(N, S, E, W mean confined to the North, South, East, West of the country, etc.)
| category | US | UK |
|---|---|---|
| dairy products | Tillamook(W) | |
| Cabot (E) | Dairylea cheese | |
| Kraft | Kerrygold | |
| Ben & Jerry’s | flora margarine | |
| Country Crock "I can’t believe it’s not butter" (margarine) | ||
| soaps on TV | Seinfeld | Emmerdale (ITV1) |
| EastEnders (BBC1) | ||
| Coronation Street (ITV1) | ||
| The Bill (ITV1) | ||
| Family Affairs five | ||
| Neighbours (Australian) (BBC1) | ||
| Home & Away (Australian) five | ||
| record stores | Rasputin (Berkeley) | Virgin Records / V Shop |
| Tower Records | Tower Records | |
| HMV | HMV | |
| MVC | ||
| toothpaste | Crest | Crest |
| Colgate | Colgate | |
| Theramed | ||
| Aquafresh | ||
| Macleans | ||
| beer/alcopops | Bud | Budweiser |
| Coors | Carling | |
| Miller | Carlsberg | |
| Smirnoff Ice (lemon vodka) | ||
| Henry’s | Heineken | |
| Fosters (Aussie, but brewed in UK) | ||
| Bacardi Breezer (fruit vodka) | ||
| supermarkets | Food Lions (S) | Tesco |
| Safeway | Safeway | |
| Piggly Wiggly (S) | Asda (owned by walmart) | |
| Winn-Dixie ‘The Meat People’ (S) | Sainsburys | |
| Albertson’s | ||
| IGA | ||
| gas stations | 76 | BP |
| BP | Mobil (not sure if these still exist) | |
| Chevron | Q8 (quite rare) | |
| Shell | Shell | |
| Esso | ||
| cereals | chocolate frosted sugar bombs | Shreddies (Nabisco) |
| grapenuts | weetabix (Nabisco) | |
| Cheerios (General Mills) | shredded wheat (was Nabisco, now Nestle) | |
| Fruit Loops (Kellogg’s) | cornflakes (Kellogg’s) | |
| Cap’n Crunch | crunchy nut cornflakes (honeyed and nutted cornflakes!) (Kellogg’s) | |
| Wheaties (General Mills) | frosties (sugared cornflakes – Tony the Tiger – "They’re Greeeeeeeeat!") (Kellogg’s) | |
| Cream of Wheat | coco pops (chocolate rice puffs – Coco monkey) (Kellogg’s) | |
| Pop Tarts (Kellogg’s) | ricicles (sugared rice – Rik) (Kellogg’s) | |
| Special K (Kellogg’s) | Special K (Kellogg’s) | |
| rice krispies (rice puffs – snap crackle and pop) (Kellogg’s) | ||
| honey nut loops (honeyed loops – some bee thing) (Kellogg’s) | ||
| canned/tinned beans | Rosarita refried beans | Heinz baked beans |
| HP Beans | ||
| Green Giant tinned sweetcorn | ||
| banks | Citibank | Nat West |
| B of A | Barclays | |
| US Bank | Lloyds | |
| Washington Mutual | HSBC | |
| Wells Fargo | ||
| Building Societies | Nationwide | |
| high street stores: | Walgreens | Woolworths (woolies) |
| Target | Boots | |
| K Mart | ||
| Walmart | WHSmith | |
| Iceland | ||
| Kwik Save | ||
| C&C | ||
| Halfords | ||
| Superdrug | ||
| Ladbrokes | ||
| Argos | ||
| Mothercare | ||
| Clintons | ||
| Oxfam | ||
| Clarks | ||
| sportshops | ||
| sportswear | Adidas | Adidas |
| Nike | Nike | |
| Reebok | Reebok | |
| Puma | Puma | |
| Fila | ||
| Diadora | ||
| Kappa | ||
| travel agents | Going Places | |
| Thomas Cook | ||
| newspapers | San Jose Mercury News | Times |
| New York Times | Observer | |
| Washington Post | Guardian | |
| LA Times | Daily Telegraph | |
| San Francisco Chronicle | ||
| National Enquirer | The Sun | |
| USA Today | Daily Mail (wail) | |
| Daily Express (excess) | ||
| magazines | ||
| TV channels, satellite provider | ABC (American Broadcasting Company) | There are 5 analogue terrestrial
