I thought that was more of a Scottish thing (and creme eggs, and pizza). You know they have the highest rate of heart disease in Europe? Wonder why...
Of course, Americans have deep fried Coke. It sounds really good to me, I keep hoping I'll see it around here.

Canada seems pretty stuffy about alcohol too, but a little different then the US. Here (the west coast, but I think it's the same everywhere) you can only get alcohol in liquor stores*. Up until a few years ago, all the liquor stores were owned by the government as well. The drinking age is "only" 18 though, sometimes we get American teens crossing the border to get drunk.
I wonder how we got like this when Europe is so liberal about alcohol.
(*I don't know what the limit is, but there are some types of beer and wine that have 0.5% alcohol or less, and any place can sell those.)

One thing I keep hearing about Europe that I can never believe;
What do you call this stuff?:

This is 'corn' in North America, but I keep reading that in Europe it's called maize?
Really?