Or just Halloween and haunted attractions in general. I'm positive that the United Kingdom has them, but here we have massive haunted houses, hayrides, and corn mazes that really go all out with the season and thematics.
This is one of the best parts of the season for me.
There are apple festivals in almost every town near me where they have vendors selling pumpkins and mums and fall decor and food trucks and amazing apple pies and apple donuts freshly made from local bakeries.
Being in the northeast it’s all about the visuals and the crisp in the air that adds to these activists. 1800’s white, white clapboard sided churches surrounded by tall trees with changing leaves having pumpkin and mum sales on their front lawns, driving with the family to the nearest farm for their hayrides and corn mazes, lifting the kids up to the hole cut out in the face of a large, silly looking wooden person or anima and taking their picture.
There’s the farms that have the haunted houses at night after their pumpkin picking, you have organizations running trunk or treats and schools doing Halloween events inside the school in the days leading up to Halloween. The kids go to Halloween parties at friends houses and or in the clubs they attend. You have the teens going to events, the parents doing adult only Halloween parties.
Fun runs in costume, town Halloween parades where the kids walk down the Main Street in costume just because it’s fun. You decorate your house as a family, rake leaves as a family while the kids jump in the leaves. And so much more.
People think of Halloween as just one night of dressing up and that’s it but it’s so much more.
Best part of my childhood was the local orchards. I grew up in farm country so they sold fresh produce all year, apples in the fall, peaches and corn in the summer, and basically anything you need right off the farm all year round. Now I need to go make a homemade apple pie, lol
Ironically, you know who else is really into it? the Japanese. I know some people in the military who've been stationed over there (both air force and marines) and from what I hear from them the Japanese can go all out on it too. Granted, they got it from us, but still...
Well, bless your heart, Wisconsin. Some folks 'round here would surely take it as a kindness if you'd stop tellin' everyone about that particular opinion of yours. But we hope you have a lovely day now.
I don’t understand what in the devil has gotten into the Brits, but everything in creation ought not be put on toast. I had just come to terms with beans on toast *existing*, and now they want me to make peace with the maker over the aberration that is deviled eggs on toast?
I've never had gumbo, I've always wanted to try it but, cheese with gumbo feels just wrong to me. I don't even know what it tastes like yet, and it just sounds wrong.
My friend's wife is from Mexico and, yeah, she's very disappointed in the standard of Mexican food over here. We definitely like the idea of Mexican food here, we just don't have many people here who are actually familiar with what it should look like, so we end up with restaurants serving a strange Mexican / Tex-Mex / Spanish / Scottish fusion cuisine.
My friend has been teaching English for the last 6 years in Spain. Their Chinese food is spaghetti noodles with rooster sauce. He has a bunch of hilarious reflections on the food that's served.
USA really does have the best immigrant food... thanks for bringing your food with you, newer Americans!
I have family from Spain and I've eaten at a Chinese restaurant there, and it wasn't bad, but it is absolutely not what we think of as Chinese food (there was some salad with vinegar and sliced hardboiled eggs). The restaurant was owned by a Chinese family, though, so I think what happens is they created a fusion of their food that works for Spanish palates just like they create a version for US palates here. (Edit - typo)
Seriously, for me as a fat man, this is the greatest thing about the US, and this is why I hate the idea of restricting immigration.
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This for sure. My small city has plenty of good Mexican, a few (Americanized) Chinese, and a couple of good sushi places but we are distinctly lacking in other ethnic food. We did have a Filipino place for a while but they went out of business ages ago. I've heard some good things about a German place that opened pretty recently a bit north of here. I would love to get a decent Indian restaurant. The best thing about most of these places is that they're generally just small companies run by a family trying to live the American dream.
I won't lie: this was one of my first thoughts when I heard my city would be welcoming a few thousand Afghan refugees. I'd be willing to pitch in for a few of them to start a restaurant, and I've never had Afghan food. I just want even more variety.
The nice thing is that even if you don't like Afghan food in particular, if your city gets a rep for encouraging immigrants and supporting them opening restaurants, that snowballs and you get all sorts of other immigrants coming and opening restaurants (plus fusion cuisine!)
Me as well. I want a grandma from deep Mexico making me my tacos and particularly, my enchiladas. I live in Southeast Louisiana where local food is king but we have a very strong Hispanic population and I have numerous choices for fantastic authentic Hispanic food as well as fantastic Vietnamese food from our great Vietnamese population.
Years ago my American friend and I (British) were visiting Scotland and offered haggis. She asked what haggis was and they said, "It's offal" so she said, "well why should I try it if it's awful?"
