Originally Posted by roadtripman

Another fond memory of mine re: Americans is the concept of "Canadian Bacon".

I remember in my teens working at McDonald's, I'd often get Americans asking for "Canadian Bacon". Not one person knew that this was any different than actual bacon, so instead of ham, bacon would be served (much to their disdain). It was even better when they ordered "bacon" thinking that they'd get "Canadian Bacon", and they still got actual bacon

"This is American bacon, I wanted Canadian bacon!" "I'm not sure where it is produced, sir" "I want HAM" "So why didn't you just say that? What's all this bacon business about?"

We caught on after a while.....