8 American Things Britain Doesn't Even Have a Word For | PART 1 

It just isn’t going to the fair without having one or both of those at some point during your visit! Very nice explanation.

I love funnel cakes, and I have elephant ears in my garden. 😁

@@NOLAgenX They are lovely plants. Best to you!

I've lived in many different places and it's always called funnel cake. Those other names must be hyper regional.

@@rebelpearl yes they are! And down here I don’t have to pull the bulbs out of the ground. I just cut them to the ground at first frost, which is usually December. Have a great evening, and thank you!

We have a similar name for our politicians. Jackasses

As an American can agree all of our political leaders are twats

@@jean-lucpicard3012 Almost all. I think Pete Buttigieg shows promise. He's at least well spoken.

@@Gerry1of1 well-spoken just means they're a polite jackass.

We have other words for our politicians, but I don't want to get flagged.

🤣🤣🤣That was awesome! As a Mojave Desert dweller, I love it!

HAHAHA! Good one!

I LOL'd at that. thanks

I don't get it. How is "It's a butte" a pun? Please explain, I'm genuinely confused.

@@commandercody2980 it's a beaut (short for beautiful) butte and beaut sound the same when said

@@batshtcrazy5293it is called plaster’s over the pond, went to America needing plaster 🩹 and paracetamol,so I understand your frustration because the chemist is in Walmart and she asked if I was okay 😢. No I just need some 🩹 plasters and paracetamol 😂

Couldn't you have just asked for a bandage? That should have gotten the message across easily enough. Or just show them your injury to begin with?

@@ChaosLightspeed I asked in every way I could think of, including a detailed description, including "bandage with adhesive so it sticks and stays in." Everybody looked at me like I had 3 heads. You have to ask for PLASTERS.

@@Irene-xs9pc You going to do some plastering of your wall? hahahahaha

@@meredithinserra4670 I wonder if Duct Tape and Gorilla glue would be understood in Britain.

It is a plant!!! Funnel Cakes on the other hand...I couldn't live without them!

Same. I thought about the plant.

Same here. The only 'elephant ear' I know of is a potted plant on people's porches.

So much better. Here in Wisconsin they are large (12 in across) n are much better than a funnel cake

Ditto! We have a mass of elephant ears growing by our front door.

I thought it was the rain boots 😂

When I was in high school, a German exchange student (who learned the Queen's english) quite loudly asked the teacher for a rubber, resulting in much hilarity. (Late 80s... no internet to help sort things out before hand.)

I thought rubbers in Britain was rubber bands. Hmmm.

@@SuperJMichael they are usually called laggy bands in the Midlands.

I was imagining a bunch of kids throwing tires at each other XD

Thank You

Never heard of it used that way.

Yes, that's the kind of rain check I'm familiar with. No doubt came from the baseball rain check.

Drive-in movies would also issue rain checks if it would start raining during or just before the movie started.

Yep...I'm old and retired so I've always got plenty of time to throw the supermarket's customer svce into a tizzy trying to find the raincheck coupons somewhere under the counter😂😂 Rainchecks are great tho cause the expiration always lasts waaaay longer than the sale. 👍

Thanks for the laugh!!!🤣🤣🤣

Not anymore... I'm sure it's perfectly legal in both the USA and Britain

Aren’t brownies a tier level of Girl Scouts in America? We also had the Kodak brownie camera and now an edible version. Let’s be honest, American English is and always was about trolling.

ever had a brownie in the bed roo.. NO NO NOT WHAT I MEANT.. I STOP ARESSTING ME. SHIT SHIT I MEAN SHIT...

Roller skates?

Ours over on the East Coast in the South have roller skates.

Carhops on roller skates were fairly common on the 1950s and 60s. We used to BEG our parents to take us to an A&W in Golden, CO because we loved rootbeer floats (are those a thing in the UK???), the little tray they would hook onto your car window, along with a radio to use to call the server back, and the teenagers in skates speeding across the parking lot.