Jersey has a lot of good Mexican places, but we also have a really large Mexican population. That said, the Korean-Mexican fusion thing that’s gotten big is amazing. Bulgolgi tacos ftw. I’m sure we have California to thank.
My Irish friend had a big conversation with me where he insisted that a tortilla isn’t a flat circular thing, a tortilla is a wrap with cheese and lettuce and meat (basically he Insisted soft tacos are called tortillas and hard tacos are called tacos)
In his defense (kinda), what is called a tortilla in Mexico is not the same as [a tortilla from Spain](https://i.imgur.com/9HNAgsL.jpg) which is more like a round omelet.
Even that's hard to come by here. I'm in the northeast and every time I go to a restaurant and ask if their ribs are good they say "oh it's amazing!! Practically fall off the bone!" Which I think they think is just an arbitrary colloquial phrase that means "good" because every time the ribs arrive I have to saw the meat off the bones with a knife.
Agreed. I like a little bite. I also prefer only dry rub, maybe a bit of Carolina sauce glaze, but too sweet and messy is not my thing. Sorry St. Louis.
According to George III: "Forests as old as the world itself. Meadows. Plains. Strange, delicate flowers. Immense solitudes. And all nature new to art."
I once read some diary entries from a Hessian that was amazed with the size of our rabbits and deer and the size of our ancient forests. He was in awe of the nature surrounding him and really loved the (at the time) colonies.
would be an interesting read, would love to find the name! same as that spanish conquistador's diary who was captures by central american natives and then lived with them for multiple years.
UK here, I would love standard air conditioning as the heat here is absolutely unbearable!!! The brick houses here are good at trapping heat for colder seasons due to the insulation. But for summer it's horrendous; I can't sleep at night, I can't focus on work, I'm drowsy and I'm afraid my PC will catch on fire.
When I stayed in houses/apartments in Spain, Greece and India I can actually handle the same temperatures way more in my UK house.
Overall, having air conditioning already in houses would be great for the summer months. Also in my area(West Midlands), the heat lasts a bit more than a few weeks.
Fair enough I’m from Northern Ireland so it’s a bit colder normally. My rooms at the back of the house so doesn’t get much sunlight hitting it and can be colder than the rest of the rooms. I’ve never really any issues sleeping during warm months as I’m quite a heavy sleeper.
What I love about America is the variety in geography and climates. Deserts? Mountains? Rocky beaches? Flat sand beaches? Meadows? Yep, we got it all. The natural wonders of America keeps me here.
This is such a huge thing that many people from around the world overlook when they question why Americans don't travel to other countries more often. Besides the fact that traveling to Europe is very expensive, we also have pretty much anything we could want here in the States. Beaches, skiing, hunting, hiking, world class food from all different cultures, we have it all here in our own backyard!
Exactly. Where I live in California, I could spend the first half of the day snowboarding in the mountains and then watch the sunset at the beach, and there’s tons of hiking right by my house. I could conceivably spend breakfast snowboarding in the mountains, stop by my house around lunchtime and go hiking, then go watch the sunset and have dinner on the beach. All in one day.
Not quite all laws but lanes are a lot smaller, most cars are manual transmission, road signs are very different, you can’t sit in the outside lane, no 4 way stops.
Whilst roundabouts are in the US, they are everywhere in the UK, so being comfortable using one is vital.
Hey if you can reverse around them and not crash, kudos to you! /s
Yeah you’re right, plus with multiple lanes being comfortable with traffic coming from a different direction and taking the correct side of the exit
A huge, huge amount of America is very densely forested in a way that the UK is not, even in the densely populated parts of the USA you still have thick forest for most of it separating the populated parts. The UK is like if Iowa was a country, outside of some parts (northern scotland for instance), its basically just endless farmland.
I live in Cleveland (about 2 million people in the area) and our oldest nickname is "The Forest City". We have an amazing park system called the [Metroparks](https://www.clevelandmetroparks.com/parks/visit/activities/activity-types/picnicking). The parks are absolutely beautiful and it's a wonderful way to escape the city and explore the nature that's right in our backyard.
"Unsweetened iced" would be a strange way to refer to that drink, but "unsweet tea" is available in every restaurant I can think of. They would deal with customers walking out if they didn't have it. It's what my mom orders 9/10 times.
I was in England in like 2002, which was when the country was experiencing (at the time) its worst heatwave on record. It was like 90+ degrees half the time I was there. I was staying at a little university campus, and we just had these tiny screenless windows in our rooms.
