BRITS Hate PB&J?! // MORE US vs UK Differences that Most People DON'T Know!

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[@captainnutnut6077]

I'm from Birmingham, and I have dinner at around 5 to 6pm, generally.

[@Derby69]

You can go to a local shop and send mail by using hermes yodel ups dpd etc but you have find out which local shop does that service a post box is just for stuff being sent by royal mail

[@steveaga4683]

I cannot think of anything worse than a road trip that consists of endless straight roads with miles of unchanging scenery.

[@wncjan]

You don't have to. Just go on zmall winding roads.

[@tobytroubs]

Yeah , what they also do is put lines of tall trees on both sides of the road so you can't see anything , and above those trees are sky high adverts on stilts for McD's and Burger Kings....rural Georgia is nice though

[@garyrowden7150]

sounds like a lot of the Australia outback

[@terencehill1971]

Funny that the US Postal service delivers the mail, while Royal Mail delivers the post.

[@davidhealy4534]

I think mailman sounds less demeaning

[@roberttaylor5997]

@@davidhealy4534 How about mail woman?

[@terryhayward7905]

American drive on the parkways and park on the driveway as well :)

[@BostonBobby1961]

@@roberttaylor5997 letter carriers they’re called.

[@susie7345]

@@davidhealy4534 what demeaning about being a postman ?? It’s an honest days work

[@blotski]

You tend to eat earlier if you have little kids. In the UK if you take your driving test in an automatic car your licence is only valid to drive automatic cars and as there aren't so many of them it's very limiting. That's why most people learn and take their tests in a manual car. That way your licence is valid for both manual and automatic.

[@ianprince1698]

at one time you could take your test in an automatic and once passed jump into a manual there were several accidents because of this which is why the licences are different.

[@MastG]

@@ianprince1698 how far are you going back ? In the 50's my father drove large lorries* for the army and was given his license ... no test. *trucks for you americans.

[@0utcastAussie]

@@ianprince1698 This is once again the case if you take your test in a HGV. They are ALL Autos now so if you take your test in one you CAN legally drive a manual. (God help them if it's Constant Mesh though !!)

[@Zooumberg]

@@MastG My dad did the same. He told me he got his licence by reversing a lorry into a farmers gate when he was in the army.

[@bewareofsnow]

I tried a PB&J once. I thought "It can't taste as weird as you'd think because why would anyone eat it if it did?" but I was wrong. It tastes *exactly* as weird as you'd think. I can't imagine the level of drunkenness required to invent the PB&J, or the collective madness that could make it popular.

[@katerinagolovanova9172]

Same 😵‍💫

[@tiggerwood8899]

I tried PB and J once. it was nice, tasty. I like the sweet and savoury taste. One of my favourite sweet and savoury sandwiches is mature Cheddar or Lancashire crumbly cheese with strawberry 🍓 jam.

[@missharry5727]

I don't like smooth sweet peanut butter - but I love crunchy wholenut PB. Now I do like crispy smoked bacon with cranberry sauce in a sandwich - try it - so I thought I'd give my peanut butter a go with cranberry sauce. It was OK but I don't intend to repeat the experience. I usually eat my peanut butter with tomatoes or a nice wholegrain mustard or both.

[@sarahdoust2285]

I have tried PB&J but nah, not keen.... I do however like PB and a chutney like Branston pickle

[@philipmason9537]

Most European roads( not just British) were built hundreds of years ago for horse and carriage so they’re narrow and bendy. Houses and infrastructure were built next to them and can’t be moved so we make do with what we have. The US is 45 times larger than the U.K. and being a relatively young country compared to Europe the roads and cities have been built from scratch and on a grid system, which , of course, makes sense.

[@kejcolley]

Breakfast is when you get up (often, for me, that's around 6am) Lunch (more often than not, referred to as 'dinner') between 12 and 1.30 - tends to be later on Sundays. Tea (Evening Meal) 5.30 onwards: we prefer to begin before around 6.30 I'm English btw :-)

[@terencehill1971]

Most "A" roads, the narrow country roads, started as trackways for herding animals and followed the contours of the land. Plenty of stretches of Roman roads still around too. What was definitely designed for the horse age are the road signs indicating the way to the next town or village on those back roads as they match the eye level of a man on horseback. My Father always complained that in WW2 they were all taken down in coastal areas and councils missed the opportunity to upgrade them after the war.

[@Hfil66]

The long summer holidays (which I think used to be a bot longer in the UK in the past) goes back to when the UK was an agricultural country and the children were given time off in the summer to help their family with the harvest.

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

I am from Kenya. Our family generally takes dinner together only at weekends today. Weekdays, my immediate family and I eat at around 20:00. Our more extended family eat on Fridays and Saturdays at one of our houses a little later. Sunday, lunch comes after church, around 13:00, with just our household having supper (perhaps a barbeque) at roughly 19:00, after the mosquitoes have gone to bed. Weekdays dinner lasts about 60-90 minutes, but at the weekends much longer (with far more wine!).

