- just-add-water breakfast pancake mix
- drive-up everything
- no reason returns in stores
- pay at the pump gas
- gas pumps you can leave running while you clean your windows
- the summer swim culture
- the encouragement of a huge variety of sports from a very young age
- waiter service in Britich style pubs
- roadtrips
- hash browns
- right turn on red
- no speed cameras
- cup holders
- school buses
- Halloween
- armadillos
- huge effective tumbe dryers
- amazing thunderstorms
I'm sure there are many more, and there are certainly many things that drive me nuts, but right now, I'm feeling very content, so I thought I'd share. .... the kids wanted toad-in-the-hole for dinner but it was late so I substituted with breakfast pancakes from the mix, grilled sausages and british (Bisto) gravy ...and the growed-ups had fried onions too. It worked a treat, and got me thinking how there are many things all-american that work so well for this bunch of limeys