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People Are Sharing Their Biggest Food Name Mistakes So You Won't Have To Make Them One of the funniest memories I have is of grocery shopping with my college roommate. We were waiting in line at the deli counter and behind us was a sign for cheese from the Isle of Man. My roommate, fully serious, scoffed and said, “we can’t even have cheese anymore? That’s gotta be gendered now too?” Through my tears, I explained that the Isle of Man is an actual place off the coast of England, at which point she whispered, “never tell anyone about this.” I promptly told everyone I knew.

femmilybronte , iomcreamery Report

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284points

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Vicky Z 2 years ago

🤣🤣🤣I'm crying!!! There has to be an isle of woman then!!! Who agrees?

68points

People Are Sharing Their Biggest Food Name Mistakes So You Won't Have To Make Them Moved to the UK from the US a little over a year ago. We looked around the store for whipped cream for like 20 minutes before asking for help. Apparently, they call it squirty cream here. Sorry. But I'm not calling it "squirty cream".

TheSpaceship , Nikky Report

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273points

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Alison Duckmanton 2 years ago

Squirty cream is a processed product. It is often just sold at ambient temperatures on the supermarket shelf. You will find whipping cream in cartons in the fridge. If they don't have whipping cream you can also buy 'double cream ' and whip that yourself. Do not use 'single cream ' - the fat content is not high enough to be able to whip it.

110points

bergskey , Eduardo Casajús Gorostiaga Report

According to pie artist and food expert Jessica, we ought to think of mistakes as small opportunities to get better. However, in order for this to happen, we actually have to be able to learn from them.

“We want to make sure we learn and grow from our mistakes, or they can quickly lead to frustration,” she warned Bored Panda, stating that there are, generally, two types of mistakes—good and bad—when it comes to everything related to the kitchen.

People Are Sharing Their Biggest Food Name Mistakes So You Won't Have To Make Them My husband learned last year that popcorn is corn.

Final score:

263points

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Donkey boi 2 years ago

The clue is in the name.

82points

allamadehshat , Volodymyr Hryshchenko Report

People Are Sharing Their Biggest Food Name Mistakes So You Won't Have To Make Them This reminds me of the first time I made Lasagna. This was before the internet and I was a teenager. I was working with a poorly translated recipe from a magazine in South Asia. The recipe called for 2 tablespoons of red chili powder for the meat sauce. That would be paprika I know now. I only knew of our red chili powder. I used 2 tablespoons of our Indian red chili powder and I kept that up for many more tries to come. It was the first-ever “Italian” recipe for my family and friends, made for fancy occasions only because of how difficult it was to procure the cheese. Everyone ate it with gusto, wiping tears pouring down their face, and commenting on how strangely the heat of the chili complemented the “coolness” of cheese in the dish and that Italians were oh so intelligent for that.

Final score:

244points

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Frannie Kaplan 2 years ago

No chili is not always paprika, and italians don't put paprika in their lasagne

175points

People Are Sharing Their Biggest Food Name Mistakes So You Won't Have To Make Them My parents met and married in the States. My dad is from Scotland. They moved to Scotland shortly after getting married, because my dad had been on scholarship and part of the terms was that he had to work for the Church of Scotland for a few years, so off they went.

My mother had wanted to bake something with coconut. She couldn’t find it on her own. She asked my dad. My dad told her that you could not buy coconut in Scotland. It just wasn’t something you could get. My mother, in her naïveté, said to the women at a church group that it was too bad she couldn’t buy coconut in Scotland. Needless to say, the women were quick to tell her that wasn’t true and where she could get it.

My mother went home and tore a strip off my father because he knew full well you could, he just wanted to see how long he could keep it going. They’ll be married 46 years in June. I’m honestly surprised my father lived to their first. It still comes up.

canbritam , Louis Hansel Report

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230points

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Zobi123 2 years ago

My Scottish father convinced my mother that haggis was a real animal that you could catch by chasing it the wrong way round the mountain (because one side of its legs were shorter than the other side). 51 years and going strong!

117points

“Good mistakes are the ones that come from intentionally trying something new, just to see what will happen. Bad mistakes are ones born of haste or ones that compromise safety,” the expert explained to me that the intention behind the mistakes that we make matters a whole bunch.

For instance, mistakes born from experimenting with ingredients, recipes, and styles of cooking are generally positive experiences because we can quickly improve our skills as we iron out any errors that we make. However, mistakes made from carelessness aren’t all that positive and we need to be aware that they can happen so that we don’t repeat them.

