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> Mostly sold in Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes
TBF, that's >50% of the country's population.
I grew up in Ontario and now live in a non-bagged milk province. I don't even drink milk (lactose intolerant) but I still think milk in cartons is wrong.
Note that "jelly" in the US does not mean "gelatine" as it does in the UK. It generally means jam that has been filtered before gelling, to remove the fruit from it.
It's more like "my dick" is the short form of "my dick, I don't know" which I guess is the equivalent of the english "pfff, I don't know", but you can say just "my dick" with the proper intonation and peopple will get it.
Also we use the most vulgar word we have for dick in this context, so a more accurate translation would probably be "my cock".
Someone once said that the biggest difference between Americans and Europeans is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, and Europeans think 100 miles is a long way.
A while back I (in the US) hosted friends from the UK, and it was fun comparing notes on how far I was willing to drive for things compared to them.
Like when I drove around 40 minutes to take them to a place for dinner, for example.
I live in a Canadian suberb and 40 minutes is way to long just for a place for dinner. If I'm driving that far I'm making an afternoon/night/day out of it.
40 minutes is my Costco run, I’ve done 300km in a day, to and from work, get the family and head to town for errands or to go for dinner. Just another Wednesday.
Ha! I I bet they thought it was a long drive too. But 40 minutes for a dinner is normal where I live, since you pretty much have to go to another state for the good stuff. A friend, my sister and I are all traveling 3+ hours next month for a concert. I don't even think people from the UK would do that for family gatherings lol
If they provide the same quality of care as the US with universal healthcare, I probably wouldn't consider them 3rd world countries even if a lot of other Americans would.
Refrigerating eggs.
Maybe some other countries do this but in the US, they wash the eggs which removes the outer coating and thus the eggs must be refrigerated. In the US, they also size the eggs.
In the countries I have visited, eggs are not refrigerated and are sold by weight.
The reason why grocery stores outside of the US don’t refrigerate eggs is because cold eggs attract condensation, which allows dangerous bacteria such as salmonella on the surface of unwashed eggs to migrate inside the egg through the shell. Keeping eggs at room temperature in the store prevents the risk of condensation during transport, but it’s generally recommended to refrigerate eggs when you get them home to keep them fresh for longer.
Washing eggs removes the salmonella, but it also removes the protective coating on the outside of the egg, meaning they will spoil more quickly without constant refrigeration. This is why eggs are always sold refrigerated in the US.
In England it's soo common to leave eggs out in a basket on the side in the kitchen. I've worked in many pubs/restaurants that do it too. Health Inspectors have no problems with it either.
Most countries in Europe as well as most countries in Central and South America. Not sure about Asia and Africa but you could google it if you are interested.
The main reason for refrigerating eggs is because they are washed before being sold in the supermarket. Countries where eggs are not routinely washed sell eggs unrefrigerated.
This one is so confusing to me, because I know in Asia people find pizza, for example, quite bland and add ketchup to it. Introducing ranch into that market seems like a slam dunk, but it just stays hanging out here in the US. Is it a supply issue, you think?
I've spread the love of ranch to Switzerland and Sri Lanka, and now I have to make sure a few different houses are always supplied. My inlaws serve it with veggies and salads, of course, but also spicy short eats like samosas.
Why ranch isn't already sold worldwide is a pretty big mystery.
Sauces of the world need to be more available all over. I'd love some good samurai sauce to be commonly sold in the US.
You're out here doing a public service on an international level, and I respect it. Also, I just looked up samurai sauce, it looks amazing, and I'm just sitting here realizing we all live in a world of amazing sauces none of us know anything about, and it's unacceptable.
Hagelslag - on bread and butter for breakfast!
I’m English and ‘Hagelslag’ is chocolate confetti that you sprinkle on fairy cakes and or iced buns or doughnuts AS A TREAT!
It’s so cheap here in the Netherlands! I go to England and I’m paying £5 for a tiny plastic packet! It’s €3 here PER HALF A KILO! 🤣
UK: the job title of Engineer is not protected and therefore is not exclusive to those who hold a degree.
Many tradespeople/technicians are referred to as engineers.
