Not posted anything here in a while figured I probably should.
Have noticed strange things about living in the US. All property bought or rent is rated by square footage rather than the UK system of how many bedrooms it has. So when you say you just moved to a new flat people will ask how many square feet is it rather than how many bedrooms. This confused me as one I don’t know how to do imperial measurements in small increments like feet and inches and also because it never occured to me this was in anyway relevant.
Eggs don’t come in packs smaller than a dozen. You can get 12 or 24 but not the usual pack of six you would expect.
They don’t have paracetamol out here or ibuprofen … or rather they do but it won’t be called either of those names. They call Paracetemol acetaminophen instead out here and Ibuprofen is usually only called by trade names.
There are probably other random things but I’ve forgotten them.
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They drive on the wrong side of the road too but i guess you noticed that pretty quickly.
Now that you mention that it explains a few things, I thought it was just typical american devil may care attitude that everyone was driving on the wrong side of the road and honking me for doing the opposite.
It says something about how lax their driving test is that I have a california driving licence.
Have you noticed how shit their cheese is?
I find the eggs thing genuinely shocking. What if you just want to bake a cake?
Most of their cheese is rubbish but you can get good cheeses in their delicatessen sections sometimes my local safeway does actually do real cheese, proper cheddar Brie Camembert Stilton some random other cheeses even the odd US made cheese that's not processed plastic garbage.
Most americans have an aversion to drinking tap water despite the fact that especially in the US and often elsewhere bottled water is less well regulated that what you can put through a tap. Even then most of the time bottled water is just tap water anyway.