Monday 4 May 2009

Words

It takes a while to get used to all the different terms/words they use here in the UK compared to Australia. Some of them make sense, for example, crisps (which everyone seems to eat with their lunch) instead of potato chips, removing any confusion between potato chips and hot chips. Others are just different like peppers for capsicum, clementines for mandarins, aubergine for eggplant, courgette for zucchini and mange-tout for snow peas. One I don't understand is why they call a burger a sandwich! So if you go to Burger King, a Whopper is a sandwich, not a hamburger. Strange!