Anyone who's been afraid to order the dish or drink that they really wanted for fear of looking silly will know: there are some food names that are just hard to wrap your tongue around. Whether they’re dishes or brands that many people get wrong, or ingredients that you rarely hear said out loud, it can be an edible minefield. Here are some of the most mispronounced foods – and how we should be saying their names.

Click or scroll through our gallery to learn how to pronounce some of the most perplexing food terms, counting down to the most difficult of all.

We've based our ranking on the difficulty of each food item's pronunciation, and on the opinions of our well-travelled (and well-fed) team. The list is unavoidably subjective.

Food names you’ve probably been pronouncing wrong