Before ordering popular foods on an American or British menu, you'll want to identify interchangeable names for these dishes and ingredients. That's because they are transatlantic: that is on different sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Here are 9 desserts named different in the UK and the US.
In America, think "biscuit," and you picture those scrumptious biscuits in packaging. In the UK, however, a biscuit is more like the American cookie or vanilla wafer.
The Americans call this sweet, fluffy delight cotton candy while the Britishers call it Candy floss (due to its high sugar that will make you floss your teeth?).
Graham crackers in the US and Digestive in the UK.
A fairy cake is simply the UK's smaller version of the American cupcake.
"Biscuit" means a small cookie in the UK. However, if you want a flakey, buttery biscuit like you would get in the US, you are better off to order a "scone."
To Americans, this term is confusing because pudding is pudding, donuts are donuts, and cake is cake, but they all fall under the dessert category. In the UK, however, ordering "pudding" could mean you get pudding or any other dessert.
Americans call it popsicle but if you have a cute British accent, you understand why it's better off as Ice Lolly in the UK.
In the US, a lot of things are simply "candy." For example, in America, you eat candy bars like Hershey's. However, in the UK, you would eat "chocolate" bars like Hershey's because they call their candy, sweets.
In the US, a flapjack is a less common way of saying "pancake"; in the UK, it's a chewy, sweet granola bar.