I thought it was best to keep things simple.
Best served with soldiers; egg width slices of toast for dipping into said egg in egg cup.
Do you interact with people? Read? Watch TV?
Obviously, you have ordered eggs in a restaurant. Do you notice what is going on around you? It’s not esoteric knowledge.
As a non-smoker, the thing I didn’t know about smoking was how many cigarettes were in a pack (until I Googled it). I had to ask patients about their smoking habits; the questionnaire specified how many cigarettes per day, on average, and the patients would reply with “a pack a day/a half pack a day.” :smack:
Yeah, but soft packs don’t close, so cigarettes get shredded and you get tobacco fuzz in the bottom of your purse.
MsRobyn
Fellow former smoker
I don’t eat fruit or vegetables, so I might struggle with recognising anything outside of the most common ten or so of each. And some things are regional, very popular in some countries but barely seen in others. Plus there are different names for the same thing.
True dat. I hate reaching into an old purse from the back of my closet and ending up with tobacco bits under my fingernails. shudder
But isn’t that last cig turned upside-down?
Kayaker
Never smoked tobacco, but heard this somewhere.
Tangentially related but I used to help run a local youth outdoors group.
One of the camps was 10 days in central New South Wales. About 30 15-17 year old’s both male & female. They do all their own cooking etc while there. One of the most common injuries we had one year was cut fingers because we had a bunch of kids who didn’t know how to use a potato peeler. (pic) 
A few kids were very good cooks but a suprising number (mostly boys but a few girls) could barely turn out something edible.
:eek:
Although I speak French fluently enough to work as a translator, I have a few gaps in my functional vocabulary from time to time. The most common time they manifest is in the hardware store, but I went through a period of ordering eggs whatever way the waitress offered because I didn’t know the names for any of the styles. For the record, at least in Quebec, tourné is over easy, miroir is sunny side up, poché is poached, brouillé is scrambled, mollet is soft-boiled and dur is hard-boiled.
It’s not that simple. Your basic shot is expresso. Add milk and it’s latte. Add chocolate and it’s mocha. Something else about adding hot water and milk foam. Do they have different types of coffee beans as well?
That’s a completely different situation. If a waiter is asking you “How would you like your coffee?” that’s not the level of complexity that is expected.
Same here. I just Googled it and mangetout realy is a type of pea. I’ve always thought that Mangetout was “Man get out”.
Here’s a discussion of his or her name: Mangetout - Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share - Straight Dope Message Board
After reading that, he or she is either named after a type of pea, or a purveyor of skin diseases, I still can’t figure it out.
Yeah, in India, you’d have to specify “water poached.”
That’s what I would have guessed, but a barista saying “Room?” would certainly give me pause - and I drink quite a lot of coffee. Where have you heard this said?
At pretty much any espresso bar.
OK. Ignorance fought. It doesn’t seem to be part of the lingo in the UK - or perhaps I never hear it because I usually specify “white” when I’m ordering.
I’ve never heard it, but my typical order includes the adjective “black”.
At most coffee houses/espresso bars in the United States, if you’re ordering regular drip coffee, you are expected to add the cream and sugar on your own, so baristas don’t want to know whether you want it black or white. They just want to know if you want room.
Even at a diner or restaurant where you are being served at your table, you might ask for black coffee, but if you want cream and sugar, you just ask for cream and sugar and it will be brought to you to add it yourself. You don’t ask for “white” coffee.