British vs American Vegetables
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Americans in the South definitely say "butterbean" for young immature limas. And I feel like "green beans" is super common in the U.S. Like way more common that "string beans".
Yes, I would love more of these. Like when I am in church, the pastor's brother teaches us a lot of Hebrew words and their meanings which help why people are named what they are named and their name meanings.
And with that a mighty cheer went up from the heroes of Shelbyville they had banished the awful lemon tree forever because it was haunted. Now let's all celebrate with a nice cool glass of turnip juice. (Or rutabega juice, apparently they're the results of a cross between turnips and cabbage! Lol) I love the way you speak, you enunciate so very well and as always you're so informative! 😄
I was trying my hand at tikka masala about 20 years ago and it called for a capsicum. Couldn't find a translation on the internet. I asked a friends mom who was from India. She laughed and said it's just a green pepper.
So Nicole, try this one. Here in South Africa we call aubergine a brinjal, coriander(cilantro) is known as danya (Indian derivative) and corn we call a mielie (normally white corn and derived from the Afrikaans word).
Interestingly the English word for eggplant/aubergine in India is brinjal as well 😀
I wasn't expecting to hear jacket potatoes getting their own section!
The most common fillings are:
Butter
Baked beans
Cheese (grated cheddar)
Coleslaw
If you're going upmarket there's:
Tuna mayo (sometimes with added sweetcorn)
Coronation chicken (cold diced chicken breast in mayonnaise mixed with "curry powder" and diced dried apricots)
I've never seen creme fraiche on a spud...
That was so funny 😂 And enlightening! Thank you!
We in Australia have a lot of funny differences too.. would be funny if you did a comparison between Aussie words vs US words!
You come to India. Explore the diversity of food (especially Rajasthan). I love your videos, they are based on facts. Lots of love from India. Good luck. And yes make more of these. We call the eggplant brinjal similar to hindi word baingan (बेंगन).
England came to Indian sub continent for the sake of taste of food as spices and condiments
@@faysalahmedsany1832 The british looted all we had but we started from that mess and are working towards restoring the glory of India.
Ah now I understand where the hated and destructive brinjal worm/ moth comes from. It really destroys my eggplants.
OP is hardcore, first he flex on her an reckon she must come to him, then he secondly talking about his eggplant. Hardcore
He didnt even ask, he gave a command "you come to india", no beating around the bush.
respect indian men on the internet
We used to have a range of restaurants based solely on jacket potatoes called Spud U Like and you could have everything from chicken curry to chilli on them.
That actually sounds good curry usually has diced potatos anyway it's a natural choice, beans however that's a no go. Chilli cheese potatos are very popular here in America too.
And there used to be a 'luxury' jacket potato fast casual restaurant just called Spud in London. I used to get their Boston style baked bean filled jackets.
I always assumed you were Italian but to find out you are Calabrese is amazing. I'm from Toronto and we have over 1 million Italians here and most are from Calabria. Rock on sister!
Hug to my fellow Calabrese!!
@@TrueFoodTV Ironically the name of a Vegetable in the UK, or more specifically the name of the Plant that Broccoli grows on.
You laughing is the pinnacle of my year. Keep smiling, Nicole. I cannot WAIT for the "Ask me anything" video. I've seen some very exciting questions. You are absolutely beautiful. 💯❤️
Best backhanded complement ever, it’s an art, it’s not a fine art…
There are so many topping for a jacket potato, tuna and sweetcorn, corned beef, cheese, chilli, baked beans with or without cheese, coleslaw and so many more.
Tuna no!!! 😆
Baked beans on toast is divine 😄 (and so is jacket potato with beans and cheese!)
My husband Mark would agree with you! 😉
That was so fun! I love learning about all of this stuff!
This was an awesome video. I love seeing how the names of food have come to be, and would love more like this!
Really loved this video! Growing up in America and not ever hearing some these names made me think! More videos like this would be awesome!
Yes, more videos like this! Super fun!
