Jelly (UK) / Jello (US) Americans children eat it too, but they call it “Jello”.
Jelly: Jelly is made with strained fruit juice. There are no pieces of fruit in jelly. Jam: Jam is made with mashed fruit. Preserves: Preserves have whole fruit or large pieces of fruit.
Jello is a gelatin that is sold in powdered form and you have to add it in water and heat and then allow it to cool down to set and take the shape of the jelly. Jelly and Jello are practically the same thing with Jello being a brand name sold in US. All Jello is jelly, but not all the jelly is Jello.
Rocket + Arugula = Rockula The English refer to the green leaf as rocket, which is taken from the French 'roquette', and the American use the term arugula, which is taken from the Italian word. Sweets + Candy = Swandy Sweets to the British and Candy to Americans, mashed together we get Swandy.
In English marmalade refers only to a food made from oranges, lemons, limes, or grapefruit. Don't use it to refer to a similar food made from other fruits, for example blackberries, strawberries, or apricots. A food like this is called jam in British English, and jam or jelly in American English.
Why do Americans call jam jelly? In the US, there is often a difference between jam and jelly. Jam is made with the whole fruit, while jelly is made from just the juice. What the British and some others call jelly, we call gelatin or even call it all by the brand name Jello.
Biscuit (UK) / Cookie (US)
In the US, cookies are flat, round snacks made of sweet dough. In the UK, these are generally called biscuits, although people do call the bigger, softer kind cookies, too.
Aubergine or Eggplant
Some say the less common white varieties of the typically purple plant led to the name used in the United States, but the terms are generally interchangeable regardless of color or shape.
Coriander, also known as cilantro in North America, and parsley are herbs from the same botanical family, Apiaceae. Parsley and cilantro may both be used as ingredients or as garnish.
Popular brands of premixed gelatin include: Aeroplane Jelly in Australia, Hartley's (formerly Rowntree's) in the United Kingdom, and Jell-O from Kraft Foods and Royal from Jel Sert in North America. In the US and Canada this dessert is known by the genericized trademark "jello".
Whereas Americans call jam 'jelly' and jelly 'jello'. Go figure. [Edit] Here in Australia we call jelly (no fruit in it) jelly and we also call jelly (with fruit pieces) jelly with fruit. We never say jello.
In the United States and Canada, jelly is often called 'Jell-O'. Jell-O is a brand of gelatin that has become a generic, or typical, name for gelatin desert. In Commonwealth Nations like the United Kingdom and New Zealand, almost all gelatin is called jelly. Also, it is spelled gelatine.
Why is it called marmalade and not jam? The word “marmalade” is borrowed from the Portuguese ''marmelada''. Marmalades contain the peel of the fruit as opposed to the whole fruit which jam is made from.
A staple of American childhood foods, peanut butter and jelly sandwich, or PB&J for short is a sandwich consisting of two slices of bread, one with a layer of peanut butter, and the other one with jelly or jam.
The name zucchini is used in American, Australian, Canadian and New Zealand English. It is loaned from Italian, where zucchini is the plural masculine diminutive of zucca, 'marrow' (Italian pronunciation: [ˈtsukka]).
Zucchini = courgette
It's compulsory to say it only with a really strong French accent.
What are biscuits in the USA? If you're in the USA, however, a 'biscuit' is what Australians and the English may refer to as a scone. American biscuits are usually enjoyed as part of a savoury meal, served with meat and gravy.
If you want a bag of what Americans call 'chips' in the UK, just ask for crisps.
In the UK we have a worryingly high number of words for different types of potato foods. We call French fries just fries, and thicker-cut fries that come from a chip shop are called chips.