People Are Sharing Their Biggest Food Name Mistakes So You Won't Have To Make Them I just learned three years ago that paprika is just dried ground-up red bell peppers. I'm 44. I felt like the world had betrayed me.

duffs007 , Vitolda Klein Report

Final score:

223points

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Lousha 2 years ago

Hungarian here and this picture hurts my soul :) What you English speaking people call paprika is indeed dried and ground peppers but of a specific kind. It's actually called "spice pepper" in Hungarian. It is not the giant bell pepper in the picture but a small red thing, most similar to chili peppers in appearance. There are hot and mild versions as well but the main thing is you can't just dry any sort of peppers and call it paprika. And yes, in Hungarian (and a bunch of other languages) every bell pepper is also called paprika, usually with a moniker like stuffing paprika, Californian paprika (that would be the one pictured) etc.

320points

People Are Sharing Their Biggest Food Name Mistakes So You Won't Have To Make Them I've lived for about 7-8 years in Germany broken up over 20 years, but from the US. I try to do most of my shopping in the local grocery stores as opposed to the American store. One thing I never buy in the American store was cheese (except sharp cheddar). But I kept thinking how odd it was that the German stores didn't carry Swiss cheese, considering Germany borders Switzerland. Any time I had a recipe that needed it, I'd sub in edamer or emmentaler or titilser or gouda or whatever. It wasn't until like this past fall, after living here and shopping here for years, that I put it together that the Swiss probably don't call it Swiss cheese. I don't exactly know which of the 18,000 varieties of cheese my store carries is what I know as Swiss, but they're all good.

Mama_cheese , LID Report

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216points

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Skara Brae 2 years ago

Emmentaler is probably the closest match.

32points

_Permanent_Marker_ , Visual Stories || Micheile Report

People Are Sharing Their Biggest Food Name Mistakes So You Won't Have To Make Them Not so much a mix-up,

But when I first ate asparagus it was the same day I had quit smoking cigarettes. I'm the lucky individual whose pee smells after eating asparagus and can also smell it. I swear to god I thought I was either dying or that stopping smoking had some adverse effect on my pee. It's only when I googled "why does my pee smell..." and googles auto-complete added "after eating asparagus" so I put two and two together and breathed a sigh of relief

Final score:

204points

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Olga Dremina 2 years ago

But wait, there's more! Only about 30% of people can smell this. I just imagine Mother Nature: "this one will have 2020 vision, this one will have perfect hearing... And for you, my dear child, i have the ability of smelling bad scent in your pee after you eat asparagus!"

122points

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According to Jessica, some mistakes that we can definitely classify as ‘bad’ include things like not reading all the way through the recipe before you start cooking or not having a proper BC fire extinguisher “handy in the kitchen” in case you need it.

In the food expert’s opinion, a lot of silly mistakes get made because we’re not attentive enough. “To ensure that you have only the ‘good’ type of mistakes and fails, I recommend making your recipes ‘as is’ the first time so you get a feel for what the chef’s intended outcome is before you start tinkering with your own spin and substitutions,” she told me that anyone who is a cooking beginner and isn’t feeling overly confident should follow the rules without making major changes.

Though, this includes knowing the alternate names of food items, too. A simple Google search can help, even if we think we already know what an ingredient is or isn’t.

#10

People Are Sharing Their Biggest Food Name Mistakes So You Won't Have To Make Them At 38, I learned that pickles are cucumbers. My wife’s still laughing years later. I feel the pain!

Final score:

194points

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Lousha 2 years ago

I read this lots of times from lots of people and could never understand how you just can't see what they are. Most of the time they are not chopped up in the jar so they just obviously are... cucumbers. But yeah, languages are weird. In mine everything in this family is called uborka, be it small or large.

45points

#11

People Are Sharing Their Biggest Food Name Mistakes So You Won't Have To Make Them All my life i thought that curry is a spice on it‘s own but in reality curry is just a mix of many spices

nobrahh , mana5280 Report

Final score:

185points

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Miss Cris 2 years ago

I thoght the same when I was a child. I saw yellow curry, red curry, green curry... and I thought it should be like pepper.

40points

wrightsound , Christopher Previte Report

#12

People Are Sharing Their Biggest Food Name Mistakes So You Won't Have To Make Them When I started cooking and following recipes, a lot of recipes required scallions. I kept going to the store looking for scallions but they would never have them in stock. They only had green onions. I kept thinking “oh well, I guess I will just use green onions. And once they have scallions in stock, my dinner will be way better”

Final score:

178points

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Vasana Phong 2 years ago

I’ve also heard it being called spring onion

134points

Jessica added that, in the kitchen, we should always work ‘mis en place,’ “that is, have all of your ingredients and supplies measured out and ready to go before you get started,” so that fewer blunders happen. And you can then focus on the pleasure that is cooking, whether the recipe has coriander/cilantro or not!

