Britain vs. America: Vegetable Names - Anglophenia Ep 39 

Atheist Orphan Me too!

Same

I hadn't heard any apart from courgette and aubergine. I often joke with my American friends, saying that eggs are not for planting!

I wish she would have covered broad beans. As a Yank I had assumed you meant Lima beans, but apparently broad beans = fava beans

Meee tooooo ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

+mjpanicali Donald Trump is an American one that is equally as baffling

+WibblyWobblyTimeyWimey I like to think of Trump as a stale cupcake.

+Owen Woodfin and not even a nice one he is more of a out of date rasin cupcake

+WibblyWobblyTimeyWimey Bill Clinton said that Trump is 'fact-free', which made me laugh so hard I prompted an asthma attack.

Laura Minnick Wow, "Fact-Free Stale Cupcakes." He should really sell those on his merchandise website which _apparently_ he has.

One word: moderation

+Jordan Lawe It's a genetic thing. We taste it differently than the majority of people. We have a gene, OR6A2, that allows us to smell aldehyde chemicals, which are present in both soap and the greens of cilantro.

+Doxie Lain Yes, how would moderation help? Would you like to have moderate amounts of dish soap put on all your food? Doesn't sound too pleasant does it?

+lorduggae I am very happy, given the large amount of Mexican food in CA, that I do not taste cilantro as soapy. What if you lived in London but all curries tasted soapy.

lorduggae Well, compare a teaspoon of cinnamon (or any spice) to a small amount in your dish.

+Klayton Bowen Unless you've got southern mushmouth syndrome haha

+Klayton Bowen That's just what I was thinking. That's how some southerners pronounce it.

Yeh you do :/

Onyx Lover Well I sure as hell don't.

+Jackson Ralston Or you're from Boston, maybe. :)

Lol

I think you'll find they're commonly referred to as cabbages.

Geoff P Cabbages are too tasty...Brussels Sprout might be a more offensive term, and hence it appeals to me more...

cogidubnus1953 Lol! Oh no come on, Brussels sprouts are lovely par-boiled then lightly fried in butter. But so is cabbage come to that.

cogidubnus1953 loooool the best Boris Johnson and Donald trump roast ever

The food there was pretty good actually And the best thing I tried was a dish that included what they call “zucchini pasta” it had stings of zucchini with marinara on it with a little parmesan

Combining both millennial conformo-speech phrasing and unearned smugness in one half sentence -- impressive.

High five!

Don't forget a complete disregard for your/you're.

Emma Leitch Lol same

Emma Leitch Yeppp

Really? That's interesting. I've heard Stephen Fry say exactly the same thing - "soapy"

that's true! I have a friend who has that!

Beetroots by Dr. Dre, MBBS

Beets by Haramdre.

I thought that was a weird comment from her as well. Although I am from the South and say "tah" at the end (like many Southerners do), I would agree that the general American pronunciation uses "Doe" or "Toe"

I am from the south and we pronounce potato with the "o" sound on the end not an ah sound. I am not sure where they would use an ah sound. Maybe in very rural areas?

ATHRENTHE2ND Same, I am from Tennessee.

+ATHRENTHE2ND that might be it. I'm from a town of less than 10k people in southern Alabama. The "ah" is all I ever heard until I went off to college lol

Richard Smith The South. Let's go back to pretending they aren't part of the US.

I do! They are turnips and potatoes and you eat them with Haggis especially on Burns Night, washed down with Irn Bru. :P

Whisky, the form without an e, & LITERALLY the only way I can drink Irn Bru

Lol so random 😂

How dare you love something different than you. You will not be welcomed in youtube comment sections.

Marmite is worse than poo.

I love both :)

Based on your description, I think I may know your stepmother

Thank you! 👏🏻 Americas who say that tend to live in the south. Sometimes it bothers me that other countries think the US is made of California, New York, and Texas. No there are other states that all say things differently.

+RileeHope'sWorld SO TRUE! not just states, but even sections of states...I'm from South Jersey (which should have seceded from North NJ decades ago IMHO lol) and we pronounce the state New JeRSEY like everyone else. It's just as annoying to hear people say to me "oh! You're from New JoYsey?" 🙄 honestly, I think the JoYsey folk are actually from suburbs of NY but it's definitely not a New Jersey pronunciation like TV would have the world to believe (like the REAL jersey shore to us is Atlantic City 👉🏻 Cape May and all the Jersey Shore people but one are actually New Yorkers). So yes totally agree, especially about the part where the world tends to think ALL Americans sound, act and think like certain portions of our vast and varied country. I completely blame movies and television for this 😉

+Sandy DiVenanzo lol I also hate how people from other countries think we are all fat too and that like all of our food is sugary, fried, or chemically. Like a lot of or processed foods are the same just different name lol.

