We have eggplants in the UK, but we tend to call them "chickens"

Gyros are Greek cuisine. Doner Kebabs are Turkish. Both are available in U.K but Doner kebabs are everywhere.

Honestly I find it really strange that Americans call mince meat "ground", because you don't grind it, even if you call the machine a grinder in America, it still just chops/minces the meat, grinding is the sort of process that you do with something like a mortar and pestle, which is more pressure and twisting

In Australia, we use mostly the same words as UK including minced beef or pork etc, because to us, ground is powdered like ground coffee beans or ground cinnamon etc. if you grind meat, you’ll end up with a fine paste.

Chilli con carne is Spanish 😂😂 literally translates to chilli with meat

If someone says something's been "ground", it suggests to me that it's pulverized into fine grains; like grinding peppercorns into _ground_ pepper, grinding grain to make flour, or grinding coffee into coffee powder. Mincing beef/lamb/etc isn't the same; the machine pushes the meat through little holes to produce tube-shaped morsels.

As others have said we use a lot of French words such as courgette, aubergine, profiteroles. But "chilli con carne" is Spanish - "chilli with meat"

"chilli con carne" literally means chilli with meat in Spanish. Most vegetables in the UK are called by their French names, where as Americans refer to them by the Italian names.

Brit here. My American cousin was visiting with her 5 year old. They were at our place for lunch one day and I asked her little girl how many fish fingers she wanted and she just gave me a puzzled look and said "fish don't have fingers". 🤣🤣🤣

Here's a fun fact about Yorkshire puddings. They are eaten today mainly with the main course of roast Sunday dinner. But during the war when meat and vegetables were rationed they'd be served as a starter with lashings of onion gravy to fill you up before the main course. My nan would also eat any left over yorkshires with jam cold.

The puffs are called profiteroles because that's what they were originally called when the were invented in the French royal court in around 1530. The chef who invented them was Italian. ''Puffs'' rather takes all that away from them. :-)

If they threw in 'bread rolls', the video would have been four days long just to go through the different names in the UK

One thing that baffles me is why "pickle" has come to refer specifically to pickled gherkins in the USA, when many other foodstuffs can be pickled - onions, cabbage, walnuts, ginger, eggs, beet(root), fish, etc.

Here in the Uk we’d say Minced Beef went through a Mincer not a grinder!

We have a yearly festival in Wales called "Eisteddfod" celebrating Welsh culture, music, language etc

There’s a tendency in the UK to use the French derived word (courgette). In the US the Italian is more common - zucchini.

Beetroot is purple inside and when roasted, is quite sweet and earthy in flavour. Radishes, on the other hand, are about an inch in diameter, and while reddish purple on the outside, are white inside, eaten raw, are crunchy like an apple but not sweet, they have a rather peppery flavour, an acquired taste.

Yes - fish stick/finger sandwich is a thing in the UK. Ketchup and cheap white bread. Lettuce? Sounds a bit gourmet!

Scrolling through the reactions....Can't believe not a single Whovian's there : Shout out to the Fish Fingers and Custard!!

I love the fact that you concluded that 'ground meat made 'more sense' because it goes through a 'grinder'. It didn't even occur to you that 'grinder' may have a different name too. It does and it's called a 'mincer'. If you talk about 'Grinder', in the UK, people will probably think you're talking about a gay pickup app. :)

"Shrimps" and "prawns" have a number of differences, one of which is they're smaller.

We do have annual fairs. My closest one is Loughborough Fair, which recently celebrated its 800th year

We call the thing that minces mince a mincer. In the UK grinding would be like grinding flour or spices

Got to say I'm loving your channel. It is great seeing all of these comparisons. I love getting your take on things. Xx

Fairs have been around for centuries. It was when the farmers and other producers would bring their products to town to sell. They still have them now.

Where I’m from, Oxford, we have an annual fair held in the centre of the city every September. Fairground rides, food stalls, win prizes, candy floss & fried doughnuts. But yeah, even if a town or city doesn’t hold a fair, a neighbouring place in the county will usually have one.

Corn in British english is a more generic term for the kernel of a cereal crop. By default it is usually wheat as that is the most common cereal we grow, but barley corn is also common. This meaning predates European settlement of the Americas by several centuries. We use the term sweet corn to differentiate it from other types of corn.