[@mollydunce1881]

So, what happened to no taxation without representation? I find it strange that a country that fought a revolutionary war for its citizens rights not to be taxed by their countries government whilst they live abroad, should then adopt this practice of universal taxation as government policy. The mind boggles...

[@criswhog]

We don't put "French fries" on bread, but we do put chips in a sandwich called a "chip butty" - and to add to the confusion certainly in London we have crisp sandwiches. Both using, if course the correct definition of chips and crisps

[@0utcastAussie]

But to qualify as a Chip "Butty" It MUST have BUTTER on the bread (otherwise you're being diddled)

[@kirsty2861]

Crisps inside a footlong subway is my jam

[@maryheywood]

Personally I prefer having the holidays spread throughout the year as it keeps me going. I know I only have eight to six weeks of school before having a break. I also feel like at the end of the six weeks holiday I'm ready to go back to school and wouldn't want it to be much longer.

[@emmamaclean737]

Kids get board by the end of the first week lol they want to go back to school

[@wobaguk]

University/college holidays here are generally the US system, ie no half terms. I think it is felt that younger kids will start to tire of school after a few weeks, but older students can power through a 10 week terms.

[@enlathestrange]

In the U.K. too if you take the driving test in an Automatic car your licence only permits you to drive an automatic and you can’t then drive a manual.

[@josephturner4047]

My father worked in a garage. One day an Aymerican woman came in with a hire car. She said it wouldn't go very fast. She thought first was the same as drive.

[@LEWIS1992]

In the North of England, we eat dinner (what you call "lunch") around 11-12, then tea (what you call "dinner") at like 4 or 5. I've never heard of anyone eating their evening meal at 7 or 8 o'clock.

[@Hfil66]

You forgot to mention the controversy about whether dinner is what you eat in the middle of the day or what you eat in the evening.

[@josephturner4047]

In the RN, the lower decks have breakfast, dinner, supper. The wardroom has breakfast, lunch, dinner. On a nuclear submarine this can cause an element of confusion as forward of the RC they keep 6 hour watches. To match this, engineering aft move the first dog between the morning and afternoon. So it is dinner dog for the ratings and lunch dog for the officers and the 2nd dog is supper dog for the ratings and dinner dog for the officers. But we managed.

[@josephturner4047]

Correction. For morning read forenoon.

[@smifull]

It's simple. Dinner is the main meal, usually the hot meal, of the day. If your main meal is the evening, then lunch is what you had at 12:30. If your main meal is the middle of the day then you have tea or supper later in the day.

[@blotski]

@@smifull I think it's a bit regional too. I'm from Durham but live in Manchester now. In both places dinner is the midday meal although you can call it lunch. Tea is your evening meal regardless of the size. You can have sandwiches for dinner/lunch and a proper meal at tea time. The exception is if you go out for an evening meal in a restaurant you might call that 'going out for dinner' but mostly you'd just say you're going out for a meal.

[@garyrowden7150]

@@blotski wow , just like my upbringing in Dunedin NZ

[@TukikoTroy]

Cumbria. Dinner 12:00 - 13:00. 'Tea' around 16:00 - 17:00. Supper, just before going to bed (usually cereal or crumpets). With a manual car, you feel like you are driving it, rather than just sitting in a moving box. It keeps you more alert I suppose. Interesting that the clatter of the letter box scares you and that your first thought is that someone is breaking in, rather sad really.

[@MrSlothrun]

you can make your letterbox less heart attacky if you run a strip of foam or some little pads along the bottom of the flap so it cushions it when it shuts

[@LEWIS1992]

In the UK, you CAN get post/parcels picked up from your house, it just costs extra. Amazon returns etc use this method. Also, the hole in the front door is called a letterbox. :)

[@AndrewJLeslie]

The differences in eating times are, in my experience, down to the different working hours. Typically in the US my colleagues started work at 7:30-8. Thus lunch started often at 11-11:30 and was typically 30 minutes. Most offices I worked in in the US were almost empty by 5 and they went straight home to dinner. The first time I worked late, I discovered restaurants were typically closed by 9. A real culture shock. In the UK school usually starts at 8:30-9 so people often get to start work at 9. Lunch is usually 45 mins to an hour, between 12 and 2. After-school arrangements mean that most people in an office will quit 5:30-6, going home and eating around 7pm. Restaurants will continue serving new customers until 20-ish, although some pubs will only take orders until 9pm on weekdays.

[@davebirch1976]

As a brit I always think of meal times about same as you lunch between 12 and 1 and dinner at 5-6 as that's what time we had it when I was growing up

[@NicholasJH96]

Also depends on time you work. I work in the evenings 18.30-21.30 on Mondays & Tuesdays most of time as I’m on zero hours contract so I usually eat my eat at 16.00 but occasionally I have food at 15.30. Then I have a dessert sometimes when I come back from work

[@tiggerwood8899]

Mealtimes in the past, way back used to be breakfast, lunch, tea, dinner and supper

[@theinsideouter6371]

We like driving not pointing a vehicle, we like country roads where you might meet a tractor and when we back up and let them pass we usually find a friend

[@Tashygay]

I remember the first time I tried peanut butter and jam sandwiches. It was also my last time eating one. I thought Americans will eat anything then obviously.

