One of my favorite things about having a relationship with someone from another country, and from traveling to other countries, is the differences and things that make you go "wait, what?"
I thought this might be a fun thread for cultural misunderstandings, or things that you or your SO took for granted as a common thing, something you weren't expecting, etc.
Some of mine:
I mentioned string cheese, and after a few minutes of confusion where my SO talked about how it was so gross and not healthy at all, we realized he was thinking of Cheez Wiz. (Canned aerosol cheese product.)
My SO talking about how his mom used to make a dinner when they were kids from a surimi mix. In my head, this was like brownie mix, so a surimi powder where you add water and milk or something. (Yum! Doesn't powdered surimi sound appetizing? No.)
Also, things I wasn't expecting:
Lightbulbs that don't screw in, and shopping carts in the grocery store that don't have that middle bar on the bottom, so they can move sideways like crabs. (Took me kind of a long time to be able to go around corners.)
Talking with my flatmates in the UK, who thought peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were so gross:
Me: I just learned recently that you guys call jelly what I'd call Jell-O, the gelatin stuff. Did you think I meant peanut butter and gelatin sandwiches?
Flatmate 1: No.
Flatmate 2: No.
Flatmate 3: ...I did.
I thought this might be a fun thread for cultural misunderstandings, or things that you or your SO took for granted as a common thing, something you weren't expecting, etc.
Some of mine:
I mentioned string cheese, and after a few minutes of confusion where my SO talked about how it was so gross and not healthy at all, we realized he was thinking of Cheez Wiz. (Canned aerosol cheese product.)
My SO talking about how his mom used to make a dinner when they were kids from a surimi mix. In my head, this was like brownie mix, so a surimi powder where you add water and milk or something. (Yum! Doesn't powdered surimi sound appetizing? No.)
Also, things I wasn't expecting:
Lightbulbs that don't screw in, and shopping carts in the grocery store that don't have that middle bar on the bottom, so they can move sideways like crabs. (Took me kind of a long time to be able to go around corners.)
Talking with my flatmates in the UK, who thought peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were so gross:
Me: I just learned recently that you guys call jelly what I'd call Jell-O, the gelatin stuff. Did you think I meant peanut butter and gelatin sandwiches?
Flatmate 1: No.
Flatmate 2: No.
Flatmate 3: ...I did.
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