No argument from me on this. None whatsoever. Apologies to any employees of Mars/M&M or Hershey’s that are reading this but “Merkan” “choklit” just doesn’t compare to the best stuff from other places. I mean, it’s not even a competition.
Duly noted, then.
racepug: Not even Ghirardelli?
For some reason (I guess cuz it costs less) we use Milk Choklit a lot. And Milk Choklit unsurprisingly tastes like sour choklit milk.
I could never quite get this. Europe and Asia are part of the same landmass, how do you figure out where the line is? Arabs and Iranians are Caucasian, Asian Russia divides from European Russia, I think, at the Urals, but there is kind of a large plain south of where the Urals end that is hard to discern where “Europe” becomes “Asia”. I guess that must be why they call it the Midwest.
There are two common brands of cheddar from the US that surpass the rest. One is Cabot, from Vermont, the other is Tillamook from Oregon. There are cheddars from Wisconsin that have actual flavor, but they are absurdly expensive compared to Tillamook or Cabot.
Sarcasm?
Cabot and Tillamook are still not anything approaching real English farmhouse cheddar.
What do you call the action of using a machine that, using a fan-created vacuum, cleans a carpet?
Lots of Indians too, especially older, conservative ones. I remember someone complain about why the TV show was called Friends when every character in it sleeps around with every other character. 
There’s also the view that all societal ills were recent imports from the West, in particular America. Depending on the particular person, the said “ills” might include homosexuality, divorces, remarriage, women wearing skirts, perceived or real decline of religion, and any women empowerment. :rolleyes:
Vacuuming, whether it’s on carpet or another surface, but I’ve had American coworkers who called it hoovering. Always makes me think of someone floating around the house going bzzzzzzzzz… whoopawhoopa (that’s when they change direction)… bzzz…
Are you sure you’re not thinking of British coworkers? I’ve never heard any American use the term.
I’m under the impression that “Hoover” used generically is largely a British usage. In America we say vacuuming or sometimes sweeping, although the latter is strange to me.
Your average foreign visitor might never encounter it, though, even during a long visit. And no one, students included, can be compelled to say it: West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette - Wikipedia
I remember buying Ghirardelli chocolate in these tubes when I was a kid. Liked 'em a lot, I did. But it’s still crap compared to chocolate from other places. Heck, I saw a show a while ago where a Spaniard was making these BEAUTIFUL artful “eggs” out of sumptuous dark chocolate. What he was making looked like it should be placed in a display and have people pay to just look at it. Our stuff? Just something to shove down your throat until it’s time for your next meal.
That used to be the case, when Hoover was a major brand and if you had a vacuum cleaner, it was probably a Hoover. That’s not really the case now, and the naming convention is now slipping back into ‘vacuum’. I’m not sure how popular Hoover are these days - do they even still make vacuum cleaners?
Maybe I should google it. 
Real artisanal American cheese is also great. I’d compare Hook’s five-year cheddar to an artisanal English cheddar any day. On the other hand, bland plastic cheese from Sainsbury in Britain tastes pretty much like bland plastic cheese from Cub Foods in the U.S. You have to compare apples to apples.
May I also recommend Maytag Blue Cheese, made right here in the USA, which is out of this world?
It is, for now. But while I wouldn’t call this a death spiral it is certainly dropping like a stone.
Total sidebar:
A few years ago, I was playing Dungeons & Dragons at a big gaming convention in Ohio. Our gamemaster was from the Netherlands (though he’d been living in the US for a number of years). We were fighting some opponents who were able to fly (and yes, hover). The gamemaster consistently mispronounced “hover” as “hoover”. which, of course, painted a very different mental image. 
Currently, in Alaska, Colorado, Oregon and Washington, when you say “Bud”, you are no longer talking about “beer”.
I read somewhere that the British think 100 miles is a long way and the Americans think 100 years is a long time.
I’ve traveled around Europe a fair bit and lived in Germany off & on a bit. The bread, cheese, beer & various sweets aren’t that different. It makes me LOL when I hear “American food is too sweet.” No, it’s not. I don’t know what tourists are buying and eating but the junk food & restaurant food in Europe is identical to junk food & restaurant food in the states. You guys practically live on those sweet sugary danishes & tarts & things. Don’t get me started on marzipan & Nutella. Both are so disgustingly sweet I can’t stand them. I’ve bought and eaten chocolate in Belgium. Ho hum. Same stuff & many times the price. You pay for the ambiance, I guess. Bakers in Europe apparently have no problem leaving all their food products out and letting flies, bees, wasps & whatever else crawl all over it and expect people to actually buy it. Yuck. If you want rock hard bread that disintegrates into crumbs when you try to eat it and so hard it tears up the flesh on the roof of your mouth, great - just buy a loaf of french bread and leave on the counter for a few days until it becomes what we consider only suitable for feeding the pigeons and squirrels.
I wish America would go metric though. It’s silly how when the government tries to take any sort of unilateral action or make some change it means that Hitler and the holocaust are just right around the corner.