Wasn’t quite sure on the wording but it can be anything, places, food, customs.
As a Canadian it’s hard to imagine not having a Tim Horton’s within walking distance at pretty much any given time. There’s some in other countries now but nowhere near our 4000 locations. The US has the second most and that’s only like 500! Not a lot comparatively.
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Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in America
In Finland: taking off our shoes when entering home.
In Portugal: Loads of pastelarias (bakeries? patisseries? ) everywhere
I never saw a Tim Horton’s! I didn’t even know what you were talking about, I had to google. š
A/C everywhere, ice in drinks.
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So many types of stores that are open 24/7. I understand this isn’t really a thing in other countries for the most part.
In the UK pubs are everywhere, you forget they’re not really a thing in the rest of the world. Bars are not the same!
In France free healthcare, and a functioning public transportation system
Bagged milk lol. When I was younger I couldn’t conceive of milk in jugs or cartons. THOSE were the novelties! So different from everywhere else in the world (even other provinces in the country)
England – there being nice gardens and garden centres almost everywhere. In most other countries Iāve been, that gardening tradition doesnāt seem to be so ingrained.
Bagged milk.
My German friend says you have to pay to use the public toilet there which is mind boggling to me.
Tim Hortons
Is Tim Horton’s coffee still horrible?
As a Spanish person, persianas (think like blackout curtains but better). I can’t imagine what it’s like trying to sleep without my trusty trusty persianasĀ
Rusks… Like is it really only a South African thing? š¤
As a New Zealander, watching people found guilty of various crimes receive a sentence of “discharged without conviction” because the judge doesn’t want to mess up their ability to travel internationally. Here’s the latest example https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/exponents-frontman-jordan-luck-admits-drink-driving-charge/WXUNUHMXPBBNPGXETPSQDEB6LI/
So many guns. U.S. of course
A/Cs in every building, big bathroom stall gaps, 21+ drinking age, expensive healthcare bills, expensive tuition, thereās probably more but thatās off the top of my head.
Crap phone signal
Always seems like most rural areas in other countries have full bars 5G yet in the UK the middle of a city you struggle to get a decent signal on any network
Big drink sizes (at least 60% ice).
Doesn’t even have to be soda/flavored drinks. It’s perfectly normal to see people walking around with liter+ size water bottles.
We like big drink here.
I live in Phoenix AZ, in the US. Crime and violence is pretty normal where I live and you have to live on edge around cops and civilians. Talking to people that live in other places it isn’t normal and that seems foreign to me.
Canadian ā¦ seeing electric cords hanging from car grills ā¦ and electric outlets in almost every outdoor parking lots!
Water. Fresh beautiful water everywhere. I think Canadians donāt even think about how lucky we are to have 20% of the worldās fresh surface water. Never take that for granted.
Scot who lived in America
A. Ribena
B. kinder eggs
C. Tesco Metro esque shops which sells sandwiches, stuff, and also booze.
Bidets. I had to buy a portable bum gun for when I travel around parts of the “first world”. Y’all are gross.
Tropical fruits šµš
Mountains right next to beaches. Plus you’re probably never more than 20 miles away from a field full of sheep or cows.
My friend from Ireland said that he never fired a gun before. I said “Oh we can just go to the range next you’re in (Midwest USA) town”. He said “the what”. No gun ranges in Ireland I suppose š¤·
Bagged milk lol.
Tartar sauce!Ā Part of my job is cooking seafood dinners and I had a family visiting from the Philippines who had never had it and were blown away by the wonders of tartar sauce!Ā I directed them to some brands that didn’t need to be refrigerated that I thought would make it home with them, hope they made it.
In Poland, stores donāt open on Sundays ā all the malls are completely closed, along with hair salons and other businesses.
Only one grocery chain stays open, but the selection is pretty limited and the prices are higher.
Paczkomaty (InPost) ā those are automatic parcel lockers where your packages get delivered. Theyāre literally everywhere, and you can pick up your order anytime, day or night. Itās so convenient that going back to regular delivery feels like a pain.
Also, soup is a must-have part of lunch here š
Giant take out coffees
Ooh I have one. I am currently in Korea and almost every Western food are sweetened, and I’m from the US where everything is laced with HFCS lol.
Like, I don’t want my nacho cheese to taste like desserts, but I guess Koreans love them. And the worst offender is a garlic bread. For the love of god I cannot find a place that sells regular garlic bread with garlic, butter, parsley and possibly parmesan cheese. In here, they have to smother garlic bread in syrup or sweetened cream cheese…..
School shootings.
Washcloths!
Now Zyn seems to be gaining traction in the rest of the west, but here in Sweden it’s pretty much 50/50 someone uses snus or not. Nobody bats half an eyelash, and sharing new snus flavours is like 40% of office small talk.
Going outside of scandinavia though and people get so bewildered about what we’re shoving under our top lips and why. And it’s always such a nice moment when
someone dares to try, though they usually end up immediately regretting it hahah!
in the UK, meal deals like from tesco, sainsburyās, etc – i havenāt seen them the same way anywhere else! also, actually being IDāed for things like energy drinks (have to be 16). i donāt think iāve ever been IDāed in another country except for alcohol, sometimes
in italy, places that sell pizza by the slice and are not restaurants. iāve seen a couple places outside of italy but itās nowhere near as easy to find, and they donāt have as much variety or the same customs around it as we do in italy š
Owning firearms
Drinking alcohol publicly. Like on the streets, public transportation, in parks, beaches etc. Sometimes when I have traveled I have been needing a reminder from people around me that I cannot do it there, that itās illegal or much more frowned upon than Iām used to.
Also: shops being open on Sundays!! I always manage to forget about it when Iām somewhere else. Thereās so little difference between red days and normal days regarding the opening hours of stores that itās almost never something you need to keep in mind at all.
There is not a Tim Horton’s outside of Canada. I will die on this hill.
I’ve tried those abortive jokes they call Timmy’s but they are not the same. Everything tastes different, it is a different restaurant with the Tim’s name slapped on it.
I’m from the US, but I LOVE when I get a chance to get North and get me some Tim’s, especially the Sweet Cream Iced Coffee. I could drown in a bucket full of it and die happy.
That and All Dressed Chips are two points where I gladly bend the knee.
Safe drinking water in my house
Stabbing. Most people in other countries shoot each other.
Fairly decent public transit. I donāt even equate this to Canada. I equate this to public transit in Vancouver & its metro area. Itās not perfect to everywhere but a good amount of most places people wanna go to are connected by bus or monorail. The ferries are overpriced but good to have too.
As an American, apparently not having a bidet. Butt Iāve seen the light!
Didn’t realise lemon lime & bitters was an austalian staple and not well know outside of the country, its just such a ubiquitous drink option, it’d be like not having a gin and tonic on the menu
I live in southern North Carolina, so there are no Tim Horton’s here, but my wife has been ordering bags of it online lately and let me say, that is damn good coffee
I live in Northern Maine and I love Tim Horton’s!!! We had one on my college Campus in NYS as well, although it was a mini one with only drinks and donuts. Tim Horton’s is a 1000% better than Dunkin, this is speaking as a Massachusetts native
Electrical wires above every road
Iām New Zealand we have bakeries everywhere. Itās basically where you can stop in for lunches and a grab a meat pie, sandwich, roll, cake to go. You grab it from the display cabinets pay for it and go. Itās all freshly made daily and anything that doesnāt sell is sold the next day for cheaper on the āsecondsā table. One of my favourite things about my country is
Clean drinking water