food and drink

With food and drink as with so many areas of culture there are considerable differences in UK and US terminology. The commonest differences are listed below:

Some foods are characteristically British:

bubble and squeak (fried mashed potato and cabbage) Cornish pasty (meat and vegetables in pastry) Lancashire hotpot (type of stew with layers of meat, onions and

potatoes) stout (type of beer) Yorkshire pudding (baked batter eaten with meat and gravy)

(An interesting phenomenon is the proliferation of words for types of bread: bap, barm bread, bridge roll, bun, cob, granary, oven bread, shuttle, soda bread…many of which are regionally marked.)

There are also some characteristically American foods:

blueberry pie corn bread hominy grits (cooked corn kernels) pumpkin pie root beer (carbonated soft drink)

See: Americanism, Anglicism, meals, UK and US words.