Sadly, you did not imagine it. Even more sadly, it's a European wide (worldwide!?) epidemic. Luckily there are enough legit Italian pizzerias in my town that I can easily get proper pizza...but Christ, try getting a corn-free pizza in like, Hungary! *shakes head dejectedly*

HURRRK. That is literally my least favorite dairy product. Warm, fresh milk is terrrrrrrible and super grosses me out :(

Sometimes we make pizza at home, and my Euro husband has me put canned fucking corn on his half of ANY pizza that we are having. NO. I mean, I do it because I love him, but it doesn't mean I'm not judging the shit out of his food decisons.

Because it's the opposite of delicious and ruins pizza? Like, maybe Asians have figured out some trick to make it not horrible, but Europeans haven't. For the record I am generally a huge fan of corn....just not as a pizza topping. It's relatively flavorless, is always a bit dried out, doesn't take on seasoning very…

Would corn have been lower than pineapple? Just curious. Definitely not trying to prove that there is a worse topping than pineapple, btw.

Darling, no. I will fight you forever formthis statement, because Europeans put corn on all their goddamned pizzas and it is the worst thing in the world. The. World.

I had a standing ban on my ex taking bites of my food. I don't mean he wqsn't allowed to use a fork to taste things from my plate, but rather he wasn't allowed to pick things up and bite off. One of his normal bites of toast was literally 3 times bigger than mine!!! Whyyyyyyyyyyyy?

Jesus, I recently listened to the new itunes 90s dance station. I was so excited because 90s!!!!! Then I started listening through the songs and was just like, "Oh honey, no."

I have a red silk blouse that is super awesome as long as I don't wear it under something. As soon as I put on a sweater, or especially a blazer, the neckline folds over really funny and I'm just like "Man, I hope no one notices that there's a vulva made of red silk sitting on my chest". Shit's awkward.

Is her family Orthodox? It's crazy how much religion is tied into Romanian culture and even language. Husband and I are barely religious, kind of, of the never go to church variety, but we'll get married at church and babies will be christened because it is super important to him, culturally. He doesn't even care…

My mother in law's homemade jam looks exactly like that, except a bit of an off color, like not such a bright red. I will never look at it the same way :-O

Dude, crying so hard. That was powerful as fuck. Bookmarked to show Husband later because he is awesome and will appreciate it.

I think you hit the nail in the head with the ego thing. When applying for grad school, my dad was really campaigning for me to apply to Harvard and refused to listen when I explained (repeatedly) that they didn't have the kind of program I was looking for, or the advisors I needed. He just wanted me to try—not for my…

I think that's a good point, but I also think you're doing it right (i.e. not in the same way as the article talks about). My parents both came from families with no degrees, went to uni for less than a year, and then dropped out. As a result they were both very aware of the importance of talking a lot about college…

We don't have kids yet either, but I have personally come to the conclusion that mediocrity is acceptable. We live in Germany, where the system is crazy rigid and they get tracked into different levels of high schools at the end of fourth grade—it is essentially determined at that point whether they will to uni…

I am seriously in love with all the little girls in this thread who want giant machines. There are worse things than owning your own giant machine based company!

Yoga Nerd, tell me about Montessori, please. Husband and I live in Germany where they separate kiddos into university track or not in 4TH FUCKING GRADE. We have both decided that it's too young and insane, and Montessori seems to maybe be an alternative to this system (especially since foreigners often get chucked…

Brah, I know how tips work here. Tips are usually not included in the bill in my part of Germany. Yes, there is sometimes a sitting fee or bread fee of some kind, but those fees are far from universal, especially once you leave touristy areas. I seriously haven't seen those very often, although I'm happy for native…

I don't think we're being judgypants about the guys in the original story, since they were deliberately not tipping and only using their Euroness as an excuse. Like, if you're aware of it and flat out refuse to tip when in the US because people don't tip where you're from...that's a problem. That's not ignorance;…

I completely agree. There's a big difference between the cigarette money that a European server takes home (I assume it's not much more than that, since tips here seem rounded up to the nearest euro or so), and the rent money that an American server has to earn because the wage is a fraction of minimum wage. It's…