An-chan

I'm the foreign fiancee, and I would never dream of wearing shoes inside my own home. I can do it at other people's houses in America, since everyone else is wearing shoes and my socks/feet would get really dirty, but I just get really uncomfortable with shoes on indoors. They're so constricting and then my feet get really gross and yuck. Definitely shoes off in my house! Keep that street stuff of my floors and all.
Another thing that makes me strange in the US is that my concept of a "meal" is very different. I don't think a sandwich counts as a meal, really - it works as a lunch in a pinch, or if it's REALLY HUGE (think footlong subs), but otherwise it's a snack at best. For me, a meal is something warm and substantial that you sit down to eat, most commonly from a plate of some kind, though I've noticed that many meals in America are made to be eaten by hand, like tacos or burgers or things like that. I also find it exceedingly strange that Americans put two different kinds of meat on a single sandwich, like ham and turkey or chicken and bacon. It's just too weird for me. And no, it still doesn't make the sandwich a meal in my book!
Likewise, when we have steak with just salt and pepper on it, or with fries or grilled corn in the best case, that's not a full meal to me. It needs to have a side dish and it needs to have a sauce. It's a horrible waste to eat something so tasty without a sauce to go with it! It's just so dry and not as tasty as it could have been. I was actually quite disappointed at Outback Steakhouse when they didn't include any kind of sauce with my steak, nor did they give me herb/garlic butter. There was just nothing with the meat at all, in a restaurant! That's crazy! My USC fiance thinks I'm totally bonkers for thinking that, because there's no better flavor to him than that of unadorned meat... But I disagree. I was raised to have a sauce with a good meal, and I will forever demand a sauce with a good meal. Thankfully sauces are sort of my forte with cooking, so that should work out fine.
I also get really uncomfortable talking to sales people in stores, because if you need any kind of more personalized help, the sales people are going to start asking all kinds of personal questions I'm not comfortable answering. Being a foreign person getting married to an American, I'm an automatic curiosity, and then everyone needs to know how we met and how we handle the relationship right now and aaaaargh all I wanted was to ask about some wedding rings! I don't know if I should tell them it makes me uncomfortable and settle with being rude or what, but I can't quite handle the American way of talking about yourself so much to people you barely know. I guess I'll get there, but... We Finnish folks, much like a Swedish person who posted earlier, are just a bit rude by American standards. So I guess that's one "oddity" I have that I share with my Scandinavian brethren, haha!