#13

I was making a cake at school that called for cream of tartar... I used tartar sauce.. fishy kinda cake it was.

reddit Report

Final score:

168points

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Mad Dragon 2 years ago

Cream of tartar is a dry, powdery, acidic byproduct of fermenting grapes into wine. Its sciency name is potassium bitartrate, aka potassium hydrogen tartrate or tartaric acid. It can be used in baking to stabilize creamy ingredients such as meringue or whipped cream.

95points

#14

I once grabbed cayenne instead of the little jar of "cake spice" (it's a mix of cinnamon & cloves & anise & nutmeg, etc) when making an apple cake. I realized the mistake before mixing it in and was able to scrape most of it out, but there was a distinct bite to that cake! We referred to it as the "apple oops cake" and have occasionally added a dash of cayenne to cakes since.

MiniRems Report

Final score:

162points

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Sanne H. 2 years ago

I always add a little bit of black pepper when baking an apple pie too. Read it once in a recipe and it indeed adds some extra flavour.

47points

#15

People Are Sharing Their Biggest Food Name Mistakes So You Won't Have To Make Them I kept hearing Americans talk about "arugula" and I just assumed it was something that only grew in North America.

It's just rocket.

Tomgar , sheri silver Report

Final score:

155points

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Timea Peter 2 years ago

We call it rucola

96points

#16

People Are Sharing Their Biggest Food Name Mistakes So You Won't Have To Make Them Laurel leaf = Bay leaf. The same laurel you see in wreaths and made into head crowns. Also the same as in the phrase "rest your laurels" as well as the term "poet laureate."

HanniballRun , Tetiana Bykovets Report

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151points

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Joy Hunter 2 years ago

One does not "rest (one's) laurels," one rests ON one's laurels...as in, "I won the race, so now I get to go lie down."

75points

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#17

One day I bought a can of garbanzo beans...on the other side, it said, chickpeas. Mind blown!

Final score:

148points

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Timea Peter 2 years ago

never heard of garbanzo beans (not native English)

41points

#18

Bicarbonate soda/baking soda/baking powder always have me double-checking a recipe before I add them in

reddit Report

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138points

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Mimi M 2 years ago

Bicarb and Baking Soda are the same. Baking Powder is different.

105points

#19

People Are Sharing Their Biggest Food Name Mistakes So You Won't Have To Make Them From watching American Masterchef I’ve also found out that aubergine, courgette, and swede are called eggplant, zucchini, and rutabaga. Apparently UK English uses the French wording, but the US is more likely to use Spanish or Italian.

Dydey , Melanie Andersen Report

Final score:

135points

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Panda Kicki 2 years ago

Sweden here, not sure if I should feel offended about being called a kålrot or not 😂. They taste horrible.

4points

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People Are Sharing Their Biggest Food Name Mistakes So You Won't Have To Make Them As a Brit, I love blackcurrant squash (for those that don’t know, it’s a type of juice that you add water too and it’s delicious). Imagine my surprise in America when I asked a Walmart worker for help finding it and she took me to the root vegetables

BelleButch , sainsburys Report

Final score:

134points

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James016 2 years ago

I love Ribena. It is a necessity in my house

32points

Grumble O'Pug 2 years ago

Ribena!!!

3points

Nikki Sevven 2 years ago

In the US, the term "squash" refers, in general, to all gourd-type vegetables, including pumpkin, butternut squash, acorn squash, etc. It comes from the Narragansett (Native American) word "askutasquash."

27points

Erin S 2 years ago

It's called concentrate in the US.

22points

Got Myself 4 Dwarves 2 years ago

Bought my usual diluting juice the other day only to discover they gave doubles the strength of it from double to quadruple- I like mine quite weak so was a total shock to the system! Kids were loving it though, never seen them drink so much

12points

Vasana Phong 2 years ago

She just heard squash

7points

Hannah Edwards 2 years ago

What’s it called in America then?

6points

rumade 2 years ago

Blackcurrant isn't really available in the UK because of an infection that targets both currant bushes and pine trees. The lumber companies were worried about ruined crops, so currant bushes were essentially banned!

13points

SueG 2 years ago

In the UK, I believe certain pine trees were basically eradicated to save the blackcurrant. The US did the opposite, and eliminated the blackcurrant to save the pine trees.

18points

Kat Kirkpatrick 2 years ago

What OP is calling squash, Americans would call "juice concentrate" or "syrup," depending on whether or not there was sugar added to it. Blackcurrants aren't common in my part of the US fresh (though they may be in other parts of the country) so we only see it as jam or preserves unless you go to an ethnic market (I can get all sorts of currants fresh at my local Russian grocery, for instance). When the clerk heard "squash" they probably thought OP meant a variety of winter squash like butternut, acorn, hubbard, etc. so brought them to the produce section where squash is displayed...and that's often near the root vegetables.

