Comment by ElevenLathe

3 days ago

Care to elaborate? IME this is fairly common. Do you just mean that you guessed that it was in America?

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TZubiri  2 days ago

Correct. The abundancy of ice cream for dessert everynight just sets the mental imagery for a big american family.

NikkiA  3 days ago

They're probably guessing italy.

  • ElevenLathe  3 days ago

    I assumed Detroit (or possibly...Pontiac) from the Pontiac reference. I think this is right, as I can't find any reference to a Pontiac engineering division in Italy before the late 70s (which AIUI is when electronic fuel injection become a standard feature, and the described vapor lock issue couldn't really happen). Is ice cream after dinner really a peculiarly American/Italian habit?

    • Gormo  3 days ago

      If all I saw was "we eat ice cream for dessert", I'm not sure I'd be able to get a geolocation any more precise than "Earth".

      The Pontiac in question was the car brand. Someone, somewhere, who drove a Pontiac and ate ice cream for dinner wrote the letter to GM.

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