- Lettuce is called salad
- Dessert is called pudding
- Ranch dressing does not exist here
- Tax is included in every price
- Traffic lights go green, yellow, red, yellow, green…
- Eggs are not refrigerated in the grocery store
- You need to wash your eggs before you use them (I found a bloody feather on one of mine)
- Agents are middle men between you finding a home and a job, and are everywhere
- Subway has corn as one of their toppings
- Spandex and nylons are in fact acceptable, appropriate, and popular pants
- You don’t have to tip bartenders
- A red circle means do not enter, even if there isn’t a line through the circle
- The word stove does not exist. An oven is the baking part and a HOB is the top part, and they can be separate.
- The word 'hot plate' does not exist here
- You can take your drink outside of a pub if you want to have a smoke
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Differences...
Just a few differences we have noticed so far between London and Vancouver...
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That is so weird about the eggs and the agent dudes! Wtf do you need them for?! Money suckers.
ReplyDeleteYou can just pick up a copy of the Loot or go to Craigslist...not all people use agents. I never did.
ReplyDeleteAnd don't forget about what they call certain articles of clothing...
ReplyDeletea Jumper is a sweeter, a Mac is a raincoat, Wellies are rainboots and my personal fave - pants is underwear. I could never quite catch on to that one when I lived there and everyone at work always made fun of me for it