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Chips are called chips, and look like this - http://www.mccain.co.uk/Global/Images/Products/Product%20Category/Healthy/oven%20chips%20sc%20large.jpg
Crisps are called crisps and look like this - http://images2.mysupermarket.co.uk/Products_1000/37/174137.jpg?v=2

Budweiser in the UK comes from both. - http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/#/Shopping/FindProducts.aspx?Query=budweiser

Actually, milk is the one example where we don't tend to use metric in the UK - I've got a 2.272 litre (4 pint) bottle in my hand right now... Other dairy products like yoghurt and cream, fair enough, they're metric, but we still haven't let go of imperial measures for milk and beer, because 500ml is not quite enough.

Not quite -- most corner shops sell milk in 500mL multiples, and the 'luxury' brands (Cravendale, 'Tesco Finest' etc) do too. Since the quantity is slightly smaller it makes the price look better, for anyone that doesn't read the "per 100mL" number.

I wouldn't be surprised if other dairies switch the size of their bottles as the price of 1.14L reaches £1.

http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/shelves/fresh_milk_in_tesco.html shows the variety of sizes.

Most cans are 440mL on here: http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/#/shelves/beer_in_tesco.html and most bottles only 275mL. 500mL would be an improvement!

Actually, milk is the one example where we don't tend to use metric in the UK - I've got a 2.272 litre (4 pint) bottle in my hand right now... Other dairy products like yoghurt and cream, fair enough, they're metric, but we still haven't let go of imperial measures for milk and beer, because 500ml is not quite enough.

Not quite -- most corner shops sell milk in 500mL multiples, and the 'luxury' brands (Cravendale, 'Tesco Finest' etc) do too. Since the quantity is slightly smaller it makes the price look better, for anyone that doesn't read the "per 100mL" number.

I wouldn't be surprised if other dairies switch the size of their bottles as the price of 1.14L reaches £1.

http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/shelves/fresh_milk_in_tesco.html shows the variety of sizes.

Most cans are 440mL on here: http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/#/shelves/beer_in_tesco.html and most bottles only 275mL. 500mL would be an improvement!

Give me an appetizer, a main meal including meat, a dessert and some fruit. 2 dollars. DOLLARS, not pounds.

$2 ~= £1.60.

The cheapest main course would be something like this (1.1g salt). Looks awful. A cheap apple will be about 16p. I'm now bored looking, you can spend the other 53p ;-)

(I haven't bought a readymeal for ages, over a year. They're a lot better than they used to be, and better than the description here of typical American airline food, but they still taste like factory food -- the ones that aren't healthy are often oily or sugary, the ones that are "healthy" taste of starch. Plus, I'm pretty active, so one "portion" isn't enough -- and eating two or three portions worth is a lot of salt, and is quickly more expensive.)

Processed food doesn't have to be oversalted and overspiced.

Pick any product on here. Say, Tesco Finest Chicken Pancetta & Mozzarella -- 1.5g salt per portion, which seems reasonable for a main meal (daily recommended maximum is 6g). However, others do have a lot of salt.

The government is still in the process of asking/hoping food manufacturers to further reduce salt content of processed food. (If they don't, they'll eventually make a law/official guidelines. Or, more likely, mandate a big red sticker on anything containing to much salt).

Processed food doesn't have to be oversalted and overspiced.

Pick any product on here. Say, Tesco Finest Chicken Pancetta & Mozzarella -- 1.5g salt per portion, which seems reasonable for a main meal (daily recommended maximum is 6g). However, others do have a lot of salt.

The government is still in the process of asking/hoping food manufacturers to further reduce salt content of processed food. (If they don't, they'll eventually make a law/official guidelines. Or, more likely, mandate a big red sticker on anything containing to much salt).

Lipton begs to differ (and so do I), it's delicious

http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/tesco-price-comparison/Tea/Lipton_Morocco_Pyramid_Tea_Bags_20_per_pack_40g.html

Some companies do everything they can to deceive potential customers.

The breakfast cereal aisle of a large UK supermarket will have branded goods (Nestlé, Kellogs etc) and store-brand goods (Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, whatever). The large supermarkets have adopted similar "traffic light" labelling for front-of-box nutrition information -- four/five dots which are red, yellow or green depending how good or bad the food is. People don't buy breakfast cereal with red dots, so the stores changed their recipes to have less sugar and salt.

The big brands refused to use this labelling scheme, and successfully campaigned for it not to become law. They use pastel-coloured or white dots.

Kellogg's Frosties (sugar: 12% of an adult's GDA). Sainsbury's Frosted Flakes, (red segment for sugar, and IIRC that's for a child's GDA).

