An American living in London has sparked an online debate after pointing out an everyday grocery item that Americans don’t have a set name for.
Claire Dinhut, who is best known as ‘Condiment Claire,’ has more than 470,000 followers on TikTok, where she shares her food hauls, recipes, and, of course, her favorite condiments.
In a recent video, the half-American, half-French food influencer was waxing poetic about the gooseberries she got at a farmer’s market when she held up the plastic container to the camera.
‘What would you call this?’ Dinhut, 27, asked. ‘In the UK it’s called a punnet.’
Claire Dinhut, an American living in London, sparked a debate on TikTok after holding up a plastic fruit container and asking what it is called
The food influencer explained that it is called a ‘punnet’ in the UK, but there is no set word for it in the US
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‘In the US there’s no word. I did an Instagram poll, and you [Americans] were all very confused,’ she said
Punnet is a British word for a small basket or container for fruit or vegetables, but she has yet to figure out the American equivalent.
‘In the US there’s no word. I did an Instagram poll, and you [Americans] were all very confused,’ she said.
‘It was a tray, basket, fruit holder, fruit box,’ she continued, rattling off all the names she heard.
Dinhut noted that ‘in French, it’s a barquette.’
The video has been viewed more than 82,000 times, inspiring dozens of people to share what they call the fruit container in the comments.
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A number of Americans insisted ‘it’s a carton,’ while others labeled it everything from a container to a pint.
‘I’ve always called it a plastic container or container,’ one viewer shared.
‘A carton, container, a thing of gooseberries,’ someone else added.
Dinhut, who is best known as ‘Condiment Claire,’ has more than 470,000 followers on TikTok, where she shares her food hauls, recipes, and, of course, her favorite condiments
Dinhut’s video has been viewed more than 82,000 times, inspiring dozens of people to share what they call the fruit container in the comments
Another joked that it’s a ‘plastic fruit holdy thing.’
‘I literally asked everyone on ig I can assure you every third person has a diff answer hhahhhahq,’ Dinhut responded in the comments.
TikTok users from other countries also weighed in.
‘In Canada it’s a pint or a quart depending on the size,’ one Canadian explained, while another added that it is also a ‘punnet in Australia.’
A British expat living in the US admitted to calling it a punnet for the past 12 years.
‘Do you mean nobody has known what I’m talking about?’ the person asked. ‘Another word to add to that list…’
Dinhut’s video comes a few months after an American influencer and her English boyfriend went viral for sharing the different words they use to describe the same thing.
