to think there is something wrong with Americans?

[TheBloodManCometh]

In Colorado, here for 5 weeks.

Why the HELL is there a half inch gap on either side of the door in all public toilets?? You can see everything going on!!!
This has been the case everywhere I've been in America?
AIBU to be both baffled and embarrassed

lighthearted btw. I don't really think there's something wrong with the Americans

Well I had no idea I was supposed to flush with my feet!

I suppose beans on toast is the equivalent of the PB sandwich, yes. As in an easy staple when you don't know how to cook, don't have the time to cook, or don't have anything in to cook? Because that's exactly what beans on toast is. (And agree that our beans are different)

I love this thread! I've travelled a lot in the States and the gappy doors never bothered me, you really don't have people peering in at you. I was in one place in New England once, however, with a female friend who was quite tall, and when she stood up to pull up her knickers she was visible from the waist up, as the cubicle just had saloon-type swing doors. She looked so surprised it made me laugh.
I also think that Americans aren't so bothered about people hearing what they're doing in their cubicle as much as Brits are, who seem terrified that anyone would know why they were in there in the first place.
Also, I'm just back from 3 weeks in Greece, and we rented a very nice villa on Corfu - and we had the little bin to put the toilet paper in. It was just the two of us and it didn't bother us, the maid took it away every morning. We were so used to it that when we got back my husband said that on his first visit to the loo at home he automatically looked for the little bin.

I never took to beans on toast when I was a student in the UK. But bacon rolls, yes, now that truly is the food of the gods. (It's very difficult to get back bacon in the US; it's all the streaky kind.)

Why are Amerocan bagels meant to be superior to ours! I still haven't noticed the difference.

But don't the beans make the toast soggy?

Why does American bacon look like it will shatter if you touch it with a fork?! It looks all dry, I like my bacon with soft meat and brown fat (took me years to work out how to cook it to get it like that!).

And what are grits? And biscuits and gravy sound revolting!

yes if you leave them long enough

Yes Happy which is why we have beans on toast that is actually toast on a plate and cheesy beans in a bowl!

Is "on toast" a british thing then? Egg on toast, pilchards on toast, beans on toast, tomatoes on toast....do other countries not get the joy of food stuffs placed on slightly singed bread?! :o

But don't the beans make the toast soggy?

Yes, that's the whole point.

And yes, anything on toast. Cheese on toast, fried egg on toast, spaghetti hoops on toast.......

I must admit I'm not keen on the food in the USA ,even the chopped tomatoes tasted sweet.

Biscuits (light, savoury, sconeish doodahs) gravy and mash is lovely. No roast potatoes as far as I can tell ( NY, Boston, Florida step family).

Our ketchup is much sweeter IMHO.

I personally prefer "with toast" to literally "on toast".

Our bread is different too, if the "American style" bread you can buy in German supermarkets is in any way representative.

English toast is crisp and keeps its shape. It's also savoury, I can't taste any sugar in it at all.

The American bread I've had here (which may be woefully terrible - they sell tubes of mustard and ketchup, striped like toothpaste, in American week in Aldi) is very slightly sweet, not enough to interrupt a sandwich, but it's noticeable. When it goes soggy, which it seems to do just from being placed on a plate while hot (I guess it has much higher water content?) it tastes bleurgh and horrible and the texture is terrible. Like cold toast which has soaked up spilled water. It also lasts for about two weeks, which is bizarre, and never seems to go mouldy (just stale).

I miss English sliced bread. Although the German bread is great, nobody else eats it. They think the American style bread is good enough but I don't like it, so there is never any point buying an entire loaf of proper bread just for me!

And English sliced bread is soft and lovely. This "bread" feels like a dried up old sponge.

American food is gross. I've actually lost weight since I've been here because I just can't handle the heavy, sweet blandness of it all.
And I have a sweet tooth!
I love the lemonade though.

YOU'RE MEANT TO FLUSH WITH YOUR FEET? Really?? Just in the US or elsewhere, because I'm not that flexible.

Am I allowed to nominate my own thread for Classics? Because this has been a big educational experience for me!!

Americans, I love you. But I struggle to forgive you for throwing that tea in Boston Harbour. That was a heinous waste of good tea!!!!

Oh and what is with the high salt content in everything???? And cheese in a can....? IN A CAN????? Nooooo......

glad it's not just me and very limited choice of meat cuts. nightmare with dd being vegetarian not catered for.

I bought some "American style" hot dog buns once and they were terrible! They were sweet and had the texture of cake, as soon as you lifted it to eat the hot dog they just fell apart. Never again!

Although funnily enough now I think about it, I havent seen them for a while so maybe I am not the only one who didnt like them!

There's bread I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole. I think maybe we have more variety in a typical grocery store? It seems like when people describe food in the UK, there's a very standard idea of it, like beans as described above. It's not like that in the US.

I often hear American foods being described as the very, very cheap processed types. The soggy white bread or the packet food with tons of sugar. Generally, people don't eat like that unless they have to, it costs pennies compared to other foods.

And again, we're a huge country. People have entirely different ways of eating in different regions. Even just in California, the way people eat in Los Angeles is different than San Francisco. I'm a veggie, and while it's fairly easy in LA, some restaurants will only have a few items, where SF caters equally to vegetarians and meat eaters.

I'd i imagine eating fried potatoes covered in icing sugar in LA? And the bacon iirc was brittle, but I'm sure there was maple syrup offered for it?

Bogey x-post, that's a good example of what I mean. That sounds like the Value hot dog buns that would cost fifty cents a pack in the stores, and they're absolutely loaded with sugar and corn syrup and chemical crap.

But most people wouldn't buy those, unless they had to.

Oh, have we moved away from toilets now? . I was going to mention the heated seats on the Japanese 'washlets', bliss on a cold day!

OK, if we're discussing food, can someone please tell me what, exactly, are the chocolate 'wafers' that you crush up to make cheesecake or pie bases? What we Brits call wafers (eg the pink things layered with unidentifiable pink sugary filling) aren't the same thing at all, surely?