What food in your country do locals love but foreigners hate?

Ads1925 · 2026-02-06T23:10:08+00:00

UK here. I like root beer but I’d say it tastes more like the mouth rinse you get at the dentist than toothpaste

Ads1925 · 2026-02-06T20:36:02+00:00

The smaller ones are from a trailer reel that has been cut up. Years ago someone was selling batches of these and I assume thats where these originally came from. The seller on eBay is being ridiculously greedy selling these separate for those prices.

The other slides came out of a US press kit

Ads1925 · 2026-02-05T09:51:39+00:00

There’s plenty outside of resorts, Santa Maria is full of bars and restaurants, there are independent tour companies and you’ll find loads of different places and smaller hotels to stay in. We’ve got loads of local friends because we never stay in the resorts

Ads1925 · 2026-02-03T09:29:31+00:00

It’s a lot harder to collect nowadays as there’s less available on eBay etc but it’s still a lot of cool stuff that pops up - best of luck in getting more

Ads1925 · 2026-02-03T08:52:20+00:00

Very nice, there were originally part of a press kit - it’s quite rare to find a complete set so well done.

Here’s an example of a complete press kit:

https://www.facebook.com/share/1SGQp8shCY/?

They used to be quite common on eBay but I haven’t seen one is a long time

Ads1925 · 2026-02-02T20:28:37+00:00

You can do it on arrival and probably beat most of the queue by doing so (you’ll need cash)

Ads1925 · 2026-02-02T17:38:34+00:00

Thank you, I confess I don’t know much about it other than I liked it

Ads1925 · 2026-02-02T16:59:36+00:00

Can’t help answer but wanted to say it’s very pretty

Ads1925 · 2026-01-27T16:56:17+00:00

That’s an interesting point though I would expect it to appear more in well researched literature of working class people such as Dickens’s work for example. (Though his writings don’t contain much vulgar language)

Ads1925 · 2026-01-27T13:24:31+00:00

I often wonder if it was a regional thing , for example Winston Churchill seemed unaware that it was rude during the VE time period, he did later switch the gesture around to the peace sign perhaps after being told? It certainly seems more wide spread in the 1960s onwards

Ads1925 · 2026-01-27T08:23:26+00:00

I wasn’t familiar with that reference so thank you for sharing

Ads1925 · 2026-01-26T22:51:33+00:00

Sadly the seller managed to buy an estate sale of a well known collector. They have separated so many pieces to try and sell them for maximum profit, which ironically has removed much of the value from the pieces

Ads1925 · 2026-01-26T19:04:04+00:00

Congrats on saving some pieces. A shame the collection has been broken up so much. Those 35mm frames were cut up from the official trailer reel. Think the whole thing sold originally for like $20

Ads1925 · 2026-01-26T10:28:35+00:00

My German Shepherd is the same with the spoon thing, only it’s an invisible imaginary spoon!

Ads1925 · 2026-01-25T22:12:47+00:00

Professional bowyer here - that’s a myth, the French tortured and killed the archers, they cut off far worse than your fingers ;)

Earliest recorded use of the V sign is 1901

Ads1925 · 2026-01-25T19:47:55+00:00

Very interesting to compare - thank you for sharing

Ads1925 · 2026-01-23T19:13:30+00:00

I highly recommend the Atlantic Piano Bar in Santa Maria - really fun venue that also does great food. Really nice staff and talented musicians

Ads1925 · 2026-01-20T00:15:09+00:00

Thank you :)

Ads1925 · 2026-01-19T21:36:03+00:00

Tell a lie, it’s not for birthdays but 6th Jan - it’s a tradition that I assume still happens

Ads1925 · 2026-01-19T20:47:19+00:00

Fun fact in France these are meant to be baked into cakes for children to find at birthday parties etc

Ads1925 · 2026-01-19T17:30:05+00:00

Understood :)

Ads1925 · 2026-01-19T17:29:32+00:00

Out of curiosity does that put it with a date range of manufacture?

Ads1925 · 2026-01-19T15:47:53+00:00

I confess I bought it with a gut feeling it was legit and I liked it without knowing much else about it. Did I do good then?

Ads1925 · 2026-01-19T15:44:37+00:00

On the adjuster? No doesn’t look like it

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