How do you explain a Graham Cracker?
As one of my American friends and I were making hot chocolate the other night, we were joined by a Kiwi friend. While using the microwave to heat up our milk, the Kiwi asked, “Can you put marshmallows in the microwave?” Having done it before, my reply was “Yeah! You can even make S’mores in the microwave.” I guess I must have thought s’mores were a universal item, but my American friend soon caught on that they weren’t and asked if our Kiwi friend knew what they were. Not knowing, we began to describe the gooey goodness of a s’more with the graham cracker, the chocolate, and the marshmallow. One problem though: s’mores can’t exist in New Zealand because graham crackers do not exist in New Zealand! Needless to say it was fun figuring out how to describe something I have not thought about in any other way than as a graham cracker before. It was culture shock that I would have never predicted J