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What seemed weird when I visited your country
ZoeB:
Common Oddness
- the moon is upside-down pretty much everywhere,
- no beetroot on hamburgers.
Netherlands - Karnemelk (buttermilk) in coffee. Boterhams - open sandwich, buttered slice of bread sprinkled with schokolade hagelpuur (chocolate sprinkles) and eaten with knife and fork.
Ohio - 28 religious channels on TV.
New Orleans - booze cheaper than milk (and milk's cheap).
Germany - Homeopathy treated seriously
bhtooefr:
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 31 Jan 2014, 07:19 ---Ohio - 28 religious channels on TV.
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Although that is almost certainly cable.
But one of the four channels I could reliably pick up over the air growing up was religious.
LTK:
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 31 Jan 2014, 07:19 ---Netherlands - Karnemelk (buttermilk) in coffee.
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Karnemelk? In coffee?? Who? Where?
--- Quote ---Boterhams - open sandwich, buttered slice of bread sprinkled with schokolade hagelpuur (chocolate sprinkles)...
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Yes, of course.
--- Quote ---...and eaten with knife and fork.
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Wait, what? Who eats their sandwiches with knife and fork? And how? Don't all the sprinkles fall off? I wanna know where you've been since it's clearly not where I'm from.
By the way, the words you used mean chocolate sprinkles, dark. (Chocoladehagel, puur.) Which is what the box would say for dark chocolate sprinkles.. Also, there's no s in chocolade.
A weird thing in Sweden is that most supermarkets have a confectionery section. As in, bins filled with all sorts of candy, chocolates, nuts, and combinations thereof, that you scoop into bags and pay by the gram. In the Netherlands you only ever see those in candy shops and drug stores. As in, the shop that sells over-the-counter drugs as well as beauty products, make-up, bathroom products and... candy. Actually, now that I think about it, we're the weird ones for putting candy in drug stores!
Also, they don't have chocolate sprinkles in Sweden. :(
Barmymoo:
That sounds like Woolworths (RIP) - the Pic&Mix stand was the best part!
Loki:
--- Quote ---Germany - Homeopathy treated seriously
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At least one person I know goes to doctors who also practice "alternative medicine" as they call it not because they take it seriously, but because physicians' attitude sometimes is "oh, you have pain? take those pain pills and go away", while the "alternative" ones will try to find out what is up.
Also, insurance doesn't cover these things.
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