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

Creg???

Craig?! Guessing now!

I would just like to say that my assumption of Graham v Gram being a national thing is from "Paul", the alien movie with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Loved the movie but it doesnt half piss me off that Simon Pegg is called "Gram" by Paul the whol way through!

We just came back from the UK. Do you serve everything with chips and peas?

Do you serve everything with chips and peas?

No

Sometimes it chips and beans!

It pisses me off too that kids meals especially are "X, chips and peas/beans"

Bugger, just remembered this thread so came back for more lavatorially based fun but you're all discussing the other end of the digestive cycle .

Had really horrible meat in a New York deli, one of those places everyone "has" to go to. Yuck, yuck, yuck - just towers of cheap processed meat which we were all supposed to coo over with terrible plastic bread, grim.

On a slightly tangential note to the toilet/cubicle design chat, I remember a guy at a place I used to work telling me "you can always tell when the women in the office are on their period because they take their bags into the loo". I was that he'd given this any thought and now when I take my bag with me in the direction of the bathroom, I can't help wondering if everyone is thinking "yep, on the rag".

You've not lived until you've had a 5-way in Cincinnati.

Get your minds out of the gutter! :) It's spaghetti topped with Cincinnati-style chili, beans, onions, and cheese. Heaven.

Well ThruAGlass when we said no taxation without representation, we meant it. :o

Biscuits are not sweet in America.

The chips thing (and also "wedges", like potato wedges, I'd assume?) confuses the business out of me. Chips with pizza? But...why? Also I just saw on here that someone mentioned serving wedges with fajitas! I made a real life face! :)

Wedges, like potato wedges? With fajitas? What the what?!

We've just spent a few weeks in America. We stopped at an IHOP for a meal and confused our waiter by asking for cutlery! Didn't realise that was different there!

And what is it with cinnamon? It's on everything! I hate the stuff.

I don't like American bacon, much prefer ours. Admittedly some of the food in the USA is awful, but we had some fantastic food too.

EddieStobbart I get that paranoia every single time I take my bag to the toilet. Also get worried if I spend too much time in the loo people will think about what i've been doing in there.

I have to remind myself that no one pays that much attention to me and my toilet habits.

I still worry though!

For cutlery, we say silverware, even if it's made of plastic.

Strange that, although every processed food item in US contains (GM) corn syrup, they all have such wonderful teeth!

I love this thread. NZ public loos have the privacy requirements of Brits, mixed with extra special cleanliness and sometimes even bouquets of flowers. Very nice. Clearly there is a wide range of difference in the way people go to the toilet, judging by this sign in an Auckland Uni loo. I assume it's aimed at international students.

Yes, I don't get the british double-carb thing

Chips on pizza, pasta on chips, chips in sandwiches, it seems a bit crazy to foreigners

btw someone mentioned corn syrup -- thanks to various food lobby shenanigans there is corn syrup in almost everything in the US, that's why so much stuff tastes sweeter

That NZ poster...
Are they suggesting that you ought to stand up before putting your loo roll in the toilet? Who does that??

It's just an easier idea to draw than to draw putting loo roll in the loo while sitting down, I tthink.

Top row, middle pic - don't crap on the floor?! WTAF!

I found the bread expensive in the USA despite being yuk. tbf in wallmart it was a dollar and nice. is Publix like waitrose as it seemed expensive or maybe the location ie tourist spot.

Never mind the large gaps on either side of the doors which IS wierd, the think I find odd about toilets in the USA is the way there is SO much water in the toilet bowl, it comes right up to the toilet seat and your buttocks arse (if it's big) hangs down in the water and gets cold.

Most peculiar!

SconeRhymeswithGone

Why don't people in the UK serve cream with coffee instead of milk, that's what I want to know.

I'd like to know why as well.

Milk goes with Tea and
Cream goes with Coffee.

Coffee is rich and full-bodied so needs something 'rich' to compliment it, such as cream.
Milk is too weak.

It does my head in when I order coffee and they bring 'warm milk' to the table in a jug. As if that's going to make up for the fact they haven't got cream. It ends up tasting terrible.

i like coffee with cream and with milk (not at the same time ). you can ask for cream in the uk but it would normally be in smarter restaurants and cafes

actually that's a lie, i've had coffee with cream in chain cafes - it just depends whether they have it in stock and it's not the default

I hated those shelf loos where you'd stand up and your turd was looking at you from far nearer than is reasonable.

If Gillian McKeith were given one of those toilets, she would think all her Christmases had come at once.

American prudishness... Huh. Never thought of ourselves as prudes actually, considering our entertainment industry revolves around sex.

You have to admit, that most states are very prudish when it comes to topless sunbathing.