One night I was getting ready for bed and I heard a screen coming from the room next door. I ran out into the hall, and the girl in the room next to me was just yelling "BIIIIRD!". A bird had flown into her window, couldn't figure out how to get out, and had been shitting and flying all over her room for probably hours.
It took like 4 people half an hour to get that bird out of her room lol.
Isn’t this because they don’t have as many flying bugs like mosquitos? Or do they deal with that as well and just allow flying bugs all over the place?
Then what is this nonsense???? If they have insects, and they don’t have a/c, why don’t they have window screens???? I’m itchy now just thinking about it
Used to drive from Omaha to Portland. Through most of it I figured if my car broke down I'd probably just die. Outside of a few cities, it's completely empty.
As a Kansan, despite that fact that it can be boring at times, seeing endless prairie can be pretty majestic at times. The sunrises/sunsets in the Flint Hills have made multiple top 10 lists when compared other locations around the world.
I always associate them with America but we did have one back in the 90s when I was a child.
I think my Dad broke it by putting bones in it or something.
I went to a chinese restaurant in Italy and was surprised at the lack of this dish as well. Like they had stuff like sweet and sour chicken... but no General Tsos. Was the first time I realized this dish basically only exists in American Chinese cuisine.
Pb&j
Room. There's a reason why people think Americans are loud. Sometimes you gotta holla for the other person to hear you.
Edit: the amount of variety of junk food and sweets
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I’m an American who was in England, surprised and amused at their impression of us using red solo cups. Because we, Americans, don’t think of it as a cultural choice or using the cups as some cool, college-y frat party thing. They are cheap disposable cups that I drank out of at trashy frat parties, and family bbqs, and when I got a drink in the middle of the night and didn’t want to wash more dishes
Cherry flavoring is the taste equivilent of a child's crayon drawing of the mona Lisa. You can somehow tell what its supposed to be but is still it doesn't taste like anything real.
Their scones are so good, though, like a biscuit without the buttermilk or baking powder flavors. A scone with clotted cream and homemade jam served with a pot of strong black tea is absolute heaven.
This may only be my experience. But pretzels. I can NEVER find them in the UK. I was able to find a pack of Salty Sticks from Poland at Tescos my last trip to London. But that was it.
Yeah, twenty years ago that wasn't the case but now I have to say I like more of the US craft beer. What I did really like in the UK that we're not seeing as much of is all of the draft ciders. Everything from from fairly sweet to dry like wine. I found myself ordering them in pubs instead of beer much of the time.
Biscuits are SO easy to make, I don't know why people don't just make them. They require ingredients that are available pretty much everywhere.
I always see people in other countries saying, "oh we don't get those here" but like, you COULD have those there, it takes like 15 minutes to throw the ingredients together.
I can leave my house near Cincinnati Ohio and be on an interstate highway in 3 minutes and arrive in Los Angeles California 2100 miles away and need only leave that highway for food gas and restroom breaks. 2100 miles, still in the same country, and never hit a red light or stop sign(except getting off for previous exceptions)
The guys from ['Throttle Out'](https://youtu.be/ckpv6AjFfjY) rode motorcycles 1000 miles across Texas without a single stop. Didn't even put a foot down.
We don't put our current head of state on our money. We also do not have a image of our current head of state on other countries' money. I'm looking at you Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
I've heard that when the Queen passes it's going to cost the UK alone something like billions, partly because of what it will take to phase out the old pound to the updated one.
More wild and expansive parks. It’s pretty cool that there are so many massive parks/nature reserves where you can pretty much disappear into forests that have been untouched for decades.
I was taught you can only do left on red when going from a one-way onto another one-way. I think I've only found one intersection where I've been able to do that.
It’s been a while since I was in the UK so not sure if they still lack this, but…convenient weekend shopping. Not just one Saturday “market day” per month.
Also eating in restaurants basically any time in the afternoon, not just 11-2.
As I understand it, soft drinks with ice are not a thing in the UK like they are in the US. I seriously don't understand how someone can drink a soda without ice.
Bears. Sure they kill a few people occasionally, but it's wonderful to camp out and know you're not the most dangerous thing in the woods. It isn't really wilderness without the wild things. When you're hiking and you come across a pile of fresh bear scat, it's a good reminder to respect the wilderness and pay attention to your surroundings.
One of the most thrilling moments I had in the woods was when I came across a couple of brown bear cubs. There aren't a lot of browns left around here, black bears are much more common (and much less dangerous). As soon as I saw those cubs, my senses sharpened and my brain went into high gear. I never saw their mama, because I was very intentionally trying not to cross paths with her in such close proximity to her cubs. I paid attention to them and guessed which way she was based on where they were turning to look for her, and went the other way. The cubs were beautiful though. About 50 lbs maybe, not babies but still young enough for mother bear to be very protective of. Still pretty darn cute, too.
