What cultural differences come up in your relationship?

[Saddle Bronc 124]

beans on toast...ftw! good stuff

Except you can't get the 'right sort' of beans in the US. I have tried the vegetarian baked beans and they are just too sweet. What's with having everything taste like desert, including bread?

Solution: get dried beans (only about a bazillion kinds to choose from at average supermarket) cook them at home with some Hunt's (or Contadina) Tomato Sauce.

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FTW?

[fozzie 41]

beans on toast...ftw! good stuff

Except you can't get the 'right sort' of beans in the US. I have tried the vegetarian baked beans and they are just too sweet. What's with having everything taste like desert, including bread?

Solution: get dried beans (only about a bazillion kinds to choose from at average supermarket) cook them at home with some Hunt's (or Contadina) Tomato Sauce.

:no: :no: :no: :no: :no: :no:

FTW?

The tomato sauce used in baked beans is just different than hunts tomato sauce. Sounds like a terrible idea.

[britbird 4]

I have found that Heinz Vegetarian beans (which you seem to be able to get in many stores here) are a decent substitute for their British beany brethren.

(butter toast, put marmite on toast, put beans on, then grate cheese oh...et voila!!! Good for hangovers too!)

[Peikko 1,575]

But they are still way TOO SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and expensive. What's with paying nearly $2 for a can of beans?

[~*Maria*~ 1]

Dane hmm he can be a right azzhole at times, especially when it comes to my meds. I'll ask him to pass me my inhaler or pills, and he's constantly on my back tellin ....... "its ours" NOT "yours" am like ####### that..... Does the inhaler etc have your name on FFS, he's like NO but its still "ours" He keeps telling me that i'm the most selfish person he's ever known. All because i tell him that the inhaler and meds are "Mine". GRRRRRRRRRRRRR bloody men.

[britbird 4]

But they are still way TOO SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and expensive. What's with paying nearly $2 for a can of beans?

Damn...where are buying your beans? That's expensive. And you are quite right...they are sweet - though the marmite helps out with that.

[fozzie 41]

But they are still way TOO SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and expensive. What's with paying nearly $2 for a can of beans?

Damn...where are buying your beans? That's expensive. And you are quite right...they are sweet - though the marmite helps out with that.

A thread on cultural differences has become the Baked Beans on Toast thread.

[Ladylethal 12]

Americans often have a weird way of holding their cutlery. Like holding a fork in their fist and then cutting all their food up in little bits...same way small children do in the UK. Fortunately the husband is something of a mimic, so he doesn't do that any more, but it amazes me to see people eat like that in nice restaurants.

After living in the UK for 3 years, I eat 'properly' as well. My brothers back in the states make fun of me now because they say that I eat everything with a knife and fork...which apparently is something to make fun of! I told the guys here in Brazil how us Americans eat without a knife and they thought it was really funny. I will never understand why Americans have to switch hands to cut things up! Why don't we all just learn how to hold the cutlery correctly!

All the switching of hands drives me crazy, I eat an entire meal with fork on right and knife on left hand, so I cut my food as I go. Turn utensils down to cut, up to eat, if the food doesn't require much cutting it's the usual knife resting at the edge of the plate and then I pick it up again to help scoop the final bits of food to the top of my fork. Pretty neat for me.

And yes, us brazilians tend to eat everything with a knife and fork. Pizza, bone-in fried chicken, etc.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Would Canuck baked beans work as a substitute for the Limey kind?

[Peikko 1,575]

But they are still way TOO SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and expensive. What's with paying nearly $2 for a can of beans?

Damn...where are buying your beans? That's expensive. And you are quite right...they are sweet - though the marmite helps out with that.

I brought a bunch of Marmite back with me after the last visit back to blighty. I have found the Heinz veg beans in places like Albertsons, but they are at least $1.67 a can, small ones at that so I don't buy them often. It might be because I am in socal that they are so expensive, I don't really know.

I don't know, I don't know anything about Canuck baked beans

[almaty 19]

Dane hmm he can be a right azzhole at times, especially when it comes to my meds. I'll ask him to pass me my inhaler or pills, and he's constantly on my back tellin ....... "its ours" NOT "yours" am like ####### that..... Does the inhaler etc have your name on FFS, he's like NO but its still "ours" He keeps telling me that i'm the most selfish person he's ever known. All because i tell him that the inhaler and meds are "Mine". GRRRRRRRRRRRRR bloody men.

stick in up his ####### and then it is his.

..i am sure that will happen if he keeps it up with my firey Scot sister

[trinket 30]

Food was a major problem for me at first, but now its all good. I still hate it how he wants to have dinner around 5pm and I am more used to 8pm.

Festive time out here is far more different from India, out here people stay at home while in India you go out during festive season (which is all year long )

I miss street life, street food has its own flavour about it. I did go to one of the BBQs out here and loved it, though the BBQ were a bit too sweet for my taste but I loved the whole atmosphere in general.

Change has been good so far, I didn't feel all lost. Its amazing that we have hardly had any fight so far

[pedroh 21]

J loves all the latino food I like, so we're cool (except cow tongue, but I'm flexible lol)

[Chica Yeyé 41]

J loves all the latino food I like, so we're cool (except cow tongue, but I'm flexible lol)

#######?!?!?! Where do you eat that ####### in NC???? Dios mio!!!

[Ladylethal 12]

Cow tongue is huge in Brasil too, I never liked the texture of it, but my mom and my oldest brother fight over the last pieces. I like cow's tail much better.