[@Trillock-hy1cf]

Many years ago my son went to the US for a couple of weeks holiday (vaca y'all) and brought back a pack of Twinkies. Great I thought, and took a big bite out of one, and have never tasted such an awful roll of chemically made junk before. The left over half went into the kitchen rubbish bin (before this recycling lark became common) along with other five!! Was not impressed......:)

[@acd1202]

It was a deliberate decision not to build motorways straight, whilst there is some truth in a space issue they could be much straighter than they are; the tyrns are there to keep drivers allert, you are much less likely to fall asleep at the wheel on a road with constant turns than a straight one. It works the UK accident rate per mile is less than half of the US with much denser traffic.

[@oufc90]

Yeah that’s right, plus straight roads are so dull to drive on

[@shaunsmith5402]

The concept of the bendy roads goes way back, they designed them to slow the Romans down on the chariots.

[@captainnutnut6077]

I didn't know that! 😄 That's cool!

[@beverleyringe7014]

Quite agree, straight roads can get so boring,, your postman are just lazy, ours walk everywhere in all weathers.. what about parcels, they need to be weighed to pay the postage..

[@markredmond2014]

Nonsense, how motorways are built is due to the terrain of the land nothing do do with people falling asleep on straight roads.

[@lawrencegt2229]

Three types of fruit preserve in the UK. Jam = fruit conserve with pieces of fruit in. Marmalade = citrus jam (normally orange, lemon or lime). Jelly = Jam with the bits taken out - bramble jelly, redcurrant jelly (ace with cheese), etc. "Jelly" is also a type of set, solid (but wobbly) fruit-flavoured pudding/dessert - you might call it "Jello". Best with Ideal evaporated milk. Cheerio.

[@ianprince1698]

as a child of the 50s, we had breakfast, dinner at about one o'clock and tea at 5 or 6 pm mainly sandwiches and cake. things change but I find it confusing, I like my mid-day dinner

[@mikestarkey7989]

Lunch, dinner evening time is a regional thing. Were I'm from dinner is Lunch. And dinner is tea. Lunch/dinner is about 12:30 and dinner/tea about 17:00

[@dougtodd24]

I'm from Arbroath, Scotland, and I eat my tea when I get bored or my tummy's screaming at me.

[@MillsyLM]

Postman here, I cover about 12 miles a day delivering to over 500 houses a day. Customers can have parcels collected from their homes.

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

12 miles a day, impressive!! I do like the pick up service now with parcels - not sure how much extra work it means for you, but way better for me than having to go to the post office each time!

[@MillsyLM]

@@GirlGoneLondonofficial it can be a pain for those guys that have to use the red trollies as not everyone uses a van especially not in suburban areas. I'm responsible for collecting the mail from the postboxes in my area too.

[@J-Peg-1950]

John Dover, Kent. British summer school holidays came about when children were needed to help get the harvest in. We eat Dinner around 18:00 hours. Peanut Butter with Honey yes, not Jelly. Jelly is a flavoured wobbly desert that goes nicely with Custard.

[@TP-uf6fn]

I have my “tea” about 6pm. I have my lunch/dinner about 1pm. I’m from Manchester but might even be odd for Manchester. I don’t really use the word dinner though it’s just lunch and tea for me. If you ask me, dinner is lunch though.

[@merseydave1]

I am a Northern working class guy ... we up here say "Breakfast, Dinner, Tea" it is self explanatory Breakfast is the morning meal, Dinner is the mid-day time meal, and Tea is the early or late evening meal.

[@ademyers2741]

Taxes are much simpler in the UK. Most Britons don't have to file their taxes as its all done automatically. A regular employed person will have their income taxes deducted from their weekly/monthly salary and sent to the government tax office by their employer as part of a PAYE (Pay As Your Earn) scheme. At the end of the tax year or employment the employer will issue the employee a form (P60 or P45 respectively), detailing income and paid taxes and no further filling is required. Its only people who have a more complicated or irregular income, eg. self-employed person, that have to file tax returns.

[@andrewknots]

Scotland, 19:20 dinner., 14:00 lunch School breaks are very different Scotland vs England. Unless you qualify on a stick shift, you’re not licensed to drive one - on the other hand if you qualify on a stick shift you are allowed to drive automatic shift vehicles

[@steveshephard1158]

When I worked in an office with flexi-time the lunch period started at 12.00 and finished at 14.00, the minimum lunch break was 30 minutes but, you could take up to 2 hours as long as you worked your contracted hours. Traditionally, when the majority of women were stay at home mothers, the children ate their evening meal soon after getting home from school around 16.30 and the adults ate when the father got home from work around 18.00 or later. Nowadays, everyone tends to eat together so, families with small children eat early and families with older children eat later. If you don't get home from work until 18.00 and still have an hour or more's cooking to do you are going to end up sitting down to eat after 19.00.

