Maybe I should try a male gyno after all. Everyone keeps sharing bad experiences with female ones and my last and only (I'm so bad) experience was with a female one and it was awful. Maybe I should mix it up.

I've been to an OBGYN exactly once (yes, I'm terrible and will die of cancer). It was a woman and she was just horrible. It was almost like she was going out of her way to make me feel uncomfortable. I told her I'd never been. One of the things I remember was her saying in a monotone "this will feel like an erect…

I think a lot of people feel that way, I kind of feel bad for the male ones! Kaiser assigned me a male doctor, and I was like "nope, dudes." I know I can call them to change it, but I've been evading their "pap police" for years now anyway. I'm the worst about routine care.

Yep! If you google the phrase, this is the first result: http://www.dontmesswithtexas.org/

See, I'm like the ignorant people in the post who knows nothing about meats.

And they pretty much have to do this because real food is not photogenic at all. Even if it comes out looking amazing, it's hard to get a good picture of real food.

Now the most important to me before I try this - does it have that barbecue sauce they put on ribs or not? That sauce is why I stay away from ribs.

Actually now that I recall they were confused too. They also told me that if I wanted an American-style burger (yes I wanted a burger in Paris I was tired ok), I needed to order the "steak." So I did and they brought me a pan-fried piece of beef. Sigh. There seemed to be some restaurant-to-restaurant variation in what…

You can always try to cook it up!

Good to know! But now I want to know why two people who lived in France for years did not inform me of this, but I doubt you can answer that.

Yes! Except it'd be... sky'n'turf I guess?

I don't know. My friends who are fluent in French helped me order, maybe they were the ones messing with me! I'm a "shrug and just eat it" kind of person when I get something I didn't expect at a restaurant. But it's good to know that this is an anomaly. It tasted like a hunk of pure fat. I didn't finish it.

And I'm sure they had no idea that the phrase "don't mess with Texas" came from an anti-littering campaign. Although when googling to make sure I'm not the one making that up, people actually from Texas should know because there's apparently signs on the roads that say that and cite the fine for littering.

I have no idea what prime rib is and totally thought it was ribs. Like, really good, PRIME ribs. I clearly know nothing.

As a fan of rare steak, that's how I'll order it next time. "Shave its ass and plate it up for me, please!"

Whenever something I order is not what I expected it, I shrug and just try it and move on with my life if I don't like it. I don't get these kinds of people (in the article).

I ordered foie gras in France once and they brought me the whole liver. Unchopped. Just the fatty liver of the duck. It was pretty gross and I was really confused, considering the day before I'd ordered foie gras at a different restaurant and was brought chopped up liver. It's crazy how different it tastes in pate…

For some reason I always thought chicken fried steak somehow involved the beef being covered in chicken and then fried. Like the batter was chicken nugget material with breading or something. I realize that makes no sense. I have learned a thing today.

What's STAR?

I grew up in Russia, and this is an excellent point. As someone else mentioned there's also the anti-Semitism which my family was a personal recipient of. But the worst discrimination I saw was against Roma people. They were referred to as practically subhuman by some people.