I loved that you did this video.
My kids love baked beans with some white rice 😂.
Please make more of this kind of videos
I’d love to see more of these
Just so ya know we eat swedes. My spouse is diabetic and in the summer we make “ potato “ salad with a swede. The difference is a serving of potato salad is 35 carbs, the serving of “ potato salad made with swedes is 8 carbs. You can’t really taste the difference, maybe a little but it is delicious. It is a cheat, and on a hot summer day it is well worth it. Swedes have a bitter flavor under the skin. If you simply peel it with a knife instead of a peeler you remove the bitter part. Cheers
Great video as always. Great jobs guys 👍🏻👍🏻
Enjoyed this. Your video had me smiling for the first time today. Thank you for that!
This topic might be extra fun if discussing the differences with someone from the other place, even over video conference.
I love your topic, God bless you and keep safe always
In some parts* of Brazil mangetout/snow peas are known as "orelha de frade" (friar's ears). Love them cooked with meat and potatoes.
* Brazil is a HUGE country, and names can vary dramatically according to the state/region. Cassavas are known as "macaxeira" in the north, and "mandioca" in the south. Yams may be called "inhame" (more common) or "taiá". Tangerines, according to the cultivar, may be Ponkan, Mexerica, Mimosa or Bergamota. The list goes on and on...
I also see green beans called bobby beans in the UK. I think that terms is known more in the grocery trade than by the public, and I see it in independent shops who often naturally use the same words their suppliers use.
I had to look that up as I'm from the UK but never heard called that before. I've always called green beans French beans though.
I still find it crazy that Coriander is from the Mediterranean,and Basil is from India.
This was very eye opening for sure. As a kid we ate many bean sandwiches as we were poor and they actually taste pretty good. Also a version of beans and potatoes would be a chili with beans and cheese potato which is one of my all time favorites. Although I don’t eat them anymore because the carbs would put me in a coma , I certainly have fond memories of both!
Learned a lot. Thanks
Brilliant Nicole,i was wondering about this very thing only the other day.
Wonderful explorations. I have found it very interesting to hear more about it. Having lived in multiple countries and speaking 4 languages I will certainly pay more attention to etymology of similar words from now on.
Oh! yes Nicole, absolutely love these sort of videos. Perhaps do like one a month or so, thanks as always for a great show xx
Yes! Please do more of these! This was a fun one! (For the record, I've heard "sweetcorn" used here in the US as well as "green bean.")
Potatoes usually come in two ages young and old, young ones can be cooked and eaten with the skins as they're thin, think potato salad, older ones have a thick skin and are usually peeled before cooking or at a limit boiled and peeled before eating, baked potatoes you leave the skin on and it cooks in it's skin, think boiler jacket as the heat gets in but the moisture doesn't get out. It's cooked in it's jacket which you open up and eat what's inside when you put the toppings on. well that's the idea where I'm from.
Haha, love this Nicole. I knew about the different names for vegetables, but not the history of those names, so thanks for sharing. I have to confess, as a child baked beans were one of my favourite things to eat. My mother used to split a can between me and my two younger siblings, as part of a larger meal. Usually there was some kind of meat, some mashed potato, and some baked beans on the plate. As I got older I started eating a whole can myself. One of the first things I cooked on my own was toasted baked bean and cheese sandwiches, sometimes with a slice of ham. This was not something my mother ever made, or I remember seeing anywhere else, so I felt it was my own creation. The satisfaction that came from making this is what I think started my love of cooking, so I have fond memories of baked beans, although I rarely eat them now. I look at the sugar, salt and other additives and figure I can do without all of that. If I do ever feel the urge, I'll make my own healthier version. Dredging up this memory has prompted another question for your upcoming AMA episode: Have your own tastes in food changed over time? Is there anything you used to like as a child, but don't like now? Or anything you didn't like, but now do? One thing I absolutely hated when I was younger was onions. I used to pull them out of any dish my mother made, and line the rim of the plate with them. It seemed that no matter how finely my mother chopped them up, I was always able to find them, much to her distress (sorry mum!). They don't bother me at all now, and I'll happily add onions to my cooking.
