Just awesome like that
Well, actually, French fries are Belgian in origin. Still a better name than "freedom fries", which is what some people tried renaming them after 9/11 for some deranged reason. Apparently, thinly-sliced potatoes are very patriotic to 'MURICA.
As for Canadian bacon, it's utterly hilarious. Also, John Candy.
edited 13th Aug '12 11:56:51 PM by 0dd1
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Oh My
Freedom hounds are the best things to come from such reactionary madness. Freedom steaks (hamburger) are a close second.
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Apparently French fries come from them being "potatoes fried in the French manner" or something.
^, ^^ Apparently during that Danish cartoon controversy with Muhammad and all, the Iranian government changed the name of a Danish to "Roses of the Prophet Muhammad". :p
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Well, actually, French fries are Belgian in origin. Still a better name than "freedom fries", which is what some people tried renaming them after 9/11 for some deranged reason. Apparently, thinly-sliced potatoes are very patriotic to 'MURICA.
You're getting your foods mixed up; you're thinking of potato chips, not fries/chips.
As for Canadian bacon, it's because what the Canadians call bacon is different from what the Americans call bacon. They look the same in shape (strips of cooked ham), but the American version is fried. As for the origins of either bacon (and whether or not there are other variants), I have no clue.
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Frenching is a style of cutting into long even slivers. So it's frenched potatoes fried. Or French Fries.
You think the Canadian bacon is weird?
Go to Rhode Island, order a "New England Clam Chowder" you'll get a creamy clam chowder. Order a Manhattan or New York Clam chowder and you get one in a tomato broth.
Go to New York City and order new England clam chowder you get one in the red, and New York gets you the white chowder.
It's important to remember the regional rivalry there.
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Or insist on a clam chowder without telling them which region you prefer and watch the wait staff's heads explode.
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In most cases you'll just get the New England Clam Chowder.
If you pay attention to my location tag you can guess which side of the regional rivalry I fall on.
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So how did these things
◊ end up with the name "biscuit"?
Evolution.
In that case I demand to see the fossil records! 
edited 14th Aug '12 9:22:36 AM by DrunkGirlfriend
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It appears to also be the common ancestor of both the Custard Cream
and McVitie's!
Crazy, isn't it?
Well, this does change everything.
Everything.
And let us pray that come it may (As come it will for a' that)
'80s TV Action Hero
Americans call belly pork 'bacon'. That's just weird.
'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'
Just awesome like that
@Bat Pencil: Because those are biscuits. You thinking of cookies?
'80s TV Action Hero
Nah, cookies are great big, undercooked, overpriced things you buy at a stall in shopping centres...
'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'
Cookies are chocolate chip delivery devices.
Hey the wikipedia article claims that in Canada, a biscuit refers to the American thing, yet I have never had anybody say "biscuit" to me and meant the American soft baked goodie. WIKI LIES!
Also... look at Aussies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_melon
Rock melon? Hah! It's a cantelope!
"These here be red circle thingies!"
"You mean apples?"
edited 14th Aug '12 1:20:33 PM by breadloaf
Catalytic
My mom makes American style biscuits on occasion.
I usually call them dinner rolls. They're not quite the same as normal dinner rolls, but it's my preferred term for them, as it's more accurate than biscuits.
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Actually I don't know what I normally call American biscuits. I rarely eat them versus all the biscuits I would eat.
*looks up American biscuits*
Those actually look a lot like some of the Chinese pastries they sell at TNT.
The first time I was in the US, I thought that "Canadian bacon" referred to normal bacon, and the US just had weird different bacon or something, so I ordered Canadian bacon. And I didn't get bacon.
edited 14th Aug '12 1:49:22 PM by czhang
Immanentizing the eschaton
Wait, what? In the Maritimes, American and Canadian biscuits are synonymous. What do you guys have for biscuits?
Catalytic
@Majora: Biscuits, as my mom's family is from Newfoundland, means both the hard cookies it means in Britain, and the American-style pastries that are called biscuits.
Which part of the Maritimes are you form, anyway?
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Nova Scotia.
Newfies, man. They're weird.
Okay guys, I mean how do Americans come up with the names for their food?
American One: "Gee, what is the most unrelated nationality to this food?"
American Two: "How about Canadian?"
I show you examples:
edited 13th Aug '12 11:48:05 PM by breadloaf