Tuesday, September 29, 2009

English-isms

A list of things that have left me in wonder....

Butter-It's on everything.

Skinny jeans-British males somehow make them look hot without looking an ounce of emo.

Traffic direction disparity-They drive on the left side of the road yet on sidewalks/escalators they walk on the right...

Coin confusion-The two pence is as large as the fifty pence and a pound is small but thick. Dive your hand into a coin purse and there is no way you can guess what you're getting. 

Dislike of turkey-Ham is the meat of choice. Ham?! Not cool.

Cider- Some venture capitalist please please please bring this to the States.  There is a large untapped market of girls who do not like beer (which I will never understand) who would absolutely adore this stuff!!!! I honestly don't know why such a tasty drink doesn't exist everywhere. 

Garbage- Garbage bins are rare on the streets and non existent in Tube stations...so how is London so clean? Anomaly.

Free art museums- !!!!! (I may be the only one so excited for this)

But the absolute kicker is....
NO ICED COFFEE- An employee at Starbucks actually told me he thought black coffee on ice would "taste bad" and gave me an Americano instead. I was left in shock and disbelief. I miss you Dunkin'. 

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