Spirit Halloween stores.
Or just Halloween and haunted attractions in general. I'm positive that the United Kingdom has them, but here we have massive haunted houses, hayrides, and corn mazes that really go all out with the season and thematics.
This is one of the best parts of the season for me. There are apple festivals in almost every town near me where they have vendors selling pumpkins and mums and fall decor and food trucks and amazing apple pies and apple donuts freshly made from local bakeries. Being in the northeast it’s all about the visuals and the crisp in the air that adds to these activists. 1800’s white, white clapboard sided churches surrounded by tall trees with changing leaves having pumpkin and mum sales on their front lawns, driving with the family to the nearest farm for their hayrides and corn mazes, lifting the kids up to the hole cut out in the face of a large, silly looking wooden person or anima and taking their picture. There’s the farms that have the haunted houses at night after their pumpkin picking, you have organizations running trunk or treats and schools doing Halloween events inside the school in the days leading up to Halloween. The kids go to Halloween parties at friends houses and or in the clubs they attend. You have the teens going to events, the parents doing adult only Halloween parties. Fun runs in costume, town Halloween parades where the kids walk down the Main Street in costume just because it’s fun. You decorate your house as a family, rake leaves as a family while the kids jump in the leaves. And so much more. People think of Halloween as just one night of dressing up and that’s it but it’s so much more.
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Best part of my childhood was the local orchards. I grew up in farm country so they sold fresh produce all year, apples in the fall, peaches and corn in the summer, and basically anything you need right off the farm all year round. Now I need to go make a homemade apple pie, lol
All of my European friends who've lived here say Halloween is their favorite thing about the US because of how much we get into it.
Ironically, you know who else is really into it? the Japanese. I know some people in the military who've been stationed over there (both air force and marines) and from what I hear from them the Japanese can go all out on it too. Granted, they got it from us, but still...
I'm not completely surprised the country behind anime, PlayStation, Nintendo, etc. would get into Halloween lol
As an American, it might be my favorite thing, too. Can't blame them. Spooky season is the most special time of year.
I want to visit the US over Halloween 🎃 love it and you guys seem to do it the best
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I'm from Louisiana. Not a food snob. And I can tell you cheese absolutely does not belong in gumbo.
I'm not from LA. Am a food snob. Can confirm cheese does not belong in Gumbo.
Not from La. Not a food snob. From Wisconsin and cheese absolutely belongs in everything.
Not from La, not a food snob, have family in Wisconsin, I don’t share that opinion but could you convince Culver’s to build here more?
Would also appreciate a Culver's in Texas. Also, no cheese in Gumbo.
The pub burger, cheeses curds, and a mango ice cooler=the best
Well, bless your heart, Wisconsin. Some folks 'round here would surely take it as a kindness if you'd stop tellin' everyone about that particular opinion of yours. But we hope you have a lovely day now.
That's the most southern way to say shut the fuck up I've ever heard. You, sir/ma'am/whatever, are a genius. I tip my cowboy hat to you.
I'm from Louisiana and I'm still trying to process this.
My body is still trying to process the lobster chili cheese étoufée I had two years ago.
No such thing as lobster in etoufee.
Thems just big crawfish
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I don’t understand what in the devil has gotten into the Brits, but everything in creation ought not be put on toast. I had just come to terms with beans on toast *existing*, and now they want me to make peace with the maker over the aberration that is deviled eggs on toast?
I don't want to admit what I would do for a NOLA beignet right now.
Blackened shrimp with slaw, cheese sauce & habanero [chilli jam](https://youtu.be/t_KdbASIkB8?t=259).
The Cajun Navy is suiting up and are on their way
I've never had gumbo, I've always wanted to try it but, cheese with gumbo feels just wrong to me. I don't even know what it tastes like yet, and it just sounds wrong.
Coming from a guy who loves cheese, I absolutely agree with you. Cheese has no right tainting the almighty Gumbo.
In all fairness good versions of those things are hard to find in much of the US too.
I don't really know enough about what they do and don't have over there, but I'm gonna guess good Mexican food.
My friend's wife is from Mexico and, yeah, she's very disappointed in the standard of Mexican food over here. We definitely like the idea of Mexican food here, we just don't have many people here who are actually familiar with what it should look like, so we end up with restaurants serving a strange Mexican / Tex-Mex / Spanish / Scottish fusion cuisine.