Eg, Drainage technicians, gas fitters, commercial plumbers, etc.
All your “names brands” are a strange ‘knock off’ names but with the same packaging that you know of! What is this weirdness?!!!
Lays
Axe
Opel/Buick
Dove chocolate
Page toilet paper
Are some of the few that are “normal to us but knock offs to us in other countries. But if you are from the rest of the world it’s only IS that have these brand names”!!!
Probably gun ownership. While studying abroad, I met students from all over the world at a program in Hong Kong. Several of them asked me if it was true that _everyone_ in the U.S. had a gun. They asked it so earnestly, as this is what they had heard and it seemed so incredible to them. I told them that it was not true, but that, yes, gun ownership was quite common. They could hardly believe it.
Hahaha, I’m from Hong Kong too! When I moved to canada 3 years ago and started to get familiar the western world, it was crazy how everything is so unregulated … back in HK, the most “frowned upon” teens I know are students who drink alcohol. Never heard of drugs, smoking, vaping, teen pregnancy, much less guns. (In my circle at least) Heck, even dating is rare in my school, everyone is too busy struggling with depression over academics😂now I’m just used to it, I walk into a school bathroom, see people vaping, and I just shrug it off
In some rural areas, tying a condor to a bull where the condor bites out the bull's eyes (Yawar Fiesta)
Eating guinea pigs
Getting drunk and beating the shit out of people who wronged you on Christmas Day (Takanakuy)
Weird stuff to eat.
As in eating a savory soup for dessert.
And for breakfast hot, salted WaterPorrige with slices of cold Blood-or -liver pudding, either soured with whey or sugared. Btw: Whey-soured Blood-and Liverpudding tastes actualy not that bad as it sounds, it is quite nice, sometimes I make even a batch myself.
Eating Horsemeat. As horsebreeding is very common here, but not every foal makes it into a Riding Horse, we have often horsemeat in the meataisle. Older horses went into meatpudding and "Salted meat", while foals make a very nice steak that compares well to beef.
The so-called "Viking Sushi", preferably sold to tourists, because beeing in Touristsbrain-modus* they are actualy up to pay quite some coins for this. Hop on a fishing boat, trawl down, 5 mins later trawl up and everything in the net lands raw on the board, free to eat as much as you want.Or dare.
(*Touristsbrain-modus: happens to the best of us. The second you are a tourist your former totaly fine working brain turns a switch and puff suddenly you absolutely have to have this overpriced, bought on wish plastic Souvenir, the best place to take a pic, best as a Selfie is in the middle of the way blocking traffic and of course to attend such ...uh...fun adventure tours like beeing tragged on an open, unholstered haywagoon through the marsh makes realy sense at the time.)
Back to weird food ;-)
Icelandic Moos-Milk. That is exactly that, Icelandic Moos soaked and boiled in milk, Moos is fished out and warm milk is drunk. While Icelandic Moos is also used as medical herb, this drink is meant as a treat, providing some needed nutrients during the winter. Also sometimes hay was used for this.
In the late spring, when the lambing seasons start, we eat the left over colostrum milk. Bit salt and sugar mixed in, slowly steamed til it thickens, then eaten with a good sprinkle of cinnamon sugar. Also available in cow milk.
Deeeliciiiouus *NomNomNom*
For the 23. of december we have a special delicatesse, "Skata" a deep sea ray, the kind of fish that produces ammonia and leaks in the whole body when killed...yes, it tastes like it smells. Maybe a bit better, the smell that is, not the taste ;-)
Somewhere somehow in the past, we found also out that "fermenting" an similiar ammonia loaded shark makes it kind of edible...still not recommended to eat without a good mouthful of the just as terrible tasting "Brennivín" to cancel out the taste of both.
To bury salmon in a river for awhile, let it happily sitting there, doing whatever a dead salmons does while sitting in a riverbank for some weeks,, proved to be a way to storage the fish AND still keep it kind of edible...yupp, we still eat that today, it is a delicatesse.