[@anthonycopsey5572]

When I was in school the council changed the summer holidays from six and a half weeks to five and a half weeks, so that they could extend the Christmas and Easter holidays from two weeks each to two and a half weeks, and therefore save money on heating

[@josephturner4047]

Crikey. When I was a kid in the 60's, I thought our 6 weeks seemed like forever.

[@oufc90]

I agree, but 90s/early 00s

[@wharpblast264]

Exactly. Also if your doing public exams school effectively ends after the last exam, rather than at end of term. Making the holidays longer. There were no classes to go to. That might not have been the case for every school.

[@gerghghherb880]

I think the difference is that (in my experience) american peanut butter is different from what we typically get here, they recently started to sell Skippy over here and its so sweet I couldn't believe it, its like cake icing. Ours is much more savory (Tesco own brand crunchy is my go to). Try peanut butter on a crumpet, toast and butter it first obviously. And for the record I love peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwiches, also on toast, but its very much something I started doing because of seeing Americans do it on tv, its not common here, its probably becoming more common though

[@karlfairbanks9848]

Shocking that even after almost 10 years in the UK your still having to file a tax return, I would be renouncing my US citizenship if it that was me.

[@Lee0568]

Just found your channel,you have to remember,if you pass your test in an automatic car,your not qualified to drive a manual,BUT,if you pass in a manual,your allowed to drive an automatic.we also call LUNCH dinner,and DINNER we call tea.

[@sharonlock6452]

From Ashby de la zouch Leicestershire. We have dinner about 1pm breakfast , dinner and tea round here

[@stephenlee5929]

Hi GGL, Meal times/names: Waking: 07:00 > 09:00 Breakfast 10:30 > 11:00 Second Breakfast maybe Brunch 12:30 > 14:00 Lunch (if small meal) Dinner (if more than 1 course) 15:30 > 16:30 Afternoon Tea 17:30 > 19:00 Tea (if midday was Dinner) Dinner (if midday was Lunch) 18:30 > 20:00 Dinner 22:00 > 24:00 Supper. Sundays all meal times can be pushed upto 1 hour later. It is not required to part take of all meals, 4 of the 7 maybe optimal. 😊

[@neilhunter5893]

“Just leave a hate comment” - Brilliant 😂

[@DJhinckley]

In the Great Kingdom of Mercia dinner is midday. We have tea in the evening. We're not monsters like them southern frenchy types...

[@gary.h.turner]

And "tea" should be at something like 5pm - definitely not as late as 7pm!

[@downsman1]

French? I've never felt more insulted!........................................the ancient Englishman.

[@nicksykes4575]

The thing that winds me up the most, is the way Americans use Acronyms for just about everything. It usually takes about 5 mins to figure out what they mean. In terms of traveling, I couldn,t put it better than the old saying "Brits think 100miles is a long way, Americans think 100 years is a long time". In the manual/auto debate, I learnt to drive what you would call semis in the late 70s, and the truck I learnt on had a crash gearbox. That means there,s no syncromesh on the gears, so the rpm between engine and gearbox has to match-up or it is impossible to change gear. Once you had mastered it you only needed the clutch to start off. every other one of the 24 gears you could change without it, OK, it was tiring driving but you had pride in being able to do it. When automatic trucks started becoming the norm, they were terrible, trying to start off on a hill without rolling backwards was a nightmare. I had a Mercedes low-loader plated for a max weight of 80 tonnes that gave so much trouble the firm ripped out the auto box and put in a manual. Now you are hard pressed to find a manual truck, but the new automatics are 1000 times better than the early ones.

[@eamonquinn5188]

We don't wear any hats in the uk, maybe at the seaside, not any other time.

[@australianbloke3934]

I came here because I can't imagine eating peanut butter with jelly and wanted to hear what you had to say. Firstly, I LOVE peanut butter, but if I wanted to add jelly I would have to make some and let it set in the refrigerator. Usually only children eat jelly here, except, of course if we make a trifle for pudding.

[@jimrussell3433]

it's a chip butty anyway chips are not the same as french fries, have you tried marmite on toast !

[@georgehope5341]

You should note that if you take the UK driving test in an automatic car then the licence you obtain will only permit you to drive automatics. A manual driving test will licence you for both types. If You have an automatic licence then you will have to take another test to drive a manual shift car. Driving a manual with an automatic licence will not only get the police involved but will negate your insurance.

[@HighWealder]

Back in the 1950s and early 60s we had dinner at midday, now its evening. Strangest US thing I ever heard of is 'Sun tea',! When someone first told me you put a jar of cold water with a tea bag in the sun, I burst out laughing as it was so ridiculous !