Yeah, as Brit living in the US I was delighted to discover a Sonic in Medford, Oregon.

We have them in Texas.

@@penelopepitstop762 Honestly, Texas sounds so amazing. Except for the metropolitan areas where displaced liberals moved to who haven't changed their voting habits that destroyed California.

@@CelticSpiritsCoven LOL well you may not like where I am... Austin. We have lots of Californians here. But they’re not so bad. 😉

@@penelopepitstop762 I was Air Force. Boot Camp at Lackland, and then Tech School at Sheppard AFB. On the bus, leaving Lackland for Sheppard..... I saw a tumbleweed blowing near the road. I had only seen that in movies before. So that was a fun memory!

Bad hushpuppies have onions added. Onions make everything worse.

​@@commandercody2980 you sir are very wrong, onions are delicious and sweet onions can be eaten like apples.

other side options may include but are not limited to, baked mac & cheese, fried pickles, fried green tomatoes, dirty rice, or boudain balls. :)

@@cameronzwicke5761 onions smell like sweaty armpits, how could they possibly be good?

@@commandercody2980 you should open your mind to trying out different cultural cuisine you'll be surprised how good things taste that don't smell appetizing. Take kimchi for example it doesn't smell very good but tastes good.

If they stay past winter, they're called "damned Yankees."

I had one on the phone the other day; they call themselves 'sunbirds' which made me laugh.

Okay. Sorry. I need to read ALL the words. 💜

@@OZARKMOON1960 and as a Floridian I would say a Sunbird is a Floridian that goes up North during summer?

@@philipwebb960 and yes that's exactly what they're called after April 1st! And all the months from October to April

You can still find carhops with skates in Sonic.

@@BalletMum14 Most carhops at Sonic just walk. In fact, I think I've only ever seen ONE carhop at a Sonic wearing skates. I was impressed.

@@Vykk_Draygo That's a regional thing for you then..... this part of Texas, they actually give them a raise to do it...

Well, 50's nostalgia was an 80's thing, so it sorta works either way.

On the other hand, there is a whole group of custom shops and mechanics dedicated to hopping cars also.

Also from w.Virginia, have heard of elephant ears, both the kind on the elephant and the kind made of fried dough.

funnel cake is a thick batter. fried dough is made from a flour dough

From Missouri. I’ve also never heard of an elephant ear, besides the plant. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I haven’t even seen those, so I don’t have a word for it.

The only elephant ears I have ever heard of were the plants with the huge leaves. And I agree with you about funnel cakes.

Where I'm from

Hehe! That brings to mind my junior year of high school when our family had just moved to Virginia from Macon, GA, and the school's English teacher had just moved to VA from somewhere in New York State; yeah, just because both languages were named English that didn't mean they were the same language! (yes, I know, technically it is dialects, but it sure felt like we were speaking different languages)

@@alonespirit9923 Dialects can be very pronounced, i.e. Cantonese and Mandarin are technically both Chinese; however, they differ in almost every way even the characters are different now.

I’m from Georgia and recently I was in Boston due to my job. I had to work with a native Bostonian. We ended up having to write notes to each other. Between his distinct Boston accent and my southern drawl, it became rather comical.

@@KRYMauL cantonese and mandarin aren't dialects though.... "chinese" isn't a single language but the name of a language family like how english and german are both part of the germanic language family, but I highly doubt anyone would argue those two languages are even remotely dialects so neither should they say that for cantonese and mandarin which can't even be understood in writing nvm speaking

@@Aeririn The difference between a dialect and language is very hard to point out, and no one has a solid grasp on what the difference is.

The one I heard.

Ooh that’s fun! I never new that!

Yup, my mom told me that, and she was from Texas, where they deep fry EVERYTHING.

I was JUST about to post this, jacques! I believe this came about around the time of the Civil War ... something done during big banquets held in large Plantations from what I hear.

