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What seemed weird when I visited your country
Sorflakne:
--- Quote ---When I was young and naive, I learned from online forums that Americans took shits that clogged their toilets. I assumed that Americans take massive shits that we Europeans just can’t match (after all, everything is bigger in America)
When I came to US, I learned that they just have different toilets with small hole that gets clogged. European toilets never do that. They have bigger hole. You can put tennis ball trough it.
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Ain't that the truth, and I'll leave it at that.
--- Quote ----Eating salad before the main course…wtf
-Called the main course an ‘entree’
-Having a ridiculous amount of flags
-The number of shitty commercials on major cable channels, not to mention the number of shitty TV shows that somehow get constant airtime
-Tax not included in price in shops
-In some cities (not all) people give you strange looks if you walk around the city and don’t drive (saw this in Houston a lot)
-How poverty is so rife in nearly every major city
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Other than the salad thing (salads aren't pre-meal food in other countries?), yep.
--- Quote ---American chocolate sucks.
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Only because it's not actually chocolate.
--- Quote ---Wearing shoes in the house… What the fuck are you doing? You step in all nasty shit, for example, if you stepped on a fruit then walked all over your living room then thats how you get ants.
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I grew up on a farm, so walking inside with your shoes/boots on (especially during winter) was an invitation to have a frying pan or something thrown at you (it makes sense...shoes are dirt magnets, and these magnets fail as soon as you step inside). As an American, I just cannot walk around inside with shoes on, and can't understand why people do. Now, wearing at the workplace is different, but even then, I'd take my shoes off if I could.
--- Quote ---I find it really weird how college football players are kind of celebrities. They’re scrutinized and have fans and do TV interviews, and it just boggles my mind so much. They’re just students that do an extra-curricular activity! I don’t understand.
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THIS.
--- Quote ---Pancakes for breakfast was weird too,
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Wait, what?
Metope:
Oh yeah pancakes in America are totally different. What we call a pancake in Norway at least is a lot thinner, kind of like a crepe but not really. You have it for dinner, usually you put blueberry jam or just plain sugar on it, and roll it up. Before pancakes you have something else, pea soup is pretty common.
The thick breakfast pancake with syrup on it doesn't really exist there. My dad used to make it for breakfast on Sundays, since he was an exchange student in Michigan at one point so he picked it up there. All of my friends thought it was really weird (although delicious).
Plus, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches will get you weird looks in Norway.
cesium133:
--- Quote from: Sorflakne on 05 Nov 2013, 10:55 ---
--- Quote ---When I was young and naive, I learned from online forums that Americans took shits that clogged their toilets. I assumed that Americans take massive shits that we Europeans just can’t match (after all, everything is bigger in America)
When I came to US, I learned that they just have different toilets with small hole that gets clogged. European toilets never do that. They have bigger hole. You can put tennis ball trough it.
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Ain't that the truth, and I'll leave it at that.
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When I went to Brazil, I found out that I was not supposed to flush toilet paper. Turns out that the sewer system in the city I was in can't handle toilet paper and if you try to flush it the toilet will back up. Luckily I was told in advance by one of the guys from the lab who had been there before. He found out the hard way.
LeeC:
--- Quote from: cesium133 on 05 Nov 2013, 10:37 ---Whenever I tell someone I grew up in Maryland, they mention the time they had crab legs or whatever in Baltimore. No, I'm not from that part of Maryland...
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Wheres about did you grow up? Honestly I grew up in Maryland but really didnt eat crabs until I dated this girl from Annapolis.
In maine they have this pancake like food whose name I can't remember. You make it from buck-wheat. Its is delicious and is usually the part of a meal that replaces a bread roll on your plate. Another thing that I only really found in Maine that was delicious was red hotdogs.
LTK:
All these food-related facts make me think "Christ, no wonder the US has an obesity epidemic."
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