What can you get in the UK but not USA

[GreatestShowWoman]

Friend moving and wanting to put together a wee survival pack, what needs to go in?

Here are some of the word differences that caused us confusion!

UK - - - - - - - - - -US
Pinafore - - - - - -- - jumper
Camp bed - - -- - - cot
Cot - - - - - - - - - - - crib
Emulsion paint - latex paint
Handbag - - - - - - purse or pocketbook
Purse - - - - - - - - - coin purse
Vest - - - - - - - - - - undershirt
Waistcoat - - - - - vest

I sad to send my aunt in NY Christmas crackers until they got banned by Royal Mail

Yo can buy explosive free ones for export.

You can buy explosive free ones for export

Alternatively just buy then in Target...

She said you could get really cheap ones but I used to send her M&S ones .

Also she was a feminist and refused to shop in Target.

You can get properly posh Christmas crackers at Williams Sonoma.

I think if she’d shopped around she could have found some eventually.

I just enjoyed sending them and was sad when I had to stop.

As others have said the bread is sweeten and really not nice. Perhaps a gift very so she can buy a bread maker and easily make nice fresh bread?

The holy trinity:

Decent tea
Decent cheese
Decent bacon

When I lived in America I didn't miss anything. I was amazed by the variety of food there, and it used to be very cheap. Eating out was a lot cheaper than the UK and supermarket food was nearly half the price of UK food. That was over 25 years ago though. I think food must have gone up in price quite dramatically since then. In the UK it has only gone up a little bit by comparison.

America has a lot more that we can’t get on the uk (although this is slowly changing) and anything in the uk that’s not there they usually have their own version of it.

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Coca Cola

You can buy it obviously but it’s utterly vile

Sinkgirl I found the Pepsi tastes like our cocoa cola and vice versa over there. Maybe next time try their Pepsi

Coca*

mominatrix Yes I know, but you put fanny in the UK column and bum in the US!
I am pretty sure what I call my fanny is not what an American would call a bum!

I am pretty sure what I call my fanny is not what an American would call a bum!

Correct. Bum is buttocks.

My friend lives in the US and I send her jelly babies, Yorkshire tea, Fox's crunch creams and walkers crisps regularly.

I do this by ordering them from amazon.com (ie the US site) to be delivered to her address. Works perfectly every time. No carrying for her and only the usual delivery costs for me rather than air mail.

Kinder eggs!

Candyflip - don't buy the English tea from Trader Joe's, try the Irish Breakfast tea - properly strong, round bags without those ruddy tags

To add to the word list:

Rubbish bin -Trash can
Rubbish - Garbage / trash
Football - Soccer
Hockey - Field hockey
Ice hockey - Hockey
Aubergine - Eggplant
Tea - Hot tea
Iced tea - Tea
Trainers - Sneakers / Tennis shoes
Rucksack - Backpack
Trousers - Pants
Jumper - Sweater

"Salad" usually means something mixed with mayo, like tuna / mayo / sweetcorn. No cucumber / tomato / lettuce necessarily involved

"Midday" means "sometime in the middle-ish bit of the day", not a synonym for "noon"

Lots of pasta seems to be described as "noodles", including in some cases lasagne (or "lasagna") sheets

kippers. I always took kippers!

Kinder Eggs, and you can't even post them out- they get stopped at customs!

Try East European shops for Kinder Eggs in the US. They taste better for being banned

Salad to me is definitely lettuce, tomato, cucumber, etc. Unless it’s specified to be something like potato salad.

Also if someone said tea I’d assume hot tea, unless they specified iced tea or that was a drink that was available at that event.

Christmas crackers have become popular and shouldn’t be too difficult to find. We got some posh ones online one year.

Also agreed that baking is not all done from mixes. There are a lot of pre-made mixes and dough, and people do buy them. But lots of people bake from scratch as well.

I haven’t noticed a different between Coke in the US and UK, but possibly I’m not sensitive to that sort of taste.

Squash (maybe you could get the shot packs of Robinson's)