@@lifecloud2 The real truth is probably lost in the mists of time, IMO, it was probably named sometime after, and it may have had several names before this one stuck. There are also different compositions, some with onions, soft corn kernels, and they also take on the flavor of the fry bath that they are cooked in, usually fish or chicken, but those charming Southerners will deep fry just about anything. 😏 Then, too, they are sometimes served with syrup, butter, sour cream, ranch dressing, barbecue sauce, and many other things I can't think of.

The Sonic in my town that hasn't closed down yet still does the rollerskates. To continue this, the new hire is required to know how to skate proficiently, after a rookie tripped and smashed a car's windshield in with her head and dumped milkshakes all over the car next to the now smashed one. The girl was okay, a small gash on her head but otherwise alright. Last I heard, she still works there and Sonic paid for the car's windshield. First and last time I went to Sonic. The food was expensive, mediocre, and small. The shakes are good, but I paid $5 for a hotdog and got a glorified lil' smokie on a bun.

@@GetDougDimmadomed Did you order the footlong chili dog? That's my favorite thing on their menu.

That sounds terrifying 😱 and like the car could come away with several scratches

...back in the days of running boards. you could never do that on a mustang.

Back when cars had runningboards?

@Guardian Pigeon How different? Is it just the fact that funnel cakes are drizzled into the fryer, or are the doughs made differently as well? I've had funnel cakes where I live, but never an elephant ear.

@@captin3149 Funnel cakes are made from the same batter as is used to make eclairs and cream puffs.

No

@@Isolder74 Not anywhere I've ever made them or had them. Eclairs and cream puffs are made with choux pastry, which is beaten at the end with a much larger ratio of eggs into a glossy paste that will puff and leave the inside hollow. It's piped out of a bag; you could never pour choux pastry dough through a funnel. (I'd be rich if I had a dollar for every time I had to beat the eggs into the dough forever by hand for my grandmother to make cream puffs, and I worked in a professional kitchen later in life.) Funnel cakes are generally made with a batter, not a dough, and it's closer to waffle batter than probably anything.

@Guardian Pigeon in some parts of the country--especially New England--it's also common to serve elephant ears (we called it fried dough) topped with tomato sauce and few shakes of parmesan cheese. Like a little fried pizza.

While that is the modern usage, he does have the origin correct.

There's also the usage Lawrence mentioned, of "holding" a social engagement for a later time, as in "I'd love to go out to lunch with you and catch up tomorrow, but I'll have to take a raincheck because I'm going out of town," meaning "I would very much like to do this thing with you at a later date, because I can't accept your invitation for the date you're offering".

In California, a rain check is what you get from the car wash so that if it rains in the next two days (or whatever) you get a free car wash. At least, it used to be! Haven't gotten one in ages.

We still get rain checks at Kroger!

yep. Walgreens used to give rainchecks.

Rice porridge, as you put it, is known as rice pudding in the UK. Porridge is made with oats and water or milk.

@@Musketeer009 In many Asian countries porridge is also made with rice. Places like Japan specifically have both rice porridge and rice puddings depending on a lot of cultural factors - such as rice porridge is typically served to someone that is ill or is a nostalgic comfort dish, while rice puddings are more like desserts or for special occasions. Though my overall point still being that a porridge made of corn, such as grits, is more unusual in the wider world of porridges, not just in the comparison of the UK.

i prefer cream of wheat

Sonic here has drive thrus now.

Grits is actually ground dried hominy. It's a bit corser than cornmeal, which, if you boil it up would be called corn mush, or if you're Italian or want to be high-fallutin', polenta.

LOL I'm a lifelong LA girl and I didn't even think of that!

Well rabbits hop and I seen VW Rabbits.

that still isn't what carhop means tho...

on a topic of lowrider subculture.... who would've known that it would cross a different pond -- the Pacific -- over into Japan? Knew something was up when I'd seen a Japanese-language edition of the Lowrider magazine back in the early 1990s.

and another bit of info: www.refinery29.com/en-us/japanese-chicana-chola-lowrider (look aat the episode info for description)

"What is a grit anyways?"