7points

Kimi Tomminello 2 years ago

My home state, Maine, the pine tree state, is a major contributor to why currants are unavailable in the US. Blister rust outbreaks would completely kill the states economy. A lot of New England would suffer if it were to happen. Ironically there is a little mom and pop shops a couple towns away from me that sells black currant concentrate and, before Covid, I used to bring my uncle a few bottles because it reminded him of "being at home with my mum in the garden walk back in England" I have yet to find it anywhere else in my travels across the states and Canada.

2points

Anders Hernandez Kristiansen 2 years ago

Cordial i think

2points

Zobi123 2 years ago

Black currants are black currants, but "squash" (the confusing part of the equation) I think we'd just call syrup? We don't really do that hear. Except now that we all have Soda Streams, we are buying "flavors."

2points

Twodogsandapicnictable 2 years ago

Never even seen or heard of it. There's frozen concentrate, but that's portioned for mixing an entire pitcher.

2points

Judy Reynolds 2 years ago

Juice

0points

Samantha Lomb 2 years ago

You will find no currants in the US. The US Department of Agriculture banned then in the early 20th century after fear of a crop disease and we do not grow them

5points

M O'Connell 2 years ago

That's changed, we import many current products from overseas, and cultivation of currants is permitted in the southern states, which are outside the growing range of the White Pine.

3points

Andrea Jones 2 years ago

Same here, in NYC and having Ribena withdrawals, went into walgreens and asked if they sell, squash... "We don't sell vegetables here m'aam", ... do you sell cordial? "we're trained to be polite m'aam"... No i mean juice, that you dilute to add to water... pointed out powders... not great so had to live on shnapple. Went to Ohio and my friend who has lived in europe took me to Kroger and got this little squirty bottle of juice concentrate, not ribena but was too happy to care!

3points

Elita One 2 years ago

Does America not have cordial?

1point

Eiram 2 years ago (edited)

We know of it, but we don't use the term. (It's commonly thought to be a slightly alcoholic juice, made from dandelions or berries historically)

0points

april jenkins 2 years ago

RIBENA

1point

InfectedVoice 2 years ago

Lemon squash is my favourite, but blackcurrant is a very good second.

1point

MyOpinionHasBeenServed 2 years ago

That was one thing I noticed in UK, there's a lot of blackcurrant juice. It's delicious.

1point

KatHat 2 years ago

"Squash" in the UK - "cordial" in Australia - isn't really common in the US, which is kinda interesting. They do more flavor packets (Kool Aid, etc) than they do liquid concentrates for juice, though they do have syrups for coffee, etc. Not quite sure why.

1point

elloelloello 2 years ago

Apple and blackcurrant is just - amazing

1point

Diana Pahule 1 year ago

North American here, never heard of this before.

0points

Lori 1 year ago

In the Americas we would hear squash and think of a gourd, which isn't a root "vegetable". Beets are root "vegetables".

0points

Elizabeth White 1 year ago

Blackcurrant is only recently making a comeback in the US. The story I heard is that there was a blight that tore through the country's blackcurrant plants some decades ago, so they just destroyed them all before it could spread anywhere else and said, "whelp, no more blackcurrant for us." Is sad, 'cause I LOVE blackcurrant from when I grew up in Europe.

0points

Nightshade1972 1 year ago

Americans don't really do "squash" in that context. Any kind of concentrated juice (orange, apple, etc) will be in the frozen section, in a small can that looks like a(n American) biscuit tin. When I first moved from the US to the UK, I bought some orange/pineapple "squash," drank it straight from the bottle, and didn't realize right away that I was supposed to dilute it with water. The strong flavor, drinking it straight from the bottle, is what clued me in.

0points

lozenge 2 years ago

Vimto is my fave!!

0points

ғɪɴɴ ᴅ. ʜᴀʀᴍᴀɴɴ 2 years ago

I've had blackcurrant juice once and yeh, it was pretty good

0points

CLG 2 years ago

You don't really see shelf-stable, liquid juice concentrates much in the US. In fact I can't think of any that aren't frozen. The closest is probably something non concentrated like Hi-C, which is basically just canned sugar water.

0points

Wang Zhuang 2 years ago

Yeah, in the US, squash is a gourd vegetable

0points

Brian Bennett 2 years ago

I used to add it to ginger ale -mum used to give it to me as a kid!

0points

K Tigress 2 years ago

Great with soda water.

0points

Bobby 2 years ago

"Rooh Afza" or "Quice", a must in my house.

0points

peter howard 2 years ago

In England it's known as a cordial

0points

Seabeast 2 years ago

Squashes aren't root vegetables either.

