Saturday, December 7, 2013

Irish/American dictionary (for the common stuff)






  • Rubbish     / trash
  • Crisps       / potato chips
  • Chips        / French fries
  • Bacon       / Irish bacon is more like canadian bacon
  • Bin            / trash can
  • Lift            / to give a ride in the car or an elevator
  • Ride           / this is a family blog people....
  • pint             / same word, but just to be clear in ireland a pint is 20 oz or 500ml
  • creche         / preschool or afterschool care
  • post            / mail  (verb or noun, put it in the post, or post it)
  • Craic          / good time or story 

A few more food notes
        bacon as mentioned above is not bacon
        ham and cheese sandwich (cheese is shredded cheese)
        scone, is not a starbucks scone  but quite delish
        coffee is often instant, if not instant it will be an americano
        beans, this typically means beans in tomato sauce, served at breakfast usually

thats all for now

Rob

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