Food & Drink

Culinary expressions and mealtime slang

简介

从“cuppa（一杯茶）”到“bangers and mash（香肠配土豆泥）”，英国食物词汇和英国菜一样让人感到温暖。这些词反映了饮食在英国社交生活中的核心地位——危机时刻递过来的那杯茶、巩固友谊的那顿酒吧餐。

英式食物俚语听起来往往比正式名称更诱人。“Sarnie”比“sandwich（三明治）”更亲切，“brekkie”比“breakfast（早餐）”更温馨。这些昵称把普通的一餐变成了一种仪式。

这一章端上英国饮食文化的词汇大餐——从盘子里的食物到你对一顿好饭的评价。对所有准备在英国吃饭、喝酒、聊美食的人来说，这都是必修课。

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本章全部英语俚语（81）

• Cuppa A cup of tea (British)
• Brew A cup of tea (British/Northern English)
• Builder's tea Strong tea with milk and usually sugar (British)
• Put the kettle on To prepare to make tea (British)
• Brekkie Breakfast (British/Australian)
• Greasy spoon A cheap café serving basic fried food
• Sarnie A sandwich (British)
• Butty A sandwich, especially a filled roll (British/Northern)
• Chips French fries (British)
• Crisps Potato chips (British)
• Biscuit A cookie (British)
• Bangers Sausages (British)
• Mash Mashed potatoes (British)
• Pint A pint of beer; going for a drink (British)
• Bevvy An alcoholic drink (British/Irish)
• Off-licence A shop licensed to sell alcohol for consumption elsewhere (British)
• Takeaway Food bought to eat elsewhere; the restaurant selling it (British)
• Chippy A fish and chip shop (British)
• Pudding Dessert (British)
• Afters Dessert (British informal)
• Nosh Food; to eat (British/Yiddish origin)
• Grub Food (informal)
• Scran Food (British Northern/Military)
• Tea The evening meal (British Northern/Working-class)
• Dinner (midday) The midday meal (British Northern/Working-class)
• Supper A light evening meal, or late-night snack (British)
• Elevenses A mid-morning snack around 11am (British)
• Afternoon tea Traditional British meal of tea, sandwiches, scones, and cakes served mid-aft...
• Cream tea Tea served with scones, clotted cream, and jam (British)
• Scone A British baked good similar to an American biscuit
• Ploughman's lunch A cold pub meal of bread, cheese, pickle, and salad (British)
• Spotted dick A traditional British steamed pudding with dried fruit
• Black pudding A blood sausage made with pork blood and oatmeal (British)
• Bubble and squeak Fried leftover vegetables, especially potato and cabbage (British)
• Toad in the hole Sausages baked in Yorkshire pudding batter (British)
• Peckish Slightly hungry (British)
• Starving Very hungry (British informal)
• Famished Extremely hungry
• Stuffed Very full after eating
• Full up Completely full after eating (British)
• Moreish So tasty you want more (British)
• Lovely grub Delicious food (British)
• Lager A type of light beer (British)
• Bitter A type of British ale with a slightly bitter taste
• Shandy Beer mixed with lemonade (British)
• Tipple A small alcoholic drink; one's favorite drink (British)
• Squash A concentrated fruit drink diluted with water (British)
• Fizzy drink A carbonated soft drink (British)
• Dodgy curry A questionable takeaway curry that might cause stomach trouble
• Sunday roast Traditional British Sunday meal of roast meat and vegetables
• Yorkshire pudding A light batter pudding traditionally served with roast beef
• Pickle A tangy condiment/relish (British)
• Aubergine Eggplant (British)
• Courgette Zucchini (British)
• Mince Ground meat (British)
• Gammon Cured ham, typically thick-cut (British)
• Rashers Slices of bacon (British/Irish)
• Clotted cream Thick cream heated until it forms a crust (British)
• Marmite A divisive British yeast extract spread; something you love or hate
• Going down a treat Being received very well; being enjoyed
• Hit the spot To be exactly what you wanted or needed
• Cuppa char A cup of tea (British old slang)
• Builder's bum Exposed buttock crack (British humor)
• Din-dins Dinner (childish/affectionate British)
• Eating for two Pregnant (humorous excuse for extra food)
• Liquid lunch A lunch consisting mainly of alcoholic drinks
• full English traditional English breakfast
• fry-up fried breakfast
• Banger Sausage
• Rasher Slice of bacon
• Scrummy Delicious
• Biccy Biscuit
• Garibaldi Currant biscuit
• Digestive Plain British biscuit
• Hobnob Oaty British biscuit
• Bacon Sarnie Bacon sandwich
• Ploughman's Cold pub lunch
• Jacket Potato Baked potato
• Custard Sweet sauce/dessert
• Crumble Fruit dessert with topping
• Fairy Cake Small cupcake