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

Croquettes are mashed potato covered in luminous orange breadcrumb. Googling they look like croquettes!

For me puff doesn't work for potato. Puffs are light extruded things like wotsits/cheetos, those weird crisps people feed babies, or breakfast cereals.

Tater tots are definitely closer to hash browns than potato croquettes.

All my favourite US food stuffs seem to be off limits now that I've been diagnosed with coeliac disease.

Tater tot hotdish is gluten free! :) If you get GF soup of course.

Some tater tots do have flour but lots are just potato.

Ah, wasn't 100% sure about how the tater tots were coated.

Still means no peanut butter twix or peach cobbler or ritz bitz or cinnabon or soup in a sourdough bowl or deep fried cheesecake or chicken fried steak or french toast or american style pancakes etc etc.

The only time I ever tried using the broiler of my oven for cooking anything I started a fire. It's strictly for storing cookie sheets now chez moi.

I make croquettes

They were my mother's standby for leftover mashed potato. Mix mash, egg, chopped green onion or chives, sr flour, roll in egg and then flour or dry breadcrumbs, and fry.

deep fried cheesecake

For me casserole lives on a plate and has vegetables (possibly potatoes) with it.

Stew lives in a bowl and is eaten with bread.

Hash browns, tater tots, whatever; neither one beats my favorite potato breakfast side dish: a tattie scone.

Don't click on the above Petflow link. It's a scam site which pulls all your data. They hacked my husband's Facebook account and his email.

A scam site that hacks your Facebook account and email? How exactly is that possible?

By all means click on it but it is possible. They were going through all my husband's contacts and pages on Facebook. It was on his activity log. This happened in the middle of the night. It has been reported by numerous people on Facebook.

It's more likely that someone dodgy set up a Facebook app (where you have to click to say "yes let this app post on my behalf, see who my friends are, etc") and used petflow's blogs as the "bait", because they have interesting titles and pictures.

If you go to Facebook Settings and then choose "Apps" on the left hand side (on a computer, not sure how to do it on a phone) you can see which apps you've granted permissions to and revoke them.

Just visiting the website above will not "hack your Facebook account".

That's the whole point. He didn't approve the app at all and had no idea it was on his page.
As I said click away if you must but it's quite a devious thing as it was changing his activity log. I certainly would avoid it and am just warning others.
He is an IT expert as well.

Well I clicked it. I'll report back if I've been murdered in my bed by morning.

Good illustration of the original comment. You could see everything going on in the other cubicals.

Interesting product too.

If your husband is an IT specialist then he should have known better than to have the same password for his Facebook and email accounts.

There's some pleasant people on here isn't there?

Just another warning really Way. You should never have the same password for major sites that carry personal data like email, Facebook, mumsnet, twitter etc.

For me casserole lives on a plate and has vegetables (possibly potatoes) with it.

Stew lives in a bowl and is eaten with bread.

Casserole is done in the oven, stew on the hob.

When I was a child I thought stew and casserole were the same, just that you called it casserole if you wanted to sound posh. Then I grew up, and someone told me that stew was cooked on the hob and casserole was cooked in the oven.

Now I have learned that stew is nice and casserole is nasty

people in teh USA must despair of us though, with our mixture of miles and metrics when it suits us

It confused the hell out of the ESOL students (I was teaching IT to them, I am not an ESOL teacher) when I gave them a shopping list to compare prices at different supermarkets.

Not one could find '1 pint of milk', 568ml yes, a pint no. Did anyone else not notice when a lot of shops stopped putting 'pint' on the packaging?

As for cups, I do have a set of measuring cups, but as long as the entire recipe is measured in cups it doesn't matter what size the recipe will still work.

It's like the basic sponge mixture being 4oz of flour, sugar and butter with 2 eggs. To get a perfect sponge you should use a balance scale and ensure the dry ingredients are the same weight as the eggs, but 9 times out of 10 it doesn't matter.

I think, but stand to be corrected, that some US conventions are due to the history of immigration, migration, settlers etc.

Weighing scales would be heavy and expensive, if you are using a balance type you need to carry a set of weights. If you are traveling hundreds of miles in a covered wagon it's just not practical, on the other hand everyone will have a cup/mug/beaker.

Ditto eating with just a fork or your hands. You can cut up everyone's food with a single knife before you eat, put it down and let everyone use a fork or their fingers or a spoon. A wooden spoon is light, not dangerous for a child to use and can be replaced from a tree you pass, a knife isn't.

Some interesting comments there Sashh
I guess that makes a lot of sense. Travelling across the country with a set of weighing scales is a sod. A cup is a ratio I guess isn't it, and easy to scale up or down accordingly.

Plus a lot of our cups/bowls/children's beakers have oz written on the bottom.

I was measuring milk for a recipe today and saw my daughter's sippy cup had 9oz on the bottom, so I just used that, knowing it was close to a cup. Then I filled the cup with milk for her anyway so I didn't have to wash it specially or anything. :)

My work in London has the same gap. I don't think it is only an american thing.

But different places have their idiosyncrasies. I am doing the reverse (america to London) and have a list as long as my arm about things that drive me crazy/I find odd here.