I love your pronunciation, is so clear, as a non native english speaker I understand very well
These were awesome!
Lol, even though I'm no foody, I agree with you 100% on the reaction to baked beans on a jacket potato...the horror! Fascinating history of the name of the eggplant. Thanks for another interesting and informative video Nicole!
Great analysis. I live in Quebec and in large cities like Montreal, you will hear both names (e.g., aubergine, eggplant) and even sometimes the Italian name. Sometimes people do not know the name in one language (even their mother tongue) and use the alternative name from another language (e.g. rutabaga for rabiole) because it is more common. Another is "currant" which refers to Corinthian raisins. If you look at fish, you'll find that there are even more names for the same fish, depending where you live (e.g. Mahi-mahi, for Dorado; Dogfish for small shark).
Ok, so in Eastern Canada, the upper Atlantic States (like Maine and New Hampshire, and Massachusetts) baked beans are faaaar better than the kind you get from a can. They are a far more complex blend of sweet, savory, and aromatic, the base of the sauce being onions, molasses, and tomato paste, with a generous knob of pork belly thrown in for the braise. Served with brown bread and butter they are very difficult to stop eating. Miles away from canned.
some of the ones used in the UK are the same as in midwest USA ...green beans, sweet corn(prob. because we grow field corn and there is a big difference), butter beans and our baked potatoes typically loaded(sour cream, bacon bits, cheese, butter , chili and other meats) . Very interesting video
Keep it up. Your a great educator.
I liked the intercontinental feel of the video! I have had to Google many of these on my own (swede was one...) - please keep them coming.
Oh yes! German too. Then, there's Indian herbs, as asafetida that was also called devil's dung for catfish. Kind of a garlic onion mix, but from the resin of one plant. Used to be held in pharmacy, which it help prevents gas. Might have other uses. Also Indian mangoes are supposed to be the best, as Alphonso according to the web is the best of all.
Maybe a little marmite on that baked bean jacket potato? Now we're talking a dish fit for any royal dinner plate!!😂
Why is it so nice to listen her talk
It is only in recent years that 'baked potatoes' have become 'jacket potatoes' in the UK. Both terms are used now, about equally. In my youth, my mother called oven roasted potatoes baked or 'baketies' which is a further complication.
Mother is another variation in England. It is generally 'mum' in the South, 'mom' in the Midlands and 'mam' in the north. Incidentally in the UK 'corn' means any cereal crop. Corn itself is called Maize.
Very interesting vid. Thank you!
Please do one soon on sweets and breads!
Your swede comment hit deep. I live in the UK and almost exclusively eat local seasonal produce. That means for about 3 months out of the year my only vegetables are potatoes, parsnips and heap and heaps of swede (and its cousin the turnip)
That was super fun!
We want more! We want more!!
More please - than you! I enjoy the etymology word chase...so I enjoyed this video. I have a friend who is a Brit and he loves baked beans on toast with the occasional fried egg on top. Oh...that summer squash we here in the States eat...in England squash is either a drink or a sport...although...the summer squash is starting to appear in a few allotments or personal gardens. Cheers...
Also mashed swede is a British delicacy as a side to roast dinners
Yes, more please!
Another name for eggplant that I use often and throughout my life is brinjal
The different names for vegetables and spices really took me for a loop when I tried to make my mother’s home recipes. She always referred to ingredients by her language and it never occurred to me they would be named different until I tried to find the spices in the States. Her ingredient names always sounded English to me.
