21+ Things That Are Considered Rude in Different Countries You Might Not Have Known

Is this a common thing for people to do? There is some amusement to it, unless the person saying it is genuinely serious about trying to find a connection to ol’ Éire by pulling up the distant connection. This isn’t the Mediterranean; it doesn’t work like that.

It’s probably a joke that falls something in the vein of the “I’m hungry in Hungary” section, where it’s funny for someone who’s in a new country for the first time but not so much for the locals who have dealt with a lot of first timers in the country.