Is it true that in the USA-

[Robert Jan]

1. They don't tend to make bent roads?

2. They'd rather demolish and replace, than restore an old building?

3. They give streets and avenues numbers instead of names?

4. They eat ketchup with almost anything?

5. They consider a potatoe a vegetable?

 

[75th]

1. They don't tend to make bent roads?

2. They'd rather demolish and replace, than restore an old building?

3. They give streets and avenues numbers instead of names?

4. They eat ketchup with almost anything?

5. They consider a potatoe a vegetable?

1) Ive seen a bunch.

2) Yes and no.

3) Both

4) Its better than mayonaise.

5) Oh yeah.

 

[jenscats5]

1. They don't tend to make bent roads? What is a bent road?

2. They'd rather demolish and replace, than restore an old building? It depends.....here in Wilm, DE where I am, they do both

3. They give streets and avenues numbers instead of names? We have both

4. They eat ketchup with almost anything? Uhhhhhhhh, don't think so

5. They consider a potatoe a vegetable? It's spelled "potato" and I think the gov't did classify it as a vegetable

 

[Robert Jan]

Bent road is a road that does not go in a straight line.

I find areas without bent roads slightly inpersonal and depressing personally... Standing on a crossroads and looking out of the city in 4 directions would make me like the city less... All depends on what you're accustomed to.

potatoes in Holland are like Rice in Asia. They are eaten daily, in good amounts, not a vegetable, that's something you eat with your potatoes

Mayonaise is nastier than ketchup. I eat neither. Most people here only eat mayo with french fries

The street name thing is really kind of irrelevant. I don't think I've ever been on a numbered street

 

[Shaitan]

2. They'd rather demolish and replace, than restore an old building?

Would be kinda sad if this one is true, considering the short history of the country.

 

[jenscats5]

Bent road is a road that does not go in a straight line.

I find areas without bent roads slightly inpersonal and depressing personally... Standing on a crossroads and looking out of the city in 4 directions would make me like the city less... All depends on what you're accustomed to.

potatoes in Holland are like Rice in Asia. They are eaten daily, in good amounts, not a vegetable, that's something you eat with your potatoes

Mayonaise is nastier than ketchup. I eat neither. Most people here only eat mayo with french fries

The street name thing is really kind of irrelevant. I don't think I've ever been on a numbered street

I figured a "bent road" was one that didn't go in a straight line....but it was such a weird question I didn't know if you truly had meant it that way.... cuz why would the entire US not have a single curved road??

Ketchup is good on french fries & scrambled eggs & burgers.....

 

[Shaitan]

5. They consider a potatoe a vegetable?

LOL, I bet McDonalds was the driving force behind this, so people think that instead of eating Hamburger with French Fries they eat a hamburger with salad on the side.

 

[Robert Jan]

lol. not even they would go there.

exceptions are irrelevant

 

[Mr. dB]

1. They don't tend to make bent roads?

2. They'd rather demolish and replace, than restore an old building?

3. They give streets and avenues numbers instead of names?

4. They eat ketchup with almost anything?

5. They consider a potatoe a vegetable?

1) In a city, the streets tend to be on a rectangular grid, but rural highways and suburban residential areas have plenty of curves. Roads tend to follow the terrain; in a flat area, the roads will be straight, but hills force road builders to make curves.

2) Not true. Many old buildings are preserved. Of course we don't have buildings here as old as you do, since most cities in this country are much less than two hundred years old. Usually old buildings are only demolished if they have no architectural or historical significance.

3) We have both. Numbered or lettered streets are found in the inner city, outlying areas will have named streets. In the downtown area of my town, the east-west streets are numbered, but the north-south ones are named. For example, my work is on the corner of 13th and Main Sts.

4) Only weirdos eat ketchup on anything but french fries, hamburgers, or hot dogs. Anyone who puts ketchup on green vegetables, eggs, or steak, should be taken out and shot.

