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The last time you were in a country other than the one where you normally live, what product or service that's readily available back home


was completely non-existent in the foreign country, so much so that you didn't realize how much you may have previously taken it for granted?







*I noticed that salt and pepper shakers aren't usually placed on tables in restaurants in many countries other than the United States, and that if a customer asks for salt or pepper, it's brought from the kitchen in the large container that cooks and chefs use, if it's brought at all.


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Posted - July 29, 2017
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  • 22891
    just everything since im somewhere else
      July 29, 2017 2:27 PM MDT
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  • 53509


    So absolutely nothing that you were accustomed to in the "old country" is available at all in the country where you are now????

    :| 
      July 29, 2017 2:33 PM MDT
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  • 7126
    Couldn't get my back waxed in Peru.








      July 29, 2017 2:54 PM MDT
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  • 6477
    We usually have salt and pepper available on the table in the UK except perhaps the very poshest places..  I think it's considered a sign of class to be served salt and pepper..  i know some of the italian restaurants ask you if you want pepper and/or parmesan and then serve you... I don't really mind either way but get irritated if I have to wait too long.
      July 29, 2017 3:20 PM MDT
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  • 44614
    Raccoon stew, of course.
      July 29, 2017 3:22 PM MDT
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  • 5808
    toilets
    There was a hole in the ground that you used
      July 29, 2017 3:51 PM MDT
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  • 7126
    A real challenge for women!
      July 29, 2017 3:57 PM MDT
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  • 5354
    Here in DK restaurants usually have salt, pepper and vinegar, in the fancy ones you can even get light spiced salad oil.

    When I visited the Us one thing I missed were good Bread, That is probably different other places in the US, but in Seattle even the big supermarkets seemed to have only bland white bread. You know the kind you can hit with a hammer and a minute after the sponge have reshaped itself to its former size and form. This post was edited by JakobA the unAmerican. at July 29, 2017 8:59 PM MDT
      July 29, 2017 7:11 PM MDT
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