Can confirm youd find lots of people eating Donna kebab on a Friday night in Grimsby. ONLY ALLOWED TO BE EATEN WHEN YOUR HAMMERED

Having lived in Canada and the UK, I would argue that minced beef is different than ground beef. Ground beef is cut smaller, while minced beef is more "worm like." But they are used pretty much for the same purposes in the end, but I do find an burgers have a slightly different feel/flavour at least partly due to the process. (how they are fed and hormones and steroids and stuff like that are bound to make a difference too) As I understand it Gyro is Greek, while Doner Kebabs are of Turkish origin. Chili con carne is not french, it is Spanish and means Chili with meat, as opposed to vegetarian Chili. Yes we do have County Fairs, although not so much the past couple of years for obvious reasons.

I have to agree with Ron Swanson on skimmed milk - it's water that's lying about being milk.

Minced meat seems more logical to me as a Brit, as it goes through a mincer. If someone said ground meat I'd assume they'd crushed it in a pestle and mortar tbh...

chives is something entirely differen than spring onions tho... or am i crazy? are they related?

Yorkshire puddings are good enough to eat on their own. But stick one (or more) on a roast dinner with a generous helping of gravy.

Yes we do fair ground rides, in the U.K. in autumn/Winter from November to January almost every town city had one called winter wonderland & next town over usual has summer fair grounds rids for around two 2 weeks but my city usually has one every few years the summer one down mumbles in Swansea. Town next to Swansea is Neath Port Talbot to east of Swansea whilst there’s a larger town on west side of Swansea called Carmarthenshire but most people call it Carmarthen & they also now have a winter wonderland.

Always lovely to see Mr and Mrs Innocent American doing a video together. You will have to make notes, so finding things will be easy for you both, when you visit. Cheerio lovelies ❤

There are county shows that show off livestock and local produce and then there are travelling fairgrounds that come to each town annually. Also local towns have fairs, my home town holds a 'goose fair' which originally was solely for trading of geese but now has a fairground, market stalls of all varieties

We have a travelling fair that comes to Newcastle once a year. We call it the Hoppings or just the Moor (because it is held on the Town Moor). I loved going there as a kid

You have to remember that French cuisine strongly influenced cooking for the British aristocracy in the 19th and early 20th centuries, hence our borrowing of the French words for courgette, aubergine etc. At one time, the more upmarket restaurants in Britain would have menus written in French… The British are not afraid of borrowing words from other languages, too, so we take “chilli con carne” literally from the Mexican Spanish for “chilli with meat”, “carne” meaning meat in Spanish.

Our “state fairs” are a lot more localised and called “village fêtes” we do sometimes have larger events, called county shows, but they’re generally more farming-oriented

Great fun! There are still arguments echoing and reverberating here on the onion topic. Green onion, shallot, chives, what makes what what... Thanks for this!

We do have county shows which sound like your county fairs, but they're quite agriculturally focused

There's no chopping in mince. It goes through a mincer! A machine with different hole sizes for fine to coarse.

Enjoyed the post. The man was very funny and calling his wife...wife. I like your wife's input to the post, you are a good team. It doesn't matter what words are different, there's no right and no wrong, just different. Like listening to your posts.

Chili is a type of beans, " con carne" means " with meat" in Spanish, not in French. But " Courgette" ( zuchini) and " Aubergine" ( eggplant ) are French words.

Us Brits often have a fish finger sandwich ( fish fingers, and ketchup no lettuce and it has to be white bread) usually when we get home at 3 in the morning from a night out and had a few lol.

Jelly describes what it is...Jell-O is a brand name. Chilli on its own is too ambiguous it could refer to chilli powder, peppers etc... Chilli con carne is taken from the Italian meaning "Chilli with meat" which describes it specifically.

We do have fairs which can be broken down into three main types: 1) If someone says they're going to the fair they usually mean a traveling funfair with rides, amusements and prize stalls such as hoopla, coin drops and shooting galleries, etc. 2) Then they're are County Shows. These are principally for the farming community to show off their wares e.g. farm animals and produce with awards/prizes given to the best examples. However they will often have stalls, amusements and displays, etc as well. 3) Village fetes. Theses are small scale local fairs full of stalls and featuring lots of silly races and contests such as a donkey derby, sack races, egg and spoon races, three-legged races, etc. The money raised from the stalls often goes to a good cause such as repairing a local monument/church or a local charity.