5) If the potato isn't a vegetable, what it it? It's not an animal or a mineral, that doesn't leave much else.

 

[Sub-Zero]

is it true in norwegia they like to slap their genitals with scottish lox?

 

[Robert Jan]

It's vegetable as in it comes from plants, that''s the scientific meaning.

I mean the food category meaning... f.i. dairy is not a really scientifically definable group.

It's kind of obvious that in rural areas you'll have bent roads, the difference is the speed of urbanisation. if a rural area very gradually over centuries becomes a city then the initial bent roads will remain. The growth will reach outward once the bent streeted centre is full and since it's growing outward of a circle it won't be all straight roads. This is how historic town centres come about... we have many of them in Holland. Amsterdam, Delft, Maastricht, Sneek, Utrecht to name a few

 

[Sub-Zero]

It's vegetable as in it comes from plants, that''s the scientific meaning.

a few

theres a bush on top of a potatoe

 

[HS Lifter]

http://www.pashnit.com/maps/angeles-crest.jpg

Is that road bent enough for ya? I road it yesterday on my motorcycle, about 60 miles of constant turns.

RJ,

It also depends on the state, some states have very little "twisties" while other states are loaded with them.

 

[Robert Jan]

cool but that scale shows little, its the small turns that matter

 

[Ulcasterdropout]

1. They don't tend to make bent roads?

2. They'd rather demolish and replace, than restore an old building?

3. They give streets and avenues numbers instead of names?

4. They eat ketchup with almost anything?

5. They consider a potatoe a vegetable?

1) Yes. If topography allows, they tend to be straight. Why wouldn't they?
Shortest distance between two.....
2) Yes! Unless the historical WASP's get involved.
3) Both. Where I live, roads are named after families that lived there (no shit). In cites, it's more about numbers
4) Better then mayonnaise?
5) Yes.

 

[HS Lifter]

cool but that scale shows little, its the small turns that matter

http://www.pashnit.com/maps/palomar-usgs.jpg

How about that one?

 

[Sean Scott]

Is It true that on May 10th 1940 Germany invaded Holland and on May 14th Holland surrended?..

Just think if your roads were straight you may not have held for so long..

Just a litttle humor..

 

[Moderate_THIS]

Is It true that on May 10th 1940 Germany invaded Holland and on May 14th Holland surrended?..

Just think if your roads were straight you may not have held for so long..

Just a litttle humor..

the Dutch pointed all their windmills in the German army's direction, thus the strong headwind and not the best of marching times.

 

[jackangel]

you silly goat.

 

[Razorguns]

you ever gonna come to the US and check it out..

or you gonna continue to sit there in some european village with your english books and keep pretending to know how Americans act, think and speak?

 

[AAP]

I don't put ketchup on anything. I hate it.

I actually, I don't use condiments at all. I will marinate things to my liking, but kethup, mayonaisse, mustard, butter, sour cream, hot sauce, etc... I never use them.

 

[Dial_tone]

Roads are built to go around what's already there. Straight roads tend make people fall asleep at the wheel.

 

[jenscats5]

It's vegetable as in it comes from plants, that''s the scientific meaning.

I mean the food category meaning... f.i. dairy is not a really scientifically definable group.

It's kind of obvious that in rural areas you'll have bent roads, the difference is the speed of urbanisation. if a rural area very gradually over centuries becomes a city then the initial bent roads will remain. The growth will reach outward once the bent streeted centre is full and since it's growing outward of a circle it won't be all straight roads. This is how historic town centres come about... we have many of them in Holland. Amsterdam, Delft, Maastricht, Sneek, Utrecht to name a few

Well, a potato is from a plant.....it grows in soil and has leaves, so while it's technically a tuber, it's still a plant.....

In the city I live in, we have curved road, even tho it's a city....Pennsylvania Ave. has a curve in it, so does Delaware Ave......the way the city is laid out, however there are many straight streets, both named & numbered....

 

[Moderate_THIS]

"Is it true that in Manhattan.."

yes, all apply