What’s Cracker Barrel?
Oh man
http://www.crackerbarrel.com/restaurant/breakfast-menu/traditional-favorites/
Thats just one page of the menu, Part kitsch store part restaurant, you have to see it to believe it.
Big chain that serves homestyle cooking all over the US mostly on the Interstates, just one of those things you have to do in the states. One meal and you need heart bypass surgery
Capt Kirk
Are you sure they weren’t Bosnian Muslims?
I’ve yet to figure that one out myself.
Because we enjoy the impact of denouement as it was intended by the author.
That and for the same reason we don’t begin a sentence with the end.
Are burkas as hot to wear as they look?
Back in the day US folks could enjoy visits to Europe without a lot of snark. Is that possible anymore?
Not sacreligious at all, and you’re actually pretty close, as I’ve been using velcro on my kippah for 20 years now. I get the strips of the rough side (the hook side, I think it’s called), cut them to size, and stick them on the underside, where no one ever sees them. I never liked the idea of wearing those clips, though I never let my hair grow long enough for the clips anyway.
Keeping in mind Europe comprises 30+ different countries and even more individual cultures, the answer is absolutely YES, although in general, some places are much, much more friendly to Americans than others typically are.
Like most places and most people, if you treat others in an open, friendly manner, it is usually reciprocated back to you in kind…
(Do you have a specific country you are planning to visit? I am sure that some Doper could give you detailed advice about an upcoming trip.)
Photos of 50 breakfasts from all around the world.
That’s good to know. It’s not always easy to tell from the net. I haven’t planned anything yet but let’s just say I have never had any objection to long evenings of tall pints in pubs and would like to see how many of the old haunts like “The Barley Mow” are still about. On the other hand it’s a good time to see Greece.
From what I have been told, quite the opposite.
I have no idea - none - what you could intend by this, even in jest. Are you, or do you look, 14? My step-son had no problem whatever as a 16yo.
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It’s difficult to get alcohol in Australia? From the stereotypes in American media, I always sort of pictured Australia as having beer in the drinking fountains.
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There is no difficulty whatsoever in getting alcohol here; it’s true that in the US it’s right there in the supermarket aisle next to the sugary cereal whereas here you have to go to the grog shop next door, but that’s about it.
FWIW beer consumption here has dropped steadily since the 70s as wine consumption has risen, but even that is levelling off, as is total intake of alcohol.
In this tablewe come 43rd in the world, under such noted pisspots as South Korea and the Netherlands.
Have you seen our women? Beer goggles are often necessary… and so is dutch-courage.
Japan is big on situational behavior. Every culture has it to some extent — I’m absolutely certain you act differently around your friends than you do around your parents — but in Japan it’s practically institutionalized. Game shows that torture comedians? The more bizarre, the better. News shows? Ultra-serious, including severe and immediate apologies if so much as a bobble in pronunciation should occur.
Breakfast isn’t much different from other meals in Japan. Traditional Japanese breakfast would be some kind of cooked vegetables, usually boiled in a sauce; fish or tofu; rice, of course; tsukemono (vegetables pickled in brine); possibly salad or seaweed. Raw egg poured over steaming hot rice, sprinkled with soy sauce and sometimes red pepper flakes, all mixed together to make a sort of rice omelet is one common dish. Nattô (fermented soybeans) with rice and hot mustard is another. The meal is usually pretty substantial, has a good variety of nutrients, and I think is part of the reason that Japanese are generally slimmer than people in most other industrial cultures. You tend not to eat a lot later in the day if you eat a good breakfast, and your metabolic rate is higher in the morning.
Lately, there have been more Western influences in breakfast, which was probably more conservative than other meals. “Continental” breakfasts are pretty common hotel and even onsen fare now, so more bread, pastries, fruit, sausages; less fish, rice, and vegetables. Families vary widely, but tend to be more along traditional lines. No one eats just cereal for breakfast, and in fact it’s not common for most people to eat cereal at all.
Yep. #1 on this I think is Albania. It is the only country I have been to where the number of US flags flying matches the number of local (Albanian) flags flying.
I’m in Queensland, where they don’t sell alcohol in the supermarkets or 7-11s and the liquor stores are all closed by 9-10pm. Even in Sydney and Melbourne (two other places I’ve been a few times), where the supermarkets are open later and often have bottle shops in them, you still can’t get alcohol from 7-11s or convenience stores, and I don’t believe it’s available 24/7 (I haven’t been near one of the 24hr supermarkets in that part of the country to know for sure).
Whereas in Malaysia and Indonesia, I could get alcohol from 7-11s and other stores pretty much 24/7, cheaply, and there were places selling booze all over the place (not that I’m a huge drinker, but when it’s hot, nothing hits the spot like a cold one IMHO).
So, yeah, it’s my experience that it’s easier for me to obtain alcohol (especially beer) in the Muslim countries of Malaysia and Indonesia than it is here. Not that it’s especially difficult here, to be fair, but I still think it’s odd you can buy booze from 7-11s in those Muslim countries and not here.
At the same time, it is relatively easy to sight kilted men in Scotland, specially if there is a big football match (association or rugby) or a parade of any kind. Going to ogle man-legs was a favorite entertainment of my almost-all-female team in Scotland (Basque women tend to be leg women, but Basque men tend to cover theirs).
Previous thread discussing that list. TLDR, most aren’t really representative.
In South India, we have idlis (steamed cakes made with a batter of rice and urad dal) or dosa (same batter as idli but made into a crepe) with sambar or various chutneys (onion, coconut, tomato or mint). It can be pooris or chapathis or upma (a dish made with semolina). Or it can be pongal. And then there is vadai. Or kichidi.
This may come across as rather impolite, but my thinking, and I’d imagine the view of others from the UK, is that countries like Thailand that are known for sex tourism would be a very dangerous place to be picking up women in bars for sex (as an example the AIDS rate in Thailand is seven times that of the UK).
OK… but what are the British guys doing in the Thai bars if they are not there to meet Thai women ?
Yes, not every man that goes to Thailand is there to meet Thai women, but, I am talking about Thai bars that exist almost exclusively for men to meet Thai woman.
Why is it that the British men are known as being the ones that are there to start fights ?
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I’ll go with Homophobia+Frustration+Alcohol
They are Horny as Hell, Drunk, Have gone there for sex but can’t tell the women from the Lady Boys and don’t want to make the wrong choice