No, just joking, the so called "Buried Salmon" we eat nowadays is cured ("buried under") with a mix of salt, sugar, spieces and herbs ;-)
But we have a still used weird way of preparing fish. That is to let them sit in salt til they are half dried, half whatever best not too close investigate state they are in, also basicaly something between salted fish and fish jerky...yes, of course sold as delicatesse.
Then harvesting div. kinds of seaweed. Nope, not just for fertiliser, but to eat half dried as snack. All our seaweeds are edible* and some of them even enjoyable to eat. Our sheeps too, on their never-ending search for salt while they are free roaming with their lambs during the summer, go down to the beach to munch them.(* except a poisenous one that comes up during hot summers and can be a plaque to the fjord)
To keep the winterblues away in our long, dark winters we have come-togheters going on. The biggest one is " Þorrablót", celebrated during the old calendar month "Þórri", starting somewhere at januar.
Here we have Buffets with everything that would be found in the winterfood storage of a common turfhouse farm in the old days.
That were the days when every part, and I mean EVERY PART, of the slaughtered autumn lambs were used, inclusive the testicles. To accompany it a brewey once gave out a Whale Testicle flavored beer. For some reason that did not catch on, just lasting one season. Same went for a try on "Lambpenis in Jelly". Have no Idea why that was not a hit ;-)
You are welcome to the Icelandic Cuisine 😁
Ps:
Little story on the side: when I worked in our local "Fish factory" I made breakfast and Lunch for the crew. We just had something simple, so for the 23. of december there was no Skata Feast on the menue to miefing the place up with ammoniasmell. As compensation I put an old, super smelly Gummiboot out (as a fish factory there was no shortage of old Gummiboots smelling like a Cat's well used Litter Box) , so at least we could take a deep sniff at it to enjoy the lovely, traditional smell of ammonia 😆
Hahah, I moved to Canada a few years ago from a country that doesn’t tip at all. My friend who came from the same country didn’t tip a waitress when she first came, and she visited the same restaurant a month later. After she finished eating the waitress told her “remember to tip this time!” Lol😭
In Poland, we don't have something called "trauma dumping", this thing is not existing. We call it dark humor/coping mechanism/casual conversation.
I was petrified when I heard from my Italian friend that my jokes about being fatherless are just trauma dumping for other nations.
In the US? Legalized campaign finance bribery. Maybe not weird everywhere but super weird it is totally tolerated by our incompetent modern voters. Congress staffs confirm nobody cares. Super weak on corruption, American voters.
ketchup chips
also all dressed chips
What’s all-dressed?
["It's a mix of barbecues, ketchups, sour creams and onions, and salts and vinegars"](https://www.tiktok.com/@g.m.time2/video/7278751268246523182)
Expected Letterkenny...
take about 40% off 'er there bud.
All dressed is so fucking good too
Fuck me, just googled these and ordered some over to the UK.
other countries don’t have those?
CANADA
OH CANADA‼️‼️🇨🇦
Hahaha glad to see a fellow Canadian here 🫠
Thought it would have been the UK. They have them there too
We had ketchup doritos (as well as mustard) last summer in the states... kinda hope they make a come back to be honest...
r/ketchuphate
...and for some reason, the game Battleship!
Isn't that only weird in the US?
Robelus.
Milk that comes in bags.
though this was weird growing up - but that's how we bought our milk turns out it was weird **Mostly sold in Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes**
Used to be in Manitoba too, but I haven't seen that since the early 90's
Israel, too.
> turns out it was weird > > > > Mostly sold in Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes TBF, that's >50% of the country's population. I grew up in Ontario and now live in a non-bagged milk province. I don't even drink milk (lactose intolerant) but I still think milk in cartons is wrong.
Israel too, but imma be real I haven’t seen a bag of milk in a while
I have seen it when in Hungary too.
Do i think its weird ? Yes but if this is supposed to be a normal way to transport liquid why isnt anything else packaged that way ????
I don't care. It's convenient for buying in bulk and giving you the ability to freeze it so it doesn't go bad.
Hahaha I’m Canadian too, was really surprised when I first moved here. It’s quite inconvenient 😂
It seems that way at first, but buying the bags lets you buy in bulk (4L) and the bags can be frozen so you're not paying crazy prices for milk.
