Pulaski

Culinary.

scrubbedexpat099

Pulaski

Coals to Newcastle - they're going to California.

Cook_County

Brown sauce, teabags, baked beans, crumpets, hot cross buns & other strange foreign food they don't easily sell in California...

catlover3

Food (herbs and spices) is a really good idea - noted!

catlover3

The same as carrying 20kg, 2kg, or 200kg I should imagine!

catlover3

While we were house hunting in Santa Monica we came across this a British goods shop. They sell holland pies for 7 dollars! Not sure I'll miss them THAT much..

lizzyq

I have sympathy with bringing cutlery. US sets of flatware/silverware do not have enough knives.

Twinkle0927

Because many people here have an awful habit of using the side of a fork to cut food. I can't bear to see it. I really struggle in restaurants here. Not only am I stared at for eating with a knife in my right hand and fork in my left but the sight of everyone else eating so slovenly... saves us a fortune though as I have no desire to eat out!

tom169

I have the opposite problem. We got cutlery for wedding gifts and now we have knives galore... Only a few of those are my pen knives.

Really? I've never felt like that when eating with a knife and fork in a restaurant.

Pulaski

Unless they came from the UK, you have a dinner knife for every dinner fork, but no side knives go match the side/salad forks, which is what Lizzyq is talking about.
Me neither and the one-handed eating is apparently going out of vogue. I guess more Americans are realizing what a lot of faffing around is required to eat with one hand.

In any case I don't give a cräp what other people think about my dining habits, nor do I care much about anyone else's. That said, I find the mess some families leave behind, especially larger groups, pretty sickening - it look like pigs have been eating at the table.

robin1234

We bought a place in England a couple of years ago, and bought mostly new stuff at IKEA etc., but we did bring one of our excess cutlery sets from America! How do you mean, though, not enough knives? There's a knife for each dinner fork. Isn't that normal for a set of silverware?

Guilty as charged. Having lived in the US since 1976, I use the one handed fork method. (Fork in my right hand, that is.) If I can't cut a chicken breast portion with the side of the fork, it's too tough. I eat that way when I'm in England too...

scrubbedexpat142

Er, more weight = more fuel burned, more fuel burned = more fuel carried = more fuel burned... Ask the airlines!

DaveLovesDee

Yeah, but when you're looking at a fully-loaded 747 weighing around 400,000kg, allowing certain fare types to get extra baggage allowance will have been factored into the appropriate weights.

There's probably not much difference in fuel burn at or near maximum aircraft weights.

scrubbedexpat142

Obviously - but I am answering the original question, more weight = more fuel!