Researchers found common food faux pas include the mispronunciation of the Greek dip Tzatziki and the Italian ham prosciutto.
Other mistakes include pronouncing the silent G in the dish Gnocchi and struggling to say ‘nicoise’ correctly. The common mistake is to order a nick-oi-see rather than a nee-swaz.
Other regular stumbling blocks also include an inability to get the tongue around words such as quesadillas, ciabatta, dauphinois and the cheese haloumi, the poll by Glorious! Foods found.
The study also revealed one in five people order food in a restaurant they don’t particularly want purely because they know how to say it.
And more than a quarter said they refer to the number of a dish on a menu to avoid looking stupid and pronouncing it incorrectly.
Afruj Miah, a spokesman for Glorious! Foods, famed for their soups, dips and sauces using global flavours, said: “Over the last few decades we have become a lot more experimental with food as a nation and Brits have really embraced dishes from different countries.
“But by doing so it would appear we struggle with the pronunciation of some well-known dishes. Cuisine from Japan, China and Mexico can be notoriously hard to say, but Brits seem to have trouble with many Italian and French dishes too, such as prosciutto and dauphinois.”
Other highlights from the research include:
Source: Glorious! Foods
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