Thread-Drift!
This appears to have drifted to Italian cuisine rather than the gullible yanks.
2009
US Army (164th TAOG) took over ATC Basrah.
Their Lt came to me one day
"Say, I hear from my guys that you've been teaching to swear in English, so I've been taking notes. Let me get this right "'Ball-ox' is bad, but 'Dog's Ball-ox' is good. Huh?"
Later when the radar guys arrived, I recounted this exchange with a MSgt. I told him that life so far at Basrah under the Yanks had not been a one-way thing and that they had also taught us a lot about life in US of A.
"Apparently you have these burger places everywhere - "MacDougals" or something I think they said. Apparently they're everywhere! We have nothing like that in the UK. They tried to introduce it into the UK, but called it too unhealthy. We have the occassional Burger King in the big cities but that is all."
He took it hook, line, sinker, rod & copy of Angling Times.
Then revealed he had served 5 yrs at Mildenhall!
I think deliberatly misnaming McD as "MacDougals" was enough to plant the seed.
I remember when I left they didn't like me pointing out that they had spelt "Theatre" wrong on my coin & certificate!!! - a missed opportunity!
Last edited by unclenelli; 26th Jun 2015 at 19:52.