Differences between Brits and Americans

I swear by this one

https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/macaroni-and-cheese-14930

The link didn't work for me either. I have a creamy mac & cheese recipe that's been in the family for decades. No eggs.

This is fairly similar.

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/102393/baked-homemade-macaroni-and-cheese/

There are problems surely, but there are huge positives as well. Believe me, when the University of Georgia played for and won the national championship in college football (beating our ancient nemesis the University of Alabama) for the first time in 40 years, the celebrations cut across every political and cultural divide in the state and beyond. It was a sweet moment of unity, and we are still feeling the effects several years on.

Edinburgh is like a mini England though. Strange city.

For some reason it won't let me click the link, but does it have eggs in it? I love my mother-in-law, but we have a major disagreement about this. I like east coast macaroni and cheese and she's from Alabama and puts eggs in it, which completely changes the texture.

Macaroni and cheese as a side dish is a Southern tradition and is a particularly important part of African American cuisine. But it differs from how British people (and lots of non-Southerners in the US) make it. It's traditionally a savory custard loaded with cheese and macaroni or some other type of pasta. Here :
https://www.saveur.com/article/recipes/southern-style-macaroni-and-cheese/

@mathanxiety I love to give a different name each time I order in Starbucks, most spell mine wrong, don’t have a clue for dd middle name we once got X.

Other cousin is still in Minneapolis and married a marine. He’s all about his American right to bare arms.

He loves his short sleeved shirts, does he? 😂

I have never seen this program, but it's quite common in the US, especially the South, to use surnames for first names, even for girls. The likelihood increases substantially if the surname in question is of Scottish origin and substantially more if the family is of Scottish origin, which is a high percentage in the South. I know women and girls with these first names: Cameron, Campbell, Kinley, Logan, Aiken, and of course the more common Lindsay and MacKenzie. This is in addition to other surnames girls in the South might have as first names: Peyton, Harper, Avery, Hunter, etc.

Really not as ridiculous with your assertions with, as far as I can tell, nothing to back them up.

My point, your words:

I mean you could say that about the UK too, people from pit villages in Co Durham are worlds away from people in inner city London or the commuter villages in Surrey.

I think if I was breaking the law in a way that didn't hurt anyone I wouldn't expect to have a gun pointed at me. In fact I would never expect to have a gun pointed at me in any circumstances unless I was about to kill someone.

I lived in America for a year in my 20s and remember being quite surprised by how much of a culture difference there was.
I forget a lot of things but one thing that always stuck with me (and probably a really obvious one) is how much friendlier Americans are, and willing to talk to strangers. I remember being in a queue in a sandwich shop and the guy in front just turning round and asking me which filling I was going for. I was really thrown at first thinking he was confused and thought he recognised me or knew me, then just realised he was friendly!!

also once complimented someone on her homely house, which turns out not to be very much synonymous with homey

😂

I would love to have seen the expression on her face!

Yes but it's interesting that Shakespearean names aren't common in the US, like Imogen or Hermione

To be fair, the inability of baristas to spell names is a well-known joke.

One of my DDs uses the name "Kim" for the purposes of ordering coffee and has been keeping a running tally of misspellings.

George Bernard Shaw once said that the US and UK are “two countries divided by a common language” and Oscar Wilde said, “We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, the language”.

On the language issue, American English is actually more like the English of Shakespeare's time than British English, which explains the 'herb' pronunciation and the harder 'r' sounds in American English.

British person who moved to the southern US at 30 and is now 60. Vocabulary, for one. Fanny, suspenders, vest to name but 3 mean something quite different depending on which side of the Atlantic you are on. I also once complimented someone on her homely house, which turns out not to be very much synonymous with homey. I'm married to an American and we enjoy the differences between our languages.

I think when I went to the US I thought the culture would be quite similar to the UK, but it’s not really, anywhere I went anyway. I came back to the UK with the realisation that for all our language differences and cultural differences that Europeans have more in common with each other than I thought.

I don’t agree about the humour/ sarcasm posts though. Some of the funniest people I have known have been American, and some of the best comedy writing is also American!

I know quite a few Americans and they are not conservative but years ago one couldn't understand why we didn't have bins on the underground (this was prior to 9/11) and didn't understand terrorist threats.

I used to know two who constantly banged on about how great they were at everything they did. That got old.

I've been surprised at how they will be very open about asking for money for things that we wouldn't.

Weirdly the first time I came across the name Imogen was in What Katy Did which is an American book. Although Katy's brother was called Dorry as far as I remember, never seen that name before or since.

I totally agree. That’s why sweeping statements about all Americans and all English aren’t really helpful imo.

In the healthcare discussion, it always somehow gets forgotten that you can have private heath insurance in the UK too.

That's what we have and I think it's the best of both worlds.

It is much much cheaper than the premiums and copays in the US that I paid and you get the best of the NHS too

These threads are always mad, so many people insistent on telling Americans what they're like and how they mispronounce words. "I went to California once and everyone there was horrible." 😂"You say Herb wrong." 😂
America has been independent for almost 250 years and has its own culture and version of English. The nerve!!
I don't personally know any religious Americans, maybe that's a midwestern thing. My American family is all lapsed Catholics. They're not rebellious so they may baptise their kids and marry in church but they don't spend a lot of time in church and it doesn't have much impact on their lives.
Ime they do tend to be personally louder and prefer to talk than to ask questions.
The healthcare system is better there in many ways but my family always had excellent insurance which is no longer the norm.
My dad's family were NRA supporters and we had guns all over the house but I've never seen an errant gun or shooting on the street, nor known anyone who came to mischief with one. Like most Americans I support gun control and haven't owned guns myself. It's more complex than Europeans understand.

The thing that strikes me most is about gun law and how some Americans think that having more guns makes people safer, against the most horrifying evidence to the contrary.