[@peterb2286]

Yes! When I lived in the States. My ex used to do that. She'd pop a tea bag in a jar of water and leave it out in the sun on the porch. I don't like tea when it's hot but that was beyond ridiculous.

[@aw9942]

"In America we drive automatics"... Later 12:00 "On a British motorway I can reach out with my arm and touch the car next to me" Good job you drive an automatic.

[@mrjagriff]

Must have long arms !

[@fzr599]

Dinner time 5:30 I’m from Winchester England, could never wait any longer than that🤷🏻‍♀️😊

[@micheleosullivan4430]

I'm from the US. I live in England. Dinner (Evening meal) We eat around 7 pm. :) my kids are all adults now, but when they were little and I was in the US - we ate around 5-6 pm. Now, my husband often doesn't finish work until after 6, so 7 became the sweet spot. Manual transmission... My British husband only drove a manual, until... Through his company, he gets really good deals on leasing a car. All-inclusive with insurance, roadside assistance, general maintenance, etc. When it was time to give up one lease and choose another car, it came in automatic. Somehow we missed that tidbit. Anyway, once he stopped slamming on the break like a clutch, he said he'll never go back to manual. The reason is, traffic! He loves not shifting constantly in traffic. I did learn on a manual in the US, so it's no biggy, now that we're both a lot older, we do like our lazy automatic.

[@raymondporter2094]

From North Yorkshire and eat dinner at about 6.30pm at home and 7.30pm when "out".

[@judedowning4138]

Born in England, raised in South Africa. Breakfast at about 08:00/ 8:30, lunch at 12:00, dinner at 17:00 / 18:00. But always hungry 😜

[@keithweelands5822]

County Durham I work 1pm till 9pm, so lunch 11:30, dinner depends on workload so anywhere between 3:30 and 6pm.

[@RBernsCarter]

I think when I was at school we took standard English/Maths tests called SATs at year 4 (8/9 years old) and year 6 (10/11 years old) but that was more to determine which level of English and Maths you were learning at when your year was split up according to ability

[@corleth2868]

PB&J is utterly ridiculous, it should be BANNED in the UK. Peanut butter sandwiches, great, Jam on toast, great (sandwiches ok). It's chips in a butty not French fries :P I'm in London - lunch depends on the slot at work, early and it's 12 but it could be 1pm or even 2pm. Dinner 7-8pm usually but going to a restaurant at 9pm is completely fine.

[@sonofliberty1]

French fries on sandwiches? In the North we have chip buttys but that's with thicker cut chips not French fries.

[@susie7345]

It’s not a north thing it’s a British thing

[@TerenceSquires]

With Royal Mail online [e.g. 24, 48 service] and some couriers you can arrange for home pick-up, but you may have to pay extra. In the US there is allot more postal theft too.

[@eddymccabe5351]

As a Scot a) summer holidays are 7 weeks long, starting mid-June. This was traditionally (in my area, at least) to allow kids to help farmers harvest their soft fruits (raspberries, strawberries). Dinner-time in Scotland is around midday (like you, the English call this lunch), and the late afternoon/early evening meal is called tea (time). I have driven automatic, but my wife and I both prefer manual. Doubtless when we all go electric we will adapt and adjust. Re roads, you are quite correct in your assessment of the size of even our M-ways, which is one reason our vehicles, including leisure vehicles (RVs to you) are not enormous (Winnebagos, etc.)

[@sonofliberty1]

Not all English say lunch and dinner. You can go as far south as Manchester and still hear dinner and tea.

[@browneof]

Can someone please tell me the difference between an “ex-pat” and an immigrant. I get the impression that Brits and Americans refer to themselves as ex-pats when they go to other countries but those who go to live in the US or the UK from third countries are called immigrants.

[@davidfaraday7963]

I think this "ex-pat" business started with the British officials going out to run the colonies. They didn't see themselves as immigrants into the colony concerned as they would return to dear old blighty at the end of their contract. The term has, however, stuck. These days the term "immigrant" has negative connotations so many prefer to call themselves ex-pats even when they intend the move to be permanent. However anyone who goes to another country with the intention of living there permanently is an immigrant.

[@sonofliberty1]

Ex-pat/Emmigrant is what you call yourself. Immigrant is how the people of your new nation refer to you. External Migrant and Internal Migrant.

[@realscottsummers]

Ex-pats are temporary I think. They're coming back shortly. You might be studying somewhere or on a temp contract. But you still have your house and family in your country of origin. Immigrants/emigrants are going to settle and remain.

[@darrenhemingway7121]

Ex-pat is a citizen of the original country but lives abroad, immigrant is someone who attempts to change nationality to the country that they now reside.

[@miketaverner4451]

An imergrant is someone from a different country , an ex pat is someone who has left his/her country live in another. If I go to live in another country, I would be an ex pat but in the country I go to I would be an imergrant

[@denmaroca2584]

Lots of Brits, myself included, prefer driving manual cars to automatics because it's more fun! Though it's not unknown for Americans who choose a car for the driving experience to have a manual. This might be helped by the fact that average car journeys are a lot shorter in the UK - constant gear shifting can get a bit tiring.

