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⌈ Secret Post #3503 ⌋

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Comments

Culture shock

[(Anonymous)]

talk about weird culture things that have surprised you

-water costs money when you go out to eat

Re: Culture shock

[(Anonymous)]

Everyone has guns, and they expect you to pay twice for things, and they don't include the tax in prices automatically, and people are really loud and rude, and they drive on the wrong side of the road, and there is no healthcare for poor people.

Re: Culture shock

[(Anonymous)]

paying for chips in salsa in canada and alaska. it was surprising to me because I've never been charged for chips and salsa in a mexican restaurant before

Re: Culture shock

[(Anonymous)]

honestly I'd be so outraged

Re: Culture shock

[herpymcderp]

What. What.

WHERE!?

This is actually an outrage; I have never encountered this in Canada.

Re: Culture shock

[philstar22]

One of the weirdest things to me was that in Croatia when we went out to eat we specifically had to ask for water without bubbles. Sparkling water was the norm there.

One of the weirdest things about the US coming back after growing up in the Philippines was the number of choices in stores. It was very overwhelming at first.

Re: Culture shock

[(Anonymous)]

One of the weirdest things to me was that in Croatia when we went out to eat we specifically had to ask for water without bubbles. Sparkling water was the norm there.

I've heard from a couple of people that Spain is the same way, so it might be a european thing (well, certain regions of europe anyway)

Re: Culture shock

[(Anonymous)]

I've been told that Phillippines culture associates spaghetti with fast food restaurants and really little kids. I find this confusing.

Re: Culture shock

[(Anonymous)]

Salt and sauce with your fish and chips instead of salt and vinegar.

Re: Culture shock

[morieris]

What kind of...sauce?

Re: Culture shock

[(Anonymous)]

YES on the water costs money thing. I was in Amsterdam on a school trip, and I'd spent all my money when my Dutch teacher and some friends wanted to have cake/coffee. I just asked for a water and I was shocked they charged me... luckily, my teacher paid for it. :-/

My culture shock - eggs are not refrigerated in Asia or Europe. (they are in the US)

Re: Culture shock

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, the egg thing. In Europe they don't put eggs through industrial powerwashers before delivering them to stores (that is why sometimes they still have chicken poop on the shell), so the egg's own natural protective coating is intact and there is no need to refrigerate as they'll naturally stay fresh. Once you strip that natural coating off (which makes them look neater because it removes the chicken poop) the eggs have no barrier to bacteria and contaminates so must be refrigerated.

Re: Culture shock

[(Anonymous)]

Um I live in Northern Europe and we refrigerate our eggs, tyvm.

Re: Culture shock

[(Anonymous)]

I live in Europe and...we DO refrigerate eggs? And it's not that they're washed or anything like anon above said, they're with chicken poop and everything on them, but we still refrigerate them. And I personally don't know anyone who doesn't.

Re: Culture shock

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not sure if this is a city thing (someone told me they encountered it in NYC once?) or a European thing, but being charged to use a "public" restroom.

Re: Culture shock

[(Anonymous)]

I encountered that in Belize once.

I've never been to New York, but I went to college in Boston and you weren't likely to find a bathroom you could use downtown without buying something. There just weren't public restrooms.

Re: Culture shock

[shortysc22]

I've never paid for one in NYC. It really varies in Europe as far as I've found.

Re: Culture shock

[(Anonymous)]

It used to be the norm in the US--hence the old rhyme

Here I sit all brokenhearted
Paid a nickel to shit and only farted

Back in the day, many restrooms also had an attendant who would hand people towels and such, and whom you were expected to tip.

Re: Culture shock

[(Anonymous)]

Cemeteries without trees. Over here, people are essentially buried into forests, so when I see all those wide open areas in other countries, thay just feel so desolate.

Re: Culture shock

[(Anonymous)]

How different America portrays itself in its own media. Especially when it comes to schools. (Do... American film/show writers not attend American schools?) I came to America as a teen and was expecting something completely different.

Also, the size of American grocery stores.

Re: Culture shock

[sparrow_lately]

I've said before, but repressed/abused gay New England girl in SoCal = weird

Re: Culture shock

[(Anonymous)]

Going to school and having to wear a uniform, eating lunch in your classroom instead of a cafeteria, and singing overtly religious Christmas carols in music class.

Re: Culture shock

[lb_lee]

The complete fixation on home ownership.

Also people who didn't grow up with homecoming mums. Seriously, how did you guys NOT have that quintessential contraption of plastic and ribbon as a teenager? (I mean, I don't expect it outside the US, but somehow I never realized how local they were.)

disclaimer: I used to wait tables

[(Anonymous)]

When I worked in a restaurant and a cafe/bar (UK, some other parts of Europe), if somebody asked for water, we were ALWAYS instructed to give them bottled water (sometimes it came from a hose, but it was still the "good stuff"). Which obviously costs.
But if customers specifically request TAP water, it's free of charge.

So the next time you order water in an unfamiliar place, make sure to order tap water! The tap water isn't actually regular tap water. It's very clean so bartenders/kitchen workers can wash their hands and dishes in it if needed. So don't worry about germs.

Re: Culture shock

[(Anonymous)]

I'm an American woman and a Pakistani guy asked why I wasn't married shortly after meeting me. I calmly told him that was considered an inappropriate thing to ask in the US. His immediate response was to ask me again. :(