@@eaglescout1984 They’re made from dried, ground corn (Maize) cooked in various liquids - including water, milk, or broth - until the mix reaches a thick, creamy, porridge-like consistency. You can have savory shrimp’n grits or cheese. They’re most commonly served as a breakfast or side dish and usually made from a variety of corn called dent corn, which has a softer, starchy kernel (1). The crushed corn granules are typically cooked in either hot water, milk, or broth until they reach a thick yet creamy consistency that is similar to porridge. Grits are often paired with flavorful ingredients, such as butter, sugar, syrups, cheeses, and meats like bacon, shrimp, and catfish. You can purchase several varieties of grits, including: Stone-ground. These are made from whole, dried corn kernels that are coarsely ground in a mill. This type is harder to find in grocery stores because it has a short shelf life and takes 30-60 minutes to cook on the stove (2Trusted Source). Hominy. These are made from corn kernels soaked in an alkali solution to soften the tough pericarp (outer shell or hull). The pericarp is rinsed, then removed, and the corn kernels undergo further processing to make hominy (3Trusted Source). Quick and regular. These types undergo processing, which involves removing the pericarp and germ (nutrient-rich embryo), so they have a longer shelf life. Regular versions are medium ground while quick are finely ground (2Trusted Source). Instant. This precooked, dehydrated version has had both the pericarp and germ removed. They’re widely available in grocery stores.

"No self respecting southerner uses instant grits" great movie.

It was them two yutes

@@jasonwomack4064 No self respecting southerner puts sugar or syrup in their grits either....

You've no doubt heard that Nipsey Russell, the comedian, got his start as a Varsity carhop. Native Atlantan here! Chili dog, onion rings, fried peach pie and an FO* are my faves, but I haven't been in quite a while. * Frosted Orange. Often referred to only by the letters.

Cooked well, but not overcooked. Moist and soft inside. A deep, dark golden brown crust on the outside. Mmmmm

Outside just a bit crisp, inside warm and almost melting... My wife has perfected a fusion between her family's recipe, and mine, and it's amazing. She made a double batch this evening. 😋

You should try hushpuppies stuffed with crawfish tails

I find they're better when made in a seafood restaurant. The fried seafood kind of flavors the cooking oil ans makes the fries and hush puppies better.

Are they dipped in something oreaten as-is?

Lol!

OR the TV show 'Happy Days'

OMG! I forgot all about that.

We do eat a lot here, but usually the car doesn't tip over.

Yeah these were popular in the 50s and 60s... not the 80s.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butte "In geomorphology, a butte (/bjuːt/) is an isolated hill with steep, often vertical sides and a small, relatively flat top; buttes are smaller landforms than mesas, plateaux, and tablelands." www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/butte/ "Buttes were once part of flat, elevated areas of land known as mesas or plateaus. In fact, the only difference between a mesa and a butte is its size. Most geographers say a butte is taller than it is wide, while a mesa is a much larger, slightly less elevated feature." Flat top is still the distinctive feature

Or where teenagers go to make out in cars lol

@@travissmith2848 it would appear America didn't get the memo. Buttes are common in the northwest, are isolated hills or chains of hills, volcanic in origin, and never have flat tops. Meanwhile in the southwest where mesas are common, none are called buttes. While some people in the NW know what a mesa is, few people who live in the SW have heard of a butte. I think these geographers need to get out more... or perhaps look at map.

@@nathanegbert977 Tell me about it. Here in Montana we got loads of buttes but no mesas. Despite few "buttes" being only spires only a couple dozen yards across.

We must also discuss that butte can also replace the word beauty or beautiful in the Midwest.

A place on Sanibel island was like that. Everything at breakfast came with all you can eat grits. 😝

Sure.. but when I hear polenta, I wonder why they didn't just call it grits.. (same thing)

@@brianjennings7644 grits are ground hominy. Corn meal mush is polenta

@@l.goodman2134 same thing but different, but really not..whichever.

