20 Things Americans Do That Confuse the Rest of the World

9) Eat It All

Visitors to the U.S. are often blown away by the size of American meals. Researchers compared the size of certain snacks in Philadelphia to their Parisian counterparts and found that the U.S. candy bars were an average of 41 percent bigger, sodas were 52 percent bigger, and yogurt servings were 82 percent bigger. What’s more, studies show that people often gain weight after immigrating to the U.S., and in certain eateries in Japan, customers don’t super-size their orders – they “American size” them.