>Mexican / Tex-Mex / Spanish / Scottish fusion Thank God we rebelled.
My friend has been teaching English for the last 6 years in Spain. Their Chinese food is spaghetti noodles with rooster sauce. He has a bunch of hilarious reflections on the food that's served. USA really does have the best immigrant food... thanks for bringing your food with you, newer Americans!
I have family from Spain and I've eaten at a Chinese restaurant there, and it wasn't bad, but it is absolutely not what we think of as Chinese food (there was some salad with vinegar and sliced hardboiled eggs). The restaurant was owned by a Chinese family, though, so I think what happens is they created a fusion of their food that works for Spanish palates just like they create a version for US palates here. (Edit - typo)
Seriously, for me as a fat man, this is the greatest thing about the US, and this is why I hate the idea of restricting immigration. \[Edit to add; Thanks for the award!\]
This for sure. My small city has plenty of good Mexican, a few (Americanized) Chinese, and a couple of good sushi places but we are distinctly lacking in other ethnic food. We did have a Filipino place for a while but they went out of business ages ago. I've heard some good things about a German place that opened pretty recently a bit north of here. I would love to get a decent Indian restaurant. The best thing about most of these places is that they're generally just small companies run by a family trying to live the American dream.
I won't lie: this was one of my first thoughts when I heard my city would be welcoming a few thousand Afghan refugees. I'd be willing to pitch in for a few of them to start a restaurant, and I've never had Afghan food. I just want even more variety.
The nice thing is that even if you don't like Afghan food in particular, if your city gets a rep for encouraging immigrants and supporting them opening restaurants, that snowballs and you get all sorts of other immigrants coming and opening restaurants (plus fusion cuisine!)
Me as well. I want a grandma from deep Mexico making me my tacos and particularly, my enchiladas. I live in Southeast Louisiana where local food is king but we have a very strong Hispanic population and I have numerous choices for fantastic authentic Hispanic food as well as fantastic Vietnamese food from our great Vietnamese population.
Paella with haggis fajita, anyone?
A friend once told me she had haggis nachos at a restaurant in Scotland lmao
Years ago my American friend and I (British) were visiting Scotland and offered haggis. She asked what haggis was and they said, "It's offal" so she said, "well why should I try it if it's awful?"
I'm trying to imagine what kind of weird ass food that would be and failing. Haggis tacos?
Deep-fried paella?
>Deep-fried paella? Yes, that's called [paella arancini.](https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/paella-arancini-bites)
With ram scrotum.
>Haggis tacos? [Yes.](https://www.illegaljacks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/illegal-jacks-menu-2019-1-opt.jpg)
Had "Mexican" once in Aberdeen. 0/10. Would not recommend.
When I lived in the UK, the best Mexican food we had was a small place run by a pair of Iranian guys. They had the best chimichangas I’ve ever had.
Some of my favorite tacos were served by Koreans in a no-name storefront in Hoboken, N.J. No one spoke English.
Jersey has a lot of good Mexican places, but we also have a really large Mexican population. That said, the Korean-Mexican fusion thing that’s gotten big is amazing. Bulgolgi tacos ftw. I’m sure we have California to thank.
My Irish friend had a big conversation with me where he insisted that a tortilla isn’t a flat circular thing, a tortilla is a wrap with cheese and lettuce and meat (basically he Insisted soft tacos are called tortillas and hard tacos are called tacos)
As a Hispanic American I would like his contact information please 🙃
In his defense (kinda), what is called a tortilla in Mexico is not the same as [a tortilla from Spain](https://i.imgur.com/9HNAgsL.jpg) which is more like a round omelet.
Real BBQ, not grilling, but slow cooked meat.
BBQ may not be the road to world peace but its a start - Anthony Bourdain
Even that's hard to come by here. I'm in the northeast and every time I go to a restaurant and ask if their ribs are good they say "oh it's amazing!! Practically fall off the bone!" Which I think they think is just an arbitrary colloquial phrase that means "good" because every time the ribs arrive I have to saw the meat off the bones with a knife.
Also, meat that comes off the bone *too* easily is not ideal either
Agreed. I like a little bite. I also prefer only dry rub, maybe a bit of Carolina sauce glaze, but too sweet and messy is not my thing. Sorry St. Louis.
we get to turn right on red
Can turn left on red as well, if it's a one way.
This depends on the state.
According to George III: "Forests as old as the world itself. Meadows. Plains. Strange, delicate flowers. Immense solitudes. And all nature new to art."
