World Cup fans fall in love with American culture, comfort food classics
The same user also humorously documented his experience with brain freeze after drinking a gas-station slushy too quickly and the wonders of coleslaw at a BBQ meal.
“One thing I love about the European World Cup tourists right now is that they’re not just being dropped off in the middle of Los Angeles or New York City or some overhyped metropolitan hub that most Americans like myself don’t even like,” observed X user @realmikolson. “They’re being dropped right in the middle of the heart of middle America.”
Country singer Ella Langley, whose music is all over the radio, gained a fan in a German tourist who’s been road-tripping across the United States for the FIFA World Cup. (Taylor Hill/Getty Images)
“A wise man once said, ‘If you want to hate America, watch the news. If you want to love America, drive across it,’” Olson wrote on the post accompanying the video clip.
Olson said international tourists driving nine hours across Texas and experiencing Auburn University fraternity houses are witnessing “overwhelming American kindness.”
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“A lot of the locals in these areas have no idea who these people are or why they’re even there,” he said, adding that there’s been very little World Cup news or marketing, particularly in small towns.
Buc-ee’s mega travel centers, common in the South, have captured the hearts of foreign tourists in the United States for the FIFA World Cup. (The Washington Post/Getty Images)
Nevertheless, he’s heard of instances of restaurant owners driving World Cup fans to games because they can’t find an Uber. A deli owner gave British tourists free lunch “just because they came all this way,” he said.
Some Alabama firefighters reportedly gave foreign visitors a tour of their fire department and free merchandise.
Olson said that the hospitality that’s “shocking” tourists is a direct result of people “living by American values and principles.”
Teresa Mull is a freelance writer with the Lifestyle team at Fox News Digital.
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