Dr Seuss doesn't exactly flow with European social etiquette

As I was reading Green Eggs and Ham to Vaughn at a friend's house last weekend, the hosts interrupted to ask what the hell was going on. Hadn't they seen these characters before? Wasn't there a Mike Myers film about all this?

You see, they're Dutch. So I explained, "No, the Mike Myers movie was Cat in the Hat. Same author; completely different story." Nevermind that Green Eggs and Ham is the book for which I remember Dr Seuss, but whatever.

So I continued reading ...

By about the tenth page, our male host said, "That guy with the ham -- he's very irritating." [laughter] "They really should fix that in the movie."

'Nuff said.