Crazy American

Hello Dawnald. How dare you spam my inbox with your discussions! I've never asked for anything that's been something else but my sister got laughed at in Louisville when she asked where she could get some f@gs...old I know but that's all that I could come up with

Maybe it has to do with their neutrality?! LOL Here is America, our cheese is a bit more willing to take a stand. American cheese is called American cheese here! LOL

That sounds like the guy who went to Brazil then asked for some Brazil nuts and when he got his nuts he looked at them and said..Hey these aren't Brazilian nuts. The guy looked at him and said all nuts in Brazil are considered Brazilian nuts. My sister dated a guy from Scotland for a time..and when we all went to Denny's and he asked for vinegar and chips the waitress brought him vinegar chips and he was like no mam this isn't what I want..and explained to her exactly..then he says we are crazy..but hey we aren't the ones calling french fries chips..lol..

great story! I was in Zurich at one time too, but we weren't shopping at food stores, we did get watches tho... ANYWAY... While there we discovered fondue.... BRING it ON!!!

Crazy, crazy Americans! When will they every learn? ;-) I haven't really done anything like that, but as my German is rather Austrian I've mixed up something some times. For example when I was shopping coke and mineral water when visiting a friend in Aachen, and the cashier asked if I wanted "eine Tüte". I just stared at her, as there's no way I could fit 4*1.5 liter bottles into what I think "eine Tüte" is. In Austria it is what you get ice-cream in! In Germany (north of Bavaria maybe) it's a plastic bag. And it took ages before I realized that Marillen and Aprikosen is the same thing. We say aprikos in Norwegian, but I have never eaten them here, so I assumed they were something else thatn the Austrian Marillen. I once asked my Scottish flatmate in Vienna if she wanted "Palatschinken" and got a horrified "But I'm a vegetarian!" back. But, as there's not Schinken in Palatschinken, that was no problem ;-) (for those who didn't go to German classes: Schinken = ham, Palatschinken = pancakes, Pfannkuchen in Germany)

This reminds me about a salad wich combines peas, pieces of potatoes, carrots and ham and mayonnaise. In my country we call it "russian salad". Years ago I foun out that in Russia they call it "french salad" and the french call the same thing "macedonian salad".

I suppose along the same lines, although not food related, is when I went to Turkey with my partner a few years ago. We were in a market and there were about three local gentlemen talking to us. When they found out my name was "Allie", they literally fell about laughing because to them it's a boy's name! I suppose it would be spelled "Ali" to them, but they really did find the concept hilarious. I was really surprised that they did think it was so funny!

Did you ever went into a shop in your country, where your native language is spoken and when you went to the counter you would receive a response in another language? Twice? Yeah, happens a lot in my country, in the north-western regions because of some... "multi-cultural" influences. I'm not a nationalist, I actually hate what my people have done to my country but I expect to be treated as a citizen of this state, not as a foreigner.

No but I have had to discribe something that I didn't know what it was called. You know...that whatamathingy! So I probably didn't know what it was called in the first place! LOL

.........Am I on?...............ummmmmmmmmmm.............OK..............I accidently put my response in AutumnGold's response...................OK..........wait.......wait..................Speaking of cheese.................no........it don't work twice................I got nothing............

i don't remember any thing like that happened to me. as i do make research online what or how it is called before buying something new like some imported products that i have not tried before. like some imported herbs or other ingredients. but i remember when i was young or a kid. when i go out to buy softdrinks, pepsi was the number softdrinks back then here in the philippines and not coke, and i will say pepsi then they will give me pepsi then i will say not pepsi but the other brand. i thought pepsi means softdrinks. so pepsi is just a brand and does not refer to all softdrinks. i was expecting they will ask me what kind of pepsi. LOL. the same goes for a toothpaste. i will say colgate when i actually mean close up. we have small stores in the philippines where we can buy items like one item at a time. like any house here can just open a mini store in front of the house. so there is where we usually buy things we need only to buy one item. but for bulk items we got to groceries . anywayss, i was not the only having that mistake. almost all kids of my age back then say the same things as we were not aware of that yet. and when i was kid in the 1980's i think that even some young adults back then made that kind of mistake also. as maybe they were not aware of the word toothpaste or softdrinks like i didn't back when i was small as english is not our first language and we didn't have a word for that in our own language. so if i didn't know the word for it i though the brand name is the proper name for it that is why kids usually use the brand name when referring to softdrinks and toothpaste though it is not what actually they wanted to buy.

Oh yes! Big time. For perhaps 20 years or more, I did not eat a fish out here called dolphin. It took me that long to realise that they were not eating flipper

No. :) But it was funny and yeah, it made me smile! Bad Dawn you said? Well, its been bright, sunny dawn out here. :)

Dawny, it took you half an hour to get to the point. I got lost between zurich and europe. In any way, i did not find something like it. You will be the first to know, when i have trouble getting what i want as i know it. What are we resuming again? TATA.

Many countries have their own names for food invented by their citizens. Canada has "Beaver Tails. Beaver Tails are hand stretched deep fried pastries. No where else , (but in Canada) can you buy a Beaver Tail pastry!

Hee hee!! That's never happened to me (do you know I've never been to any other country other than Mexico?). But I do have related story (well, not really, but it's what it made me think of). We have some friends (and their cousins) who are technically "Thai", but they have lived in Laos, Cambodia, China and moved around from country to country as kids . . . and they say they have NO language mastered because of that. They speak English with an accent, but they couldn't even tell you what accent that is - ha ha. Anyways, we all went out to dinner one night at a Thai restaurant - and most of us had leftovers and needed a container. We told our friend's cousin to ask for a box for us . . . so in Thai (supposedly) he asked the waitress for a container - and she looked at him weird. Anyway, she came back and put 1 styrofoam cup in front of him. We just busted up laughing (maybe it's one of those things where you had to be there . . . ).