signs of assimilation

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My current pregnancy craving: jacket potatoes with beans and cheese. I used to laugh about this British 'delicacy' that feels like it has origins in war time rations.

Made it for me and the kids tonight and - #2 sign - DS1 was mad that the cheese was orange. Yes, cheddar to him is white cheese. Crazy stuff.

Anyone else have a recent sign of assimilation?

[crimsonandclover]

haha

And, um, what are jacket potatoes? Sounds somehow like baked potatoes.

I also regularly crave German food and it has nothing to do with being pregnant I usually feel the most assimilated when I travel back to the US and notice all the "strange" things!

[mrsukyankee]

I think in grams and kilograms and millilitres. I have no idea what most American measurements looks like any longer - other than tablespoons & teaspoons. So using recipes from the States involves Google every single time.

[dorothyinAus]

Apr 29, 2014 2:22:32 GMT -5 mrsukyankee said:

I think in grams and kilograms and millilitres. I have no idea what most American measurements looks like any longer - other than tablespoons & teaspoons. So using recipes from the States involves Google every single time.

I solved this by having two sets of measuring cups/spoons.  US ones for my US recipes and metric ones for my Australian/UK/European recipes.  I know that's not really assimilating, but it means I don't have to convert anything!  And I taped a scale to my oven so I can set my oven temp in either C or F.  It's just easier for me to have both available.

[potatopie]

I've started using South African terms. I was just talking to my mom about how good Greek yogurt is and kept calling it "double cream". I don't even know what you would call it in the US. Also I said DS fell asleep "quite soon" after something.

I've also fully embraced the terms "shame" instead of "that's too bad", or "hectic" instead of crazy.

[mrsukyankee]

Apr 29, 2014 6:24:53 GMT -5 potatopie said:

I've started using South African terms. I was just talking to my mom about how good Greek yogurt is and kept calling it "double cream". I don't even know what you would call it in the US. Also I said DS fell asleep "quite soon" after something.

I've also fully embraced the terms "shame" instead of "that's too bad", or "hectic" instead of crazy.

Yeah, I forget "American" all the time as I just use British terms. I had to explain what cling film was to my mom as I couldn't remember the term Saranwrap.