# For Non-Americans: "Would you like peas, squash, or \_\_\_\_? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 30, 2005, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-non-americans-would-you-like-peas-squash-or-____/310516 "2005-06-30T14:42:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-non-americans-would-you-like-peas-squash-or-____/310516/61 "2005-07-01T17:25:24Z")
Being sensible people, Americans have cake and ice cream at birthday parties. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-non-americans-would-you-like-peas-squash-or-____/310516/62 "2005-07-01T17:30:27Z")
OK, hereā€™s a strange combination that nonetheless works very wellā€¦cake and cheese. Fruit cake and white stilton is a very good combination. (Iā€™ve only come across this in Yorkshire, so it may be a regionalism.) ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-non-americans-would-you-like-peas-squash-or-____/310516/63 "2005-07-01T17:49:42Z")
Try chocolate jell-o pudding and red jell-o together. Unbeatable! ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-non-americans-would-you-like-peas-squash-or-____/310516/64 "2005-07-01T17:59:36Z")
As for jelly and jam, a chunkless jam may be called a jelly in UK or a preserve. Still jelly would nearly always be assumed to mean Jello (Fruity gellatine desert). Citrus jams are often called marmalades (sp?) which can also be chunky or smoothe. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-non-americans-would-you-like-peas-squash-or-____/310516/65 "2005-07-01T18:31:44Z")
and then thereā€™s also lemon curd/lemon cheese, just to add to the jolly (or is that jelly?) fun. šŸ™‚ Considering what little rodents run this board, Iā€™m a bit surprised we havenā€™t heard anything about making tulips from hamsterjam yet. (Yes, Iā€™ll get my coat) ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-non-americans-would-you-like-peas-squash-or-____/310516/66 "2005-07-01T23:52:02Z")
> [@Brynda](#): > > Cream cakes sound wonderful, but I havenā€™t had one. I have had some really nice cake-y things with cream from bakeries in Britain, though. The cake with cream that I have fallen in love with, though, is a slice of (usually chocolate) layer cake (cake with frosting between the layers, plus more on top and sides) with what you call double cream poured over it. Heaven on a plate. Americans call double cream ā€œwhipping creamā€, by the way, but to me (unlike **irishgirl** , apparently) it is better unwhipped. > > [hijack] Hubby (who is indeed, as you surmised, male) and I were in Northumbria last year. Lovely area.[/hijack] Ah. My curiosity is satisfied ā€“ thank you. Youā€™re quite right, that is the best way to enjoy a really rich chocolate cake. The ā€œcake-y things with creamā€ would certainly fall into the general category of cream cake as the termā€™s used here. In fact it sounds about as close a definition as you could get ā€“ eclairs, choux buns, cream horns, cream slices, cream doughnuts, cream buns ā€“ any kind of sweet pastry, cake or bread; if itā€™s stuffed with cream, itā€™s a cream cake. Actually, looking at my post again, I think that what I was describing looks more like a gateau. And Iā€™m more pleased than you would imagine that you enjoyed your visit here: I didnā€™t get a summer holiday for the last two years because I was too busy typesetting the Northumbria tourist brochure ā€“ thank god somebody actually came! ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-non-americans-would-you-like-peas-squash-or-____/310516/67 "2005-07-01T23:56:02Z")
> [@GorillaMan](#): > > OK, hereā€™s a strange combination that nonetheless works very wellā€¦cake and cheese. Fruit cake and white stilton is a very good combination. (Iā€™ve only come across this in Yorkshire, so it may be a regionalism.) Try a slice of cold apple pie with some wensleydale (or a nice mature lancashire). ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-non-americans-would-you-like-peas-squash-or-____/310516/68 "2005-07-03T13:50:36Z")
> [@WotNot](#): > > Ah. My curiosity is satisfied ā€“ thank you. Youā€™re quite right, that is the best way to enjoy a really rich chocolate cake. > > The ā€œcake-y things with creamā€ would certainly fall into the general category of cream cake as the termā€™s used here. In fact it sounds about as close a definition as you could get ā€“ eclairs, choux buns, cream horns, cream slices, cream doughnuts, cream buns ā€“ any kind of sweet pastry, cake or bread; if itā€™s stuffed with cream, itā€™s a cream cake. > > Actually, looking at my post again, I think that what I was describing looks more like a gateau. > > And Iā€™m more pleased than you would imagine that you enjoyed your visit here: I didnā€™t get a summer holiday for the last two years because I was too busy typesetting the Northumbria tourist brochure ā€“ thank god somebody actually came! The cream things came from Greggā€™s, mostly. My favorite was a pastry with cooked apples and cream. Regretably, many (if not most) American bakeries use ā€œcremeā€ fillingā€“nasty stuff. My husband loves it; I loathe it. It is very sweet and sort of gelatinous. We loved Northumbria. The tourism professional in you will love the fact that we spent quite a bit, too, and have told lots of people about it. We went to Holy Island, Hadrianā€™s Wall, Alnick and Bamburgh castles, and stayed near Alnmouth. I used mostly this site: > **[Visit Northumberland | UK Holidays in Northumberland](https://www.visitnorthumberland.com/)** > > Find UK short breaks and holiday destinations. Northumberland is a land of big adventures, breathtaking beauty and unlimited possibilities. Did you happen to write for them? My mother in law also had some print brochures, so if the website isnā€™t yours, I bet the print stuff was. I am so happy that you pleased we came. I only wish we had met then. Nothing like having a proā€™s advice. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-non-americans-would-you-like-peas-squash-or-____/310516/69 "2005-07-03T14:40:12Z")
> [@Brynda](#): > > We loved Northumbria. The tourism professional in you will love the fact that we spent quite a bit, too, and have told lots of people about it. We went to Holy Island, Hadrianā€™s Wall, Alnick and Bamburgh castles, and stayed near Alnmouth. I used mostly this site: > [http://www.visitnorthumbria.com/](http://www.visitnorthumbria.com/) > > Did you happen to write for them? My mother in law also had some print brochures, so if the website isnā€™t yours, I bet the print stuff was. I am so happy that you pleased we came. I only wish we had met then. Nothing like having a proā€™s advice. šŸ™‚ Ah, bless you, Iā€™m no tourism professional, just a lowly designer/typesetter (or Mac monkey as weā€™re known in the trade). It just so happens that Iā€™ve worked on a number of tourism related materials this last two or three years. I wasnā€˜t involved with that website, but I typeset the accompanying brochure for the last two years (the accommodation listings were _great_ fun šŸ˜‰ ) as well as stuff for Hadrianā€™s Wall, Haltwhistle, and other places further afield. So, yes, youā€™ve almost certainly had your hands on stuff that I was at least partially responsible for. I hope you didnā€™t get cream all over them! šŸ˜ƒ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-non-americans-would-you-like-peas-squash-or-____/310516.md?page=3)