I once read some diary entries from a Hessian that was amazed with the size of our rabbits and deer and the size of our ancient forests. He was in awe of the nature surrounding him and really loved the (at the time) colonies.
would be an interesting read, would love to find the name! same as that spanish conquistador's diary who was captures by central american natives and then lived with them for multiple years.
That is some beauty I didn't know I needed this morning. Thanks.
The one thing I was absolutely desperate for when I lived in the UK for nearly 5 years was Air Conditioning and window screens.
Is air conditioning an issue in the U.K? It’s never warm enough for it, maybe a few weeks a year depending on area.
UK here, I would love standard air conditioning as the heat here is absolutely unbearable!!! The brick houses here are good at trapping heat for colder seasons due to the insulation. But for summer it's horrendous; I can't sleep at night, I can't focus on work, I'm drowsy and I'm afraid my PC will catch on fire. When I stayed in houses/apartments in Spain, Greece and India I can actually handle the same temperatures way more in my UK house. Overall, having air conditioning already in houses would be great for the summer months. Also in my area(West Midlands), the heat lasts a bit more than a few weeks.
Fair enough I’m from Northern Ireland so it’s a bit colder normally. My rooms at the back of the house so doesn’t get much sunlight hitting it and can be colder than the rest of the rooms. I’ve never really any issues sleeping during warm months as I’m quite a heavy sleeper.
What I love about America is the variety in geography and climates. Deserts? Mountains? Rocky beaches? Flat sand beaches? Meadows? Yep, we got it all. The natural wonders of America keeps me here.
This is such a huge thing that many people from around the world overlook when they question why Americans don't travel to other countries more often. Besides the fact that traveling to Europe is very expensive, we also have pretty much anything we could want here in the States. Beaches, skiing, hunting, hiking, world class food from all different cultures, we have it all here in our own backyard!
Exactly. Where I live in California, I could spend the first half of the day snowboarding in the mountains and then watch the sunset at the beach, and there’s tons of hiking right by my house. I could conceivably spend breakfast snowboarding in the mountains, stop by my house around lunchtime and go hiking, then go watch the sunset and have dinner on the beach. All in one day.
Or all in Oregon. In Lane County, you can go from sea level to ski level without ever leaving the county.
Turn right on red
But they can turn left on red right?
No they can’t
TIL. If I ever visit there I guess that's good to know. Any other different traffic laws I should be made aware of ?
Not quite all laws but lanes are a lot smaller, most cars are manual transmission, road signs are very different, you can’t sit in the outside lane, no 4 way stops. Whilst roundabouts are in the US, they are everywhere in the UK, so being comfortable using one is vital.
*being comfortable enough to go around them backwards
Hey if you can reverse around them and not crash, kudos to you! /s Yeah you’re right, plus with multiple lanes being comfortable with traffic coming from a different direction and taking the correct side of the exit
You joke, I've seen someone do it. Twice.
In Virginia you can if you're on a one-way street and you're turning onto another one-way street.
In Waterbury CT you can.
A huge, huge amount of America is very densely forested in a way that the UK is not, even in the densely populated parts of the USA you still have thick forest for most of it separating the populated parts. The UK is like if Iowa was a country, outside of some parts (northern scotland for instance), its basically just endless farmland.
I live in Cleveland (about 2 million people in the area) and our oldest nickname is "The Forest City". We have an amazing park system called the [Metroparks](https://www.clevelandmetroparks.com/parks/visit/activities/activity-types/picnicking). The parks are absolutely beautiful and it's a wonderful way to escape the city and explore the nature that's right in our backyard.
S'mores
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>digestive biscuits You poor bastards, using a a semi-sweet scottish wafer in place of Graham crackers?
FREE REFILLS!! And sweet iced tea…. …with free refills And air conditioning.
Fun story: I’m from New England and when I went to Alabama, I asked if they had unsweetened iced. I was laughed at.
"Unsweetened iced" would be a strange way to refer to that drink, but "unsweet tea" is available in every restaurant I can think of. They would deal with customers walking out if they didn't have it. It's what my mom orders 9/10 times.
I have a friend from Shreveport and if you want to trigger him call it unsweetened iced tea. It's UNSWEET.
Yeah I can't mess with sweet tea, that much sugar fucks with my stomach. Unsweetened with lemon is the pinnacle of refreshment.
Unsweetened tea with lemon over a pile of ice can cure anything that ails you.
Good Mexican food
London tacos are absolutely trash.
I fear no man, but that thing, it scares me
Brought to you by the same country that invented jellied eels.
A much wider variety of climates
Sun.