Yes! You’re the best. Thanks!
very enjoyable and will make great shorts
Yes that would be interesting to have more vids
Jacket potato because the outer jacket, skin when baked is usually hard and dry so skins aren't usually eaten, just the soft fluffy insides mixed with your favorite additives, chives, sour cream, cheese, butter, S&P, bacon bits. whatever
The two first vegetables must be alongside potatoes and tomatoes my four favourite vegetables. And except for potatoes which I’ll start growing after winter, I’m in the Southern Hemisphere. “Prince of orange” is my favourite potato although I haven’t grown other varieties in recent times. Being Australian some vegetables have names more in line with American names. So in Aussie we say eggplant, zucchini and corn. But we say coriander for the leaf, coriander for the seeds, rocket for arugula, broad beans instead of fava beans. So Australia has some of the UK names and some of the American names for vegetables. I also hate canned baked beans.
In India Eggplants are called Bringal in English and I have so fat actually thought that the name Aubergine might have come as a mix of both Bhaingan and Brinjal.
Woo hoo!! Love the animation too :)
I read that we call snow peas their name because the seeds like to be sown soon after snow melt.
Opening a can of worms with the word swede there. It's got two different meanings in the UK: Brassica napobrassica and Brassica rapa subsp. rapa - the latter more outside of England.
On potatoes, give it a dash, just a dash of vinegar. Plenty of better first, yes. But a dash of vinegar will give it a desirable taste.
I don't know about the rest of the US, but here in the south baked beans are more savory with smoky flavors and/or pork. When searching recipes I found "pork and beans" more akin to the British baked beans with sweet tomato sauce of some sort.
Yes! Make more British vs American food names and history videos. As a Canadian, we are forever somewhere between these two culture that sandwich our existence AND then there our french founders AND before any of this we have indigenous influences. This makes all such culture and word comparison videos all sorts of fun since I usually recognize stuff from every side mentioned and get to figure out how my asociations in this particular crossroads of influences must have come to be.
Did someone say sandwich? Keep a lookout for that one, my cross-cultural friend.
Very instructive (To use the Italian stem 'istruzione').
I loved this! Do more. Also, I wondered if snowpeas came from the similar way the peas look to snow drop flowers. Just a guess.
Fantastic video Nicole. I loved the different words we have for the same vegetable in the UK verses the US. 😁More videos like this please!
LOL!! I'm 43 years old... born and raised in Philadelphia and I've lived the last 20 years in the Dominican Republic... I've eaten a lot of strange and exotic fruits and vegetables in my life and I have NEVER eaten a rutabaga or a swede! 🤣
Very formative and interesting video about the origin of some vegetales names and so on... however, in the region where I live, we use the word "perejil" for what you say cilantro. In Spain there are some differences between both, they are not exactly the same regarding the shape of the leaves, the color and even the taste and flavour. We use them fresh. They are two plants of the same family, the apiaceas
Beans, navy beans fixed like New Orleans red beans n rice, yes. Cooked until they become gravy like, with plenty of seasonings, cornbread and even vegan sausage is good.
Baked beans in the US are sweet and mainly have bacon in them. UK beans are not really sweet and certainly not full of brown sugar. Don't know where you get the limited lunch menu from? Not at all correct dear I grew up in the UK and at 23 moved here (34 years ago). I visit the UK around 3 times a year. I really don't see limited lunch menus, but bear in mind most people have a good English breakfast and skip lunch. Also, in the UK a Rutabaga is called a turnip. The US turnip is in the UK called a Swede.
I'll file your complaints with my British husband and his family. 😜 But I assure you that rutabagas and turnips are two different root vegetables.
@@TrueFoodTV Nope, I grew up in the UK. Rutabaga is the same as the English turnip. I bet you as much $$ as you want! The American turnip is the English Swede.
@@TrueFoodTV The north calls what you call a rutabaga a turnip and then what you call a turnip they call a Swede. It depends on where your extended family is from. My grandmother always made carrots and turnips mashed together with black pepper to go with Sunday Roast Dinner. I've continued that on and I'm now 56. It's was always called turnip in my area. Then of course, there are the Scottish neeps/ Or, is it the same thing?
More please!
I'd like to see more videos like this. You could even add in vocabulary from other English-speaking countries.
