British Slang for Food and Drink

Let’s just say you are in a British restaurant.  Are you quite sure what you ordering?  Here is a guide to British slang for food and drink…

Aubergine – The very British name for eggplant.

Bap  – A bread that is part roll and part hamburger bun that contains bacon and egg.

Beer Mat – This is another name for a beer coaster.

Bevvy – The nickname for beer.

Bickie –  Means cookie

Brown Sauce – HP  sauce

Candy Floss – Means cotton candy.

Chipolata – This is a small pork sausage ordered in restaurants.

Squash – Another name for a cordial which is a concentrated fruit flavour for making drinks

Cottage pie – This is not a pie. It is beef with veggies topped with mash potatoes

Courgette – The name used in the U.K. for a zucchini

Crispy Duck – This is marinated roasted duck served in Chinese pancakes with Hoison sauce.

Digestive Biscuits – What the English call graham cracker wafers.

Fairy cake – This is another name for a cup cake.

Horlicks – This is a hot malted milk drink that people take just before bed to help them go to sleep.

Hot pot –  A one dish stew made of lamb or beef with sliced potatoes on top that is made in the oven.

Jacket Potatoes – Potatoes that are served with their skins on

Jaffa cake – A popular cake filled with orange jar and topped with chocolate

Kedgeree – A traditional dish made of smoked haddock, rice and eggs.

Kipper – A smoke herring that is served hot with breakfast or cold with salad.

Lemonade – This is what British people called Seven-Up and Sprite.

Mince – This is the U.K. name for ground beef.

Pancake roll – What Brits call an egg roll.

Perry – The nickname for cider made with pears.

Plonk – The name for cheap wine; any bottle that costs under three pounds.

Pork Scratchings – The name for the pork rinds that are served with English beer in English pubs.

Rump steak – This is the British name for a sirloin steak.

Savouries – These are pastries with a salty flavour.

Scrumpy – This is homemade alcoholic apple cider.

Stock cube – The British name for a bouillon cube.

Stone –  The British word for a peach or plum pit.

Sweets – The word for desserts.

Tomato sauce – What Brits call Ketchup

Twiglets – These are sticky twigs that have strange marmite tang.

White – When you are ordering your coffee white you are ordering it with cream.