We have quite a tradition of fairs in Germany. The one in my home city of Bremen is held annually in October. The “Freimarkt” dates back to the year 1035. Nowadays it’s mostly a large fun fair.

In the UK there are fairs like the Suffolk show that has a heavy focus on agriculture like best in breed competitions with more influence from local arts and crafts over time, as well as amusement things for kids. The problem with the Suffolk show is that ticket prices have become over priced for what it is and i've heard that prices for exhibitors are turning them away as well.

I think when it comes to Fruit and Vegetables, in the UK we get the name for a lot of them from the French word, where in the US its the Italian or Spanish words that are taken for things. I guess we have the french word because of our proximity to France. So for example Courgette, Aubergine (which we call and egg plant)

We have county shows, Royal Norfolk show, which was an agricultural show but now has everything. We have festivals, in fact a mixture of events, brings in the punters.

In my county (Northumberland) we have a county fair every year, where we have things like beer tents, sheep shearing competitions, animal shows (showing prize cows, sheep etc.) as well as face painting and stalls. We have a summer music festival in my village where we have the more typical fairground rides and food.

"Is it technically minced? It goes through a mincer..."?

When we refer to American style chocolate chip-cookies, we call them cookies, not biscuits. Jaffa Cakes are not biscuits or cookies, mostly for tax reasons.

In Scotland at least, our version of a “state fair” is (in keeping with the video theme) called the “X Gala Day”. Like “Leith Gala Day” etc. Gala is a word for a festival organised by a community. There’s usually a set day once a year for the gala to happen and all of the community’s aspects come out and have a big mixed cultural and ethnic parade, followed by a market with stalls, music and dancing and usually a temporary mini theme park with portable rollercoasters etc. There was actually one a few weeks before you came to Edinburgh! It’s a shame you missed it!

Its is also interesting that when The Normans (from France) conquered Britain in 1066, the old English (Anglo Saxon) terms for cow, calf, hen, swine, sheep and deer etc were replaced by the French terms boeuf (beef), veau (veal) , poulet (poultry), porc, mouton (mutton) and venaison, which remain to this day

We think chilli is mexican and con carne is Spanish for 'with meat'

the Swiss roll has other terms, in uk if we have a chocolate one, we may have it at Christmas and call it a Yule log. we do this at Christmas but we sometimes call them Yule logs any time of year, other flavours like the one in the picture is Swiss roll as its not chocolate, therefor not the colour of a log

There are a number of town fairs in England that have been held every year since the 1200s, most famous is Nottingham Goose Fair. We also have many great annual county agricultural shows

We have Hull Fair, when the largest travelling funfair/carnival comes here for a week, every October, although it was cancelled last year, for obvious reasons. There is also the Freedom Festival in early September (just finished), an International arts Festival, and the Humber Street Sesh, celebrating local musicians.

Mincemeat is a dried fruit mixture, minced meat is what you call ground beef.

That looked more like an Iceberg lettuce than a cos!

We do have fayres. I live in the countryside and we have village fetes (pronounced fates) and we also have the travelling fairgrounds come twice a year plus my town hosts an annual folk festival. There’s also the Bath & West Show which is held annually and that is more of an agricultural show but it’s a big thing here.

Con carne literally means “with meat” in Spanish so regular chilli is chilli without meat and chilli con carne is chilli with meat..

shrimps and prawns are two completly different things. fact.

One that I’ve never heard mention is that we call “sugar-snap peas” what the US calls “snow peas”.

In Australia we have a festival every year at roughly the same time only they're called shows (Brisbane show, Melbourne show etc..) and usually go for 3 days Fri-Sun.

To add to the controversy about mince or ground meats we also have the annual treat of mincemeat pies at Christmas time, a mixture of several different dried fruits and candied fruit peels, finely shredded or chopped animal fats (usually beef or sometimes lamb) gathered from the fat surrounding the kidneys, sugar or honey and alcohol (brandy or rum), placed in various types of pastry and frequently served heated up with either a sweetened thick cream, or a white sauce or custard, or with a type of butter containing alcohol. The earliest recipes for these actually did have diced up pieces of lamb or beef included hence the name of the dish.