[@stevearmstrong9213]

A friend had an automatic once and he let me have a go in it. After a little while, I didn't have a big problem about not changing gears but for the entire journey (we had a decent couple of hours driving around so that I had a good go at it) I kept trying to press the non existent clutch pedal whenever I was stopping for a junction or traffic lights. It was a bit annoying.

[@keithevans9544]

I always hear the longer journey,argument ,but on long journeys you don't really change up and down that much.

[@fionagregory9376]

I prefer taxis myself.

[@mad4cavs]

i eat dinner mid day tea in the evening

[@LEWIS1992]

Manual cars are better for going up/down steep hills. Also, in the UK if you pass your test using an automatic car then you're ONLY legally allowed to drive automatics. Whereas if you pass with a manual, you're legally allowed to drive either.

[@NickLea]

With school holidays, it varies a lot between state schools and private (what Brits call - public) schools. yes, most state schools will only have six weeks in the summer but many private (public) schools will have at least two months. For example, I know that both Uppingham and Oakham schools will finish the school year on 2nd July this year and start the new year on 6th September - which is 9 weeks summer holiday. They also get longer holidays at Christmas etc - Christmas holidays for next year will be 15th Dec - 10th Jan. That's 3.5 weeks - compared with a typical state school Christmas holiday of just 2 weeks (17th Dec - 4th Jan).

[@gillianrimmer7733]

Yes, my kids went to Stamford School which is an independent school, they always had much longer holidays at Christmas,Easter and the summer than the neighbours kids. I'm pretty sure they had 3 weeks at Christmas and Easter, and 9 weeks in summer - however, they also went to school on Saturdays, so I suppose it equalled out over the year.

[@missharry5727]

I went to an independent school in England. Where the local state schools got 2 weeks at Christmas and Easter, and 6 weeks in the summer, we got 4 weeks at Christmas and Easter and 8 in the summer. But we didn't get the one-week half-term breaks in the three terms that the state schools got. British usage is to call the continuous periods of schooling terms, not semesters, because semester implies two halves, but our school year is broken into three terms or six half-terms.

[@morganetches3749]

I don't drive, but going on road trips with my dad it's never been stressful. Swooping round curves on the motorway, going down country lanes. It's always been fun. Maybe depends on confidence?

[@davidbird4713]

I have breakfast at 9am, lunch 12 o'clock and dinner 16:30 in Shropshire UK.

[@juliebrooke6099]

Peanut butter is actually banned in many schools because there are so many kids these days who have bad peanut allergies.

[@jrgboy]

Before I retired I got 26 days holiday plus public holidays..., so around 34 days a year

[@Jonathan8146]

Civil servant or public sector worker?

[@carolinequirk6136]

48 days just before I retired, worked most bank holidays as I worked in the N.H.S., but when back in the Stone Age when I started work, I had just 15 days and had more fore each year we worked but longer the time went the rules changed, so know I think holidays start at 28 days.

[@jrgboy]

@@carolinequirk6136 I did shift work for 32 years so I worked bank holidays as well, I often worked the early shift Christmas Day cos I got a bonus plus a day off in lieu..

[@carolinequirk6136]

@@jrgboy I worked shifts too and we had double pay and a day off in lieu for all bank holidays I worked no matter what shift I worked early or late, so in December/ January I could have 3 days of double pay in theory but not in practice as we either worked Christmas/ Boxing Day or the nNew Year. It was only in the later year that they gave extra days holiday instead, but still double time, I think they have changed it know as, I think, they have done away with the time and a half and double time over the week ends.

[@steveshephard1158]

Cowboy hats and Australian stockman's hats are more commonly seen at festivals but, the stockman's hat can sometimes be seen around town in rainy weather. The odd eccentric can be seen around town wearing a cowboy hat. Wide and narrow brimmed straw Trilbies seen to be the most common sunhat.

[@PaulWilliams-ko5fu]

In South Wales if I'm in work lunch will be between noon and 1 PM. If I'm home lunch is called dinner and it's between noon and 1 PM. Tea is between 5 and 6 PM. Supper is between 9 and 10 PM. We don't use the term dinner for what is actually tea time, and supper is what you eat before you go to bed.

[@noelsalisbury7448]

Hokey Cokey is a Dance. A Party dance. People make a great chain, and all follow each other around thevroom (or the whole building !) - singing the refrain of a very simple song, which is about putting one's legs in & out,🎶 shaking them all about etc. 🎶And that's what it's all about 🎶

[@mohammedfarhan4000]

I'm originally from Jordan and my wife is from France, and we normally eat dinner about 7pm

[@michaelcox7564]

My brother always wanted a automatic car, after about 20 years or more of driving he bought one. Within 6 months he had sold it and bought a gear shift car because he did not know what to do with his left foot, it just seemed an excess limb

[@TheHeavyduck]

Breakfast is Breakfast. Lunch = dinner Dinner = tea...