0points

chonky_rubberband 2 years ago

im pretty sure blackcurrant is illegal here in the states

0points

Brandy Grote 2 years ago

Squash, shrub, juice concentrate...

0points

Mrs. Mir 2 years ago

Your problem was thinking anybody working at Walmart could help you.

0points

Devil's Advocate 2 years ago

Cordial, if you want to sound posh, America only seems to sell fizzy stuff?

0points

NotTodaySatan!! 2 years ago

Then why do American stores continue shelving non fizzy drinks? Such as Gatorade, juice, koolade, lemonade.....

1point

Janet PoCo 2 years ago

Or that lemonade is sprite!!!

0points

NotTodaySatan!! 2 years ago

Where is lemonade referred to as Sprite?

1point

Mistralok 2 years ago

Actually, black currents and squash are both fruits, but here in America most people think of squash as a vegetable

0points

Pearlkp 2 years ago

I can't survive without my Robinsons ABC (Apple&BlackCurrant) ;)

0points

Jo Choto 2 years ago

They don't have any drinks in the USA that correspond to squash or cordial. They just have squash as vegetables.

-1point

Thomas E S Thomas 2 years ago

We call black currents blackberry.

-1point

Cheri Aline Sydney 2 years ago

No... Black currents are currents, blackberry is blackberry. You mostly find current products in the mid-west....

3points

muffinmallow , Leaky Cauldron Entree Menu Report

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People Are Sharing Their Biggest Food Name Mistakes So You Won't Have To Make Them I went to live in the US and went to a restaurant in night 1. I had to ask the waitress where the "main courses" were in the menu. I had no idea that Americans use the term "entree" and had to google the reasoning how you can have a plate of food before your entrance dish.

Final score:

125points

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Hannah Edwards 2 years ago

I find that weird too, entree is a starter in some countries!

86points

#22

People Are Sharing Their Biggest Food Name Mistakes So You Won't Have To Make Them Mincemeat is not minced meat. Like, what?

Pindakazig , hans peter meyer Report

Final score:

123points

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CatGirl 2 years ago

It once was - it was minced meat with spices and dried fruits, bottled to keep it good over the winter months.

100points

#23

Way late to the party, but when I lived in Belgium, I got really into hot chocolate—like melting bars of chocolate in milk, kind of hot chocolate. However, the colors of the milk caps were different than the ones I’d normally buy at home in the States. I was blown away by how good the milk tasted by itself and it was even better with chocolate bars melted into it.....and then realized I wasn’t buying 2% milk, but rather full fat. I was essentially melting bars of chocolate in cream and couldn’t figure out why I was gaining so much weight.

kristianmae Report

Final score:

120points

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Timea Peter 2 years ago

Full fat milk is not cream so now you can feel 2x more awkward.

239points

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#27

People Are Sharing Their Biggest Food Name Mistakes So You Won't Have To Make Them Learned in a game of Trivial Pursuit with friends that grapefruit and grapes are not the same thing.

JCorky101 , Aliona Gumeniuk Report

Final score:

101points

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Lena Flising 2 years ago

Maybe they have English as a second language? In Swedish, grapes are called "vindruvor" (and wine is called "vin", pretty logical). I know that grapefruit and grapes are two very separate things, but I have mixed the names up a couple of times.

4points

#28

People Are Sharing Their Biggest Food Name Mistakes So You Won't Have To Make Them Here’s another one: Chipotle and Jalapeños are the same pepper.

depeupleur , Phillip Larking Report

Final score:

90points

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Rob Chapman 2 years ago

Chipotle specifically refers to a smoked and dried jalepeno pepper. All chipotles are jalepenos, but not all jalepenos are chipotles.

188points

#29

I used to think an artichoke was a kind of fish.

_Leopluradon_ Report

Final score:

88points

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Donkey boi 2 years ago

In other words, you got confused between artichokes and Anchovies.

88points

#30

I just learned a few weeks ago that green, yellow, and orange bell peppers are all just red bell peppers at different stages of ripeness when harvested.

NikkiNaz Report

Final score:

75points

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Mistralok 2 years ago

Uhm... not really. All bells begin as green, but different varieties turn to different colors when fully ripe.

121points

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What do you think ?

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Kady LaHaie 2 years ago (edited)

Heres how I got my entire family stoned as a small child. When I was a kid I loved to make spaghetti for my family. I made it all the time. My favorite thing was adding spices to the sauce. One day I was making spaghetti sauce and we were out of oregano. I remembered I had seen my mom and dad putting a green herb in a jar on the highest shelf. I crawled up there, way up on top of the cabinets, and grabbed the jar of herbs and happily added it to our dinner. Years later my mom told me I cooked my dad's weed stash.