You, young man, have really got to get yourself into the kitchen more often. Sweetheart - don't spoil him too much! :-D

Where I am (rural Hampshire) we don't have too many fairs or festivals like how you're thinking. Our festivals are mostly either music festivals which is where bands and artists perform on a range of stages live to crowds, with various tents selling and offering other goods, and is often paired with camping. Then we have food festivals which is a range of stalls across a field or street selling food and drink from local suppliers. We have fairgrounds but these act like circuses in that they move often but tend to be seasonal. We also have permanent fairgrounds which are along most seaside towns. In rural areas and some primary schools, we also have fetes which are normally a day event with game, food and drink stalls raising money for the school or organisation. Personally I've only bought candyfloss from a theme park, supermarket or a seaside stall.

When he was describing Yorkshire Puddings (made of basically equal parts plain flour/eggs/milk, essentially pancake batter) he used the word 'meal' when he ought to have said 'part of a meal' no one eats them on their own with nothing else! Okay, maybe the odd eccetric might, but you understand. Usually they are with a Roast, typically a Sunday Roast and often as part of a Christmas Dinner. Essentially some roast meats with roasted and boiled vegetables with perhaps gravy and other sweet or savoury sauces. This ends up looking much like your traitional Thanks Giving dinner I think.

I think the nearest thing we have in the UK to your County Shows are the regional agricultural shows. In Builth Wells, Mid Wales we have a 3 day show called the Royal Welsh Show. Mainly based around showing farm animals competitively including sheep dog trials (herding sheep with collie dogs, the only judges are there to find the best herding dog and shepherd, no crimes involved!). They also have displays of carriage riding, farm machinery, trade stalls and usually a military or police display. One year there was even a visit by the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police). We also have smaller more local affairs usually a day long.

My town had it’s charter fair last Saturday, it’s like a street fair with basic rides (if any) & a market etc. We have a yearly fun fair as well which is the equivalent of your carnivals if I’m not mistaken.

Regarding fairs, we have an annual one in Newcastle which is one of the largest travelling fairs in Europe, its called the Hoppings to locals and can be guaranteed to bring a month or two's worth of rain whilst it's here for a week in Summer (more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hoppings)

Where I'm from in the south of England we have festivals like beer and cider festival, harvest, village fête, Christmas market, heritage, food and wine, music, The Hat Fair (outdoor performing arts), weekly markets etc ...

We have agricultural shows where there is a variety of farm machinery, animals, craftsmen like blacksmiths, weavers and other country crafts. Lots of food stalls selling home made/ farm made produce. Sometimes there is a fair too

I live in a small town called Ilkeston, it's in Derbyshire, England. We have an annual fair in October. This year will be the 770th fair, the Royal Charter being granted in 1252 by King Henry 3rd. It's one of the oldest fairs in England. I love your channel, particularly the visit to our wonderful country.

Regarding fairs, we have regional fairs that can go down to the town level, or if the venue is too small they will be in the nearest big town or city. I remember the fair came by every year and they would set up all of the attractions and food trucks in a big coach park in town (It's like a parking lot for what you'd call like Greyhounds and things). Anyway yeah there were a lot of different rides (attractions) like a ghost train, swinging pirate ship, waltzer, bumper cars and of course we would eat candy floss or roasted chestnuts. Another thing was the skill games like hoopla (what you might call ring toss?) and you would win prizes like teddy bears and other toys. Maybe you guys could do a video actually on the difference between what we call certain rides and attractions at say a fair or carnival?

Love your post, have a great new year celebration,

Over here a Carnival is usually a (mainly Caribbean) street festival/parade where you dress up in colourful costumes and dance through the street. Nottinghill Carnival being the biggest in Europe. A funfair is what we would call your carnivals and some towns do have an annual one on the summer.

As an English person who moved to Iowa like a year and a half ago, food/ingredient names has been one of the most difficult parts of adjusting. It took me literally months to work out black treacle was molasses when I wanted to make gingerbread. For a while, going grocery shopping was an overwhelming experience that left me exhausted because the supermarket is arranged differently, so food isn't always in the place I'd usually look for it, and all the brands are different, so it's a big mass of unrecognisable colour I had to work hard to interpret. And that was without the difference in names, and the way a lot of food isn't as fresh as I could get it in the UK (before I moved here I NEVER found that potatoes were moldy before I even got them home from the supermarket). Probably my learning difficulties had some effect on how overwhelming it was for me, but yeah. It was the least expected most confusing thing.

