Current Events > I dislike how Americans say food words

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Watching cooking videos and it's like

SEELANTRO
BAYZIL
PAWSTAH

I also dislike how Americans construct sentences when making food words like it's some kind of serious engineering project

So next you need to configure your workstation, remember to optimize the orientation of your materials so that there is minimal movement between phase 1 and phase 2 of the water boiling step.

Why can't you just use normal words like the rest of us?

Eh cobber, fancy swinging me dat 'andful of coriander? Bing bang bong, be sure to give it a quick pokey stabby first, presuming you have a loicense?

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Zed >>>>>>>>> ze
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Was watching that 15 minute meals show and that British dude said cilantro in the weirdest fucking way I've ever heard it said before so I don't want to hear it player
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Smashingpmkns posted...

Was watching that 15 minute meals show and that British dude said cilantro in the weirdest fucking way I've ever heard it said before so I don't want to hear it player

Coriander :)

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Funkydog posted...

Coriander :)

Nah he said cilantro surprisingly. Like saylaynterro or some shit. I dunno how he even fucking did it but he did.
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Smashingpmkns posted...

Nah he said cilantro surprisingly. Like saylaynterro or some shit. I dunno how he even fucking did it but he did.

The mad man.

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Funkydog posted...

The mad man.

That's how you get your citizenship revoked that is

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pinky0926 posted...

Watching cooking videos and it's like

I also dislike how Americans construct sentences when making food words like it's some kind of serious engineering project

Why can't you just use normal words like the rest of us?

Eh cobber, fancy swinging me dat 'andful of coriander? Bing bang bong, be sure to give it a quick pokey stabby first, presuming you have a loicense?

Cilantro is because America uses the Spanish word for the herb, coriander, due to us bordering Mexico. I live in Arizona, all the Mexicans here call it cilantro


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My favorite part about America, is that we don't know the metric system, but we will use burgers as a measurement of weight

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wait till i introduce you to the italian amerian slang my family uses

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cumin my fish dish

Romulox28 posted...
amerian

is that one of the slang words?

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pinky0926 posted...

PAWSTAH

is there even a reason americans say pasta instead of noodle(s)

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Aki_Sora posted...

Zed >>>>>>>>> ze

Oh fuck that noise.

With the exception of W (which is a stupid name in and of itself), letters shouldn't have more than one sound in them.

D is its own goddamn letter, it doesn't belong there.

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Its not just food words. Just random ass words they will say wrong.

Like "SQL" (a tech term).
You pronounce it by saying each letter (ess-que-ell)
Americans pronounce it "sequel"
Like, fuck off. For real

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Choco posted...

pinky0926 posted...

PAWSTAH

is there even a reason americans say pasta instead of noodle(s)

Pasta is the word

Noodles refers to "Asian pasta" only
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I call salami "slommy" and spaghetti "sketty".

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teepan95 posted...

Asian pasta

>_>

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pres_madagascar posted...

Cilantro is because America uses the Spanish word for the herb, coriander, due to us bordering Mexico. I live in Arizona, all the Mexicans here call it cilantro

Don't you lot only refer to one part of the plant as "cilantro" though, when in fact the Spanish word is for the entire thing?

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americans always say things correctly, cause we're number #1

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Choco posted...

teepan95 posted...

Asian pasta

>_>

How else would you describe it lol?
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Rika_Furude posted...

Its not just food words. Just random ass words they will say wrong.

Like "SQL" (a tech term).
You pronounce it by saying each letter (ess-que-ell)
Americans pronounce it "sequel"
Like, fuck off. For real

Pronouncing it like sequel is the correct way to say it tho, the language was originally called sequel

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ThyCorndog posted...

americans always say things correctly, cause we're number #1

Taiwan number 1

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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/En-us-SQL.ogg

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dolomedes posted...

in the US, cilantro refers to the leaves/stems and coriander refers to the seed.

but yeah culantro is just the spanish word for coriander sooo

Yeah, that's what I was getting at. Saying "it's what the Spanish call it" as the reason isn't really going to fly here.

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we should talk about how americans don't know what pepperonis are

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Romulox28 posted...

Pronouncing it like sequel is the correct way to say it tho, the language was originally called sequel

the author can be wrong about their own work

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dolomedes posted...

easily, the term for that is: y'knowwww, rice noodles and bean noodles and sweet potato noodles, all those 'glass noodles' and 'rice sticks' and and -

not even close to my point but ok

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Choco posted...

we should talk about how americans don't know what pepperonis are

Neither do the British! Or English speakers in general
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teepan95 posted...

Neither do the British! Or English speakers in general

The british don't know what food is as a general rule

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pinky0926 posted...

teepan95 posted...