My wife says in Mexico they call an avocado, aquacate, but in Peru they are called palta.
Actually, you said *"Berengena"* pretty perfectly!
Aburgine is also called brinjal in India
The uk was also ruled by many French people. Think this makes the uk use French words more. Where as USA had a lot of immigrants from everywhere and the most popular word gets spread.
Very good!!!
Oh no. In the midwest we grow different kinds of corn (maize). So we specify sweer corn as compared to dent or popcorn.
Oil Fried eggplant mixed in paprika and salt , as a side for rice ;
Baigan masala ;
Not a fan of baked beans 🙄.
Over steamed beans in sugar or beans pressure cooked with a little bit of curcuma chillies and grated coconut .
Potatoes in the Italian way ❤️.
Baked potatoes with butter, ghee or cheese with grated carrots, beets and other veggies or a side of egg
You know what I'm talking about!
Green beans are often called French beans in the UK, not sure why as they don't originate in France but maybe they were introduced to England from France? Sweetcorn is also sometimes called maize in the UK, I always thought sweetcorn was an americanism?
string beans in the uk are runner beans and what we call green beans i think the usa call snap beans .Rutabaga comes from Swedish root lump .guess that's why we call it a swede ,
You forgot magic beans.
The very popular Heinz Baked Beans in UK are not sweet like the baked beans sold in US.
They are savory beans stewed in tomato sauce.
In the Netherlands we call them: ( an English word provided if I think the word is too far removed from British or American )
- aubergine,
- courgette,
- rucola,
- koriander (koriander for the leaves, and koriander zaad for the seed),
Bean portion, boon is Dutch for bean:
- limaboon,
- tuinboon (literal=garden bean, official=fava bean),
- sperziebonen (green bean),
- kikkererwt (literal=frog peas ( kikker=frog, erwt=pea) official=chick pea))
- peultjes (literal=pods or legume, official=mangetout),
- Gebakken bonen (gebakken=baked),
- gepofte aardappel (literal=puffed potato, official=baked potato),
- rode biet (red beet),
- maïs, sometimes zoete maïs (corn/ zoet(e)=sweet),
- koolraap (literal=cabbage turnip (kool=cabbage, raap=turnip) official=rutabaga/swede)
You missed the Persian badingan where the Arab word al badnjan comes from.
🤣Wish I had this video before I moved permanently to the UK back in 2015 🤣
Being an expat, it was always difficult trying to figure out the UK name for things, especially vegetables and herbs... I mean H-erbs... Pronounced with an 'H' 🤷🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤣
Sweetcorn I knew because I taught English in China. Their English books in 1998 were written in British English--not sure now, left in 2006. Am English grain is Br English corn. Interesting presentation, most unknown to me. It really drives home the point that we who speak English MUST use Latin to be clear when discussing any plants or animals. Every plant has about 15 different North American English names--let's not even talk about leaving these shores. I was just on a wildlife hike and had so much Latin thrown at me I thought Gaius Julius Caesar would have been impressed.
As a side note, the Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) menu lists WHOLE KERNEL CORN Sweet yellow corn. The inclusion of the word "sweet" is a British influence. Just want our British friends to know that the language influence is going both ways across the Atlantic. This is just one example.
mmm....beans on a jacket potato
Yum!
Awesome.
The original English name was egg plant when it was introduced from west Africa,the real origin is sub saharan Africa .
Egg plant....is called "Old Blue Jeans"...? I will stick with eggs plant....it's tea and crumpet....do you serve cold beer....or the warm type....
A jacket potato is a potato baked in it's jacket (skin).
This was lots of fun, although you may have lost some of your UK subscribers after dismissing baked beans ! I was raised in the New Orleans area and we have a few unique terms for vegetables. For example, the climbing perennial squash known as chayote in New Orleans (and south Louisiana in general) is called mirleton. Many New Orleanians refer to avocados as alligator pears.
Eggplant parm sounds really good right now