There is also an older, decent comedy sketch about gringos eating Mexican food by George Lopez. “Whoa. Ohhhh. Ah. For the love of Pete, I think there’s some onion in there!”. Talking about How pepper spray doesn’t work in Mexico. “This is delicious!”.
People putting ketchup on tacos to me is the same as people putting ketchup on steaks, it’s a thing people claim as a joke. It’s happened a couple of times in history but I don’t think it justifies Taco Bell having them.
Rather Taco Bell use to sell “Mexican Potatoes” (Basically diced potatoes) and I imagine people put ketchup on them.
Although, if someone is so politically unaware that they don’t know whether Obama was/is a Republican or a Democrat, I’m not sure I’d trust them to know whether he was a good or a bad president.
Taco Bell serves fries. People, especially children, love ketchup. Although a “catch-all of garbage” (E. Zotti), it is almost a perfect food in terms of sweetness, mouthfeel and other food chemistry considerations. I would not put it on steak or tacos myself. But am not surprised people do - probably dozens a day. Salsa is much healthier as it lacks added sugar.
My kid does.
Heard by the person I was talking to when I visited NYC: Where’s Times Square?
Reply “This is it”
WTF? Where’s the square? In Melbourne, we’d call that “Times Junction”
When I lived in London it wasn’t uncommon to be accosted by an American tourist demanding to know where the circus was. You know, performing animals and clowns.
I would explain that circus was jut an old fashioned name for a roundabout. I also, pedantically, pointed out that the statue in the middle that almost everyone calls Eros is actually his brother Anteros And it’s made of aluminium (not aloominum).
Summer time in Phoenix AZ. A woman asking someone where she could go to see the desert.
I heard a hipster say, “Axl Rose? Who’s that fat old queen?”
Nearly pissed myself laughing.
Two peoples separated by one language…
Abe Simpson can tell you what’s in store for you:
Overheard once:
“What a coincidence that our Lord was born on Christmas Day!”
(putting aside the fact that Jesus wasn’t born in December)
I had a similar experience when I was vacationing in London. I asked directions to the subway and wound up in a tunnel under the main drag.
I found out later I should have asked for The Tube.
Two countries separated by a common language.
Two postings separated by a common message board…
Oh! I wouldn’t describe The Straight Dope as “common”.
I don’t know that i consider not knowing about old stuff “stupid”, but in the mid-aughts I was an older guy attending college. I made a Gilligan’s Island reference and another student, presumably around 20 (probably born around '85) had never heard of it. I was flabbergasted. I don’t think I felt old per se, I think I assumed he grew up extremely sheltered.
He grew up on a desert island no doubt.
Sitting outside a restaurant in a party district about 25 years ago, I overheard two guys talking about where to go next:
“Aw, man, I can’t go to American Pie. I’m allergic to hairspray. Some of those girls, man, I swear; the bigger the hair, the smaller the hometown.”
Kinda the opposite of a stupid overheard conversation, since I had to turn away so the guy wouldn’t hear me laughing.
That’s LOL-worthy. Not stupid at all. Thanks!
I had an undergrad colleague who thought “fatigue” as in metal fatigue was pronounced “fat-ih-gyoo.” The problem was he wouldn’t accept my attempts to correct him.