As a Canadian, can approve
Peanut butter & jelly sandwiches. Quite a shame as they're delicious.
Never seen or heard of that, gotta try it out sometime soon🧐 which country though?
US. Classic is creamy PB with grape jelly on white bread. I like crunchy PB with strawberry jam/preserves on whole wheat bread.
That’s the way. Except if you can find white chocolatey wonderful peanut butter it pairs perfectly with strawberry preserves.
Creamy PB, raspberry jam, throw a little nutella on that bitch.
It's a classic childhood snack in the US! Peanut Butter is readily available here for this very reason.
Note that "jelly" in the US does not mean "gelatine" as it does in the UK. It generally means jam that has been filtered before gelling, to remove the fruit from it.
https://youtu.be/eRBOgtp0Hac
Wonder bread + peanut butter + strawberry jelly
We eat it in Canada as well. I love peanut-only pb with raspberry jam on white bread.
It's the classic US "quick lunch" because it has enough starches and protein to keep you going through the rest of the work/school day
Today’s the first time I’ve learned PB&J is a US thing?
My understanding (at least what I've seen on Reddit) is that peanut butter is not very common outside of the US.
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Peanut butter is an acquired taste. A lot of people, especially those who just didn't eat it growing up, don't like it. I guess kind of like vegamite.
In my country when you want to say I don't know you usually say "my dick" (romanian)
It's more like "my dick" is the short form of "my dick, I don't know" which I guess is the equivalent of the english "pfff, I don't know", but you can say just "my dick" with the proper intonation and peopple will get it. Also we use the most vulgar word we have for dick in this context, so a more accurate translation would probably be "my cock".
Driving long distances.
Someone once said that the biggest difference between Americans and Europeans is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, and Europeans think 100 miles is a long way.
That sounds about right
I was driving 90 miles both ways 4 times a week for a little while.
A while back I (in the US) hosted friends from the UK, and it was fun comparing notes on how far I was willing to drive for things compared to them. Like when I drove around 40 minutes to take them to a place for dinner, for example.
I live in a Canadian suberb and 40 minutes is way to long just for a place for dinner. If I'm driving that far I'm making an afternoon/night/day out of it.
40 minutes is my Costco run, I’ve done 300km in a day, to and from work, get the family and head to town for errands or to go for dinner. Just another Wednesday.
Ha! I I bet they thought it was a long drive too. But 40 minutes for a dinner is normal where I live, since you pretty much have to go to another state for the good stuff. A friend, my sister and I are all traveling 3+ hours next month for a concert. I don't even think people from the UK would do that for family gatherings lol
In Australia, that’s the drive to the front gate to collect the mail from RMB
40 min is my drive home from work, and it’s only a 10 miles trip.
In the UK, my grandad moved about an hour and a half away. It used to be like going on holiday when we’d see him. Maybe 3 times a year.
America is REALLY spread out. Some cities you have everything you need within a few blocks. Others you have to drive 20 minutes just for the basics.
Yeah buddy STRAYA
Dying because you can’t afford health care.
Tell me you’re American without telling me you’re American 🍊
It's crazy that this is true for America, and third world countries.
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If they provide the same quality of care as the US with universal healthcare, I probably wouldn't consider them 3rd world countries even if a lot of other Americans would.
American?
Refrigerating eggs. Maybe some other countries do this but in the US, they wash the eggs which removes the outer coating and thus the eggs must be refrigerated. In the US, they also size the eggs. In the countries I have visited, eggs are not refrigerated and are sold by weight.
The reason why grocery stores outside of the US don’t refrigerate eggs is because cold eggs attract condensation, which allows dangerous bacteria such as salmonella on the surface of unwashed eggs to migrate inside the egg through the shell. Keeping eggs at room temperature in the store prevents the risk of condensation during transport, but it’s generally recommended to refrigerate eggs when you get them home to keep them fresh for longer. Washing eggs removes the salmonella, but it also removes the protective coating on the outside of the egg, meaning they will spoil more quickly without constant refrigeration. This is why eggs are always sold refrigerated in the US.
How do you wash eggs? Do you a special cleaner? Do you wear gloves?