channels: BBC1 BBC2 ITV1 Channel 4 (S4C in Wales) Five All the ones listed below are on digital terrestrial (operator: FreeView), or digital satellite (operator: BSkyB)there’s also cable (operators: ntl:home & telewest) |
| -DT signifies that the | CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) | BBC three (entertainment) BBC four (entertainment) BBC news 24 (rolling news) Cbeebies (toddlers)cBBC (kids) BBC parliament (politics) |
| station is a HDTV station | NBC (National Broadcast Company) | EMAP jukebox video channels: The Box (new hits) KISS (dance) The Hits (pop) Smash Hits! (pop) Q (alternative) kerrang (hard rock) magic (soft and 80’s) |
| -LP signifies that the station | FOX (FOX Network) | CNN (international) |
| is a low power station | PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) | ITV2 |
| WB (Warner Brothers Network) | Sky One (entertainment), Sky News (news), sky sports 1,2,3 and extra, sky travel, sky movies (many channels). | |
| UPN (United Paramount Network) | Vh1 – (VH1 and VH1 classic) | |
| HSN (Home Shopping Network) | UKTV (group of tv channels, e.g. UK gold, UK style, UK horizons, UK food) | |
| MTV2 (Music Television 2) | MTV (MTV, MTV Hits (pop), MTV Dance (dance), MTV Base (rnb/ hip hop), MTV 2 (alternative/indie/rock), TMF (the music factory)) | |
| SNBC (Shop NBC) | FOX News (relay of US, but without ads) | |
| A1 (America One Network) | discovery (discovery channel, discovery + 1 hour, discovery home and leisure, discovery men and motors, discovery kids) | |
| UATV (Urban American TV) | Disney channel, (Disney playhouse, ...) | |
| TBN (Trinity Broadcasting Network) | Nickelodeon (nick, nick + 1 hour, nick toons) | |
| TV personalities | ||
| free digital channels | ||
| washing up liquid | ||
| fast-food chains | Burger King | Burger King |
| McDonald’s | McDonald’s | |
| In and Out Burger (in and out urge) | Wimpey’s | |
| Domino’s Pizza | ||
| Round Table | ||
| Dairy Queen (DQ) | ||
| Pizza Hut | Pizza Hut | |
| Shakey’s (pizza) | ||
| mobile phone / cellphone networks | O2 | |
| T-Mobile | ||
| Orange | ||
| Vodafone | ||
| batteries | Duracell | Duracell |
| Eveready | Eveready | |
| Energizer | Energizer | |
| electrical stores | Radio Shack | |
| tea | Lipton | Tetley |
| Celestial Seasoning | Brook Bond | |
| Lyons | ||
| PG tips | ||
| coffee | Folger’s | Kenco Coffee |
| Gold Blend Coffee | ||
| chocolates | Hershey’s | Cadbury |
| Nestle | ||
| multinationals | ||
| fizzy drinks / soda | Pepsi | Pepsi |
| Coca-Cola | Coca-Cola | |
| 7up (lemon/lime) | ||
| Fanta (orange) | ||
| Tango (orange) | ||
| Dr Pepper (cherry cola??) | ||
| Sprite (lemon/lime) | ||
| Lilt (pineapple/grapefruit) | ||
| Irn-Bru | ||
| Tizer | ||
| cars | Ford | Ford |
| Vauxhall | ||
| Fiat | ||
| Hyundai | ||
| Nissan | ||
| Volkswagen | ||
| Cadillac | Mercedes | |
| Buick | Renault | |
| Peugeot | ||
| electronic | Sony | Sony |
| Samsung | Samsung | |
| JVC | JVC | |
| Toshiba | Toshiba | |
| Hitachi | Hitachi | |
| Panasonic | Panasonic | |
| RCA | Bush (cheap!!) | |
| computers | Compaq | Apricot |
| IBM | Sinclair | |
| HP | ||
| Dell | ||
| football teams | list of premiership teams from England and Scotland | |
| airports | Heathrow | |
| Gatwick | ||
| music link to radio feeds | ||
| counties |
| Last updated 20 April 2003 |
| © Jeremy Smith 2003 |