I made the pink lemonade one. Maybe the others are nicer.

Sloppy Joes are simply diarrhea in a bun.

I've yet to eat diarrhea, so I'll have to take your word on that.

The sad truth is very very few of us have not eatten diarrhea.

What was the quote in Fast Food Nation...?

"They can't keep the shit out of the meat"

If you begin using the "fag" or "fanny" words, you will likely come across the "PC" brigade or the "easily offended". Wouldn't want you to drop yourself into the sh1t on your first week of work.
You might hear "excuse me", meaning, what did you just say, rather than, can I get past you, or, I just burped/farted.

Yes - be careful - Americans are much more easily offended than Brits. I've been here long enough to know that. Watch your Ps and Qs!!

It's certainly a learning curve Harry, that's for sure. I still learn new stuff every year.

I found myself getting overly excited the other day when I found some British goodies in a local Harris Teeter store.

Anyway I hope that all goes well for you and every day will bring new surprises I'm sure

Too right...I think its in the genes...

Thank you ABY!

Oh and whilst I'm here ............ It took me forever to do grocery shopping when I first arrived. There are lots and lots of things that are simply called something else. It was actually quite frustrating and stressful to be wandering around the aisles for the fourth or fifth time trying to find what I believed to be common ingredients. One thing I did learn courtesy of my OH though is that if you buy all purpose flour, you can make your own self-rising/raising - there are recipes for it online - might seem ridiculously easy but as I'd be brought up buying the two different kinds I'd never needed to know this.

One experience brought me to tears though was Lowes lol. We been out buying major lumber and stuff for some home repairs and I'd been tagging along with hubby - don't get me wrong, I LOVE Lowes and Home Depot - but we'd been in there for 3 hours, I was still jet lagged and was getting narky. Anyway recognising this hubs sends me off to do a little task on my own, getting some cream paint for the bathroom. I couldn't believe there were only two aisles of paint and it was all flippin white - what kind of a DIY store has just white paint FFS. I was so tired I just lost it and started blubbing lol. Of course after about one minuted I squared my shoulders, looked around more and realised that you have to get any paint colours here mixed - which actually makes more sense when I reflect on it.

But be prepared, what seems funny and quirky can get a bit tiring and on a bad day will be annoying as hell - all part of the adapting for new incomings!

The DIY stores need a translation book all of their own....

polyfilla - spackle
coving - crown moulding
dado rail - chair rail
skirting board - baseboard
spanner - wrench
tap - faucet
plasterboard - sheetrock
gutter - guttering (seems close, but caused me a problem!)

Can't think of any more offhand but sure there must be loads...When I'm in trouble I always seek out either an old irish guy at Home Depot, or a Singaporean guy at Lowes and (once we've sorted out our accents) they generally know what I'm talking about and get me to the right local name!

Oh yeah - one other, that doesn't really fall into the translation area , more a hiring error by the manager of the local HD - wanting to cost out the possibility of adding a bit of green power at home, I asked where I could find solar panels..The guy in orange took me to the windows aisle......

What about American Screwdriver?

Not if I'm using power tools.....