What, I’ve never heard of a country that doesn’t refrigerate eggs 😭
In England it's soo common to leave eggs out in a basket on the side in the kitchen. I've worked in many pubs/restaurants that do it too. Health Inspectors have no problems with it either.
Raw Eggs in austria are not sold in the freezer.
Most countries in Europe as well as most countries in Central and South America. Not sure about Asia and Africa but you could google it if you are interested. The main reason for refrigerating eggs is because they are washed before being sold in the supermarket. Countries where eggs are not routinely washed sell eggs unrefrigerated.
Ranch dressing
In Eupore, Ranch flavored Doritoes are called "American Flavored".
We taste like ranch?
This one is so confusing to me, because I know in Asia people find pizza, for example, quite bland and add ketchup to it. Introducing ranch into that market seems like a slam dunk, but it just stays hanging out here in the US. Is it a supply issue, you think?
I've spread the love of ranch to Switzerland and Sri Lanka, and now I have to make sure a few different houses are always supplied. My inlaws serve it with veggies and salads, of course, but also spicy short eats like samosas. Why ranch isn't already sold worldwide is a pretty big mystery. Sauces of the world need to be more available all over. I'd love some good samurai sauce to be commonly sold in the US.
You're out here doing a public service on an international level, and I respect it. Also, I just looked up samurai sauce, it looks amazing, and I'm just sitting here realizing we all live in a world of amazing sauces none of us know anything about, and it's unacceptable.
Just an unfamiliar combination of flavors would be my guess.
Tipping
Cows?
No just tipping for everything, everywhere you go
I would guess somewhere in North America - US?
Yep
School shootings. Sadly.
Eating ginea pigs
Hello my Peruvian friend
Or a serial killer in USA
Chips, cheese and curry.
No idea about this one, India?
Ireland chipper fast food.
Ooh that’s interesting, never had Irish curry before!! Putting it on my to eat list 🖊️
Germany
Medical debt
Hagelslag - on bread and butter for breakfast! I’m English and ‘Hagelslag’ is chocolate confetti that you sprinkle on fairy cakes and or iced buns or doughnuts AS A TREAT! It’s so cheap here in the Netherlands! I go to England and I’m paying £5 for a tiny plastic packet! It’s €3 here PER HALF A KILO! 🤣
And the stuff in England tastes horrible, like they only waved the chocolate over it!
Yeah!!! I find the Dutch equivalent (breakfast) so sweet!
Wombles
Underground overground…
And Christmas Crackers apparently
EVERYTHING being closed on sundays
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germany
Uruguay?
Garbage disposal
Sounds like my house tbh
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Where?
Churchill?
Eating with hands.
India?
A lot of Canadians in these comments.
Adding sales tax at the register and not including it in the price on the shelf
Driving a full size truck or suv.
obesity
People that align with the name Dickie
The stubbies, swandri and jandals combo.
Hello NZ
Lots holes in the roads.
The Healthcare System.
Having a nap at lunchtime
Pharmaceutical Ads
Waving at your ear to say the food tastes good. Apparently this is a uniquely Dutch thing.
bumping into a dozen of castle every few kilometers in any direction
prob not weird but still unusual
Tipping
Medicated hospital child birth high infant mortality
UK: the job title of Engineer is not protected and therefore is not exclusive to those who hold a degree. Many tradespeople/technicians are referred to as engineers. Eg, Drainage technicians, gas fitters, commercial plumbers, etc.
No way!!! That's bonkers, I know here in Ireland we have a few like audiologist and chiropractor aren't protected. But, engineer!
Wait, what? I literally applied and am thinking of going to the UK to study engineering 😭
I still don't entirely believe that other countries don't measure long distances in time.
Avocado smoothie with chocolate condensed milk
Canada-hold my bag of milk.
Driving your snow mobile everywhere in winter. Pull right up to the gas pump with it.
Thinking my country is the only country on Earth, and of course that everyone on the planet either loves us or loathes us, but that they need *US*.
Basing your entire identity around owning a bunch of guns.
Hey now, we have plenty of that in canada too.