(The 30g serving is also unreasonably small. That's about a handful.)

Sounds like an interesting experiment on myself, but I don't think I can buy HFCS cola here. However, I would rarely want to drink more than 1 can (330ml, 11floz) of cola.

[All the (non diet) soft drinks contain real sugar.]

I assume the corn in HFCS is what I call maize or sweetcorn. Maize flour is more expensive than sugar here (8.9p vs 6.8p per 100g).

Sounds like an interesting experiment on myself, but I don't think I can buy HFCS cola here. However, I would rarely want to drink more than 1 can (330ml, 11floz) of cola.

[All the (non diet) soft drinks contain real sugar.]

I assume the corn in HFCS is what I call maize or sweetcorn. Maize flour is more expensive than sugar here (8.9p vs 6.8p per 100g).

Sounds like an interesting experiment on myself, but I don't think I can buy HFCS cola here. However, I would rarely want to drink more than 1 can (330ml, 11floz) of cola.

[All the (non diet) soft drinks contain real sugar.]

I assume the corn in HFCS is what I call maize or sweetcorn. Maize flour is more expensive than sugar here (8.9p vs 6.8p per 100g).

How easy is it to get decent "ready meals" (in American: TV dinners?) in the US? I think Britain is pretty much a world leader in this (there's nowhere near as much variety or quality meals available in the rest of Europe, but it's a while since I was in the US).

Here ready meals are available from less than £1 to over £5 per portion, with a wide variety of dishes (perhaps 80 options in a small inner-city supermarket, large supermarkets have hundreds). It's not so difficult to avoid anything unhealthy, and mostly the nutrition info is prominently shown on the front. The ones costing £3 or more tend to be better than what I can cook from scratch for myself in a reasonable time (e.g. this.)

(Some of this stuff is ridiculous. Can't people microwave a potato any more?!)

Supermarket pizza is still cheaper though, and plenty of young people can't cook very well.

Lunchtime at school is one hour (I think that's a legal requirement...), and every school I've seen staggers when various classes are allowed to go and queue.

How easy is it to get decent "ready meals" (in American: TV dinners?) in the US? I think Britain is pretty much a world leader in this (there's nowhere near as much variety or quality meals available in the rest of Europe, but it's a while since I was in the US).

Here ready meals are available from less than £1 to over £5 per portion, with a wide variety of dishes (perhaps 80 options in a small inner-city supermarket, large supermarkets have hundreds). It's not so difficult to avoid anything unhealthy, and mostly the nutrition info is prominently shown on the front. The ones costing £3 or more tend to be better than what I can cook from scratch for myself in a reasonable time (e.g. this.)

(Some of this stuff is ridiculous. Can't people microwave a potato any more?!)

Supermarket pizza is still cheaper though, and plenty of young people can't cook very well.

Lunchtime at school is one hour (I think that's a legal requirement...), and every school I've seen staggers when various classes are allowed to go and queue.

How easy is it to get decent "ready meals" (in American: TV dinners?) in the US? I think Britain is pretty much a world leader in this (there's nowhere near as much variety or quality meals available in the rest of Europe, but it's a while since I was in the US).

Here ready meals are available from less than £1 to over £5 per portion, with a wide variety of dishes (perhaps 80 options in a small inner-city supermarket, large supermarkets have hundreds). It's not so difficult to avoid anything unhealthy, and mostly the nutrition info is prominently shown on the front. The ones costing £3 or more tend to be better than what I can cook from scratch for myself in a reasonable time (e.g. this.)

(Some of this stuff is ridiculous. Can't people microwave a potato any more?!)

Supermarket pizza is still cheaper though, and plenty of young people can't cook very well.

Lunchtime at school is one hour (I think that's a legal requirement...), and every school I've seen staggers when various classes are allowed to go and queue.

How easy is it to get decent "ready meals" (in American: TV dinners?) in the US? I think Britain is pretty much a world leader in this (there's nowhere near as much variety or quality meals available in the rest of Europe, but it's a while since I was in the US).

Here ready meals are available from less than £1 to over £5 per portion, with a wide variety of dishes (perhaps 80 options in a small inner-city supermarket, large supermarkets have hundreds). It's not so difficult to avoid anything unhealthy, and mostly the nutrition info is prominently shown on the front. The ones costing £3 or more tend to be better than what I can cook from scratch for myself in a reasonable time (e.g. this.)

(Some of this stuff is ridiculous. Can't people microwave a potato any more?!)

Supermarket pizza is still cheaper though, and plenty of young people can't cook very well.

Lunchtime at school is one hour (I think that's a legal requirement...), and every school I've seen staggers when various classes are allowed to go and queue.

