Regional variation in words

I'm in Massachussthsts and I'd never heard anyone use it before this forum (and now of course I do it because....it's more efficient? Idk it sounds nice)

 

Important question.

What does the word flan mean to you. I have learned that flan apparently means lots of things. To me it is like Mexican styled flan? A sort of weird...pudding thing. It's like a dark brown on top and a lighter brown below that and kind of looks like a cone with the pointy bit chopped off?

 

I think of a sponge cake dealie topped with custard and fruit, like this:

 

whoa. i'd only ever heard of @Aondeug 's version. i dunno why but that is wild to me. wow.

edit: now that i think about it, @budgie i'd call what you posted a fruit tart

 

Yeah that is a fruit tart to me.

 

I'm only familiar with flan as a custard thing similar to creme brulee. That cake with fruit version looks delicious, though.

 

To me, a fruit tart has a hard shell. The picture I posted is admittedly a 'fruit flan' rather than just a flan, but I've never encountered any other type, so sometimes we (my Ontarioan family) just call it flan.

 

this:



right?

 

i did google flan and specified the fruit thing, and what you described came up. it does look more spongecakey than a tart

 

also this thing came up, and i have no idea how i feel about it:



that topcoat is gelatin, apparently?

 

If you've got a lot of fruit that you want to keep in place you might use clear gelatin, but I'm not a big fan. (Also I had .flux on and the white layer looked disturbingly green, like mint ice cream.)

I'd call the first picture you posted a crème caramel.

 

I am told that outside of Canada one does not order a double double.

I also get customers ordering a regular coffee. What do you think of when you read that?

Spoiler

This is apparently meant to mean one cream one sugar, as opposed to a double double, which is two cream (or milk) two sugar

 

When I hear regular coffee, I think drip coffee (as opposed to flavored, French press, lattes, w/e), probably black. That's what I'd get at my local chain breakfast place or coffee shop if I ordered that, anyway.

 

to me a double double is a cheeseburger with two patties and two slices of cheese.

 

same

 

That's a double decker in this neck of the woods.

 

never heard it in seattle, but it's pretty common where I'm going to school
(and a super infectious speech pattern, so I suspect it's in my vocabulary to stay)

Might also be a rural/urban split rather than a regional one?