Bashing Americans
Just got back around 2 hours ago after travelling on a Florida-bound road trip for more than 5000 km and visiting many different attractions along the way. I got a whole lot of pictures and souvenirs from all the different places and maybe I'll post up some pictures later on. On to my post topic: Americans. Holy crap.
Health:
Portions are too huge! They eat and eat and eat these gigantic portions of fatty foods and they don't exercise! They just drive everywhere! The only people I ever see walking are tourists and the heavily obese people are in electric wheelchairs because their tiny little legs can't support the metric tonne of their weight. The 1 in 3 Americans being obese is definitely true; especially for the kids, they're just little heart attacks waiting to happen. I find that the fast food that they eat is much more fatty than in the fast food restaurants here. The KFC chicken...REALLY greasy and the chicken was mostly half fat, pretty disgusting stuff.
Sanitation:
According to my dad, almost none of the workers wash their hands after going to the washroom before going back to work in restaurants. That's gross. It just seems like the people don't really have good hygeinic methods whatsoever. The women I find are a little bit better but a lot of them still leave the washroom without washing their hands. A lot of them are just too lazy or are in a hurry. Washing your hands takes half a minute, how much of a hurry can they be in?
On a different note, there is so much garbage in the states. In all of the theme parks and tourist places that we went to, almost none of them had recycling bins. It's all garbage! All of the newspapers and the plastic bottles all in the garbage. Toronto has it's share of horrible garbage but at least almost every home has a recycling bin and there are recycling bins in public areas also.
Manners:
A lot of the Americans have no manners whatsoever. They shove you, push you, hit you on the head with something. They just turn around and glare at you, like you were supposed to perceive them coming from behind you and so you should have moved for them. And for driving, they never signal and they tailgate on speeding highways. You know it's bad when they actually have plaques telling you how many people died on the highways every year. It's almost 1000 people per year! Yikes.
So all in all, my trip was a LOT of fun! Saw the Coca-cola museum again, and tasted 40 different coke products from all around the world. Wonderful stuff.
Other places I went to:
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Cleveland, Ohio
First KFC ever : Corbin, Kentucky
Islands of Adventure/Universal Studios/Disney's Animal Kingdon: Orlando, Florida
Kennedy Space Station: 45 minutes from Orlando, Florida
Georgia Aquarium/ The World of Coca-Cola Museum: Atlanta, Georgia
Stone Mountain (supposedly the southern Mount Rushmore, kinda disappointing cuz it was really dinky): Stone Mountain, Georgia
Health:
Portions are too huge! They eat and eat and eat these gigantic portions of fatty foods and they don't exercise! They just drive everywhere! The only people I ever see walking are tourists and the heavily obese people are in electric wheelchairs because their tiny little legs can't support the metric tonne of their weight. The 1 in 3 Americans being obese is definitely true; especially for the kids, they're just little heart attacks waiting to happen. I find that the fast food that they eat is much more fatty than in the fast food restaurants here. The KFC chicken...REALLY greasy and the chicken was mostly half fat, pretty disgusting stuff.
Sanitation:
According to my dad, almost none of the workers wash their hands after going to the washroom before going back to work in restaurants. That's gross. It just seems like the people don't really have good hygeinic methods whatsoever. The women I find are a little bit better but a lot of them still leave the washroom without washing their hands. A lot of them are just too lazy or are in a hurry. Washing your hands takes half a minute, how much of a hurry can they be in?
On a different note, there is so much garbage in the states. In all of the theme parks and tourist places that we went to, almost none of them had recycling bins. It's all garbage! All of the newspapers and the plastic bottles all in the garbage. Toronto has it's share of horrible garbage but at least almost every home has a recycling bin and there are recycling bins in public areas also.
Manners:
A lot of the Americans have no manners whatsoever. They shove you, push you, hit you on the head with something. They just turn around and glare at you, like you were supposed to perceive them coming from behind you and so you should have moved for them. And for driving, they never signal and they tailgate on speeding highways. You know it's bad when they actually have plaques telling you how many people died on the highways every year. It's almost 1000 people per year! Yikes.
So all in all, my trip was a LOT of fun! Saw the Coca-cola museum again, and tasted 40 different coke products from all around the world. Wonderful stuff.
Other places I went to:
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Cleveland, Ohio
First KFC ever : Corbin, Kentucky
Islands of Adventure/Universal Studios/Disney's Animal Kingdon: Orlando, Florida
Kennedy Space Station: 45 minutes from Orlando, Florida
Georgia Aquarium/ The World of Coca-Cola Museum: Atlanta, Georgia
Stone Mountain (supposedly the southern Mount Rushmore, kinda disappointing cuz it was really dinky): Stone Mountain, Georgia
posted by barbara at 7:59 p.m.
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