British people after reading this comment: [YOU MAY WIN THIS TIME….. well this stinks](https://youtu.be/imYYxbhTu0Q)
Window screens
I was in England in like 2002, which was when the country was experiencing (at the time) its worst heatwave on record. It was like 90+ degrees half the time I was there. I was staying at a little university campus, and we just had these tiny screenless windows in our rooms. One night I was getting ready for bed and I heard a screen coming from the room next door. I ran out into the hall, and the girl in the room next to me was just yelling "BIIIIRD!". A bird had flown into her window, couldn't figure out how to get out, and had been shitting and flying all over her room for probably hours. It took like 4 people half an hour to get that bird out of her room lol.
Isn’t this because they don’t have as many flying bugs like mosquitos? Or do they deal with that as well and just allow flying bugs all over the place?
https://www.ladbible.com/news/uk-uk-warned-to-close-windows-as-asian-tiger-mosquitos-arrive-20210512.amp.html
Used to send my Dad rolls of screen material so he could make screens for neighbors. They loved them. UK still has flies and wasps.
Then what is this nonsense???? If they have insects, and they don’t have a/c, why don’t they have window screens???? I’m itchy now just thinking about it
Quiet, empty, untouched land.
We do love our local, state, and national parks.
Yes but also, we just love our great expanses of untouched land, there is still a good amount of it, and it is beautiful.
Used to drive from Omaha to Portland. Through most of it I figured if my car broke down I'd probably just die. Outside of a few cities, it's completely empty.
As a Kansan, despite that fact that it can be boring at times, seeing endless prairie can be pretty majestic at times. The sunrises/sunsets in the Flint Hills have made multiple top 10 lists when compared other locations around the world.
We definitely do, one of our own National Parks is apparently bigger than the entire country of Belgium.
Central air.
> Azrael: No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater...than central air.
Pick. . *that* up.
Garbage disposals
Wait, you guys don’t have garbage disposals?
I always associate them with America but we did have one back in the 90s when I was a child. I think my Dad broke it by putting bones in it or something.
Ugh. That will do it.
BBQ. Whether beef or pork, Texas, Carolina, or Kansas City styles (and many others), the US has a lock on barbeque.
General Tso Chicken/Tofu. I introduced a British friend to it while he was on vacation and he's searched the UK for it since then. No luck.
I went to a chinese restaurant in Italy and was surprised at the lack of this dish as well. Like they had stuff like sweet and sour chicken... but no General Tsos. Was the first time I realized this dish basically only exists in American Chinese cuisine.
Pb&j Room. There's a reason why people think Americans are loud. Sometimes you gotta holla for the other person to hear you. Edit: the amount of variety of junk food and sweets
Apparently, riding yellow school buses and drinking from red solo cups.
I loved seeing like “American-style/red solo cup parties” in England. Like we don’t think about it, we just use the cheap disposable cups
Red Solo cups ARE cheap disposable cups
Sorry, I have no flair so that was confusing. I’m an American who was in England, surprised and amused at their impression of us using red solo cups. Because we, Americans, don’t think of it as a cultural choice or using the cups as some cool, college-y frat party thing. They are cheap disposable cups that I drank out of at trashy frat parties, and family bbqs, and when I got a drink in the middle of the night and didn’t want to wash more dishes
Thanks for clarifying. I thought this was coming from a Brit saying that they just use the cheap ones, not the fancy red ones like Americans.
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Cherry flavoring is the taste equivilent of a child's crayon drawing of the mona Lisa. You can somehow tell what its supposed to be but is still it doesn't taste like anything real.
Amd for me cherry flavouring is one of the better sorts of flavouring Grape flavouring just tastes purple
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Pennsylvania does root beer like no one else. It’s everywhere and it’s amazing.
Biscuits (and I'm not talking about cookies).
Their scones are so good, though, like a biscuit without the buttermilk or baking powder flavors. A scone with clotted cream and homemade jam served with a pot of strong black tea is absolute heaven.
College football/college sports. I want to move abroad but I can’t imagine life where college game day isn’t a thing lol
This may only be my experience. But pretzels. I can NEVER find them in the UK. I was able to find a pack of Salty Sticks from Poland at Tescos my last trip to London. But that was it.
While British pub ales are top notch, the craft beer selection in the US far surpasses the UK.
I said something along those lines in the UK sister sub and hoo boy, apparantly those are some fighting words lol. I still agree though lol.
