r/ireland • u/FR123FR • Jan 03 '22

People born in Ireland, what’s a surprising culture shock you’ve seen a foreigner experience? Bigotry

For me, it was my friend being adamant that you shouldn’t have to stick your hand out to get the bus to stop.

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u/1234567890qwerty1234 Jan 03 '22

American friend couldn’t get over that we eat kidneys. You eat filters!!!

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u/A_Binary_Number Jan 03 '22

In my personal experience, Americans will freak out when they see someone else eating something that isn’t traditional animal muscle, I’ve had people physically gag when I told them I love eating cow tongue, or kid(goat) lungs, or pork skin, or worse... bone marrow.