In Australia, we had eclairs, profiteroles and cream puffs. Eclairs were long, chocolate covered and filled with either custard or cream (bakeries would usually specify). Profiteroles were small, round, chocolate covered and filled with custard. Cream puffs were larger, round, dusted with icing sugar and filled with whipped cream.

I love the way the picture of the queen randomly seems to change location on your map :)

Our equivalent of state fairs are county shows or agricultural shows - lots of tents and pavilions from local crafts and businesses, food stalls, farm shows, activities and displays like equestrian, stunts, falconry etc.

Not sure if we have many events on the scale of your State Fairs, but there are regular county fairs of various different forms. For example, in my county of Worcestershire we have the Three Counties Show, which is mainly an agricultural festival (with other attractions too) for the combined counties of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, and Worcestershire.

Ah, The Great Yorkshire Show! Usually in mid July. It's a big agricultural show, but they also have food stalls, Army demonstrations and er....... Beer tents! Oh, and there is showjumping too!

We do have annual county fairs and they're big affairs. They tend to be rural events with farm animals prepared for show as the main event.

If my understanding of a State Fair is correct, I'm not sure we have a precise equivalent here. Here in Scotland, we have a number of events that might replicate parts of a State Fair. An Agricultural Show, such as the one closest to where I grew up, the Doune and Dunblane Show, is a competitive show for livestock including cattle, sheep and horses. A Highland Games is a different event that celebrates Scottish culture with competitions for piping and drumming, Highland dancing, and 'heavy athletic' events such as tossing the caber, hammer throw and tug of war. Both an Agricultural Show and a Highland Games are likely to include craft and food stalls. Today, there might be a few fairground rides at these events, but they probably aren't the focus. A larger fun-fair may operate along side an event but actually be a separate thing, like at the Highland Games in another place near where I grew up, Bridge of Allan. But travelling fun-fairs that are completely separate to either an Agricultural Show or a Highland Games also happen. My understanding of a State Fair is that they are perhaps an Agricultural Show, a 'Highland Games' type thing but with local sports and a fun-fair rolled into one.

The country of Wales itself has a yearly festival the Eisteddfod where we celebrate our culture, language, literature, music and so on. Usually last a week of competitions and it typically moves around the country so it's in a different city/town/county every year. Welsh schools also holds an Eisteddfod every year but its usually around or on our saints day (St David) on March 1st, as tha annual Eisteddfod for the country is typically held in summer when schools will be out. My home town of Caerphilly also holds multiple festivals each year. Our most famous one is the Big Cheese (named due to the fact that the town has a cheese called Caerphilly Cheese) this is a long weekend festival/fair in June/July that takes place on the local castle grounds (as its the largest castle in Wales and second largest in Britain, when talking about land space). It holds a large fair ground on one field, drinking tents in another. Another field has small business creative shops (around 300 stalls), with the local animal rescue charities where you can actually meet them, and they'll bring animals like Eagles, owls, falcons and tortoises. And a small stage for musicians, with space for people to sit down and have picnics around it. They also have re-enactments in the castle, such as fighting and so forth. The stalls and castle usually close by 6pm but the fair ground and drinking tents are usually open till probably 11pm. Next big event will be around bonfire night, our castle again holds a huge firework display, and they'll have local radio stations commentate the firework display. Each year is a different theme so the year harry potter ended all the music was from harry potter, on the anniversary of star wars they played music from star wars, doctor who etc. Finally the last festival we have is the river of lights lantern parade where people walk through the streets with lanterns until they get to the castle. Don't know the exact history or reasoning behind this one but i just know that it happens as all the streets that they do use is shut on that night and it can be a bit of a pain, as it's usually the main streets in town 🤣. But great video again from you both! 😊

If you want to see how much confusion the word "mince" can cause, look up the episode of Friends where Rachel makes a trifle for Thanksgiving Dinner. She has an English cookery magazine and starts off the trifle. Unfortunately two pages are stuck together and the next page is Cottage Pie (which involves ground/minced beef with onions and peas). Minced beef is a standard winter warmer over here. My mum's recipe:- softly fry a chopped onion till it's golden and just beginning to colour more at the edges but not burning. Slice thickly one large carrot or two small ones. Large slices should be quartered or halved depending on size. Add to the onion and cook for a minute or so. Add 500 grams of minced beer (17.7 oz) and brown the meat. (I use 5% fat meat rather than the cheaper 12% fat or 20% fat.) Do you have stock cubes? I make up three quarter pints of stock with one beef stock cube, one tsp of Marigold Bouiilon instead of a second stock cube, a pinch of sugar and a few dashes of Worcestershire sauce. Add the stock to the meat and simmer for half and hour. Season to taste but it's usually ok as is. Thicken the stock. We have a gravy thickener called Bisto but you probably don't have it or anything like it with you. I suppose you might use corn starch. Not too much though. Eat the mince with potatoes done any way you want (except roast) and a green vegetable - usually peas. Let me know if you make it. Let me know if you make it and enjoy it!

