On Sun, 02 May 2010 20:27:19 -0400, "J. Clarke"
> wrote:

>On 5/2/2010 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 at
>> http://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.
>
>FWIW, in the US "chickpea" is used, as is "garbanzo" and "ceci",
>depending on region and ethnicity of the speaker.

Chick pea flour in Australia is most commonly known as 'Besan' flour.
Not sure if that's a world-wide thing or not.
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