to not understand why Americans call a main course an entrée?

[flummoxedworried]

Does anyone understand why this happens?

And they don't really have kettles.

WHAT???!!

Can I also point out that the OP's username is 'flummoxed' 'worried'... perhaps Stewie was reading too much into it!

they don't really have kettles.
Or butter in their sandwiches.
Or big chocolate easter eggs, only creme egg type things. Or Christmas crackers.

Blackcherries - Are you sure? I am Canadian ( we have a huge American influence in our day to day lives) and we

1. Have kettles (how else do you make tea?)
2. Put butter in our sandwiches - always!
3. Have massive chocolate eggs - dh is British and after 17 years is still amazed at the amount of chocolate consumed at Easter!
4. Xmas crackers - my dm could not serve dinner without them ( but Dgm was from the Uk - so that may be why)

Sorry op - can't comment on the entree thing!

You can buy kettles here but most people use a stove top kettle (the kind with whistles)

We lasted 2 days in our temporary accommodation without one before going out and buying an electric kettle.

The thing that makes my American friends really laugh though is my clothes horse.

Everything here is tumble dried and there's no washing line in the garden. This is despite the fact that we regularly had 30 degree temps through Winter.

So my trusty British clothes horse sits under a sunshade in the back garden much to everyone's amusement.

It drives me fucking mental.

Did you import it?

Nobody I know has a kettle, puts butter in their sandwiches, has crackers and I couldn't find a proper Easter egg for love nor money last year.

I think Canada has huge British influence compared to the States.

We didn't find many electric kettles. It just wasn't a thing, especially in hotels you can't make tea!!

I didn't know about the entree though.

Pants....

Everyone thinks I'm weird for not tumblr drying everything.

Then I point out my duvet cover is 24 years old and still looks good. Not sure if that good or bad.

Can I giggle a little bit at tumblr drying?

Do you show your duvet memes and essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer until it is dry? :o

Because it's the entrance to the meal. Just like a starter is the start of the meal.

Slow Sunday, OP?

Ok- maybe it is a regional thing. MrsCobain ( I hope you are from Seattle😅). Try going North. I bet you will find everything you need 😁 Purdys is amazing for large chocolate eggs, but I don't know if they ship to the US.
I stand corrected re the kettle. To me a stove top and a plug in kettle are the same and it is just a matter of choice. Dh just confessed that he found it weird we used a stove top.

Wando

In the US meals go:

Starter
Salad*
Entree
Dessert

*if you order one with your meal it comes first rather than with.

I think the kettle thing is due to the difference in electricity voltage. Ours is 240V versus 120V. I have heard this makes a big difference to how quickly you can boil water in an electric kettle and makes them less practical in the US.

Yes, I didn't mean it was the same as a starter. I meant it was the entrance to the meal, ala the main course. Isn't it a hangover to several course gluttonfests?

uk.businessinsider.com/why-americans-dont-use-electric-kettles-stove-top-2015-12

I haven't noticed that it takes longer Moon (and I drink a lot of tea).

I'm not sure I can be bothered to time it but it's not an appreciable difference.

I got confused when I was looking at American recipes.

I kept skipping past the links for entrees - I thought they were for appetisers. Then I eventually looked and thought what enormous starters they were

As if the cup measuring system didn't confuse me enough!!!!

Obviously, I know Americans use different words for things, but I remember my schoolgirl French, I really didn't expect entree to be used for a main course

To raise the temperature of one litre of water from 15°C to boiling at 100°C requires a little bit over 355 kilojoules of energy. An "average" kettle in the UK runs at about 2800 W and in the US at about 1500 W; if we assume that both kettles are 100% efficient† than a UK kettle supplying 2800 joules per second will take 127 seconds to boil and a US kettle supplying 1500 J/s will take 237 seconds, more than a minute and a half longer.

There's the maths so is a bit longer but not so long that if I was in the US I could be bothered with a stove top kettle.

I have an electric kettle as well as a stove top, they are gaining in popularity

I have a clothesline in my backyard, use it during sunny days

You can get huge Easter Eggs at See's Candies, but I dislike them. Give me Cadbury Mini-eggs any day.

We love Xmas Crackers. But Dad's family was from England (Cornwall)

I have a clothes horse. We call them 'drying racks'

The 'entree' thing? No idea. But the phrase 'main course' (not 'mains') is pretty inter-changeable with it.

Butter in a ham sandwich is lush. Same with peanut butter and butter. But that's all.

As far as 'could care less' vs 'couldn't care less'; The full phrase is "I could care less, but I can't be bothered to". Meaning that whatever it is isn't even worth your mental energy to consider in the first place.

We in the US are puzzled about why you eat so much 'pudding' for 'dessert'? Don't you ever have cake, pie, or ice cream?

Wanda, how is something you have halfway through your meal, the entrance to the meal?

That's interesting Moon

Everyone has an electric coffee maker though so maybe it's just that people drink less tea overall.

I had a look and found this:

www.cs.cmu.edu/~mjw/FOOD/entree.html

In short, it is because originally it was served before the roast, making in the "entrance" to that.

www.huffingtonpost.com/meg-hemphill/entree-does-not-mean-main-course_b_1415155.html

Entrée Does Not Mean Main Course!