# Yogurt and Sour Cream: USA vs. UK **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 4, 2010, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogurt-and-sour-cream-usa-vs-uk/527710 "2010-02-04T20:10:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogurt-and-sour-cream-usa-vs-uk/527710/21 "2010-02-05T16:59:20Z")
> [@](#): > > Can you buy Devon style “clotted cream” in the USA? It is wonderful stuff-though bad for your waistline! I wrote about this several years ago. “Clotted cream” sounds gross to American ears – “clotted” is what happens to milk that you leave out of the refrigerator way too long. The idea of chowing down on what collects atop milk gone bad makes our collective stomache turn. Of course, “sour cream” doesn’t sound much better, when you come down to it. And I’ve had Clotted Cream when I visited the UK. But if they did try to market it in the US, they’d change the name. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogurt-and-sour-cream-usa-vs-uk/527710/22 "2010-02-06T02:14:51Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > I never heard of sour cream before I moved to the U.S. Ditto, although that was 13 years ago so sour cream may have crept into the UK since. ---
**Author:** ![Gbro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Gbro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gbro)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogurt-and-sour-cream-usa-vs-uk/527710/23 "2010-02-06T02:42:46Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I wrote about this several years ago.\*\* “Clotted cream” sounds gross to American ears \*\*-- “clotted” is what happens to milk that you leave out of the refrigerator way too long. The idea of chowing down on what collects atop milk gone bad makes our collective stomache turn. > > Of course, “sour cream” doesn’t sound much better, when you come down to it. And I’ve had Clotted Cream when I visited the UK. But if they did try to market it in the US, they’d change the name. So dose [“Spotted Dick”](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000II27QE/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B000I4WJ5M&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1NVVQANW8GPWARJCX6TN). A friend that was born in the UK had never heard of it. He called his Mother whom was visiting family at the time in the UK and found he almost lived on it as a youth:D ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogurt-and-sour-cream-usa-vs-uk/527710/24 "2010-02-06T05:19:10Z")
> [@amarone](#): > > Ditto, although that was 13 years ago so sour cream may have crept into the UK since. Nah, it has been around for longer than 13 years. Not something I use, but I _can_ say that it was around by the late 1970s/early 1980s (dating system based on when Celyn went off to live as a student and cook a bit), although perhaps more of a delicatessen thing than in every average shop. I don’t want to think about how long ago that was, though. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogurt-and-sour-cream-usa-vs-uk/527710/25 "2010-02-06T16:37:01Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > On the other end of the spectrum, there is the artisanal, hand made, free range, organic sour cream. How do you get it back in the barn at night? ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogurt-and-sour-cream-usa-vs-uk/527710/26 "2010-02-06T16:40:49Z")
It learns to behave: it knows you might whip it if it doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogurt-and-sour-cream-usa-vs-uk/527710/27 "2010-02-06T16:43:02Z")
> [@Celyn](#): > > It learns to behave: it knows you might whip it if it doesn’t. Good one! ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogurt-and-sour-cream-usa-vs-uk/527710/28 "2010-02-06T19:49:42Z")
> [@Gbro](#): > > So dose [“Spotted Dick”](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000II27QE/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B000I4WJ5M&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1NVVQANW8GPWARJCX6TN). Not to mention faggots. ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2010, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogurt-and-sour-cream-usa-vs-uk/527710/29 "2010-02-07T09:20:39Z")
I tried some Sainsbury’s soured cream last night. The taste is about the same as I remember from the US but the texture was different. It was a bit thicker and I could get an enormous pile of it on a single tortilla chip. ---
**Author:** ![krebbin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/85e7bf/32.png) [@krebbin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/krebbin)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2010, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogurt-and-sour-cream-usa-vs-uk/527710/30 "2010-02-07T14:22:04Z")
I’ve just read about “egg cream” favoured by New Yorkers. Apparently it doesn’t contain either ingredient:-) Just thought I’d throw that in! ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2010, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogurt-and-sour-cream-usa-vs-uk/527710/31 "2010-02-07T17:03:17Z")
> [@krebbin](#): > > I’ve just read about “egg cream” favoured by New Yorkers. Apparently it doesn’t contain either ingredient:-) > > Just thought I’d throw that in! I take it you were reading The Guardian yesterday! ---
**Author:** ![krebbin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/85e7bf/32.png) [@krebbin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/krebbin)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2010, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogurt-and-sour-cream-usa-vs-uk/527710/32 "2010-02-07T17:05:31Z")
oops _that’s_ blown my credibility then. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogurt-and-sour-cream-usa-vs-uk/527710.md?page=1)