to think there is something wrong with Americans?

[TheBloodManCometh]

In Colorado, here for 5 weeks.

Why the HELL is there a half inch gap on either side of the door in all public toilets?? You can see everything going on!!!
This has been the case everywhere I've been in America?
AIBU to be both baffled and embarrassed

lighthearted btw. I don't really think there's something wrong with the Americans

Generally no a sweet is a piece of candy, and it's the individual piece like one haribo jelly or one boiled sweet or one mento or whatever. Chocolate isn't called sweets, it's just chocolate. A chocolate bar, or a box of chocolates. But sometimes restaurants will refer to the "sweet" meaning the dessert course. I've never heard a person use it in that sense (no offence to your grandmother, Kate! :)) I would imagine that a person who used it was either quite old fashioned and posh, or they were a bit of a Hyacinth Bucket type.

(I am a bit of a language and individual word use nerd, sorry!)

I've known lots of people call a dessert a sweet, but I agree that it is rather old fashioned.

I call it a pudding, which I don't think is working class as I say supper which DH is convinced is posh.

Actually, saying that, I'm old enough to remember the sweet trolly in restaurants. I miss them.

Everything here is candy, like Skittles are candy, and something chocolate like a snickers is a candy bar.

I have never met a trifle that I didn't like.

The whole what do you call stuff (from a class standpoint) was a minefield for me when I was a student in the UK. For example, "supper" is in no way a posh word in the US; quite the opposite. I grew up on a farm in Georgia; the evening meal was always supper eaten in the kitchen, unless we had company in which case it became dinner in the dining room.

And we just have dessert.

Pudding is custard type stuff or what you call Angel Delight I think...did someone say that already?

Every time I see trifle I think of that Friends episode when Rachel made it with beef. "It tastes like feet." :o

You can't really say 'what's for sweet ' though can you you. It's what's for pudding or afters or dessert.
You could have a sweet menu though in a restaurant or a sweet course if you were having a posh dinner.
The difference between pudding and afters is that pudding is definitely sweet whilst afters could be cheese and biscuits ?

Right, Scone? Where I grew up supper was just regional usage and dinner more "fancy" because fancy people dine.

So I had lunch and supper and my husband had dinner and dinner. "Dinner" to him could also be the food in question. Like if he's asking if there are leftovers he'll day "is there anymore of that dinner?"

I wouldn't use sweet to mean dessert, but I'd know that's what it meant in that context - I'd call it pudding.

But then sweets (as opposed to a sweet course) could well mean chocolate or boiled sweets or jelly sweets or skittles or anything like that...but then I'm in Scotland where juice means any cold drink that isn't milk, water or alcohol, so maybe we just like having one word for things? Lol

And then there is a "fish supper." I was in Scotland as a student.

Like 'ginger' means anything fizzy Tab?

We have many arguments in our house about what meals are called, mainly because we are such a mismatch. I'm from one end of the country, DH is from the other and we live in another again.

We have a similar geographical divide about fizzy drinks in the US.

Juice to me is ribena etc
Ginger is any carbonated drink
Juice isn't ginger

My husband and I argue about the "a" sounds in words that end in g. Like "bag"... to me it's the same a as cat or ham. But when people here say it it's almost a long a. Which is irritating to me as we named our daughter Maggie and to me it is very definitely MAGG-ee, not MAY-gee. Ugh!

Oh aye, fish suppers and sausage or anything else suppers to be fair.

Ginger's only in Glasgow though, I'm from further north and now live on the east coast and it's all just juice, then if need be, fruit juice, diluting juice and fizzy juice.

Juice is fruit or veggie flavored, no carbonation.

Anything carbonated is pop.

My MIL uses "supper" to describe the biggest meal of the day, so it can be midday, or in the evening. We go to her house for Thanksgiving, for instance, at 1pm, and she calls it supper. I've always called the midday meal lunch, and the evening meal dinner.

I call fizzy drinks soda, but that's unusual for Ohio. Most people I know call it "pop."

Or soda. Or coke.

Anything carbonated is pop.

SODA! :)

I have a question - what is a "soft play?" I feel like there are tons of mentions of soft play on here, but I am not sure what it is. We have a place called Pump it Up that is full of bouncy castles, slides, etc., is it like that?

Christ alive,id never say pop.folk would think id had a turn
The only thing i pop is the kettle.

Soft play is brightly coloured hell.with mats,chutes,feral kids and slack jawed felons

My husband is from the far Western part of New York that borders Ohio so he alternates between soda and pop. In spite of the pervasive use of coke in the South, I say soft drink.

Love that map scone