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

[tibicina.livejournal.com]

English Muffins are a slight corruption of Crumpets. So, yes they have them; no, they don't call them that. They aren't /quite/ the same, but they're very close and some brands are closer to crumpets than others.

French fries are called that because they're julienned (i.e. 'french cut').

"Spanish Rice" is effectively a simpler/cheaper/easier version of Paella (it doesn't end up as good, though).

[hellloooonurse.livejournal.com]

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

When I lived in Australia (1972-1975,) I do remember having the "toaster biscuits." :)

[delennara.livejournal.com]

In Germany we eat just chocolate cake. It doesn't have to know that it's german ...
But it is the same with Frankfurter Würstchen(sausages). People in Frankfurt don't call them so. But they call them Wiener Würstchen. Of course in Vienna, they are called different. I don't know if there are Hamburger in Hamburg or Berliner in Berlin....

[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).

Ooh....it makes me wonder.....

[poltr1]

Is it true that in France, they now call American cheese "Warmonger cheese"? :) What did they call it before this year? (other than "fromage du crappe").

Sausages are often named for their country of origin (e.g. Italian or Polish), although in their native country, I suspect they're just called "sausage".

Saw a thing on Food Network a while back that Chinese fortune cookies originated in the US. And when some entrepreur took them to China, they were called "American fortune cookies".

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[sroth.livejournal.com]

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I hope things there are going well.
I saw John O at Coleen's, and he said that
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