And depending on what part of the US you live in. You either put cheese in them or sugar.

Yes, but, the term did originate with baseball.

@@SorenWinslow As all good things do ⚾️🇺🇸🥰

I came here to make this comment. Good job!

@@ChristinaBoggs me too

Yup, we did them at KMart in the 80's.

Smart Americans use fortnight for two weeks, biweekly for every other week, and twice-weekly for, well, twice a week.

@@gloriouslumi "Smart" Americans simply say "two weeks" instead of "fortnight". 😅 I've never in my life heard anyone here say otherwise.

Didn’t you watch Game of Thrones they mention ‘fortnight’ almost biweekly!

@@gloriouslumi Hate to break it to you, but using the word fortnight does not make you smarter than anyone else. :)

Yes, true. I have never heard an American use fortnight. Unless they are talking about the game that is.

of course that doesn't apply to black friday sales

Yes! During Covid our local store had a sign posted that rain checks were not being given.

Yup, no rainchecks for the rice that sold out in 1 day...

As with everything in the US, there is a lot of variation. I believe CVS rain checks don't expire and I have been to a grocery store where the rain check didn't expire until 60 days later.

That's the only kind of rain check I've heard of. Fun question: in Britain would it be a rain cheque?

I grew up in Georgia and my grandmother (born last decade of the 1800's) said basically the same thing about feeding the dogs with leftover cornbread batter. Hushpuppies are basically fried cornbread with some onion added. Since they're usually served as a side dish to fried fish now, I have my doubts about the origin of the name.

@@fidelogos7098 Actually if you search on the internet you will find it is true. When my fam first moved to the south a waitress offered me and my sister a choice between hushpuppies or coleslaw. My sister asked what is a hushpuppy and the waitress went silent as she wasn't sure how to explain it because surely everybody already new.

@@fidelogos7098 Here in Texas, we often put jalapeno peppers in them, instead of onion.

@@randlebrowne2048 I'll have to give that a try. i love jalapenos.

I have read stories that run away slaves would drop baked food so the dogs chasing them would stop barking and eat it. The food was to 'hush puppies.'

And fried okra.

No wonder I like Long John Silver's. I'm from the north so I've never had any other kind.

Gawd, I want a big plate of catfish and hushpuppies now

Yes, that's correct. My daddy would have fish fries on the river and he fried the fish and hushpuppy in his big cast iron pot in the same oil.

oh but I agree, hushpuppies are the leftover batter/breading/eggwash mixed together and deep fried in the leftover oil from frying fish or chicken, maybe with a little baking powder and garlic powder. Not sure if they're authentic made 'specially!

I think there was also a difference of what pies to have at Thanksgiving. North likes its Pumpkin, and South likes it's Pecan.

In Texas they were shopping cart or grocery basket. We NEVER called them a trolly or buggy.

@sashalynn6087 in Texas we had both.

They sell them at Long John Silvers

​@@joycej9415 Yep. Not sure how they will taste at yours, but the ones in Clemson are really good.

@@robertalexander5892 I always think they are tasty. Was just remarking that you can get them any place now!

"Gilligan's" puts bits of 🟢 peppers in them. 😋

I live in Ohio and just last week I stopped in my local grocery store and bought a bag of frozen hush-puppies, They were once a purely southern food, but anyone who tasted them wanted more, so now they are available all over the country. By the way, Do you have Tater tots in Britain, or do you have them under another name?

Tips were better on skates!

The thought of insurance... 🤪

Bob's Big Boy, a chain of diners in California, started out with carhop service way back when. It fell into disuse for several decades, but became viable again during the pandemic as a way for people to eat out without breaking isolation.

@@lizh1988 People who skate regularly are almost as stable on skates as they are in shoes. And when delivering drinks in a hurry, more stable.

There's a Sonic on every corner in N. Mississippi,half of them still use roller skates.