[@ElizabethDebbie24]

FYI we do not use mail/post boxes as a lot of UK homes are directly on the public walkway/pavement in streets and we have no room for them so letterboxes in the door are commonplace and we have post boxes scattered here and there generally many the end of streets.

[@paulrobson7887]

Berkshire here. Dinner usually around 8.30-9pm.

[@andygee8716]

You can heel and toe downshift in a manual car which matches the engine revs to the transmission revs so you can corner much quicker than in an automatic, although automatics are great for long distance driving. Fun vs practicality

[@MrPaulMorris]

In reference to mailboxes: until fairly recently, regulations required that mail be delivered 'to the address' meaning actually into the property and it would have been an offence to leave it in a receptacle outside the property. That has changed recently but the boxes are still rare. At least in part this is because of worry about mail being stolen or tampered with if it not securely inside your home.

[@rosemarielee7775]

Getting hungry between 4 and 5 with dinner at 8 is why afternoon tea was invented. How can you work til 5-6, travel home and get dinner ready before 7?

[@daveofyorkshire301]

This is a southern breakfast, lunch, dinner approach, go north and it's breakfast, dinner, tea, there is no lunch, that's considered southern or posh.

[@thearmouredpenguin7148]

I'm from the Wiltshire and my wife's from Yorkshire, we have breakfast, lunch and tea!

[@daveofyorkshire301]

@@thearmouredpenguin7148 One of you had to win out on that argument, it looks like you did. As I said southern or posh...

[@stephaniehamilton6217]

I live in Northern Ireland. Our school summer break was from end of June until start of September, I eat dinner around 8 o'clock.

[@whydotheyneedtoknow718]

Motorways were mainly built from scratch ...and some were purposely not straight to promote you to be alert. In the USA the practice of straight interstates just make you less alert and in turn more likely to have accidents

[@SuperDeniseg1]

Cheshire, we have dinner between 12 and 1pm

[@garystroud6153]

I tend to eat when I'm hungry, breakfast usually between 9 & 10, a light lunch anytime between 12 & 3 depending on my activity, dinner after about 6 depending on when I had lunch. What you call meals varies with where you live as does what constitutes those meals.

[@andysutcliffe3915]

There's a lot of discussion in the uk saying 6 weeks break is too long, that too much has to be repeated when the kids get back.

[@mrjagriff]

Not from the unions ! Even a year off isn’t enough !

[@garywood1317]

Meals are called different things in the North of England. Dinner is the meal at the middle of the day and tea is early evening. Supper is just before bed. Summer holidays were longer until about the 90's I think, when a decision was made to spread them more across the year. A lot of areas used to have industrial fortnight's as well, where everyone went on holiday for the same two weeks and often to the same places.

[@glasydorlan]

With regard to US tax: our sometime Premier Boris Johnson held dual nationality having been born in New York. He only renounced his US citizenship once he became Prime Minister. It was suggested at the time that far from being a political complication, as a high earner he was fed up paying US income tax.

[@richardcastro-parker3704]

In the UK it's changing a bit where the postman will now offer some services at your door. Only a very very recent change.

[@zhukov43]

Grimsby and I eat my tea around 17:00.

[@betsytodd3511]

Speaking of the roads being different - when I went to London 27 years ago and we had someone drive us from central London to Gatwick, I was amazed by how close the motorway came to some of the houses. It looked like the traffic was going right by their front doors.

[@corleth2868]

To get to Gatwick (even 27 years ago) you take the M23 but that doesn't start until just before the M25. The M23 has no houses anywhere near it but the road you take to get to the M23, the A23 does. There are plenty of 2-3 lane dual carriageway A roads that do go very close to houses but even then there's usually a separate road parallel to the dual carriageway for the houses and they can't just drive onto the main road. I always assumed that the main difference between US and UK roads was the speed. Sure it's only 70mph on a UK motorway but if you're doing 70 you're in the inside lane getting passed by everyone else or maybe you're in the middle lane passing the lorries. Get into the fast lane at 70 and you're holding everyone else up.. Maybe it's my driving but when I've driven Americans in the UK they were shocked by how fast the cars were going.

[@betsytodd3511]

@@corleth2868 I was looking at Google maps trying to find anything that looks like what I remember, and I noticed exactly what you're saying, that it couldn't have been the M23- it may have been the A23. I found an area that's vaguely similar to what I remember, around 305 Purley Way. The houses are different from what I remember but the proximity of the front doors to the traffic is a lot like what I was thinking of. As far as speed is concerned- the ride to Gatwick was the only car trip we took other than taxis in heavy traffic, so I don't remember noticing the speed, but I remember being impressed at how the taxi drivers can change lanes so aggressively - where I'm from you can just put on your turn signal and wait for someone to let you into the next lane, but in London it seemed like you could end up stuck in a lane that would take you in the completely wrong direction, unless you're bold about moving over.