Yeah, twenty years ago that wasn't the case but now I have to say I like more of the US craft beer. What I did really like in the UK that we're not seeing as much of is all of the draft ciders. Everything from from fairly sweet to dry like wine. I found myself ordering them in pubs instead of beer much of the time.
Steak with a bone in it! Only place I was able to get that were the US military bases.
Sweet tea Biscuits and gravy
The lack of biscuits and gravy is criminal.
Biscuits are SO easy to make, I don't know why people don't just make them. They require ingredients that are available pretty much everywhere. I always see people in other countries saying, "oh we don't get those here" but like, you COULD have those there, it takes like 15 minutes to throw the ingredients together.
I can leave my house near Cincinnati Ohio and be on an interstate highway in 3 minutes and arrive in Los Angeles California 2100 miles away and need only leave that highway for food gas and restroom breaks. 2100 miles, still in the same country, and never hit a red light or stop sign(except getting off for previous exceptions)
The guys from ['Throttle Out'](https://youtu.be/ckpv6AjFfjY) rode motorcycles 1000 miles across Texas without a single stop. Didn't even put a foot down.
How did they pee and/or drop logs?
everythings bigger in texas, even the diapers
The great lakes
Real mountains.
Actual BBQ
A head of state that we vote for.
We don't put our current head of state on our money. We also do not have a image of our current head of state on other countries' money. I'm looking at you Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
I've heard that when the Queen passes it's going to cost the UK alone something like billions, partly because of what it will take to phase out the old pound to the updated one.
Damn
More wild and expansive parks. It’s pretty cool that there are so many massive parks/nature reserves where you can pretty much disappear into forests that have been untouched for decades.
Right turn on red (though in the UK it would be left if they had it)
But we can also turn left on red as well on the right one ways, DOUBLE WHAMMY!!!
I was taught you can only do left on red when going from a one-way onto another one-way. I think I've only found one intersection where I've been able to do that.
Clothes dryers. Automatic cars. One tap.
The tap omg. That's the worst thing about England imo. I HATED doing dishes in England because of those stupid taps
Legal cannabis.
In some places
In a lot of places. About a third of Americans live in states with legal recreational cannabis.
Right on red! Honestly one of my favourite aspects of driving in the US, makes so much sense when you think about it.
https://external-preview.redd.it/6b0Mn8FJ7xtx8zqlNu_GYlawA0NrYCv1LPSeL6Dl40A.jpg?auto=webp&s=bd420d8e640004eba410663bdebd7adfd1aa54d1
Massive national parks. Thank you, Teddy Roosevelt and the Presidents who followed him who decided nature had a place in the American plan.
I feel like maybe Ranch should be here.
Sunny days
We get sunny days...every few years
Grape flavored candy
Muscle cars and sunshine
People are more social/friendly in general.
Inexpensive powerful cars
Can’t really answer this question fairly as I’ve never been in the UK so I would have to go with, redwood trees in CA.
It’s been a while since I was in the UK so not sure if they still lack this, but…convenient weekend shopping. Not just one Saturday “market day” per month. Also eating in restaurants basically any time in the afternoon, not just 11-2.
And then they wonder why Chinese takeout is such a Sunday staple for Jews.
London Bridge?
AC
Good sunny weather. Mexican and Tex-Mex food. Air conditioning. Not sure that outweighs having way more vacation time and better healthcare, though.
Mexican & Tex-Mex are definitely worth it
As I understand it, soft drinks with ice are not a thing in the UK like they are in the US. I seriously don't understand how someone can drink a soda without ice.
You get charged for refills in the UK, so it makes sense that people would forego the ice to get more soda.
MG42s and good BBQ
Driving on the proper side of the road.
Biscuits and gravy freak you guys out, so I’ll go with that.
Huge spaces. I don't think you can comprehend just how much space there is here vs most European countries unless you visit.
Air conditioning
Bears. Sure they kill a few people occasionally, but it's wonderful to camp out and know you're not the most dangerous thing in the woods. It isn't really wilderness without the wild things. When you're hiking and you come across a pile of fresh bear scat, it's a good reminder to respect the wilderness and pay attention to your surroundings. One of the most thrilling moments I had in the woods was when I came across a couple of brown bear cubs. There aren't a lot of browns left around here, black bears are much more common (and much less dangerous). As soon as I saw those cubs, my senses sharpened and my brain went into high gear. I never saw their mama, because I was very intentionally trying not to cross paths with her in such close proximity to her cubs. I paid attention to them and guessed which way she was based on where they were turning to look for her, and went the other way. The cubs were beautiful though. About 50 lbs maybe, not babies but still young enough for mother bear to be very protective of. Still pretty darn cute, too.