You’re having...what...for breakfast?

In my last post I promised a list of food in British and American terminology. I’m sure more will emerge as I remember them, but here’s a list I sat compiling in the food court at Castle Mall the other day. In no particular order besides the one that I thought them up in.

British	American
porridge	oatmeal
jacket potato	baked potato
soured cream	sour cream
chips	french fries / fries
crisps	chips (particularly potato chips)
bangers & mash	sausages and mashed potatoes
courgette	zucchini
aubergine	eggplant
rocket	arugula
coriander	parsley
jelly	jell-o
tea	dinner / supper (depending on context and geography)
“american style”	greasy or giant
lemonade	sprite-like sparkling lemon soft drink
cloudy lemon	lemonade
soya	soy
dippy eggs	soft-boiled eggs in which the yolk is still runny. they often dip “soldiers” (strips of toast) into these. “dippy eggs and soldiers” is a common breakfast menu item
ice lolly	popsicle
bubble and squeak	potato-cabbage hash
bap	hamburger bun
rump steak (I admit I giggled at this for a while)	sirloin
squash	citrus soft drink
boiled sweets	hard candy
sultana	GIANT RAISIN
cornflower	cornstarch
desiccated coconut (you did what to my coconut??)	flaked coconut
fairy cake	cupcake
ginger nut biscuit	ginger snap cookie
mince	ground meat
plain chocolate	dark chocolate
sweetcorn	corn
toffee	taffy
treacle	molasses
biscuit	crispy / non-soft cookie
butty	sandwich made with whitebread, mayo, and ANYTHING between the bread
candy floss	cotton candy
gammon	ham steak
pudding	dessert / sweet after-main course at dinner
beetroot	beet
chocolate vermicelli	chocolate sprinkles (when I found out this one, it just...why? THEY’RE SPRINKLES. THEY’RE AN EASY CONCEPT. the word sprinkles is what you do to them why vermicelli)
Demerara sugar	brown cane sugar. you can find packets of it at all coffee shops
polony	bologna (I thought this one looked like a disease word)