Neither do the British! Or English speakers in general

The british don't know what food is as a general rule

Nah

Yorkshire puddings, fish and chips, scones...
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teepan95 posted...

chips

you're proving his point tbh
pinky0926 posted...

The british don't know what food is as a general rule

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Choco posted...

teepan95 posted...

chips

you're proving his point tbh
pinky0926 posted...

The british don't know what food is as a general rule

fite me irl
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teepan95 posted...

Nah

Yorkshire puddings, fish and chips, scones...

See this is exactly it. The summary of our worlwide conquest around the globe and thousands of years of history can be summarised by a fatty, tumorous looking pastry you put next to roast beef, the least delicious kind of roast there is.

And you know what kills me? Most brits can't even cook a yorkshire pudding to save themselves. You know what it's like being british? Hearing the words "I've fucked up the yorkshires again" every weekend of your life since birth.

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DrizztLink posted...

With the exception of W (which is a stupid name in and of itself),

Why is it called "double u" when it's clearly two V's. Someone fucked up.

pinky0926 posted...

See this is exactly it. The summary of our worlwide conquest around the globe and thousands of years of history can be summarised by a fatty, tumorous looking pastry you put next to roast beef, the least delicious kind of roast there is.

And you know what kills me? Most brits can't even cook a yorkshire pudding to save themselves. You know what it's like being british? Hearing the words "I've fucked up the yorkshires again" every weekend of your life since birth.

The true story of the British Empire was searching the world for decent food.

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Btw there are a few british things I do enjoy and I'm coming down on yorkies pretty hard here but the thing is, it's hardly culinary magnificence is it? Like look at what mexicans do with food, or Japanese do with food, or Italians do with food, or southern pitmasters do with food. And then look at us, with our pale baked tumours.

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I associate British food with hearty, "comforting" food. It may not be delicately spiced or bursting with flavour, but it tastes good and will fill you up
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i've never heard seelantro or pawstah

it's sil-ahn-tro and pahstuh

When I went to Britain as a kid, I literally starved and had to survive on candy.

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teepan95 posted...

I associate British food with hearty, "comforting" food. It may not be delicately spiced or bursting with flavour, but it tastes good and will fill you up

Sometimes, and I think there is a warm place for that by the fire. But sometimes it just seems like low effort and low taste.


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pinky0926 posted...

teepan95 posted...

I associate British food with hearty, "comforting" food. It may not be delicately spiced or bursting with flavour, but it tastes good and will fill you up

Sometimes, and I think there is a warm place for that by the fire. But sometimes it just seems like low effort and low taste.

Wait till you spend years somewhere where you can't get it

My heart yearns for a Yorkshire pud ;_;
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Ivynn posted...

Why is it called "double u" when it's clearly two V's. Someone fucked up.

The true story of the British Empire was searching the world for decent food.

Im pretty sure the French say it as double v.

Correction. The True story of the British empire was searching the world for decent food after a long night on the booze.

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teepan95 posted...

Wait till you spend years somewhere where you can't get it

My heart yearns for a Yorkshire pud ;_;

Alright you've got me there. You know what the first thing I did when I visited the UK after living in Australia for 6 years? Straight into a wetherspoons for a steak and ale pie and a pint of something forgettable for a tenner. Brilliant.

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pinky0926 posted...

teepan95 posted...

Wait till you spend years somewhere where you can't get it

My heart yearns for a Yorkshire pud ;_;

Alright you've got me there. You know what the first thing I did when I visited the UK after living in Australia for 6 years? Straight into a wetherspoons for a steak and ale pie and a pint of something forgettable for a tenner. Brilliant.

You don't know what you have until you miss it

Although now I'm wondering if any of the Irish pubs around here (of which there are a lot) would serve British food
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The_Creep_2020 posted...

Im pretty sure the French say it as double v.

Correct. Just another reason why French >>>>> English.

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teepan95 posted...

You don't know what you have until you miss it

Although now I'm wondering if any of the Irish pubs around here (of which there are a lot) would serve British food

If they're anything like the Irish pubs I'd go to in Australia, prepare to have something almost like the real thing, but somehow inexplicably not quite right.

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pinky0926 posted...

See this is exactly it. The summary of our worlwide conquest around the globe and thousands of years of history can be summarised by a fatty, tumorous looking pastry you put next to roast beef, the least delicious kind of roast there is.

And you know what kills me? Most brits can't even cook a yorkshire pudding to save themselves. You know what it's like being british? Hearing the words "I've fucked up the yorkshires again" every weekend of your life since birth.

Wait, scones are eaten with beef? And roast beef at that? Talk about weird.

Also, you caused me to look up Yorkshire pudding...I can see how it gets mucked up often

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