Moving on from food stuff, another strange American thing is the way of setting out dates. I think the US is the only country that sets out dates as month, day, year. So the tenth of February would be 2/10. How can that make sense?
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Our practice of month before day was adopted from Britain, who caved in and followed the European style 
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We could all do it better. Logically, and for the sake of faster processing, it would be better to start with the broadest category and reduce it to year, month, day. Our abbreviation of month followed by date is makes much more sense.
Have a lovely January 20th!
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Just like the UK caved into decimal coinage and then caved in to the metric system. The country has never been the same since it dropped base 12, or base 16 measurements. What made people think that base 10 is better?
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Or how about cwt ? Or furlong, rod, keel, chain, link, slug, cran, hogshead, bushel…
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They are knot needed
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I don’t think it’s really such a big deal whether we put the month first or the day. 
Doesn’t it make life much more interesting, the fact that there are so many differences between AE and BE? How boring it would be if we all spoke exactly the same way. This thread wouldn’t exist, for one thing. 
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Nice one !!
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I agree, Some of you here may know that I am a Scotsman, my Wife is from USA but we don’t have a problem with the language - but then we have been practising it for a while.
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It appears that you worked out any communication challenges very early on. 
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To be honest Lincolnshire it is not anymore weirder than the Brits being the only ones measuring in feet, hands and inches and driving on the left side of the road. 
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Does any sane, rational person think that it isn’t better?
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I certainly do. And I am sane…
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I suppose one out of two isn’t bad but could do better.
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DDMMYYYY does make sense though doesn’t it? However on my computer I use YYYYMMDD because that makes sense and everything is in chronological order. MMDDYYYY makes no logical sense whatsoever.
The most populous nation on the planet drives on the left, you cannot argue with sheer numbers.
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Isn’t the base 10 system much easier?
We have 10 fingers and 10 toes, not 12 or16.
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Doctors and nurses here do tens. So do electrical engineers.
I agree, Rose2.
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You haven’t been to Tasmania.
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Oh???
Variety is the spice of life. 
Are you saying they have 12 fingers and 16 toes in Tasmania?
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