Yep. And sadly, most companies are now putting disclaimers in their adds specifying “No Rainchecks.”

@@PastelBrushes-n-Donuts Yep, we removed ours like a month ago, which is sad for me working in grocery because it solved a lot of problems with customers who would make you check the back room twice and then ask about when specific products are being delivered. Apparently it somehow created more problems though, but with a limit on items allowed I can't see any real issues, just corporate greed

That’s where the term is most used.

Never heard of this. I know about people invitation. This sale raincheck must happen in only usa. In other countries i have been . The sale is till have stocks

Well we definitely don't have those in the UK either!

I was thinking the same thing, lol.

I'm pretty sure elephant ears are the generic (I had them at the CNE as a kid) and Beavertails are a specific brand.

Are you really the girl in the picture?

@@Heggsabee All of my friends (in Canada) refer to them as "Beaver Tails" even if they're not from the actual store.

@@numarkaz Haha, yes.

I used to live in Seattle, where grits aren't common. One diner served them as a side dish. They had an inset on the menu explaining that grits were "that white stuff they served you in prison". 🤣🤣🤣

As a kid growing up in New York I had grits all the time. But now I am thinking this might have been because my father's ancestors were from the South.

Never tried grits. Been wanting to ever since I saw My Cousin Vinny. Lol.

@@alienlife7754 If you like corn chips, Fritos or polenta, you'll like grits.

@@alienlife7754 it's essentially thin polenta. Nothing special. You never see it because it's more exciting calling it polenta rather than grits...

**Nods in agreement**

Quietly, where I can't see him.

@@Hullj 🤣

The good ones, anyway. The good ones always do.

Thank God Malls are all but dead, husbands bored to death while sitting with their wives purses in their laps was a sad sight.

😂

Has he been a bad boy again?

Yeah, the Queen stopped watching when Harry got married.

Agreed!!

A friend of mine from Rhode Island used to call them Samoas -- because they don't pronounce the "r" in "more" there. I (from Indiana) never could convince her that they were actually called S'mores.

@@carolthedabbler2105 that's just wrong! Lol.

That's kind of like having good memories of the fine sand in your swimsuit from trips to the beach. Ahh, that wonderful feeling of the abraded skin where the sand got stuck in the hem around your upper thigh/crotch. Those were the days... The trick is getting the marshmallow just the right golden brown on all sides just before it is ready to fall off the stick into the fire.

Yeah I like to burn my marshmallows and then put in the cracker and Hershey bar yum

Yes, but, the term did originate with baseball.

Store still do this to make sales.

That's the main way we use it in Australia

Me too..... it was the first think I thought of too, but probably because I used to work at a grocery store when I was in college.

Raincheck is most commonly used as a way of expressing desire to reschedule Like Can i get a raincheck? When one must refuse an invite

In pars of America you can get slapped for saying you want some beaver tail.

It’s also called this in some parts of the us (or that could just be me)

On the northern Gulf coast MS, AL, & Pensacola... lol We call it a funnel cake. I guess because the batter gets poured through a funnel into the hot grease.

Sort of. It's not exactly the same but similar enough that I say they're sort of like elephant ears when explaining beavertails to Americans. The couple who own the franchise invented them in my hometown. ❤

@@laurahinrichsen3917 I live in ny on the Canadian border so I’ve personally never heard of an elefant ear before tonight but I just assume they are basically the same as a beavertail with less flavours

@@kerridwynntheacegoblin6465 In authentic "Indian Tacos" (specifically those made by the Di'neh, used to be known as the Navajo, who today reside in the Sonoran desert) the meat is usually mutton because many Native tribes took to keeping sheep which are easier to care for than cattle. Some Americans are therefore "meh" about them because we're all about the beef, but this Yank thinks they're terrific. Oh, and the cinnamon sugar ones aren't just for kids. Yum!

Indian Fry Bread cant be beat by anything, full stop, no argument possible.

