I’m still not sure that isn’t a kangaroo looking through the railing at the top left… 
It is with some embarrassment that I admit I thought the same until well into adulthood. The only place I heard about “gypsies” was in old fairytales and Disney cartoons, alongside elves, dwarves, unicorns, giants, etc. So what else was I to think?
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This one wasn’t me but when I was in college in the midwest, someone in my Dorm asked me if there really were tunnels that connected New York and New Jersey. He read about it in The Stand and thought Stephen King had made it up.
You know that’s a work of non fiction.
Right?
They considered a project like that back in the thirties, but it couldn’t get any traction because everyone agreed that it would just be too terrifying to traverse in the dark if were filled end-to-end with corpses in wrecked cars. It was an impractical idea, really.
I don’t know if you were trying to support my statement that it’s offensive in the UK and nothing in the US or refute it, but if you’ll note, your link is to mcvUK. I’m certain any complaints about Mario Party 8 didn’t originate in America.
Here’s wiki’s take
What is that I don’t even! Reminds me of the time Reebok decided to name a shoe Incubus. Y’know. Because people want a shoe named after a demon who rapes women in their sleep. 
The name hasn’t seemed to hurt this band any.
Y’know, I’m close to as tolerant as the next guy, but I suggested to a kid at church that he probably might not want to wear an Incubus T-shirt to services, considering. But Pastor didn’t care so I got over it.
OTOH, the kid’s dead so maybe Someone else cared. :dubious:
My mother’s way of saying “Nonsense” was to say, “Baloney, baloney, spumoni.” I knew what baloney was, but I always thought spumoni was a nonsense word Mom made up to rhyme with baloney. Turns out it’s an Italian dessert.
snicker I can believe that, I think in the roughly 5000 person town I spent much of my youth in was so blindingly white it glowed at night. I think there were about 15 families that were black or mulatto, I can’t think of one hispanic family in town until I had already left for college. I know that unless they were seriously hiding the fact that there were no Roma at all [though I did know someone that was claiming to be one, but it came out later that she was doing it to use the cachet of mystery to make her cardreading more popular so she could do it at parties for more money]
When I was growing up, my family had a drawing program for our Atari ST called Degas Elite. I had no idea that Degas was an actual painter.
In an old Beavis and Butt-head episode, Beavis mentioned Chick-fil-A. I didn’t find out it was a real place until a year or two later. I still remember when Beavis brought it up: it was when they were watching the music video for Tiffany’s remake of “I Think We’re Alone Now.”
Or Somebody Goofed.
In the Ben Folds Five song “Army” there are the lyrics:
got a job at chic-fil-a
citing artistic differences
the band broke up in may
I thought it was made up to rhyme with may.
And something I was going to put in the OP but forgot due to my crappy memory. When the movie Harold and Kumar go to White Castle came out I had no idea what the title was referring to because I’d never heard of White Castle.
And for a trifecta, I had seen some ad, or maybe passed by some Adam Sandler movie (I think) where he’s eating at Popeyes Chicken and thought it was made up for the movie.
I could see White Castle (I was familiar with it, but then I used to live in the North East), but where do you live that you hadn’t heard of Popeyes Chicken or Chic-fil-a…hell, they even have those out here in the wilds of the Great South West, and we’re the last to get everything! 
-XT
Since we’re talking chain restaurants and fast food places, when I first heard Bill Hicks’ routine about his encounter with the waitress who wonders why he’s reading, I thought "waffle house"was a general term like steakhouse or fish house for a type of restaurant that mostly served a specific type of food (in this case, waffles and other breakfast items). It was until years later that I found out there was an actual chain called Waffle House and that they were as common throughout the South as Starbucks are where I live.
I’ve lived most of my life here in Oregon.
The first time I saw an actual Popeyes Chicken was a few years ago when I was visiting my dad’s side of the family in and around Sacramento California. Then, sometime recently Salem got one. But I don’t remember seeing any in Oregon before that.
Doing an online search shows no Chick-fil-a locations in Oregon.
Nope, none in Oregon…guess that explains it (they have commercials on TV, but they might be a regional thing and you might not get them since you don’t have any…though I’m always seeing ads for Joe’s Crab Shack, and we definitely don’t have any of those here. Or, until very recently, Jack in the Box ads). You definitely wouldn’t be familiar with White Castle, unless you ever saw them in the frozen foods isle (they sell a line of frozen hamburgers here, but they aren’t very good IMHO).
And I thought I was in the back of beyond here in New Mexico!
-XT
A few years ago I started noticing the frozen hamburgers. I don’t know it was something recent, of if they were always there and I’d just never noticed.