# I Finally Saw Casablanca: Things People Are Incredulous Of **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 4, 2010, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664 "2010-01-04T19:34:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![TheFaerie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@TheFaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFaerie)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/61 "2010-01-05T15:19:44Z")
I have never lived more than 20 miles from where I was born. I work in an international firm and several of my coworkers were born in India, and this comment always causes amazement. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/62 "2010-01-05T16:54:40Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Ehm… what are “clam bellies” and “clam strips”? > > I just eat clams. The only parts of the clam I know are the shells, the foot, and the flesh. Clam bellies include the viscera. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/63 "2010-01-05T17:35:21Z")
I don’t drink or do drugs. People who meet me for the first time act as if that is totally scandalous behavior on my part. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/64 "2010-01-05T17:55:38Z")
I’ve never seen any of the Batman movies or any of the American Pie movies. I’m not actively avoiding them; I just haven’t gotten around to watching them. I’ve never seen _ET_. I think it’s an age thing; _ET_ was released when I was 21 so it’s not a movie I would have seen as a child nor were there any children I would have taken it to at the time of its release. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/65 "2010-01-05T18:17:48Z")
Despite having lived in California for 12 years, and now in Las Vegas, I have never been to a Mexican restaurant. (I got violently ill eating Mexican food when I was a kid, and there is now a particular odor of one ingredient that makes me sick to smell it - so I can’t go to a Mexican restaurant and even eat chips and salsa due to that one ingredient - whatever it is.) ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/66 "2010-01-05T19:25:55Z")
I’m just jealous of everybody who never saw **Star Wars** or **It’s a Wonderful Life**. Don’t let yourself be pressured into watching either one! It’s like virginity–once you give in, you can never go back. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/67 "2010-01-05T19:32:41Z")
A long, long time ago, I had been going out to lunch every workday, and I decided to economize by bringing leftovers from home at least a couple of days a week. I was friends with a co-worker, one of those people who are articulate, bright, and well read despite not having finished high school. I had to ask her, via e-mail, how to go about microwaving my pasta, since I’d never done it. She couldn’t believe I was asking this. She replied, “Is this a trick question?”. Looking back, I can see how it must have startled her, and it seems very funny now. ---
**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/68 "2010-01-05T20:11:45Z")
> [@melodyharmonius](#): > > I’m not sure what the Texan (_wink_) means- but I’m from New England so I’ll give it a shot. > > For me, we ate clam bellies steamed - but the bellies always had to be washed and then soaked in clarified butter - because the bellies and necks of the clams might still have y’know, belly contents, inside. > > Clam strips are pre-cleaned and then battered and fried - so it’s a much more mainstream version. > > However, I will confess that a bucket of steamed clam bellies sounds awesome to me right now. There are clams and clam strips. If I order clams, steamed, fried, raw or stewed, they had better have bellies. Strips are what Howard Johnson made for the rest of the country. ---
**Author:** ![Strainger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strainger/32/244_2.png) [@Strainger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strainger)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/69 "2010-01-05T23:38:44Z")
I live in Arizona and some of the native Arizonans (what few there are) are completely amazed that I’ve never ridden a horse. Hey, I grew up in a suburb of Atlanta! We didn’t ride horses there, except for some of the rich kids. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/70 "2010-01-06T01:33:51Z")
I could come up with a fairly long list of common, or at least beloved foods which I have never eaten. Including bacon (which is the foulest-smelling food in the universe). The only seafood I have ever eaten is trout. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/71 "2010-01-06T03:05:24Z")
> [@NinjaChick](#): > > I could come up with a fairly long list of common, or at least beloved foods which I have never eaten. Including bacon (which is the foulest-smelling food in the universe). The only seafood I have ever eaten is trout. Trout is not seafood! :smack:😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/72 "2010-01-06T14:58:57Z")
Another guy who has never had - nor desired - a personal ATM card. (Well, I have a credit card from work that I am required to use for travel cash advances.) One that always surprises my kids is that I have never seen some of their favorite movies all the way through. Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame and Newsies come to mind. It is curious, because with 3 kids 4 years apart and a sizeable collection of videotapes it seemed one or another of them was playing pretty much non-stop for a decade or more… I don’t believe I have ever sat in - let alone driven - a Porshe, BMW or a Corvette. Not sure whether that would shock anyone … ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/73 "2010-01-06T15:03:01Z")
> [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](#): > > Trout is not seafood! :smack:😉 _Rainbow_ trout is not seafood. There are other commonly fished trout, though, and some of them live wholly or primarily in saltwater environments (like the sea trout, shockingly enough). ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/74 "2010-01-06T15:09:38Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > I don’t believe I have ever sat in - let alone driven - a Porshe, BMW or a Corvette. Not sure whether that would shock anyone … I don’t think I’ve ever so much as sat in any of those either, come to think of it. I have gone for a ride in a Corvair convertible, though. Got to where we were going, got out and said “Screw you, Nader.” ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/75 "2010-01-06T15:15:10Z")
I have never seen a Godfather flick or _Scarface._ I have never seen _Swingers._ I have never played _Candyland_ - in fact, I’d never even heard of it until this year. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/76 "2010-01-06T15:33:14Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > I have gone for a ride in a Corvair convertible, though. Got to where we were going, got out and said “Screw you, Nader.” Not a vert, but I enjoy the 62 coupe in my garage. 🆒 Yep, Nader was wrong (at least WRT any suggestion that Vairs were any more dangerous than contemporaneous American cars.) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/77 "2010-01-06T15:35:44Z")
I have never eaten anything from Taco Bell, nor have I ever eaten a hamburger from any fast-food restaurant. Neither appeals to me, and I feel confident that I’m not missing out on anything, so I don’t plan on correcting this particular oversight. If I were in a situation where the only available food was Taco Bell, I’d eat there, but I can’t imagine a situation where I’d be forced to order a fast-food hamburger (I get grilled chicken sandwiches if I have to eat at a fast-food joint). ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/78 "2010-01-06T16:04:22Z")
No driver’s license, no cell phone, never watched a Simpson’s episode, never watched any of the reality shows, haven’t watched the Godfather movies and don’t intend to. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/79 "2010-01-06T16:07:42Z")
I also don’t have a cell phone and will resist having one for as long as possible. Heck, I could probably live without a phone at all but one does need to be able to access 911. I have never played a video game either on a tv or a computer. I figure if I wasn’t coordinated enough to master Asteroids I’m not going to excel at what they have today. There are lots of classic movies I haven’t seen, including Casablanca. I have never been married. I suppose I can see why that’d be looked upon strangely now that I’m old (43) but that fact has been raising eyebrows since I was at least 30. I have never tasted any kind of cheese, (other than on a pizza) and never will. ---
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/80 "2010-01-06T16:18:40Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > I have never been married. I suppose I can see why that’d be looked upon strangely now that I’m old (43) but that fact has been raising eyebrows since I was at least 30. umm, i refuse to admit 43 is old. Especially since I am turning 40 this year. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664.md?page=5)