To be fair the 1970's plates were smaller so it was hard to balance four helpings on one plate
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Apologies if my post / thread may have been misinterpreted. We really enjoy USA and great people everywhere.
This is just showing some things we found interesting / different here and I'm sure yanks in Ireland would also be looking at how small the portions and how expensive it is at my home. Just different ways of life and it's all good
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In Canada menus always list a "regular" and a "small" portion. I learned very quickly that you never ever order the regular unless you're planning to share between three of you. The small is a big meal for one regular person.
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In the Netherlands quite often when you buy meat you'll see portion weights on the menu...I quite like that idea.
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I love and hate the States at the same time, i also love and hate Great Britain. One of my daughters has settled in the US and loves it but she is young and has not yet been infected with cynicism that comes with age, When i lived in the states i had not yet been infected too
The wife and myself often talk of going back and kinda living off grid but the current Medical insurance costs really throws a stick in the spokes on that one.
The wife and myself often talk of going back and kinda living off grid but the current Medical insurance costs really throws a stick in the spokes on that one.
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We found that Denny's varied quite a bit, from frankly awful to quite good. I believe they are a franchise which would explain it.
When I was in the states I discovered that anything produced in that state was dirt cheap, anything from another state was heavily taxed.
So in Florida where I was orange juice was around a dollar for a gallon but cereal was crazy expensive. So when the first box of cheerios was done we had breakfast out every morning at one of the many all you can eat places.
PS I've good news for any one looking for an S-class Merc, a con saw or a bench vice. Since @JOEPRO has been across the pond the prices have crashed, so if you want one be quick before he comes back!
So in Florida where I was orange juice was around a dollar for a gallon but cereal was crazy expensive. So when the first box of cheerios was done we had breakfast out every morning at one of the many all you can eat places.
PS I've good news for any one looking for an S-class Merc, a con saw or a bench vice. Since @JOEPRO has been across the pond the prices have crashed, so if you want one be quick before he comes back!
Been wearing a ten dollar pair of Wranglers today that I bought in a Target in Cincinnati in 2005 ish - they have lasted wellIt’s a decade or so since I was last in one, I quite enjoyed how cheap stuff like jeans and T shirts were. 3 decent quality T shirts for ten bucks, or jeans for $8 a pair, what’s not to like.
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Twenty odd years ago I came back here, from New York as it happens and quite often I really rather wish I hadn't but then I wouldn't be in the Here and Now, which I rather quite like to be honest.
Been wearing a ten dollar pair of Wranglers today that I bought in a Target in Cincinnati in 2005 ish - they have lasted well
I bought a pair of Levi 501's in a Levi shop in Orlando at well under half the UK price. They had every waist size & leg length going up in inches, only time I've ever bought anything off the peg that fitted without alteration!
Still have them but only as a keepsake, my waist is now 4" too big to wear them!
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Like most of us here mate,me includedI bought a pair of Levi 501's in a Levi shop in Orlando at well under half the UK price. They had every waist size & leg length going up in inches, only time I've ever bought anything off the peg that fitted without alteration!
Still have them but only as a keepsake, my waist is now 4" too big to wear them!
I bought several pairs back there - didn't know when I'd be back . . . a couple of pairs sort of stretched with me . . a couple are like new. I'd have to admit it's only recently they started to fit againI bought a pair of Levi 501's in a Levi shop in Orlando at well under half the UK price. They had every waist size & leg length going up in inches, only time I've ever bought anything off the peg that fitted without alteration!
Still have them but only as a keepsake, my waist is now 4" too big to wear them!
It's just different. I'm known at work for liking the place, wherever I have to go there. Job needs doing in the US, call me . . . Need to go tomorrow, stay three months . . call me . . .
In 25 yrs of travelling there, living, working, short trips (A day - for one meeting in Philidelphia!), there's not been many people I've had to meet, work with, deal with, talk to, buy from, sell to, that I wouldn't want to meet again. I've seen people on the street I might have crossed over to avoid, gone down a different aisle, but I do that here, or in Europe too.
I like the food - I just eat as much of what gets delivered as I need. Full bore US-spec Mountain Dew used to get me through some lonnng days. I can wander the aisles of supermarkets, DIY stores, book shops, car parts stores (what's the chance of meeting a guy behind the counter in a Auto-Zone in Olympia just before they close on a sunday night, who's grandparents still live a few miles from where I'm sat now?) for fun - I don't do that in the UK anymore.
I get compliments (from both sexes!) on my multi-coloured striped Jeff Gordon jacket - wore my original out, now wearing a new old stock version - hotel and airline staff recognise me via the jacket - that and just being polite seems to get me excellent, pleasant service. In the UK, I'm just an idiot in a funny jacket
I miss Sears, K-Mart, Circuit City, Frys, Radio Shack every time I visit.
And when is Arby's going to come over here?
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I think it is ‘fashionable’ to bash the US, usually from people who have never been, same as so many bikers slag off Harleys, though most have never ridden one.
(In general, not on this forum, I mean)
I asked my old employer if they could help get me a green card, when I was working in the Gulf of Mexico, but they said they couldn’t do it. I’d have moved there in a heartbeat.
The medic on my ship told me about her father who was selling his house in Kentucky. 30 acres, a huge farm house, with a big barn converted into a 2 storey metal/wood workshop….. all for $70,000 That was ten years ago, and I’d have snapped his hand off if I could have just got a visa…
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The ex wife had family in NY, we visited several times. I found it to be just like every other big city: crowded, hot, smelly, boring, traffic, frustrating etc
I can’t imagine why people say ‘I love New York’…..
But they are rubbish.
My old boss had one that he had inherited from a late mate, and he spent longer fixing it than riding it.
My favourite was the morning he turned up minus a mirror. He said he was sat idling at the lights and it just fell off with no warning, as the mounting bracket failed
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For the same reasons I like a lot of other cities, museums, galleries etc.
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In fairness, I think it's a part of human nature, that tends to "bash" anywhere that isn't home.
I sometimes have to bite my tongue, when people are criticising France, often quite unfairly
and, simply, erroneously.
Occasionally I will also defend France, @Erie Fred , when I feel something should be said.
Nowhere is perfect.
On a Florida trip in '95 I was taken aback by just how big the people were.Do the Mericuns really chomp through this much foodCould be they are into big shops/keeping stock with less trips..
Bob
Generally much taller, but really "big" with it.
It was like wandering around in a forest of slowly moving buildings draped in Hawaian/Football (American) shirts & baseball caps.
At 5' 9" ish and at the time maybe 11 stone - I was a midget, with the only people my size or smaller being Hispanic.
On a 2015 trip to Arizona though it wasn't as noticeable (though more so when in Las Vegas, Nevada for a day).
