Hah. I'm from Alabama. Once while on a trip to Indiana I stopped at a coffee stand in a museum. When I placed my order the clerk smiled and said "you must be from 'down undah'".
I said, "I'm sorry?" and she said "from Australia?"
I laughed and told her that I was from Alabama, but that it being south of Indiana, I guess you could call it "down under." :D

..and in most of mainland Europe (aka 'Yerp'), a pepperoni pizza has bell peppers on it, not the spicy sausage.

I laughed myself silly on this one. When I tried to read it to my DH using an accent I was laughing so hard it hurt! We walk around the house now saying "tenjooberrymuds" when thanking each other. Thanks!

It is also very funny in reverse
 

Strange moment for me (An Australian - pronounced Stralyen by the natives) was being in Las Vegas and having a local ask me if my accent was from Minnesota.

Well here I am reading your post and wonder why you travel

"Capsicum is a genus of plants from the nightshade family (Solanaceae), native to Mexico, and now cultivated worldwide. Some of the members of Capsicum are used as spices, vegetables, and medicines. The fruit of Capsicum plants have a variety of names depending on place and type. They are commonly called chili pepper, red or green pepper, or just pepper in Britain and the US; the large mild form is called bell pepper in the US, capsicum in Australian English and Indian English, and paprika in some other countries (although paprika can also refer to the powdered spice made from various capsicum fruit)."

I would find traveling in USA very uninteresting if you did not have customs and food styles different from us in Australia. I cannot for the life of me work out what we would call a chicken salad sandwich. Was this in Tasmania because they are a bit like Alabama down there.

So I guess you have acquired some extra knowledge which is never a bad thing.

That's because here in Italy "peperoni" means "peppers".

I still remember the face of my uncle when she came here and ordered a pepperoni pizza and got a pizza with peppers :)

Two weeks ago I was on a vacation in NY and Vegas.
A doorman in NY asked me if I was from west coast.
An old woman in a pool in Vegas asked me if I was from east coast. (I told her I'm really far east :)).

I suppose all this means that my English sucks :D:D

tenjooberrymuds
 

thanks for sharing this...copyright 1972, wow! i was literally on the floor laughing* hysterically as my husband read it--i'd brought the laptop to him, couldn't control myself long enough to read it aloud.

*(yes, but rofl is overused and rarely literal.)

Being complimented in Hawaii by a sales clerk on our good command of the English Language. When we explained that we were English & that it was our native language she looked really confused as she thought we all spoke French in England.

Pulling up @ a gas station in Alabama and being asked if we wanted any cigarettes?
My husband replied that he didn't smoke fags & then realised that a fag was not the same in the USA as it was in the UK.

Realising that a fanny pack is a bum bag in American English and that a sign saying no soliciting is not there to stop lawyers from working!:D