Americanisms

Some wtfs 'I LOVE THIS COUNTRY' Americanisms from yours truly.

PEANUTS IN THEIR SHELLS LIKE WHAT YOU SEE IN DUMBO.

CIDER WHICH IS ACTUALLY APPLE JUICE, AND 'HARD' CIDER WHICH IS ACTUALLY APPLE JUICE WITH A SHOT OF - PROBABLY - VODKA: In Fred Meyer they sell a 500ml bottle of Aspall Suffolk Cyder (British import) for $7.

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CLAPBOARD SUBURBIA: A culmination of the idiot's technicolor American dreams.

CHATTING TO THE NEXT DOOR TABLE IN A RESTAURANT: Serious no-no awkward in England.

BISCUITS: Kind of savoury scones with a pool of creamy gravy. Not cookies, which, according to the Queen's English, are in fact the right and proper biscuit.

TELEVISION AND NEWS: America flaunts a manifest disinterest in news stories from other countries, which I suppose is fair enough if your country eats about 50 of my countries in one gulp. But still. And, with the exception of HBO and Scrubs, Consette declares that everything else is shite. How does anyone have the patience to sit through all those commercial breaks?

THE PEOPLE: Largely marvellous.

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