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

So...you're upset about the sandwiches being varied Mummino? :o

I do not buy chicken nuggets, fish sticks, Doritos etc, packaged cookies like Oreos, oven chips (is that what you call them?) or white bread, ever. I will buy marshmallow fluff to male fruit dip for parties but I would never put it in a sandwich! Frozen pizza is a treat to be had occasionally as is macaroni and cheese. (The fake Kraft kind I mean.) I do use it sometimes to make "cheater's casserole" which is a box of Mac n cheese, a can of tuna, and frozen broccoli. :o

To me, Hershey's is good, better than Cadbury. I do like Cadbury too though! But as others said I wouldn't buy Hershey's just to eat unless I were making smores or something. Hershey's kisses are for making peanut blossom cookies!

I prefer dark chocolate or the occasional Snicker's bar although I don't really like to eat a lot of sugar. Well, I mean, I LIKE it but my body doesn't. :)

I grew up drinking tea because my father likes it but this was not the norm where I lived. I had Constant Comment, Earl Grey, and English Breakfast usually. I don't care for Lapsang Souchong but my dad does and I've had it occasionally. He just boiled the water in a pan. When I make tea now I just run the Keurig with nothing in it, into a mug with a tea bag.

My MIL makes instant tea, and my grandmother used to make it. It's the worst. It's not that time-consuming to brew tea (or coffee).

I do actually like a Hershey bar now and again, especially the ones with almonds. But, my favorite candy bar is the Toblerone with sea salt and almonds. I like most chocolate, though. I'm not picky.

CheerfulYank Earl Grey is my favorite, with a little bit of milk and sugar. I like herbal tea, too, especially Sleepytime tea. I always have that when I'm sick.

No I love the sandwiches, but it felt like the Spanish Inquisition

Instant tea? Are you talking about sweet tea? That's instant, but it's also on the same level as kool-aid.

Most ice tea I know is made from the generic lipton packets that are steeped in hot water.

Actually, you guys are making me want some. I might go make a batch later tonight.

Instant tea? Are you talking about sweet tea? That's instant, but it's also on the same level as kool-aid.

No, the stuff she makes is not sweetened, it looks like instant coffee in the jar, little brown granules. It gets this weird head of foam on the top when you add water to it. It's icky.

We drink primarily unsweetened iced tea, I use black tea bags (Luzianne is the brand I buy usually). On the rare occasion that I make "sweet tea," I don't make it instant, I brew tea the regular way and then make a simple syrup and add it. I don't live in the south, but I thought that's how most sweet tea was made.

Actually, you guys are making me want some. I might go make a batch later tonight.

Between my husband and myself, we go through 4 gallons of unsweetened iced tea a week. There is just something so refreshing about it. You should make some.

I sometimes make iced tea with 4 mint tea bags and 8 green tea bags, steep it, then add a simple syrup (1/2C sugar 1/2C water). It's very nice.

I've never heard of instant tea that you put in hot water before. Ick.

Kinda defeats the purpose of tugging the tea bag along with the string to swirl in your cup. Or maybe I have weird tea drinking rituals.

I can't be the only one that plays with the bags so much the strings come off and I have to fish it out with the spoon.

I've never heard of instant tea that you put in hot water before. Ick.

I've never actually used it, so I don't know if it's meant to be hot, but my MIL and my GM both used it hot or cold. And it was gross.

You can get electric kettles in the US, but they are not standard equipment in most US kitchens. For one thing it takes longer to boil in the US because of lower voltage electricity. I do have a non-electric kettle that sits on the stove top, but I usually boil water in the microwave.

I am mainly a coffee drinker but I do drink hot tea; I developed a taste for it as a student in the UK. I brew it properly and even use loose tea. And I am a Southerner so also drink plenty of iced tea, which we brew with boiling water from tea bags before icing it.

Conservatories are certainly not popular where I live. Too hot for all that glass. We, like most people I know, have a screened porch, though.

Instant tea, like instant coffee, is the work of the devil.

My grandmother used to order Sanka when we'd go out to eat - instant, decaffeinated coffee. So, not only did it taste bad, it also had no caffeine. What is even the point of that? It's just hot, bitter, brown water.

Sanka, yuck!

In my Southern family, we always made iced tea by brewing a concentrate (also always used Luzianne); if sweetened, then add the sugar to the hot concentrate and pour over ice to dilute it. I also love an "Arnold Palmer," half iced tea and half lemonade. I use unsweetened tea and of course sweet lemonade.

My husband drinks Arnold Palmers. I'm not a huge fan but Snapple makes a half tea half lemonade that I really do like.

I've seen the tea concentrate, but we just use bags. Luzianne makes "family size" tea bags, I think they make 1/2 gallon of tea each, so we use two of those in just about a quart of hot water, let it steep for a bit, then add three quarts of cold water and ice to make a gallon. I fish the bags out, but my husband leaves them in. The tea at the bottom of the pitchers he makes is strong! It'll put hair on your chest.

We use the big bags to make our own concentrate. I've never used the commercial concentrate, but I know many people who do.

I also like my tea of the hairy-chest variety.

Ah so it is the lower voltage that slows the kettles down

Is that why the hair dryers are pants too ?

The food here is so so sweet everything so highly flavoured and even organic stores it is hard to get plain crackers sorry just having a moan

That's really interesting about the voltage! Jealous now. How long does it take your kettles to boil when they are full?

Plain crackers? Like saltines? They have those everywhere.

I have had kettles in the past but while pregnant and out of it I put my electric kettle on the stove burner. And turned it on.

The smell of melted plastic was horrific.

Now, as I said, I just use the Keurig for everything that needs hot water. Works on instant oatmeal for the kids in the morning too. :)

A very short time to boil those UK electric kettles. It's amazing.

Omg Cheerful that must have been awful to clean up!

I feel like I wait forever for my kettle, but I am not very patient when wanting coffee.

We can get plain British crackers of several varieties at our local grocery store.

Speaking of which, I wish we could get chocolate covered digestive biscuits here. I love those things. Would be very good with a tall glass of iced tea.

Oh it was! I still don't have a burner on that one, I really should get it replaced. :o

Saltines are similar to what you'd call cream crackers in the UK, right?

Also what is a sausage roll?!

Ha! I once took a glass pan of brownies out of the oven and placed it on the electric burner I had just used to cook something else. Then I left the room. The pan exploded. I came back in and the sides of it were completely gone glass had rained all over the kitchen and the bottom of the pan had jumped sideways onto the counter. It was a nightmare to clean up and the saddest part was that the brownies of course could not be eaten. No excuse at all, just sheer absent-mindedness.

I think it's just us Americans on here now. I do need to go to bed but I'll take a stab at the sausage roll. It is a sausage stuffed inside pastry, but it's a British sausage, and as much as I love nearly all things British, we Americans do sausage much better.

British sausage roll:

I noticed that too always nice to see both of you.

Aha. Have never had British sausage. That sausage roll looks about on a par with a McDonald's sausage biscuit, quality- and health-wise.

Good night

Good night!

I'm going to go shower in the back yard in the dark and hope to God the neighbors don't see.

Bathroom remodels are hell, is all I'm saying.