Texas also has something similar, imported from northern Mexico, called a sopaipilla. Usually covered with powdered sugar.

I like mine with honey.

@@markfergerson2145 I love lamb, so I'd probably like it :)

Man, how language changes. I'm british and In the 20 or so years I have been able to understand words, I have never known Knocked up to mean anything but pregnant. You sure they weren't pulling your leg? Either way, interesting to see how time changes our sayings.

​@D 'knocking up' is a pretty archaic term these days, as nobody really calls unexpectedly any more, though you might still hear it.

@@dd11111 There used to be men employed as 'knocker uppers' in the UK before the days when it became common to have alarm clocks. They'd tap the windows with a long stick. I'm talking about pre-WWII.

Never heard it used here in my life.

@@user-zp4ge3yp2o really? Maybe it's more of a local term? Or maybe I first heard the term from someone who had heard it in America? It stuck with me though, because my nickname in school was "Jay"

@@Tekoa80 "Jaywalking" has been a *crime* in the USA my whole life (I'm 65+) until recently. A person could only cross a street at the corners. During Pres. Reagan's term there was a *Three Strikes, You're Out* order, meaning that crossing the street mid-block could land you in *prison!* Freedumb!

@@Tekoa80 Did you used to walk down the middle of the road a lot? Maybe they named it after you, "Whats that nutter doing in the road?!" "Oh it's just Jay, walking"

Jaywalking is a ticketable offense. It is when you cross the street mid block, not at an intersection or in a crosswalk.

I love that movie

it's so strange that there is a specific law for that. Here in Italy you have to cross the road at the crosswalk, but it's normal to cross in other places if no cars are coming, and if you cross in "the wrong place" and something happens to you... well, your insurance won't pay. So you'd better cross at the crosswalk, not for fear of a ticket but to avoid being run over and not even compensated...

Omg, people here in America have been killed by the police for doing that! No shit, google it, I'm totally NOT making this up. Horrendous.

Jaywalking enforcement is relatively regional in America

The way I heard it, the term "jaywalking" came from an insult. A "jay" was someone from out in the country. The word implied the person is too stupid to understand how things are in the city. So jaywalking was crossing wherever you wanted like ignorant country folk, not crossing at the intersection like big city folk. (In the country, it can be 1 mile or more between intersections, so a rule to only cross at intersections is stupid in a countryside area.)

@@aprilvoecks5877 Very interesting April.

I normally hear “funnel cakes” or an I thinking of something else? - an American

The only reason I know that is because of john pinette, he’s a comedian and he talks about BeaverTails.

@@laurenswift9368 funnel cakes are similar, but beaver tails are like a pizza crust shape of dough and funnel cakes are squirted into the hot oil in a pile of squiggles out of a funnel or squirt bottle type of thing. Pizza vs spaghetti shaped but both are sweet fried dough, usually with more sugar on top

Yet another reason to visit Canada 🇨🇦 ❤

Where I'm from, Philadelphia, Elephant Ears are like French Palmiers, sugared rolled flakey pastry. What you had shown is more like a funnel cake. But it also looks like a Moravian Sugar Cake sold here in North Carolina.

it's better to be knocked down than knocked up; it's better to be pissed off than pissed on.

Vaguely related, but I've always enjoyed the sentence: "He didn't like her apartment, so he knocked her flat".

@@PamJernigan Just like elevator shoes give you a lift.

We still use the term "knocked up" not as often though since its kind of weird to go to someones house knowing that they're still asleep. Most people use alarm clocks now. You would only use really if someone called late at night as opposed to early in morning as it was used. If you was to tell someone you will "knock them up in the morning" The reply would probably be "you bloody will not! Call round after breakfast" The term would more likely be used as "Dave came home shitfaced last night. Lost his keys and knocked me up" Or bloody 5,0 knocked me up at daft o'clock again"

Knocked up can mean pregnant in the US. But, by all means, sling it around and let hilarity ensue.

