4. That The Serving Sizes At Fast Food Restaurants Are Ludicrous
Yeah: there are other countries all over the world that also embrace the power of "super sized" meals, but America is undoubtably the king with regards to this trend. The sheer size of fast food restaurant portions inherent to the majority of your chains is, generally speaking, staggering.
3. That The United States Has No National Official Language
Nope. You just don't. According to Wikipedia: "The United States does not have a national official language; nevertheless, English (specifically American English) is the primary language used for legislation, regulations, executive orders, treaties, federal court rulings, and all other official pronouncements; although there are laws requiring documents such as ballots to be printed in multiple languages when there are large numbers of non-English speakers in an area."
2. That Washing & Refrigerating Your Eggs Seems Weird To Everyone Else
In the US, it's required by law that eggs must be washed before they're sold, which only succeeds in doing one thing: removing their natural protective coating. As a result of this law, eggs must therefore be refrigerated once bought to avoid germs. Whilst all this might sound normal to Americans, it seems kind of pointless to everyone else on Earth, given that it would be far easier to just not wash the eggs in the first place and avoid the entire process. Which is how pretty much how rest of the world does it, eggs are sold unwashed and then stored at room temperature. Believe it or not, it would be illegal to sell American eggs in, say, Europe.
1. That In Some States It's Illegal To Be Drunk In The Street
We know what you're thinking; this sort of makes sense. But we're not talking about "being drunk and causing trouble" here; we're talking about just being drunk. So say you leave a bar after four or five beers and you're walking home feeling tipsy but aren't do anything wrong, you're technically committing a crime and - yes - you can be arrested for it, too. Protocol demands that you call a cab or get somebody to drive you home. Uh? Like this list? Got any to add? Let us know in the comments section below.
Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.
