Luci for Chai Tea
I feel like when americans come across the fact that UK people call whipped cream, “squirty cream” this is a misunderstanding.
UK people call whipped cream whipped cream.
But people in the US simply don’t have whipped cream, they have this weird nitrogen spray can product instead, containing a substance which is not, nor does it resemble whipped cream. Americans just call it that because their lives are impoverished in ways they are forbidden from knowing about.
Luci for Chai Tea
Cream is something that is generally unavailable in the US, but if it were, you’d be able to whip it. And it would be easy to know that the result is cream that has been whipped, and stuff that has been squirted out of a can has not been whipped
Luci for Chai Tea
@liamvhogan the thing that gets sold as “sour cream” in the USA would get called yoghurt here
Liam :fnord:
@zens what the hell how can they not have cream? Isn’t sour cream a huge thing
Luci for Chai Tea
@liamvhogan they also have this stuff called “australian yoghurt” and I’ll give you a chance to guess what’s in that tub
Luci for Chai Tea
@WestLawns @liamvhogan you got it in one
West Lawns⚡️
@zens @liamvhogan unstrained greek yoghurt?
GoatsLive
@zens Huh? I've never been in a grocery that didn't sell it. Indeed I just bought a quart yesterday as I'm making ice cream this weekend. Heck, even the dollar store carries it!
Luci for Chai Tea
@GoatsLive it possibly depends on where you live
Luci for Chai Tea
@dragonfrog @liamvhogan “here” is Australia
dragonfrog
@zens @liamvhogan oh god I hope you're wrong about that. I eat muesli with yoghurt at breakfast, I eat yoghurt with honey or marmalade stirred in for dessert, I marinate meats in yoghurt with spices mixed in. Doing any of those with sour cream would be disgusting. Is British yoghurt that bad?
I'd call American sour cream more of a somewhat lower quality creme fraiche. It's nothing like yoghurt.
dragonfrog
@zens @liamvhogan what I'm trying to get at is, the yogurt must be pretty bad if you could sell sour cream as it.
Good sour cream exists here in Canada (though you're going a bit out of your way to get it, the sour cream from any of the big brands is mediocre), but no matter how good or bad it is, it would make an awful yogurt.
Luci for Chai Tea
@dragonfrog @liamvhogan again we don’t sell sour cream as yoghurt; we sell sour cream as sour cream and yoghurt as yoghurt.
What i am saying is if you took a tub of sour cream from the US and gave an australian a blind taste test as to what it was, they would say yoghurt
Luci for Chai Tea
@dragonfrog @liamvhogan australia also broadly sells several kinds of yoghurt- the yoplait and chobani brands are the same exact thing as what gets sold as yoghurt in the US… this kind of tofu like stuff that always has water on top.
there’s the locally produced stuff that is just thick and creamy and never has the water on top like jalna.
then there’s greek style yogurt, which is MORE thin and watery than yoplait
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