+Sandy DiVenanzo -- Some America accents pronounce it "puh-tay-tuh" and some pronounce it "'tater." Just as not all Brits speak RP, not all Americans speak SSE.

+SeikiBrian I get that there are many accents and ways of saying things here in the US, but the majority of Americans pronounce them ending in an O so its weird to me that another country would think differently

+Anna133199 But don't you destinguish between the red beetroot and the leaf beet/ silver beet/ mangold from which you eat the leaves and stems? I was always told the Dutch taught Danes to grow the silverbeet.

+ganlesse I'm sorry I don't know much about beets, but leaf beet / silver beet / mangold is snijbiet and red beet is rode biet. So, I guess we do distinguish.

:-D

+Anna133199 Where are you? Dutch or Walloon?

+Laura Minnick Walloons use French terms, so I'm assuming he's Dutch or Flemish.

she is the only reason i watch their videos she is so cute...

Nothing against her, but in this department I MUCH prefer Siobhan, the previous host.

It'sRandom I’m curious as to why you addressed this comment to me and not the others in this thread. And while part of me agrees with your comment in a sense, I do think it’s a bit unwarranted in its po-faced quality (there’s a nice British expression for you).

+TheFlowMind Its a genetic thing where it just tastes like soap to some people.

Jack Coxon Good! Now my Uk colleagues will stop make fun of me.The only thing I can do when I taste coriader is have a gag reflex. In italy is not really used and we like parsley!

***** Yep it's eveywhere...

to me it tastes like dirty feet.

Yes I was put off coriander by the restaurant where I work. I had lasagnes and the women serving dumped a handful of what we both thought was parsley. I took a huge bundle of it and ate it and I nearly through up. It's put me. Off coriander ever since

Yeah, ending to with an -a strikes me as very old-fashioned and not very well educated.

pudding is the word we use for deserts. Yorkshire pudding is just a really weird exception.

As a Scot, to me pudding can be used as a more informal word for desserts generally, but particularly for stodgy desserts like what you might have in winter (sticky toffee pudding, clootie dumpling, apple/rhubarb crumble, Christmas pudding - that kind of thing), but it also traditionally refers to savoury dishes including haggis, black pudding, red pudding, white pudding and steak and kidney pudding. Like their sweet counterparts, the emphasis is on stodgy. You can guess why we have among the worst health statistics in the British Isles!

+Pale Aesthetic OK, but you're forgetting another weird exception....black pudding! (And white pudding too in Ireland)

In the US our winter desserts are apple cider (warmed, spiced, and non-alcoholic), hot chocolate, cookies, and pies.

Indeed!

Hmmm, aardappel sounds similar to the German kartoffel.

I like how aardapple sounds like a cockney describing a new vegetable they’ve just seen for the first time in their life. “Well itz some sort’a ‘ard apple init”

Nope. We call Bell Peppers Bell Peppers in the UK

+Cosmic Sky Who calls them capsicums? I've seen it in books and heard it in cooking videos very often. I could have sworn my one cook book is English. I will double check when I get home.

+Spencer Kieft My friends from Australia call them capsicums.

Ok. I also heard it from Indians.

I'm British and I've only ever heard them being called sweet peppers not bell peppers

Please explain further, I'm intrigued

How awful for them. Cilantro is amazing.

+Dahed92 I find the American obsession with long hair so weird. You get so many women who have their hair long "because it looks feminine" even though they look awful.

Sukhrab Ayupov Ha je vois que chui pas le seul frenchi à regarder ce genre de vidéo mdr

Sukhrab Ayupov mdr ah merde, t'es canadien ??

Dahed92 Then French people are weird too :P Ils sont fous, ces français!

starlinguk your short hair female looks gorgeous

+carmium I was surprised to hear it was related to squash, I looked it up now, it's a mix between cabbage and turnip and it IS a root vegetable.

+Ben L Didn't know it's heritage! They're actually cheap and mild flavored, rather good.

Either way it's quite delicious!

Lol that's a funny story

No

Siobhan is still in my heart :(

Frances Atty, the top, leafy part, yes. As stated, we use the the Spanish cilantro for the herb and French coriander for the seeds. The top part is almost exclusively used in Mexican, Native American, and South Western cuisine. The seed is used almost exclusively in Indian and European dishes. I imagine e if you Brits had such stark differences in use by cultural influence, you’d have different names for the different parts, too.

Yep, I was an adult before I found out that coriander the spice came from the same plant as cilantro(coriander) the herb.

Yep, such a terrible taste! :(

It's wonderful stuff. It gives food an exotic kick. No soap taste whatsoever. Glad I inherited the good cilantro gene.

i like to juice it with apples, its such a rush to drink it.

Haha- you can have all mine. Ick.