36points

Kimi Tomminello 2 years ago

Wish I could upvote this more 😂😂😂 that must've been some pungent spaghetti!! Hopefully your dad found a better place to stash his weed than in the kitchen where kiddos could get to it!!

16points

Vicky Z 2 years ago

That must have been a very interesting dinner🤣🤣🤣🤣

11points

Summer Mason 2 years ago

🤣

8points

Violet Smith 2 years ago

Were you re-enacting scenes from the 1980 movie "Stir Crazy" with Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder?

0points

Diane Aguilar 2 years ago

Thank you so very much for providing me with my first laughter of the year!! Wow, what an anecdote, and I echo Kimi Tomminello in hoping that your father found a better hiding place for his weed after that incident.

0points

Eiram 2 years ago

Too bad cooking on a stove top doesn't provide enough heat to activate the THC... you all probably got an interesting taste, and some pain relief from the cannabanoids.

0points

Save Bandit 2 years ago

Coriander by any other name, would still taste as gross. - William Shakspeare

23points

g90814 2 years ago

but only if you were genetically disposed to taste it that way. Others (like me) love it lol

16points

Pearl 2 years ago

Yas Dude. ~ King Henry VIII

4points

Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

Coriander leaf or coriander *seed*?

3points

Diane Aguilar 2 years ago

Remind me never to hang out with this William Shakespeare then, only the real one who wrote a ton of great plays.

0points

Pittsburgh rare 2 years ago

Lol

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d bradley 2 years ago

i finally started checking the salsa labels on the jars before i buy one when i found out that cilantro was a thing. that vile food serves no purpose.

0points

Charlotte A. 2 years ago

I'm reminded of the many years I spent looking for a certain melon that was quite different from any other melon I had ever had. Not too many years ago I suddenly found a pomelo (it's a large citrus fruit) in a store and realised I'd totally misunderstood the name when I first had it (as a child, mind you!)

9points

Johanna 2 years ago

Thats what my children call them always "Po-Melone" Like ass-melon. XD

4points

SykesDaMan 2 years ago

I can't laugh at any of these, because I'm bad at naming food in 3 languages! Each season when the seasonal fruits come, I have to study!

7points

Daniel Marsh 2 years ago

Rutabaga and turnips come from different varieties of the rape plant. Because "rape" has a very unfortunate alternate meaning, in North America, rapeseed oil is sold as "canola oil," or "colza oil," depending on the level of erucic acid in the oil.

4points

Lawrencium 2 years ago (edited)

I remember once making some French toast with some friends, but we were out of cinnamon at our apartment. They quickly ran over to their apartment and grabbed theirs for us, and I happily dumped in a copious amount; only to realize that they had actually grabbed the cummin instead... We tried to fix it by adding spoonfuls of hot-cocoa mix. Overall it turned out not-the-worst... but not really a recipe I intend to reproduce in the future.

2points

bonnyatlast 2 years ago

I only recently found out that oxen are just castrated bulls. I thought they were some old breed of bovine that was dieing out because we don't use them to pull wagons anymore. Just make soup out of their tails occasionally. (I never do).

2points

McGovernor 2 years ago

My parents used to go to PTA meetings at the school and I naturally assumed they were going to the school to buy meat, because surely that is what a meeting is

2points

InfectedVoice 2 years ago

My friend turned me to once in all seriousness and said "I don't think I've ever tried pig" and I started saying things like bacon, ham, pork chops etc and he asked me not to tell anyone what he had said.

2points

Huddo's sister 2 years ago

I had to try to explain to a grade 4 student that 'pig' is not actually the name of the meat. I gave the examples of bacon, pork etc but he couldn't wrap his head around it because his family just ate pig cooked on a spit or whatever.

2points

EvilK 2 years ago

I once found a recipe for cheese cake in a Finnish cook book, before I had ever tasted cheesecake or knew what it was. I was convinced that cheese cake is something really disgusting, since the recipe had "kermajuusto" in it. Kerma=Cream, Cheese=Juusto. But here's the fun part: cream cheese in Finnish is called tuorejuusto (tuore=fresh) and kermajuusto is like Danish Havarti. So when my mum gave me a strawberry cheesecake for my 11-ish birthday, I cried like a little spoiled brat, since I didn't like cheese then and that cook book had a bad translation.

2points

s. vitkovitsky 2 years ago

I hope you found out it can be quite tasty.

2points

Chich 2 years ago

I thought cantaloupes were vegetables into my mid teens (we never ate them) until a friend convinced me to try one.

2points

s. vitkovitsky 2 years ago

This suggests you never ate vegetsbles, ever.