How easy is it to get decent "ready meals" (in American: TV dinners?) in the US? I think Britain is pretty much a world leader in this (there's nowhere near as much variety or quality meals available in the rest of Europe, but it's a while since I was in the US).

Here ready meals are available from less than £1 to over £5 per portion, with a wide variety of dishes (perhaps 80 options in a small inner-city supermarket, large supermarkets have hundreds). It's not so difficult to avoid anything unhealthy, and mostly the nutrition info is prominently shown on the front. The ones costing £3 or more tend to be better than what I can cook from scratch for myself in a reasonable time (e.g. this.)

(Some of this stuff is ridiculous. Can't people microwave a potato any more?!)

Supermarket pizza is still cheaper though, and plenty of young people can't cook very well.

Lunchtime at school is one hour (I think that's a legal requirement...), and every school I've seen staggers when various classes are allowed to go and queue.

How easy is it to get decent "ready meals" (in American: TV dinners?) in the US? I think Britain is pretty much a world leader in this (there's nowhere near as much variety or quality meals available in the rest of Europe, but it's a while since I was in the US).

Here ready meals are available from less than £1 to over £5 per portion, with a wide variety of dishes (perhaps 80 options in a small inner-city supermarket, large supermarkets have hundreds). It's not so difficult to avoid anything unhealthy, and mostly the nutrition info is prominently shown on the front. The ones costing £3 or more tend to be better than what I can cook from scratch for myself in a reasonable time (e.g. this.)

(Some of this stuff is ridiculous. Can't people microwave a potato any more?!)

Supermarket pizza is still cheaper though, and plenty of young people can't cook very well.

Lunchtime at school is one hour (I think that's a legal requirement...), and every school I've seen staggers when various classes are allowed to go and queue.

I hope by rubber cheese you aren't referring to the crimes against humanity that are Velveta and Kraft American "Cheese" as they are mostly cheese flavored vegetable oil. I'm pretty sure they even claim on the packaging that they are "Processed Cheese Food", not really cheese.

In Britain that's normally what we understand to be "American Cheese" (blame McDonald's), although we tend to call it "processed 'cheese'" or "plastic cheese". I don't think I've ever seen anyone use it except on a burger; if you're really lazy you buy pre-sliced/grated actual cheese rather than the plastic stuff. (Going by what's available, most people buy blocks of cheese.)

Example -- clearly they aren't allowed to call it "cheese". (Here's the rest of the packaged cheese "shelf".)

The only American cheese I know is Monterey Jack, which I've seen in a couple of expensive burger places.

If you are looking for delicious cheddar, they are indeed available, Wisconsin being one state with many varieties, and Vermont being another.

I think they'd be difficult to find in the UK, you'd need to go to a speciality store. A quick search suggests this might be because dairy farming is subsidised in the EU, making imported stuff comparatively expensive.

I hope by rubber cheese you aren't referring to the crimes against humanity that are Velveta and Kraft American "Cheese" as they are mostly cheese flavored vegetable oil. I'm pretty sure they even claim on the packaging that they are "Processed Cheese Food", not really cheese.

In Britain that's normally what we understand to be "American Cheese" (blame McDonald's), although we tend to call it "processed 'cheese'" or "plastic cheese". I don't think I've ever seen anyone use it except on a burger; if you're really lazy you buy pre-sliced/grated actual cheese rather than the plastic stuff. (Going by what's available, most people buy blocks of cheese.)

Example -- clearly they aren't allowed to call it "cheese". (Here's the rest of the packaged cheese "shelf".)

The only American cheese I know is Monterey Jack, which I've seen in a couple of expensive burger places.

If you are looking for delicious cheddar, they are indeed available, Wisconsin being one state with many varieties, and Vermont being another.

I think they'd be difficult to find in the UK, you'd need to go to a speciality store. A quick search suggests this might be because dairy farming is subsidised in the EU, making imported stuff comparatively expensive.

The organic peanut butter I buy doesn't have oil on top. Wouldn't that mean there was added oil? (Actually, I've never seen oil on the top of peanut butter. Perhaps they remove some oil in the UK?)

(I tend to buy this one, although I've noticed it contains palm oil, so I might see if there's an alternative next time.)

The organic peanut butter I buy doesn't have oil on top. Wouldn't that mean there was added oil? (Actually, I've never seen oil on the top of peanut butter. Perhaps they remove some oil in the UK?)

(I tend to buy this one, although I've noticed it contains palm oil, so I might see if there's an alternative next time.)

Not anymore. The latest figure indicate that it's been beaten into second place by this tipple...

no, that's too memorable. Try Tesco value Scotch instead...