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Default American ingredients names

On May 2, 5:13*pm, Geordie Guy >
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've written a blog entry about American names for ingredients and what
> their rest-of-English-speaking-world equivalents are, it's athttp://bit.ly/a8gIcv
>
> One American friend expressed surprise that she'd never heard any of
> these, instead saying that all the Australian English terms were
> commonplace. *That's not accurate, but some might be more common than
> others. *I'd be curious for people's comments about what is commonplace
> and what isn't, and any I might have missed.
>
> - G


Did you mean 'rutabaga' and 'bundt' pan? (just ribbin' ya on yer
spelin)

I daresay more 'murikins say chick peas than garbanzos, so maybe
that's not a fair entry.