“So apparently yellow school buses are actually a thing in America. I honestly thought it was just a cartoon thing, but nope.”
“That Dolly Parton has her own theme park in Tennessee. I thought it was a joke.”
“Surfer-dudes actually speak like that.”
“The honking… I thought it was a movie stereotype, and then I went to New York”
“It’s really like the movies/TV – schools have a f@#ck ton of extracurricular activities and clubs. Basketball, football, swimming, cheerleaders, chess, and a lot more.”
“My dad heard this crazy rumor about everyone getting drunk and wearing green for one day a year. He obviously didn’t know this was a holiday, and was like WTF. When he came to the US and discovered St. Patrick’s Day, he was amazed.
“You can see into the public toilet cubicles”
“I’d always heard that Americans are like… super good at pie. Then I was in Maryland for Thanksgiving and had all different kinds of pie. Dear lord, I’ve never tasted anything that delicious. From blueberry to apple to pumpkin. Every. Single. Pie. They were all amazing.”
“Drink sizes. Holy sh#@t.
When my family visited in 2017 we landed in Texas for a stopover. First thing I saw in the shops part of the terminal was a dude who was drinking from what looked like an actual f@#$$%g bucket – here in NZ our ‘large’ drinks would be considered an American ‘small’ or maybe ‘medium'”
“I’m from Quebec and when we went down to Boston for a school trip, I sneezed in public and heard two or three people say “bless you”. Quite a weird rumor I had heard not 2 months prior to that. I thought it was nice.”
“Biscuits and gravy is a legit thing.”
“The ‘Take me out to the ballgame song’ that’s apparently sung at baseball games. still not entirely sure that guy wasn’t taking the piss out of me”
“Before I moved to America, I heard about dishwashers. That sh@#t sounded too good to be true. Well, imagine my surprise.”
“I’m from Australia, and all my life I believed Red Solo cups were like 555 area codes – a Hollywood prop. When I immigrated to the US, my MIL was making dinner and offered me iced tea in a Red Solo cup.
I lost it, made everyone sign the cup. I’ve still got it.”
“All the food is bigger.”
“Sports Bars are actually exactly how they’re portrayed on TV”
“Masked people come to your house, knock on your door asking for candy. Mostly it’s just packs of kids but sometimes whole families. This was my Halloween culture shock.”
“That American kids eat straight sugar. Walked on to the playground and saw kids chugging these long thin sticks. I try and it was just colored sugar lol. Called them pixie sticks.”
“I always thought that the Olive Garden in The Simpsons was just code for ‘generic restaurant’”
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