[@corleth2868]

@@betsytodd3511 Well it was 27 years ago so I think you did pretty well to recall the M23 at all. The likely route would be A23 to M23 as the A23 becomes the M23 so I suspect that you're right and maybe you recall the last part of the A23 (also known as Purley Way) where there are most definitely houses :) It's a very busy stretch of road and I'm not sure I'd want to live right next to it.

[@MastG]

H what time for dinner depends on the day for me dinner is the main meal so either: dinner at noon and 6pm tea (think sunday's) or lunch at noon and dinner at 6-7pm In the states I was surprised to meet a family of 5 who had driven 4 hours to Scottsboro, Alabama for what was essentially a 'jumble sale' ( Unclaimed Baggage Center). Apparently it was 'worth it for the savings'. Last week I drove from West London to Newcastle (5 hours with traffic jams) and needed to break halfway !

[@graemehossack7401]

Up here in Scotland the traditional choice of evening was between High Tea served from 5:00 pm to around 6:30, or Dinner served from 7:00 pm. A High Tea consists of Bread and buns accompanying a light meal followed by a round of scones and then some fancy cakes, all washed down with lashing of tea. A Dinner would be a three course meal occasionally served with alcohol if required. Sadly High Teas are a rarity these days, but they can still be found.

[@paulharrison9030]

Thanks. I always wondered why mail boxes had little flags!

[@elemar5]

Seems very unsecure to me. Unless they have locks and postie carries thousands of keys. :)

[@stvpett]

My understanding is that the reason it is becoming more popular is because they are realizing that they are working off of old information. It used to be that automatic transmissions had worse fuel mileage than manual. However, that was a long time ago. These days automatics have advanced in technology and tend to have better fuel mileage. But that is just what I've been told by my British friends. I could be wrong.

[@rosalyndhayes5222]

In Ireland the school holidays are July and August for primary school, June, July and August for secondary school and mid May to September (ish) for university

[@may_68]

Larger (luxury) cars in the UK have almost always been automatic. Automatics are historically less efficient so need a bigger engine. Sports or economy cars are manual. Modern automatics are much better and are getting more common. Soon to be a moot point however as very soon all new cars will be electric with no gears.

[@chriscollins550]

Wrong toyota have just realised a hygegon car. Go on sale this year. Even the top supper car's sold in the UK and Europe are given the opinion of manual gearbox. It's still better

[@may_68]

What’s your problem? Other than spelling? The percentage of hydrogen combustion vehicles is statistically irrelevant. Hydrogen fuel cells are electric drivetrain. Manual cars are more efficient as I said which is why they are largely used in economy models.. Luxury cars, Mercedes, Jaguar, big BMW, Range Rover are primarily automatic. Super cars are almost always flappy paddle automatic. Fast ‘drivers’ cars are still manual but as they will be phased out…

[@lililijo]

I went for a period of eating pb&j after hearing about it in films. I used marmalade though as I thought that was,what jelly was. But I think it is actually jam. I enjoyed it for a while but haven't made them for years. Lunch/dinner is around 1 and tea is between 5 and 6. If not working late. I don't drive but I think some people like having control of the gears, they get more out of the driving experience with a manual.

[@tiggerwood8899]

I have an automatic the engine is only 1litre. My first automatic, I much prefer manual but arthritis in my legs makes operating a clutch too painful

[@davidfisher9026]

Automatics are truly crap in snow. I hated driving my wife's automatic volvo in snow, prefering my front wheel drive manual vauxhaul.

[@stuarttaylor1799]

What I liked about a US post office, and I've only used one once, is that it ONLY did the mail. Unlike UK ones where it's like a bank, shop, and official form centre all in one.

[@tonys1636]

Afternoon tea was invented to bridge the gap between luncheon and dinner. My school had an 8 week summer holiday so the Headmaster could spend the summer at his Spanish Villa, the teachers would take a summer job to earn extra peanuts, the time was made up by the other holidays being shorter. We used to have straight roads, 2000 years ago but even the Romans put bends in them in places as easier to go around an hill than over it. You had to finish with a swear word, Taxes. Loving the hat, I wear an Australian one in winter, a Panama type in summer.

[@simonsaunders8147]

Roman roads used to be straight usually with a ditch on each side. This was to prevent potential attackers from lynching you easily unseen. Hence the name of the 'fosse way' as that comes from the latin word for 'ditch' - fossa.

[@Stephen-Fox]

I eat dinner around noon to 2pm or so. Dinner is usually sandwiches. I eat tea around 6 to 8pm. Tea is the main meal. Tonight we're having fish. My husband is southern so this last one occasionally causes some confusion in our household.

[@stephentaylor1476]

The fun comes with the twisty a roads a must for a manual cars. Motorways are faster but boring. In Britain we a a nation of petrol he