# Non-Americans - name a thing you know about the US you got from the SDMB **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 7, 2012, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-americans-name-a-thing-you-know-about-the-us-you-got-from-the-sdmb/633930 "2012-09-07T00:30:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-americans-name-a-thing-you-know-about-the-us-you-got-from-the-sdmb/633930/241 "2012-09-24T20:18:48Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > Yummy, those look fantastic Ambrosia, and I don’t normally eat sweets. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-americans-name-a-thing-you-know-about-the-us-you-got-from-the-sdmb/633930/242 "2012-09-24T20:51:04Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > Yummy, those look fantastic Give 'em a try - see if they’re too sweet for you. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-americans-name-a-thing-you-know-about-the-us-you-got-from-the-sdmb/633930/243 "2012-09-24T22:03:08Z")
> [@SciFiSam](#): > > That Americans don’t routinely put butter or margarine on their sandwiches. I do, sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-americans-name-a-thing-you-know-about-the-us-you-got-from-the-sdmb/633930/244 "2012-09-25T01:07:10Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Americans eat them too. It’s just that we call them “bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwiches,” or BLTs and we put mayonnaise on them. I love a bacon sandwich as well as the next person (more than many, I suspect) but I’ve never understood this BLT thing. Doesn’t the tomato and lettuce - not to mention the mayonnaise - make the bacon cold? Blech. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-americans-name-a-thing-you-know-about-the-us-you-got-from-the-sdmb/633930/245 "2012-09-25T01:19:00Z")
> [@jabiru](#): > > I love a bacon sandwich as well as the next person (more than many, I suspect) but I’ve never understood this BLT thing. Doesn’t the tomato and lettuce - not to mention the mayonnaise - make the bacon cold? Blech. Not if you eat it right after you assemble it from freshly cooked bacon; if you know you’re making it for later sandwiches, you drain and pat the bacon well so there’s no (visible) congealed fat when it’s cooled. But warm mayo? That’s nasty. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-americans-name-a-thing-you-know-about-the-us-you-got-from-the-sdmb/633930/246 "2012-09-25T01:33:42Z")
> [@Nawth\_Chucka](#): > > Not if you eat it right after you assemble it from freshly cooked bacon; if you know you’re making it for later sandwiches, you drain and pat the bacon well so there’s no (visible) congealed fat when it’s cooled. But warm mayo? That’s nasty. I might just try it (without the mayonnaise) but I do reserve the right to spread the bread with butter first. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-americans-name-a-thing-you-know-about-the-us-you-got-from-the-sdmb/633930/247 "2012-09-25T01:34:06Z")
> [@jabiru](#): > > I love a bacon sandwich as well as the next person (more than many, I suspect) but I’ve never understood this BLT thing. Doesn’t the tomato and lettuce - not to mention the mayonnaise - make the bacon cold? Blech. I’ve never had a BLT with warm hot bacon. It’s always served cold. A BLT is a cold sandwich. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-americans-name-a-thing-you-know-about-the-us-you-got-from-the-sdmb/633930/248 "2012-09-25T01:50:04Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > I’ve never had a BLT with warm hot bacon. It’s always served cold. A BLT is a cold sandwich. Cold bacon? Oh, no. I can’t be doing that. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-americans-name-a-thing-you-know-about-the-us-you-got-from-the-sdmb/633930/249 "2012-09-25T01:58:11Z")
> [@jabiru](#): > > Cold bacon? Oh, no. I can’t be doing that. It’s like cold ham. Haven’t you ever eaten cold ham? Bacon is great no matter the temperature! ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-americans-name-a-thing-you-know-about-the-us-you-got-from-the-sdmb/633930/250 "2012-09-25T02:02:35Z")
> [@jabiru](#): > > Cold bacon? Oh, no. I can’t be doing that. But it’s still bacon; it doesn’t taste like cold, it tastes like wonderful. And the tomato’s juicy and the lettuce is crunchy along w/ the bacon and it all soaks into the toast by the time you pick up the second half of the sandwich. Then it’s even lovelier because it won’t scrape the roof of your mouth so badly as the first half. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-americans-name-a-thing-you-know-about-the-us-you-got-from-the-sdmb/633930/251 "2012-09-25T02:38:55Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Well, let me say, that being of British heritage, and as God as my witness, I thought everyone ate bacon sandwiches. We ate bacon sandwiches and bread, butter and sugar all the time growing up (not on the same sandwich, obviously). My great-grandfather was from England. I wonder if that’s why my Mom’s side of the family did this. ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-americans-name-a-thing-you-know-about-the-us-you-got-from-the-sdmb/633930/252 "2012-09-25T19:04:04Z")
[**Bacon’s doomed**](http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2012/09/25/bacon-shortage-pigs.html). ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-americans-name-a-thing-you-know-about-the-us-you-got-from-the-sdmb/633930/253 "2012-09-25T19:24:00Z")
> [@Kenm](#): > > [**Bacon’s doomed**](http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2012/09/25/bacon-shortage-pigs.html). Well it is a darn good thing I know a farmer who slaughters her own pigs and cures her own bacon! She runs a small self sustainable organic (the term makes me laugh) farm which specializes in sorghum cured ham and bacon. Yummy [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-americans-name-a-thing-you-know-about-the-us-you-got-from-the-sdmb/633930.md?page=12)