31 Things About The US That Make Zerooo Sense To People In Other Countries
The rest of the world is low-key judging us for some of our most telltale American ways...
Have you ever had one of those friends that studied abroad or did some summer traveling and came back ~different~? It's not as uncommon as you'd think.
Day-to-day life is not the same in other parts of the world and it's very possible you travel and find out you like it better somewhere else.
For people from other parts of the world, they're kind of baffled at the way we do things here in the USA. Here are just some of our weird little things that people who have visited have pointed out.
1. There were A LOT of food opinions.
why do americans act like fries and chips are the same like NO fries are thin and small and chips are thick and chunky they are two separate thingsπ£οΈπ£οΈπ―π― pic.twitter.com/3j6yxeDJgh
β vic is in his fruitarian era (@skelenuts) May 3, 2023
2.
Really craving ketchup flavoured chips right now. Why donβt Americans have ketchup chips? π
β Anisa Jomha (@AnisaTheGreasy) March 1, 2023
3.
why do americans put sugar in bread
β christian (@cxgonzalez) January 29, 2023
4.
One thing I miss from the UK while living in the states is a raspberry jam doughnut, why donβt Americans like jam doughnuts and why do they call jam, jelly??????? π€
β Harry (@Harryo_) December 3, 2022
5.
why do americans love ranch so much is it even good
β daisy Λ ΰ£ͺ α³ ΰ£ͺ (@teacals444) October 21, 2022
6.
Why do Americans not know the difference between curry and gravy
β Aj (@Ap3x33) May 3, 2023
7.
Why do Americans love putting fruit in salad
β Maddison Brown (@maddbrown1) March 17, 2021
8.
why do americans put marshmallows on sweet potatoes? thats absolutely criminal.
β is (@corneliaclean) May 16, 2023
9.
Why do Americans put ketchup on everything? Ew. Iβd eat scrambled eggs with bacon and buttered toast. https://t.co/TG0l5MxB4Y
β Anita (@miss__anita) March 5, 2023
10. There were also some financial opinions.
Why do Americans expect wait staff to engage them in conversation and hover around to see if they need water refills or some shit? In most parts of the world, they take your order and bring your food/bill and that's it, like normal people.
β Benjanun Sriduangkaew (@benjanun_s) March 24, 2023
11.
enough about tipping discourse, now for the REAL issue: why do americans not include taxes in the prices of products
β maia (@maiamindel) March 22, 2023
12. And yeah, our language rules are confusing AF.
Why do Americans pronounce defence as βdβfenceβ (that is, correctly) when describing the defence of the nation, but as βDee-fenceβ when talking about sport?
β Martin Pakula (@MartinPakula) January 15, 2023
13.
Why do Americans call the washroom a restroom? What are you resting?
β HAMRO π¨π¦ (@djhamro) January 1, 2023
14.
Why do Americans pluralise Lego as Legos? As long as I live Iβll never understand it.
β Matt Ferguson (@Cakes_Comics) December 26, 2022
15.
Watching Season 2 of βYour Honor.β Itβs very good but why do Americans hate the letter βuβ so much?
β Stephen Black (@stephenRB4) May 16, 2023
16.
Why do Americans hate the word cunt so much??? Itβs not even that offensive in Australia, theyβre just so sensitive istg pic.twitter.com/pw1nfmos0z
β Olly β€οΈ (@lilbodybigdiq) April 17, 2023
17.
why do americans say st pattyβs day instead of paddy
β rowan β 3 (@myhonestfface) March 16, 2023
18.
Why do Americans have a specially unique spelling for a measurement they generally refuse to use?
β Mike (@Parax) January 7, 2023
In the rest of the world, that actually uses metric, it is litre...
19. It doesn't have to work for the world, but it works for us (sort of).
Why do Americans choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America?
β AMABLACKPATRIOT (@DrShayPhD) May 17, 2023
20.
Itβs a sin that America did not normalize bidets. Why donβt Americans use more bidets.
β γ¬γ€γ(reina) @ FANIME (@yousoromi) January 2, 2023
21.
why do americans shit on going to college so much? my country doesnβt have universities and to me itβs astounding that one country can have so many of these factories of innovation.
β Kareem Carr | Data Scientist | πππ (@kareem_carr) January 7, 2023
if you donβt want harvard, mit, stanford and the others, please give them to the rest of us! https://t.co/E2hET5aCYf
22.
Why donβt Americans value Soccer as much as other countries do?
β Ramon π΅π·β‘οΈ (@RamonEditsss) December 18, 2022
Is it a culture thing?
Is it cuz American Soccer is usually seen as a sport for middle-high class kids?
I wanna get to the bottom of this
Cuz Soccer is fun af to play
23.
Why donβt Americans take their shoes off when they enter a home :(
β trisha πΏ (@honeygroveisle) November 4, 2022
24.
Why do Americans say Fifteen Hundred dollars instead of One Thousand Five Hundred dollars?
β Sir Dickson (@Wizarab10) December 28, 2022
25.
Why donβt Americans just do dd/mm/yy ??? Like everyone else does it
β β‘ artemis ΰΌβ§βΛβ§ (@f4rtemis) September 11, 2022
26.
Why donβt Americans use bricks for building houses? Why do they insist on building houses using wood planks.
β Kagisho (@Kagiesure) April 10, 2022
27.
Why do Americans with e-mail jobs pretend to work between thanksgiving and the end of December. What are we doing here?
β BoHo Chicagoan (@Eric_Erins) November 18, 2022
28.
i saw someone ask why americans arch their backs for posture and it was so exaggerated like no one does that here ππ
β sofia (@sofiaparrrado) May 10, 2023
29.
Why do Americans love drinking beer out of bottles? It may be more macho but itβs not as enjoyable as out of glasses.
β john milbank (@johnmilbank3) June 27, 2021