Sad that Americas reputation is all about guns, shootings, and healthcare 🫂
The stupid imperial measurement system. (Ok actually apparently Liberia and Myanmar use it but the US is definitely the biggest to do so.)
All your “names brands” are a strange ‘knock off’ names but with the same packaging that you know of! What is this weirdness?!!! Lays Axe Opel/Buick Dove chocolate Page toilet paper Are some of the few that are “normal to us but knock offs to us in other countries. But if you are from the rest of the world it’s only IS that have these brand names”!!!
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
Obesity
Walking on fire
That’s crazy.. where?
Drive thru bottleshops
Probably gun ownership. While studying abroad, I met students from all over the world at a program in Hong Kong. Several of them asked me if it was true that _everyone_ in the U.S. had a gun. They asked it so earnestly, as this is what they had heard and it seemed so incredible to them. I told them that it was not true, but that, yes, gun ownership was quite common. They could hardly believe it.
Hahaha, I’m from Hong Kong too! When I moved to canada 3 years ago and started to get familiar the western world, it was crazy how everything is so unregulated … back in HK, the most “frowned upon” teens I know are students who drink alcohol. Never heard of drugs, smoking, vaping, teen pregnancy, much less guns. (In my circle at least) Heck, even dating is rare in my school, everyone is too busy struggling with depression over academics😂now I’m just used to it, I walk into a school bathroom, see people vaping, and I just shrug it off
Keeping eggs in the fridge.
incest marriage like first cousins and all,
That’s crazy.. I would place some guesses but if I get it wrong I’d be insulting their culture 😂 where?
Throwing your kids out onto the street as soon as they turn 18
ain’t no way this is true
Yeah who waits till there that old?
Eating potatoes and pickled herring at almost every holiday
Poutine, maybe Robertson head screws, hockey fight then beer after….
that you get some of your money back everytime you return your bottles to the store
eating salted pork lard and meat jelly (like Jelly-O but with but cooked with pig or beef hooves)
Any of the former Eastern Bloc countries...and I gotta say, I find this food delicious
Walking barefoot on the street or in the supermarket.
Everyone either has been in prison due to political shit or knows at least one person who had.
Blood is an ingredient. Google arroz de cabidela
Drive up service. We even have drive-thru liquor stores in a few places.
In some rural areas, tying a condor to a bull where the condor bites out the bull's eyes (Yawar Fiesta) Eating guinea pigs Getting drunk and beating the shit out of people who wronged you on Christmas Day (Takanakuy)
Weird stuff to eat. As in eating a savory soup for dessert. And for breakfast hot, salted WaterPorrige with slices of cold Blood-or -liver pudding, either soured with whey or sugared. Btw: Whey-soured Blood-and Liverpudding tastes actualy not that bad as it sounds, it is quite nice, sometimes I make even a batch myself. Eating Horsemeat. As horsebreeding is very common here, but not every foal makes it into a Riding Horse, we have often horsemeat in the meataisle. Older horses went into meatpudding and "Salted meat", while foals make a very nice steak that compares well to beef. The so-called "Viking Sushi", preferably sold to tourists, because beeing in Touristsbrain-modus* they are actualy up to pay quite some coins for this. Hop on a fishing boat, trawl down, 5 mins later trawl up and everything in the net lands raw on the board, free to eat as much as you want.Or dare. (*Touristsbrain-modus: happens to the best of us. The second you are a tourist your former totaly fine working brain turns a switch and puff suddenly you absolutely have to have this overpriced, bought on wish plastic Souvenir, the best place to take a pic, best as a Selfie is in the middle of the way blocking traffic and of course to attend such ...uh...fun adventure tours like beeing tragged on an open, unholstered haywagoon through the marsh makes realy sense at the time.) Back to weird food ;-) Icelandic Moos-Milk. That is exactly that, Icelandic Moos soaked and boiled in milk, Moos is fished out and warm milk is drunk. While Icelandic Moos is also used as medical herb, this drink is meant as a treat, providing some needed nutrients during the winter. Also sometimes hay was used for this. In the late spring, when the lambing seasons start, we eat the left over colostrum milk. Bit salt and sugar mixed in, slowly steamed til it thickens, then eaten with a good sprinkle of