pondering

[figmo]

In the USA we have "American" cheese.

We have "French" fries (except in Washington, D.C., but that's another story), but in France they don't have "French fries."

We have "Canadian" bacon, but Canadians don't call it that; they call it "back bacon," yet they don't have "back cheese."

I just ate an "Australian" toaster biscuit. When I was in Australia I didn't see any such "toaster biscuits."

We have "English" muffins. Do "English muffins" as we know them in the US exist in England? (I've never been there so I wouldn't know.)

What do they call "Welsh" rarebit in Wales?

What do they call "Spanish" rice (as we know it in the US) in Spain?

Do you even eat "German" chocolate cake in Germany?

Comments

[keristor.livejournal.com]

'English' muffins aren't quite the same as crumpets, but they used to be very similar (from memory, crumpets used more water and more baking soda so you get the holes, and they are cooked differently). Modern crumpets and muffins don't normally contain potato, though (Mrs. Beeton's ones did, 120 years ago!). And they are sold here as 'English muffins', because of the prevalence of the cakes y'all call 'muffins' <g>.

'Back' bacon comes from the lean back of the pig, I've never heard of cheese coming from the back of anything.

As I heard it, 'Welsh Rarebit' was originally 'Welsh rabbit', so called because cheese on toast was a substitute when the Welsh were forbidden to 'poach' for rabbit.

Of course people eat German chocolate cake in Germany -- and Belgian, Swiss etc. <g>. I certainly saw "Schwartzwalder" (Black Forest) cake in Germany which looked very much like the cake of that name in the UK (cherries, chocolate, cream and often alcohol).