LIST: Things that the Brits think we're nuts for..

Jon won't let me get a dog because he says I wont' walk it. We live right next to a park, so it's not that big of a deal. But he refuses.

We've never gotten a dog because it would 'tie us down'!!!  As if we're free spirits with three kids, a cat, rabbit, and a gerbil.  

Well, I felt bad yesterday because I brought the dog thing up again. Jon just looked at me and said " I really hate saying no to you, I wish you wouldn't make me".

It was sweet and effective. I won't ask again... at least for awhile.  

The beer and lemon thing, I'm sorry I have to ask how that can be so weird when a Shandy is a beer/lemonade mix?  

I have a big one... Iced Tea,   (sacrilige darling) Not the tea  and not with lemon. gasp...

I was so used to having hot tea with lemon when I moved across. I was not used to the British automatically assuming that I wanted mine 'white'...with milk. So I ask for tea, it comes with milk and, well...I'm not a chemist, so I didn't really fully think through what would happen when I added lemon.

What I think is weird about Brits:
The eating pizza/meat on the bone/everything with a knife and fork thing.
Putting salad cream on everything.
Shandies.
The fact that the supermarket till person wont start scanning the next order until you have put your wallet away and cleared your bags off and everyone stares at you in silence waiting to finish.
They leave the butter out

What they think is weird about Yanks:
How we get appalled by nudity on TV when all they show is violence on TV in the states
How we are so loud
We don't put salad cream on everything
We put things like ketchup, jam, and other non mayonnaise-based sauces in the fridge when they are clearly marked PLEASE REFRIGERATE AFTER OPENING. Someone at work actaully leaves a bottle of salad cream in the cupboard for when he needs it for his lunches  

BTW, I never use a knife and fork at home but when I go out to lunch to the cafe with my co-workers, I use a knife an fork, on the chips and all. I eat to impress 

I think the biggest thing that Tom thought I was nuts with was eating a PB&J...  Oooo my gawd!! ...  Never ever would anyone add jelly to their peanut butter...  LOL!  When he was here last fall, I made him one and forced him to try it...  LOL, if you could have only seen the face of fear as he slowly took his bit of sandwich to mouth.

I have weened him on the paper towel bit though, so that was cool...  and this summer, we will see how he fairs with picking blue crabs with only a knife and a nut cracker for tools...LOL! he has already stated to me that he loves crab meat...  but the thought of picking a crab is disgusting and too much work and I will need to do it for him...HAHAHA!  You no pick Tom...you no eat!

As far as Tea goes...  American's have no business trying to serve tea in a restaurant...  we are completely wrong and he has never seen such shame done to tea as being served a cup of hot water and a bag on the side... with a lemon and no cream...  (I must agree on the cup part)  but I do not like cream in my tea... to me it is like soggy water :-/... and he constantly has to be reminded at home.

Oh yea, never wear white trainers...  All americans wear white trainers...  and white socks...  Can spot an American miles away with the bright white feet...LOL!

And one of my favorites was when I was first there and I asked at a pub for a gin and tonic in a tall glass... I received some of the funniest looks from all around...  (she is american I bet)   Now every time we go to a pub it is...  she will have an Americanized gin and tonic...  meaning tall glass with everthing already mixed together...

This was definitely a fun thread to read...  wow!, did not know I had gotten so behind from my few weeks away moving.  

HI, I just thought I would thow in a quick list of brit stuff I do like...

1) Ribena
2) Chips (with lots of vinegar and gravy)
3) Sunday Roasts (Lamb and mint sauce mmmm.)love mint sauce on almost anything.
4) Bacon and scrambled egg on a large barm with brown sauce
5) Scones with cream and jam.
6) Scottish Highlands (been twice, sooo beautiful)
..I'll come back if I think of more

Does anyone else think the bread, eggs and meat here tastes different than in america?

.... I do not like cream in my tea ......

Cream!    Bleugh!  Or do you mean full fat (4%) milk?  Cream in tea tastes nasty.

In more than thirty years in the UK I never saw tea being made with cream.  I had many "cream teas", but that refers to a scone or cake with cream served with the tea, not the dairy product going into the tea.  

Ok, be a Tom and correct my verbage...  Milk or cream...  keep it out of my tea please

actually, in accordance to defend the American side...  Over here in America...our cream is different than in the UK and is used for such things as coffee, and tea....  so there    LOL!

I thought of a new one.... thanks to Shel.... the whole peanut butter and chocolate thing!

I took Reeses to the UK and Dh's friend commented, "What a heinous combination."

Ok, be a Tom and correct my verbage...  Milk or cream...  keep it out of my tea please

actually, in accordance to defend the American side...  Over here in America...our cream is different than in the UK and is used for such things as coffee, and tea....  so there    LOL!

I'd prefer to be Dick, if that's alright with you?  

BTW My mother-in-law put American cream in a cup of hot tea for me and it still tasted nasty, so I'm not sure how it is different - though I know the names are different.  Anyway, I had to throw the tea out, which was sad as she meant well.  

And one of my favorites was when I was first there and I asked at a pub for a gin and tonic in a tall glass... I received some of the funniest looks from all around...  (she is american I bet)   Now every time we go to a pub it is...  she will have an Americanized gin and tonic...  meaning tall glass with everthing already mixed together...

Sorry for being thick, but i dont understand what you mean when you say 'everything already mixed together'.  The tall glass i think i understand.. it just means you want more ice in it, right?  

US cream is like "half and half" or about 8% fat.  MMM!  You can make your coffee 'white' without making it 'cold.'  Why does no one (even Starbucks) get this here?  Have to order 'white coffee' and explain that it's not a latte, they just have to heat up the milk so that my coffee doesn't get cold.

The dish-rinsing thing is still perplexing me.  This is why I have only one sink?  You mean, they just leave the soapy dishes to dry and put them away?  Does this explain why sometimes my beer foams up in a glass or icewater tastes like dishsoap?  I'm so disillusioned.

alright Dick...LOL...  I'll put it to you this way...  Please do not put anything WHITE in my tea please...  I do not like it whether it is 1% or 50% cream/milk...  and please if possible, do not be so silly as to correct me constantly for the slip of a word...  Tom my FH does it enough, do not need it from others, nor appreciate it from others unless I am asking for a correction.  Thank You!  I am one of those outspoken americans that come straight to the point if something gets to me the wrong way...  

Badger, I am not sure how it is done down in the south...  but in the north...if you ask for a Gin and Tonic...  you get a very small glass with a shot of gin in it...  and a small bottle of tonic...  that is all...  It was my first time in a pub so I was confused as to why they could not mix the two for me and give me a tall glass...  plus ice...but I am not a big ice person so that part is ok.

louthcat...  errrr, i did not know there are no reese's over there...  they are my favorites...  but I guess it will save me some calories...LOL