/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I brought up the champagne shit, sorry bout that.

There's a nice "travelpedia" site worth checking out that covers a lot of the weird hangups us murrikans have. Every country has them. On that site each country has a section called "Respect" that lists all the things that will get you a poke in nose or ass. In the USA one, it mentions drinking booze before 5pm is taboo. Never thought much about it, but everyone I know who does that would hide that fact. Not the same with beer/wine, especially for lunch. They mention some other interesting crap... Don't ever stand closer than an arm's length from strangers... And the only people it is acceptable to make fun of are fatties and whiteys. True dat honkey mofos. Ah and the weirdest one... Everybody asking you how you are doing, but if you actually respond to the question we say "ahhh fuck off with that, I got my own problems".

Some of the middle eastern ones are lengthy... I recommend taking a course or two before traveling there, you won't even make it out of the airport.

http://wikitravel.org/en/United_States_of_America#Respect

Pic related to the money jar. Where I grew up we had these things. All the fast food places locked their doors at dusk. Only way to get food was to pull up to this contraption. Way it works, if they lift the plexiglass window on their side, it closed the one on your side. That way the homeys don't pop a cap in yo ass. You put your money in the box, then closes, opening up a minute late with your food. I guess that would similar to the german tip jar :p