4points

Johanna 2 years ago

Nice topic. I always love to learn such facts. Today I learnt that our german names are very easy. ;)

2points

s. vitkovitsky 2 years ago

For Germans, they certsinly are!

1point

Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

Kohlrabi. I honestly thought it was a beer brand till I was a teen.

2points

Veronica Scoggins 2 years ago

Coriander and cilantro are not the same - same plant, but not the same. For instance, it is like saying hemp and marijuana are the same. Or that bell peppers and bell pepper seeds are the same - they come from the same plant but are not the same thing. One is the seeds and one is the leaf. The taste of the two is similar but certainly not the same. Just as celery and celery seed are from the same plant, but are different in flavor. Also, many of these 'facts' are not in fact, facts. This article needs fact checked desperately.

1point

Monica 2 years ago

When my grandparents were first married my grandmother made a pasta dish for supper that was crunchy. She didn’t know you had to boil the noodles first. She never lived that down!

1point

Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago

I wanted to make a Silence of the Lambs themed dinner for a party I was hosting (lamb stew with fava beans and a bottle of Chianti on the side). I spent hours searching in vain for the fava beans before a helpful greengrocer explained that fava beans and broad beans are the same thing.

0points

Katchen 2 years ago

Coriander and cilantro may be the same plant, but where I live, coriander refers to the seed and cilantro to the leaves.

0points

Arthur Waite 2 years ago

Dunno if this really fits in here, but . . When I was a kid, my Mother's sister visited us in Kitchener (Canada) from Florida for a couple of weeks. She and her Hubby really liked prowling the stores and Farmers' Markets, and when they went home, they took a whole lot of local stuff away with them. Dunno how they got past Customs going across the border, but... A few weeks later, Aunt Jean wrote to my Mum to thank her for the hospitality, and she mentioned how much her family enjoyed the 'Old Fort' brand cheese. Canada has bilingual labelling; US of A doesn't. Even to this day, when I buy my Old Cheddar in the shop, I think of my aunt.

0points

Zedrapazia 2 years ago

My boyfriend thought butter was made of corn instead of milk until he was 25. I told him the truth and he couldn't believe it. Now I'll annoy him with it for all eternity.

0points

Daniel Marsh 2 years ago

Prawn and shrimp are two different animals, but an American shrimper will often p**n prawn as shrimp. And Aussies will shrimp shrimp as prawn.

0points

Daniel Marsh 2 years ago

LOL! Totally unncessesary censorship strikes! That's "aw" in the middle of p**n, not "or."

1point

Daniel Marsh 2 years ago

Green beans aren't beans. They're an unripe fruit. When they mature, the smallish seeds in them mature into kidney beans, pinto beans, navy beans, etc., depending on the variety.

0points

Kanga9ine 2 years ago

I learned Rhode Island was a state recently.

0points

Lovin' Life 2 years ago

As to not embarass my, I will not tell of the foods I do not know. In other words, I am no Betry Crocker!

0points

Lord Mysticlaw 2 years ago

Coriander and cilantro is also the same as dhania, if you ever come across that word.

0points

Rannveig Ess 2 years ago

Green olives and Black olives are the same thing. Unripe olives are green, the fully ripe olives are black I thought they were 2 different types of olives.

-1point

Mazer 2 years ago

Use less fresh spices in a recipe, commercial spices loose some of their volatile oils in storage, fresh spices can easily overpower a recipe, especially in baked goods

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Daniel Marsh 2 years ago

In case you wondered: Jelly is less fruity, and more jelled than jam, but Americans often call jam, "jelly" anyway. Preserves are like jam, but with chunks of solid fruit in it. Jell-o is a brand of what British people call jelly, but described in America as "gelatin" which is odd, since nothing in the name "gelatin" suggests a fruity or sugary taste, and often refers to colloidal collagen, an animal protein, whereas American "jelly" is made with pectin, a vegetable protein.

-3points

Diane Aguilar 2 years ago

Downvoting you because you don't understand that Jell-O is in fact just sweetened gelatin and we all know that and where gelatin comes from. And British "jelly" clouds the issue even further by not even mentioning that it too is sweetened gelatin, whereas the U.S. "jelly" refers to sweetened, reduced fruit juices that have jelled into a wobbly solid that's used in sandwiches (along with peanut butter) and on top of buttered biscuits or toast.

2points

Frannie Kaplan 2 years ago

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Ali H M Salehuddin 2 years ago

I hate replies like this. Almost condescending even. So tell us which ones are wrong. At least we can learn from that.

6points

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Kady LaHaie 2 years ago (edited)

36points

Kimi Tomminello 2 years ago

Wish I could upvote this more 😂😂😂 that must've been some pungent spaghetti!! Hopefully your dad found a better place to stash his weed than in the kitchen where kiddos could get to it!!

