Sometimes, traveling in other countries causes interesting situations as the pre-conceived ideas created from previous life experiences clash headlong into new circumstances, often with hilarious results.

I say this because right now, I'm eating a very large bowl of sour cream, with nuts and and raisins for breakfast.

I'm in Budapest, Hungary (great city, great people) for work and last night I stopped at the grocery store to pick up some food. My hotel room has a refrigerator so I bought a few small things to eat. A good "in your hotel room" breakfast is yogurt with some sort of nuts, and some dried fruit if you're into that sort of thing. So I bought some and brought it back to my hotel.

In our family, we prefer plain, full fat, Greek yogurt. You can buy it in large tubs. It's really delicious once you develop a taste for it and not the sugary swill that so often gets passed off for yogurt in the U.S. (Key lime pie flavored "light" fat free yogurt? Thanks, but no thanks Yoplait).

This morning, as I'm working I was feeling hungry so I excitedly opened up my tub of yogurt, poured in some nuts and raisins, and took a big spoonful. It wasn't ... bad, necessarily, but it wasn't exactly the flavor combination that my tongue was expecting. After a little googling, I discovered I'm eating Hungarian sour cream.

I love sour cream .. on fajitas.

But, just like when we lived in Sweden and I discovered that I like herring, pickles, and liverwurst for breakfast (but I cannot eat it if we're in the U.S.), I decided to eat the entire bowl and judge it on it's own merits. It was surprisingly "not terrible".

I'm not sure if my stomach can tolerate that much sour cream in one sitting, but I will soon find out.

I once saw a Chinese guy at Subway (the sandwich shop) get packets of mustard and mayonnaise with his sandwich. He also got a cookie for dessert. He didn't really understand what it was all for so he went with the flow. He mimicked another guy by putting the mustard on his sandwich, but after that was finished, he was left with the mayonnaise and the cookie.

After not seeing anyone else with a cookie, he didn't know exactly what to do so he squeezed the mayonnaise all over the cookie like frosting and ate the entire thing, not knowing that they were not intended to be paired together.

Maybe I'll have that for breakfast tomorrow.