Question of the Day - Tuesday, August 25

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Hello Everyone! Happy Tuesday!







What happens in your country (Or region/county etc) regularly that people in most countries would find strange or bizarre?










Nothing too crazy on my end here in Ontario, Canada - Apparently our Ketchup Chips and milk-in-a-bag are quite perplexing to foreign visitors :lol: Granted, at the same time prior to Covid we would get so many Americans who come up and buy huge bulks of Ketchup chips to take back home with them. I do have many friends and relatives in Europe who find the idea of Halloween-Themed Fightfests (The ones where actors dress up and frighten you while you walk down a creepy hallway/pathway etc) very strange.Took quite a bit of explaining!

But also being Half-Finnish and lived in Finland for a number of years as a child, I will include Wife Carrying World Championships.






 
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Probably the vast amount of deep-fried foods available at fairs, lol. Fried cheese, fried chocolate, fried lamb, fried corn!

Also the sheer size of the food servings you get at restaurants (leading to the sheer size of the local residents!).

When we lived in Japan, my mom would take some Japanese friends to the on-base restaurants, and they were always amazed by how much food they got. One man in particular would order a steak, eat maybe 20%-25%, and take the rest home. He said he could get 3-4 meals out of the leftovers. And that was nothing compared to the restaurants here. Sure, let's have a half-gallon cup of soda! Why not have a 24-ounce steak? And 2 pounds of potato wedges? With a cup of ranch dressing!

I don't care for ketchup chips but I do love All-Dressed. A few grocery stores in the area carry them but they're more reliably available in Minnesota. Whenever I cross the border I try to stock up :D.
 
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Also from Ontario, Canada here!:thumbsup:
I can't really think of much except perhaps our incessant use of the word "eh?". Although it's not as bad as what is in comedic portrayals of how Canadians speak....We really do use it quite a bit. I find that I use it to turn a statement into a question, or add it to the end of a question...
Ex: "Wow, that's impressive, eh?" or "I guess you're pretty happy, eh?". I don't think I use it all that much, but it is part of every day language...and no, it's not at the end of every sentence spoken...
"eh?" sorta replaces "Am I correct?" or "Do you agree?"...at least for how I use it.
 
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I went to PEI last year and they were amazed that it is perfectly normal in Maine to own gun(s), whether it is for hunting or self defense. And we don't bat an eye if we hear a gun go off. Someones just hunting or target practicing. And they were shocked to hear that its normal to hunt and eat deer, moose, bear, etc.
 
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Lola3791 said:
And we don't bat an eye if we hear a gun go off.
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I do, yikes! I know that once you hear the shot it's too late; the bullet either hit you already or it didn't, but so many people are so wildly irresponsible in their gun handling, and deer rifles can shoot a bullet that goes a few miles, so hearing a gunshot still makes me nervous even though it's common.

But, yeah, widespread gun ownership is definitely a regional oddity!
 
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klunick said:
Stuffed ham is big here in Southern Maryland. I have never tried it but the locals swear it's good.
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What is it stuffed with? I am intrigued!


Mostly what I hear from out of towners is how we drive here in the Chicago area!
 
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Lari said:
What is it stuffed with? I am intrigued!


Mostly what I hear from out of towners is how we drive here in the Chicago area!
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Stuffed ham is a variety of ham in which cabbage, kale, onions, spices and seasonings are chopped and mixed, then stuffed into deep slits slashed in a whole corned or smoked ham.
 
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I think here in Australia the way we give people nicknames which sometimes can seem to be insulting.
It really means you have been accepted as one of the guys.
At the race club they call me Captain..(short for captain stink finger) because I am rushing around and hyperactive all the time they say I have my finger pulled out all the time.
 
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