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If you really want foam for your tea, just give the milk jug a good shake before pouring it! I did this by accident the other morning and was highly amused at the foamy milk.

My boyfriend is British. The first day I got off the plane I had Ribena at a Welcome Break along the M1. I love it! I really wish we had something like this in the US - something tasty with loads of vitamin C and anti-oxidants to get kids addicted to instead of soda!

My boyfriend is British and we actually had a good laugh over which was the "proper" way to eat. He also uses his knife to push the food onto his fork, something I've noticed a lot of people around here do. He also told me that you never stick the knife in your mouth...lots of amusement when we went out and I watched the lady at the next table lick her knife!

American left-handers will eat with the fork in their left hand, at least, the ones in my family do!

When I was younger, I was having a sleepover at my best friend, V's, house. V wanted to make peanut butter bars and begged her mom to let us make them all on our own without adult help. She agreed, and stayed out of the kitchen. We carefully read the recipe. "One cup salt". We both double checked it and swore that's what it said, so in one cup of salt went.

They came out of the oven, all golden brown and looking delicious and we spread the chocolate over the top and let them cool.

I had never had these before, so V cut me a huge piece. I took a bite, carefully chewed it, swallowed, then asked for a glass of water. I was too polite to tell them I thought they tasted awful, so V and her mom both took a bite. Their noses wrinkled and V told me they weren't supposed to taste like that. Her mom asked us what we did, and we showed her the recipe....which actually said on it one teaspoon salt...we had both seen the C on the following line for the sugar when we read the recipe.

When her mom wrote down the recipe for me to take home, she deliberately left off the salt, and everytime I cook using a new recipe, I get teased by anyone who knows the story to make sure I check the salt amount!