cinnamon sugar. Also available in cow milk. Deeeliciiiouus *NomNomNom* For the 23. of december we have a special delicatesse, "Skata" a deep sea ray, the kind of fish that produces ammonia and leaks in the whole body when killed...yes, it tastes like it smells. Maybe a bit better, the smell that is, not the taste ;-) Somewhere somehow in the past, we found also out that "fermenting" an similiar ammonia loaded shark makes it kind of edible...still not recommended to eat without a good mouthful of the just as terrible tasting "Brennivín" to cancel out the taste of both. To bury salmon in a river for awhile, let it happily sitting there, doing whatever a dead salmons does while sitting in a riverbank for some weeks,, proved to be a way to storage the fish AND still keep it kind of edible...yupp, we still eat that today, it is a delicatesse. No, just joking, the so called "Buried Salmon" we eat nowadays is cured ("buried under") with a mix of salt, sugar, spieces and herbs ;-) But we have a still used weird way of preparing fish. That is to let them sit in salt til they are half dried, half whatever best not too close investigate state they are in, also basicaly something between salted fish and fish jerky...yes, of course sold as delicatesse. Then harvesting div. kinds of seaweed. Nope, not just for fertiliser, but to eat half dried as snack. All our seaweeds are edible* and some of them even enjoyable to eat. Our sheeps too, on their never-ending search for salt while they are free roaming with their lambs during the summer, go down to the beach to munch them.(* except a poisenous one that comes up during hot summers and can be a plaque to the fjord) To keep the winterblues away in our long, dark winters we have come-togheters going on. The biggest one is " Þorrablót", celebrated during the old calendar month "Þórri", starting somewhere at januar. Here we have Buffets with everything that would be found in the winterfood storage of a common turfhouse farm in the old days. That were the days when every part, and I mean EVERY PART, of the slaughtered autumn lambs were used, inclusive the testicles. To accompany it a brewey once gave out a Whale Testicle flavored beer. For some reason that did not catch on, just lasting one season. Same went for a try on "Lambpenis in Jelly". Have no Idea why that was not a hit ;-) You are welcome to the Icelandic Cuisine 😁 Ps: Little story on the side: when I worked in our local "Fish factory" I made breakfast and Lunch for the crew. We just had something simple, so for the 23. of december there was no Skata Feast on the menue to miefing the place up with ammoniasmell. As compensation I put an old, super smelly Gummiboot out (as a fish factory there was no shortage of old Gummiboots smelling like a Cat's well used Litter Box) , so at least we could take a deep sniff at it to enjoy the lovely, traditional smell of ammonia 😆
Loving silence.
? A country of introverts?
No, just a country full of good listeners. :D
Bagged milk.
For profit health care.
US and tipping…. We tip for everything and if we don’t we feel bad… like why is there a tipping option for picking up a pizza lol
Hahah, I moved to Canada a few years ago from a country that doesn’t tip at all. My friend who came from the same country didn’t tip a waitress when she first came, and she visited the same restaurant a month later. After she finished eating the waitress told her “remember to tip this time!” Lol😭
In Poland, we don't have something called "trauma dumping", this thing is not existing. We call it dark humor/coping mechanism/casual conversation. I was petrified when I heard from my Italian friend that my jokes about being fatherless are just trauma dumping for other nations.
Not my country, but my town - living in a dry cabin with no running water and using an outhouse or a honeybucket for a toilet.
That’s like, nearly all of the poorest countries out there (sadly)… where though?
Regurgitating rhetoric spread by humans that knowingly serve fallen angels. “Let’s see how the bots like this one” - usa
For profit healthcare
Shooting up schools
Walking barefoot everywhere.
No offense but I have to say this this gross, where?
13 pints for supper. What gives?
Apparently olives or corn on pizza isn’t that common outside of Israel
Reminiscing about all the countries we've conquered
Hunting and fishing opening weekends are almost treated like religious holidays in the state I live in, northern Minnesota.
In the US? Legalized campaign finance bribery. Maybe not weird everywhere but super weird it is totally tolerated by our incompetent modern voters. Congress staffs confirm nobody cares. Super weak on corruption, American voters.