So, just found out this is illegal in America.

[Soubriquet]

Black current juice. Apparently there is a fungus that lives on black currents that would be bad for the economy, so it’s banned.

You can buy a gun, but not black current juice

Or kinder eggs either btw

@MissConductUS, I agree with you. I am a Brit who has lived in the US for the past 20 years.
Yes, the US has many issues, but the amount of nonsense I read on Mumsnet about what it is supposed to be like here just makes me shake my head.

[quote danmthatonestakentryanotheer]There are some corkers on here

www.rd.com/list/weird-things-banned-in-the-u-s/[/quote]
According to that link, you can't wear a mask in California!

[quote Ruthietuthie]@MissConductUS, I agree with you. I am a Brit who has lived in the US for the past 20 years.
Yes, the US has many issues, but the amount of nonsense I read on Mumsnet about what it is supposed to be like here just makes me shake my head.[/quote]
And it's the same tired cliches over and over.

It’s blackcurrant, not black current. Not being nasty, if I’d written the post I’d want someone to tell me.
Off for a glass of Ribena 😀

Several children have died from choking on the toys in kinder eggs. I think they SHOULD be banned, actually if they had been banned after the first death in 1998 then lives would have been saved. Chocolate and toys in the same bite is a recipe for disaster.

They don't have squash at all, nothing to do with banned - koolaid is powdered and revolting

@antidisestablishmentarianism

Several children have died from choking on the toys in kinder eggs. I think they SHOULD be banned, actually if they had been banned after the first death in 1998 then lives would have been saved. Chocolate and toys in the same bite is a recipe for disaster.

You don’t bite the toy 🤨 it’s in a plastic egg!

@Iamanicepersonreally

It’s blackcurrant, not black current. Not being nasty, if I’d written the post I’d want someone to tell me. Off for a glass of Ribena 😀

Autocorrect and I can’t be bothered changing it.

No squash at all? It’s all proper juice and powdered stuff only?

They might have a few oddities but Jesus so do we! overall they have some incredible food. I love America.

But if we don't constantly bash the US, then how do we prove we're better than them?! 🤷‍♀️😉

@MissConductUS I stand corrected but it was only in 2018 that it was made legal in all states. My friend almost got arrested in a small town in New York State for breastfeeding in 2015 though!

I seem to recall that they also have a law that bans sex with fish!!

there are also tik tok and you tubes about ridiculous UK / french / german / swedish rules and laws
apparently there is some old rule in Scotland that if someone asks to use your toilet you have to let them though not adopted by parliament it is in common law about hospitability to strangers though I doubt it is enforceable so
there are old laws in England about driving geese on London bridges etc in many places in Europe you have to chose your child's name from an approved list

I buy Ribena in my local grocery, as others have mentioned black currants are no longer banned. IMPORTED haggis is banned because it traditionally contains sheep's lung, which is banned by the FDA. But you can get 'Made in the USA' haggis. Kinder Eggs fall under a 'choking hazard'. Absinthe IS legal to buy for personal consumption, but is not legal to serve in a bar. Oregon's self service petrol ban is supposedly to provide jobs. DH got hollered at years ago by the attendant for starting to pump his own when we were visiting family.

In California you can own as many dildos & vibrators as you please. I guess Texas limited them because it knows it's already full of dildos.

Each state can enact its own restrictions in addition to Federal laws. You see this a lot when it comes to animals as in one state they may not present a problem to the local fauna or flora, but in a another state they might devastate a native species though predation or destroy their habitat if they were to get loose.

They don’t have clotted cream either. Trying to describe clotted cream to my US friends. First thing I’m doing is taking them over the border for a Cornish cream tea. They’re convinced it’s something hugely illicit

Haggis is amazing; I had it for the first time in 2016 and felt like crying because I had 30-odd years without it. Anyone who slags it off has probably never tried it.
Weirdly, I can get haggis in London/ Surrey, but not whisky sauce. In Scotland can you get it in a packet etc, or do you always have to make it from scratch?

What's with the defensiveness? We have countless threads about what's awful in the UK. I find the differences between countries fascinating.

I would like to correct my previous post.
Thalidomide was not approved for pregnant women in the U.S.

Warm blackcurrant juice on a winter's day in Sunday school.

The nostalgia

These are interesting (only if true) but it's also a good reminder to check rules / laws in countries before travelling and making assumptions that its ok because its ok in our country.

They sell Ribena in the US! It’s just expensive!? Not sure what you mean

@gogohm

They don't have squash at all, nothing to do with banned - koolaid is powdered and revolting

Most of us buy fresh fruit juice in the US, or make our own - we grow vast areas of fruit here and fruit is plentiful. As far as kool-aid goes; I don't know anyone who drinks the stuff.

[quote Mushypeasandchipstogo]@MissConductUS I stand corrected but it was only in 2018 that it was made legal in all states. My friend almost got arrested in a small town in New York State for breastfeeding in 2015 though![/quote]
She was having it on with you. Public breastfeeding was explicitly made legal in New York in 1994.

NY Breastfeeding Laws: In Public

But thanks for adding a bit more misinformation to the discussion.

@GrendelsGrandma in total! onwardtexas.org/trending/is-it-illegal-to-own-more-than-six-dildos-in-texas-yes-it-is/ In fairness it’s equal opportunity as artificial vagina’s are subject to the same law. Do you think they Dildo raids?

@FlowersNoScent I would love to know how it came about! Who came up with six being too many? I mean it’s a fair amount but seems a bit arbitrary!

Once saw a guy in New Hampshire driving a motorbike on the highway without a helmet. No helmet. Going at 120 km.

Land of the Free and all that