16points

Vicky Z 2 years ago

That must have been a very interesting dinner🤣🤣🤣🤣

11points

Summer Mason 2 years ago

🤣

8points

Violet Smith 2 years ago

Were you re-enacting scenes from the 1980 movie "Stir Crazy" with Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder?

0points

Diane Aguilar 2 years ago

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Eiram 2 years ago

Too bad cooking on a stove top doesn't provide enough heat to activate the THC... you all probably got an interesting taste, and some pain relief from the cannabanoids.

0points

Save Bandit 2 years ago

Coriander by any other name, would still taste as gross. - William Shakspeare

23points

g90814 2 years ago

but only if you were genetically disposed to taste it that way. Others (like me) love it lol

16points

Pearl 2 years ago

Yas Dude. ~ King Henry VIII

4points

Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

Coriander leaf or coriander *seed*?

3points

Diane Aguilar 2 years ago

Remind me never to hang out with this William Shakespeare then, only the real one who wrote a ton of great plays.

0points

Pittsburgh rare 2 years ago

Lol

0points

d bradley 2 years ago

i finally started checking the salsa labels on the jars before i buy one when i found out that cilantro was a thing. that vile food serves no purpose.

0points

Charlotte A. 2 years ago

9points

Johanna 2 years ago

Thats what my children call them always "Po-Melone" Like ass-melon. XD

4points

SykesDaMan 2 years ago

I can't laugh at any of these, because I'm bad at naming food in 3 languages! Each season when the seasonal fruits come, I have to study!

7points

Daniel Marsh 2 years ago

4points

Lawrencium 2 years ago (edited)

2points

bonnyatlast 2 years ago

2points

McGovernor 2 years ago

My parents used to go to PTA meetings at the school and I naturally assumed they were going to the school to buy meat, because surely that is what a meeting is

2points

InfectedVoice 2 years ago

2points

Huddo's sister 2 years ago

2points

EvilK 2 years ago

2points

s. vitkovitsky 2 years ago

I hope you found out it can be quite tasty.

2points

Chich 2 years ago

I thought cantaloupes were vegetables into my mid teens (we never ate them) until a friend convinced me to try one.

2points

s. vitkovitsky 2 years ago

This suggests you never ate vegetsbles, ever.

4points

Johanna 2 years ago

Nice topic. I always love to learn such facts. Today I learnt that our german names are very easy. ;)

2points

s. vitkovitsky 2 years ago

For Germans, they certsinly are!

1point

Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

Kohlrabi. I honestly thought it was a beer brand till I was a teen.

2points

Veronica Scoggins 2 years ago

1point

Monica 2 years ago

When my grandparents were first married my grandmother made a pasta dish for supper that was crunchy. She didn’t know you had to boil the noodles first. She never lived that down!

1point

Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago

0points

Katchen 2 years ago

Coriander and cilantro may be the same plant, but where I live, coriander refers to the seed and cilantro to the leaves.

0points

Arthur Waite 2 years ago

0points

Zedrapazia 2 years ago

My boyfriend thought butter was made of corn instead of milk until he was 25. I told him the truth and he couldn't believe it. Now I'll annoy him with it for all eternity.

0points

Daniel Marsh 2 years ago

Prawn and shrimp are two different animals, but an American shrimper will often p**n prawn as shrimp. And Aussies will shrimp shrimp as prawn.

0points

Daniel Marsh 2 years ago

LOL! Totally unncessesary censorship strikes! That's "aw" in the middle of p**n, not "or."

1point

Daniel Marsh 2 years ago

Green beans aren't beans. They're an unripe fruit. When they mature, the smallish seeds in them mature into kidney beans, pinto beans, navy beans, etc., depending on the variety.

0points

Kanga9ine 2 years ago

I learned Rhode Island was a state recently.

0points

Lovin' Life 2 years ago

As to not embarass my, I will not tell of the foods I do not know. In other words, I am no Betry Crocker!

0points

Lord Mysticlaw 2 years ago

Coriander and cilantro is also the same as dhania, if you ever come across that word.

0points

Rannveig Ess 2 years ago

Green olives and Black olives are the same thing. Unripe olives are green, the fully ripe olives are black I thought they were 2 different types of olives.

-1point

Mazer 2 years ago

Use less fresh spices in a recipe, commercial spices loose some of their volatile oils in storage, fresh spices can easily overpower a recipe, especially in baked goods

-1point

Daniel Marsh 2 years ago

-3points

Diane Aguilar 2 years ago

2points

Frannie Kaplan 2 years ago

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Ali H M Salehuddin 2 years ago

I hate replies like this. Almost condescending even. So tell us which ones are wrong. At least we can learn from that.

6points