The Kent Showground, formerly (and still colloquially) known as the Kent County Showground is an area of land in Detling, Kent, England, north of the county town of Maidstone. Stretching along the north side of the A249 from the top of Detling Hill on land that formerly comprised RAF Detling, it is home to the Kent County Agricultural Society which hosts the venue's best-known event, the Kent County Show, each July. However the venue also hosts many other fairs, conferences and events throughout the year. The site covers over 200 acres (0.81 km2) and has been an event site for over 50 years.

Just a quick comment about presentation. Lost in pond are one of the very few KZfaqrs that get this simple tip right and that is they don't talk to the thousands of viewers instead they talk directly to "you" . Prime example at 15.21 and then compare it to your own comments immediately after. It's a subtle but very smart thing to do that increases the connect to the viewers. See what you think. I hope you don't take this criticism to harshly it's meant to be helpful, you two are still my fav youtubers 😉

Where I grew up we have hanwell carnival which was basically a fair with a party atmosphere, where as not too far away we have Notting hill carnival which is basically all party, both are a yearly event

Spaghetti is the long thin pasta Bolognese is the sauce that is named after Bolongna in Italy.

Doner Kebab is a Turkish food that inspired the Arab shawarma, Greek gyros, Canadian donair, and Mexican al pastor, according to Wikipedia.

So many words, including many food words, we use different words because of changes or introductions to new words, concepts, etc, that came AFTER we broke away from the British Empire in the 1700's. In some cases we use the same terms that the Brits used prior to 1776, but since we separated, they started using different terms for those items...and we never not the memo. Other times, it has more to do with who introduced the terms. My favorite is zucchini vs courgette....I love this. This summer squash plant is native to the Americas, it's where Spanish discovered it being used by natives. The Spanish took it back to Europe. Amongst Italian farmers and chefs, the plant is called Zucchini where it was first bred in its current form in the late 19th century. Meanwhile, in France, the plant is called courgette. This is all going on in the 1800's. The English were introduced to the plant via France, so they call it courgette. So why do we call it zucchini in America? You can thank mass Italian immigration to the United States for that one. Italians brought their culinary traditions with them, and that included zucchini. Most places around the world use zucchini (Australia, Canada (both English and French speaking portions), as well as regions that speak Danish, German and Swedish. While Britain, Ireland, Malaysian speaking areas and South Africa uses courgette. According to wiki, New Zealand uses both terms. I saw a video that explained many of the language inconsistencies between the US and UK, and was fascinated by the changes that occurred to ENGLISH after the separation from America. Many Brits today think it's the Americans that changed the words, that we broke away and created new words, but in most cases, it's the opposite. The Brits themselves are using words that have been changed in the last 200+ years, and the Americans are using the older, or archaic versions of words, or spellings that were used prior to the separation. Of course, there are exceptions to this as well.

Each county usually has a County Show ie Cheshire Show, Lancashire Show etc and these shows are usually based on rural interests and animals. Sometimes a large show is given a “Royal Show” prefix in its title, as in The Royal Windsor Show.

As I'm from Wales/Cymru, UK. I also grew up having to know 2 words for each vegetable being bilingual. The funniest Welsh/Cymraeg word for something in English/Saesneg is for the humble Carrot. The Welsh word for 'Carrot' is 'Moron', which means something quite different here in the UK and to you in the USA. Even funnier when watching movies and wondering why everyone is a Carrot in New York.

We traditionally had annual farm shows. My local one being the Orsett Show. Which now includes heavy horses, vintage cars and steam traction engines etc. With competition for all sorts of farm animals and produce,

Yes we have fairs and in the area I grew up in we also had mops. Which were hiring fairs dating back to the 13th century. They close down Stratford on Avon centre for a few days - rides, amusements and so on.