74 Things People Did Not Realize Are Specific To Their Own Country, Not The World

I dunno how universal it is, but as a kid we used to make cinnamon toast.

Bread, butter (lots), then cover the butter with a mix of sugar and cinnamon, and toast it.

I loved it!

Christmas pantomime — they're camp, silly plays aimed at children during Christmastime. It's a normal thing that happens every Christmas in the UK and Ireland. They usually have someone in drag, and there's lots of audience participation. You don't realize quite how strange they are until you take someone not from the UK to see one, and they're completely baffled.

Sandwich toppings in squeezable tubes. There amour of flavours are vast - ranging from prawn cheese to caviar.

I thought every country had an official competition of just lying around under the tree. Turns out it's just us


Edit: Since everyone's asking for more details. It's held once a year, during the summer and yes, it is outside. The location is always the same. Whoever lasts the longest, wins, so there is no set end date. The winner gets a cash prize of 200€. Everyone can enter, foreigners included. There are no age brackets. You can eat, drink, nap and talk. I'm pretty sure bathroom breaks are allowed (I don't think it would even be legal to not allow them all things considered).

Sourdough bread being the norm.

Here, when someone says "bread", they ALWAYS mean sourdough. It's normal. You can buy it anywhere. Baking one at home isn't big of a deal. It's the toast bread that needs to be differentiated. So imagine my surprise when I found out that the world has flatbreads and toasts instead.

Apparently a lot of people think mayo with fries is gross. In Belgium it's probably the most popular sauce to have with fries (although I prefer tartar sauce).

Those red solo cups. Apparently y'all think those are movie props. Haha.

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I remember going to a party with lots of international students in the US. When they saw the red cups, they were all like “wow, it is just like in the movies!”

I thought everyone ate & saw avocado as a sweet dessert (turns out a lot of people think avocado desserts are disgusting). i was genuinely surprised to saw other cultures eat it in savory dishes.

Idk how to describe it, but we have a dessert called kaahi, it's basically very very crispy bread eaten with syrup and Qaymar (a type of cream cheese that only made in Iraq), yeah that tastes like heaven and no one eats it other than us.

Here, homework and test answers are marked with a 'krul' instead of a checkmark. It looks kind of like a cursive letter R, with a big loop. I was surprised to find out other countries don't do this.

Yellow school buses! I have had so many people from other countries tell me they thought that our yellow school buses were a movie/TV thing only.

I don’t know if I ever thought they were “universal” necessarily, but I do find it amusing that folks thought they were mere fiction.

Sausage Sizzle outside of a hardware store. You get a sausage, you get a slice of white bread, you drizzle on some sauce and go into the store to get some cheap plywood or something, and it’s the best.

Stone & lbs as the main measurement of human weight. I don’t get why we use it either. No other countries outside of the UK & Ireland use stone.

For literally everything including animals else we use kg.

Having an astrology section on the nightly news.

Saying “hip hip - hooray” three times after singing happy birthday to someone. That was a sad day for me.

Beans on toast with a skosh of curry powder. It's the best.

Dish drying cabinets. These are practically in every house. I think people are starting to use them elsewhere as well, since, well, it's great, but I don't think a lot of countries have them common. Sweden maybe?

Sweet garlic bread.

In fact it’s sweet by default in Korea, so I relatively recently learned that it isn’t in most countries.

Gravy with your fries. Order fries at any sit down in Canada and they'll ask if ypu want gravy, I tried to order gravy for my fries in the states and they looked at me like I had three heads.
Edit; I fear I must clarify, I refer not to a poutine, but a side of gravy for which to dip your fries.

Fairy bread. First, you spread your butter thickly on a slice of bread, getting it right to the edges. Then, pour some hundreds and thousands — the little multicoloured beady spheres, similar to sprinkles — onto a dish, so you don't make a mess. Finally, press the bread into the hundreds and thousands, buttered side down, and cut into triangles.