[/b]cookie The Northern Ireland equivalent is 'biscuit', which also covers crackers. A 'cookie' is a 'sweet biscuit', occasionally 'cake'.
cracker 'savoury biscuit'.
quick bread In Northern Ireland, this was 'soda cake' or 'soda bread'.
biscuit 'scone'
muffin 'muffin'
cake 'cake'
salad All sorts, but the NI names generally come with modifiers: 'green salad', 'cold meat salad', 'fruit salad', etc.
stew 'stew'
pudding Can be sweet (Cabinet pudding, plum duff) or savoury (haggis, black or white pudding, etc).
The only real confusion I ever had was while visiting friends in American. We went to a medium-posh restaurant and I ordered a steak, green salad and chips. The waiter looked at me as if just ordered a medium-rare barn owl and fuh-fummed for a second or two when one of my dinner companions spoke up and said, 'He means fried potatoes.' That's when I learned that what I call 'chips', Americans call 'French fries' and what Americans call 'chips', I call 'crisps'.
As I recall, the meal was better than I expected.
Boru
cracker 'savoury biscuit'.
quick bread In Northern Ireland, this was 'soda cake' or 'soda bread'.
biscuit 'scone'
muffin 'muffin'
cake 'cake'
salad All sorts, but the NI names generally come with modifiers: 'green salad', 'cold meat salad', 'fruit salad', etc.
stew 'stew'
pudding Can be sweet (Cabinet pudding, plum duff) or savoury (haggis, black or white pudding, etc).
The only real confusion I ever had was while visiting friends in American. We went to a medium-posh restaurant and I ordered a steak, green salad and chips. The waiter looked at me as if just ordered a medium-rare barn owl and fuh-fummed for a second or two when one of my dinner companions spoke up and said, 'He means fried potatoes.' That's when I learned that what I call 'chips', Americans call 'French fries' and what Americans call 'chips', I call 'crisps'.
As I recall, the meal was better than I expected.
Boru
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