# Well I'll be damned! Americans are 2nd best tourists! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 19, 2002, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-ill-be-damned-americans-are-2nd-best-tourists/119787 "2002-07-19T12:29:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-ill-be-damned-americans-are-2nd-best-tourists/119787/21 "2002-07-20T11:46:13Z")
Do any Americans even go to Majorca? ---
**Author:** ![EggNogg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@EggNogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EggNogg)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-ill-be-damned-americans-are-2nd-best-tourists/119787/22 "2002-07-20T12:00:31Z")
I once encountered an American tourist who thought most residents of the “United Kingdom” ate squirrels. Now I’m not against the idea of eating the furry, nut steeling little buggers but I dont think most people would agree with me. So I did what any representative of my country would do would do, I told her that we ate hedgehogs too. egg 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-ill-be-damned-americans-are-2nd-best-tourists/119787/23 "2002-07-20T12:23:10Z")
I find it difficult to believe that such a list would give New Zealanders a score apparently higher than the Aussies. Something must be suss, there. But I can understand NZ coming in at 17th equal. We produce a heckuva lot of yahoos and larrikins, of all ages. As for speaking languages other than English – our local education system has a lot to answer for in that regard. People my age and slightly older would be lucky if they barely remember a bit of th’ old French grammar tables, let alone the ability to handle anything else. ---
**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-ill-be-damned-americans-are-2nd-best-tourists/119787/24 "2002-07-20T14:05:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by EggNogg \* > **I once encountered an American tourist who thought most residents of the “United Kingdom” ate squirrels.** Americans eat squirrels! Well, some of us. Us hillbillies, that is. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-ill-be-damned-americans-are-2nd-best-tourists/119787/25 "2002-07-20T14:09:30Z")
Uh oh! Wrong smilie! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-ill-be-damned-americans-are-2nd-best-tourists/119787/26 "2002-07-20T14:31:38Z")
What about tourists from Mexico? ---
**Author:** ![Aro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@Aro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aro)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-ill-be-damned-americans-are-2nd-best-tourists/119787/27 "2002-07-22T09:45:00Z")
I met a lot of Mexican tourists in Acapulco and Chaipas, but never met any outside of Mexico. Maybe because the peso is so low and European prices are so high. In Acapulco though, they were like Brits in Blackpool - kiss me quick hats and string vests. Quite a funny sight to behold. ---
**Author:** ![miamouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@miamouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miamouse)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-ill-be-damned-americans-are-2nd-best-tourists/119787/28 "2002-07-22T13:42:12Z")
They eat tourists in mexico? ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-ill-be-damned-americans-are-2nd-best-tourists/119787/29 "2002-07-22T23:13:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by miamouse \* > \*\*They eat tourists in mexico? \*\* Did he say Chalupas? You don’t eat Acapulco, maybe in Brownies.😃 They’re good w/ Cuervo Gold too! ---
**Author:** ![EggNogg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@EggNogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EggNogg)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-ill-be-damned-americans-are-2nd-best-tourists/119787/30 "2002-07-22T23:16:47Z")
Chalupas? I thought they were those guides from Nepal egg:D ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-ill-be-damned-americans-are-2nd-best-tourists/119787/31 "2002-07-22T23:20:55Z")
When did anybody from Nepal ever go to Mexico? …as a guide? You’d think Mt. Everest would be good enough!😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tenebras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@Tenebras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenebras)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-ill-be-damned-americans-are-2nd-best-tourists/119787/32 "2002-07-23T05:32:32Z")
Why would anyone **go** to Majorca? I thought that was a type of pottery or something… 😉 Tenebras ---
**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-ill-be-damned-americans-are-2nd-best-tourists/119787/33 "2002-07-23T16:44:48Z")
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