I don't mind cilantro but one of my best friends absolutely hates it. I thought of the friend when I saw this.

Yeah, SciShow did a video on it. From a news article: "Over the past several years, scientists have conducted studies comparing both identical and fraternal twin tastes and determined that most cilantro haters are born with a group of olfactory-receptor genes, known as OR6A2, which pick up on the smell on aldehyde chemicals." Tastes great to me, yum :)

+The_Silence Will Fall thanks for explaining what it tastes like to the rest of you - I've never known! For me it has always just been the most horrible stuff that ruins anything it's put into, and I wish I didn't feel that way as it's pretty, healthy, and popular in many cuisines I otherwise like.

I'm not going to ask when and why you tried Palmolive dish detergent on a taco.

Palmolive is hand wash?

+Rochelle - I can't tell whether you're saying that where you live, Palmolive is a hand wash and you're surprised someone is calling it dish detergent, or whether you're responding to somebody who called it a hand wash, which is a comment I don't see here. Palmolive in the United States is primarily a brand liquid dish soap, although it used to advertise about how gentle it was to the hands. In other countries Palmolive also makes beauty products.

We hated the french like americans hated the english, its all ancient history of which i know very little about(#not a historian, lol) lets just say, wars were fought, treaties were drawn and words were shared. Lol.

As far as I have been taught, it usually dates back to 1066, and the Norman (French) Conquest (invasion), the ruling class/Nobels spoke French (even the King of England - William the Conqueror never bothered to learn English) when the natives tried to communicate with their new rulers many words became part of English. A good example is 'cow' - the French-speaking nobles would call the animal beof (modern French is bœuf) and the English farmers would call them 'cou', as the Nobels would usually eat the meat and the poor English natives would farm the animals cou became cow for the creature and beof became beef. Plus the 'hate' is more like a sibling rivalry

+Joshua Walters we call a lot of food by the french terms as they rock at food. A lot of our "traditional" cuisine developed from france. Despite being at war with france for the better part of 1000 years, good food is universal.

+Joshua Walters England hates France in the way that a younger sibling hates their older sibling.

+Ryan Foster Yup. The Normans and the Angevins spoke French (and Languedoc, in Eleanor's case) exclusively. John learned a little bit of English, but not enough to really conduct business in. Edward II used it a little. Henry IV was the first one to really embrace English, and Henry V was the first to use English in legal documents. Yay Henry V!

+Rayve Napsu Well vegetable really means nothing in botany, so it's fine to call it both a (nutritional) vegetable and a (botanical) fruit.

Technically its a fruit vegetable, like potato is a root vegetable and brocoli a flower vegetable(?).

+Rayve Napsu botanically yes, culinary no. if we going to go through what are fruits, vegetables, flowers, berries it could get very complicated.

Is a bell pepper like a sweet pepper?

British accent, get over it

+Doge Master If someone is going to post and report on other regions of the world it should be done in a way that respects said language/accent. I have hear plenty of people with British accents say both is those words with the "o" pronunciation and not and "a". With that said, she could have easily found a video, or asked someone from America how they pronounced those words.

Only in the Deep South and really it's just an accent thing. Of course you also have people that say 'mater, 'tater, warsh, and twiced. (Twice-Ta)

+Valerie Foster I'm from the Deep South I grew up my entire life in the south and I have never heard someone say tomata or potata. Idk I haven't gone everywhere in my life, and I do believe they probably so say that some where just never in the places I have been.

Older, more country people do in fact say it that way here in the south.

More like poh-tae-doh

Em we say poo-tee-too nah not really it's poh-tay-tow and tom-ah-tow here

Isabel Alexander yup

Isabel Alexander "Courgette?" 😂😂 #Zalfie

Also, can any Canadians confirm that slang for cookies is 'cooks'? Because she told us so but cookies is quite a short word on its own

Trace them back far enough and all words are foreign.

Human Interaction Excellent!

True but before 'English' we were a French speaking nation so that might be one reason for some of them.

No we weren't. The Normans spoke a form of French, the peasants never did. Most of these food terms came over with the French chefs that rich Victorians hired to feed them.

Why not? Often the foods are "foreign" to begin with..

I've never seen that. Could be a regional thing.

MARK SHARP It's typically Shaw's and Star Market in New England that do that.

I've seen that too but mostly in the south east.

Dotchi Latham The customers would tell new clerks it's a zucchini but it's under green sqaush in the computer.

That's interesting. I'm from California and I've never heard or seen it called anything but Zucchini. Since there are so many different types of squashes it would seem to me to be more confusing to just call it a "green squash."

Her accent is English.

ahem ! i never though English was classified as accent :P

+Tej Swaroop ;-; dood a British accent doesnt exist

+Kathryn Cooley it exists .. Don't you realize the difference in spelling a same word differently by various people

ugh