What?? That movie came out just the other day! Oh, wait...nm.

This means something.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Still my favorite movie.

I snorted! Was my first thought, then he said it. LOL

You'll know it comes from Perambulate then?

Pram is short for the Victorian Parambulator . We use Pushchair for what you Americans call a stroller. A stroller in the UK is someone who strolls.

And a Teton is a word for...

butte montana

I live in butte county California lol

I was a geography teacher in England, so I know what a butte is, (even before I'd seen one) it's a recognised geographical term for a flat topped rocky hill. Just like a crevasse is a French word that is the official term for a crack in an ice sheet or glacier.

@@mickell241 I grew up in beautiful Butte, MT. Visit several times a year

Old folks just like nostalgic stuff. It’s just how everyone is, we will be old one day ourselves. I used to do cashier work at 7-Eleven and for some people I would count up to their payment, just because they liked it. In other words, if someone handed me a $20 bill to pay for something they bought, I would count the change, then point the merchandise and say “and twenty”.

Could be nostalgia, could just be rewarding the extra effort.

Some Sonics still have an occasional rollerskater, but it's no longer the norm.

I mean, technically they have a word for it. They just don't know it. Because as soon as we tell them what it is, then they have a word for it. I didn't have a word for sauerkraut till I went to a German restaurant. Well, spoiled cabbage maybe. But now I have that word. It's mine, and you can't take it from me.

"Schadenfreude' is a German word that no one else has a word for, so we all have to use, 'schadenfreude'.

@@renejean2523 We have *multiple words* (iow, a phrase) for it, which is why we now use schadenfreude instead. Americans: always on the lookout for a more efficient way of doing things!

@@DarthPoyner how do you not know what sauerkraut is? LOL

@@DarthPoyner culture shock is when, as an American, I went to a Swedish pizzeria and nearly everyone had sauerkraut put on their pizza. People warned me how Italian pizza is different from what we Americans eat, but sauerkraut on pizza? Since then I've also had pickle slice pizza from a "Domino's" in southern Mexico, where they also put "salsa de inglés" (Worcestershire sauce: can't really blame them for that translation) on pizza.

I work at a grocery store they had rain check also and I would get them sometimes but what you said was true

When I lived in France, if someone was mean to me about my accent, I would (with great fan-fair and winks to anyone listening) ask them to pronounce three English words for me: sheet, beach, and hungry. (Payback for oeil, beaucoup, and oeuf. Ha!

I've heard Indian accents in call centres shift over the last ten years shift, as they are starting to sound more American to my British ears.

Nevada?

...and hushpuppies!

What part of Arizona?

Texas

Memphis! The only rivals to our summer miseries are New Orleans and Houston.

You live in the US? I got 6 sonics in my area and nobody skates anymore 😂

I live in Stillwater, OK the home of the original Sonic and they don't skate anymore here.

A lot of Sonics no longer have skating carhops, alas. A&W also used to have skating carhops, but try to find an A&W anymore. Trivia: A&W tried to become a big player in the fast-food chain business, not only with their signature root beer but they also started offering a 1/3-pound burger, to compete with McDonald's Quarter Pounder. Unfortunately, it seems most Americans thought 1/4 was bigger than 1/3 (because 4 is bigger than 3?) and the idea didn't catch on.

Thank you. Now I get it. At the "sale price" is the key which I didn't get.

My favorite from childhood was Dog n Suds. That and Tastee-Freeze.

I remember those days. Except our station wagon was a Plymouth.

There is still an A&W with carhops in Belleville, Michigan

My first job was as a car hop at A&W but it was later, although that's still been a day or two ago.

@@LindaC616 Our station wagon was a Ford and it had fake wood on the side. Those were the days. Mom and Dad in the front seat, Grandma and Grandpa in the back seat, and little old me rolling around in the cargo area with my pillow, my blanket, and a stack of comic books.

I know where that is! It just out the top

@@JJJRRRJJJ yup, the top of Wisconsin’s thumb