Snowmen

To quote my darling wife, "American snowmen have three balls."

She's right, of course. Whereas we Europeans are used to making our snowman with just a head and a body, over this side of the pond these wintertime creations all have an extra body part.

Although I have no insight into why this is, possible explanations put to me include:

• Americans always have to do things bigger;
• The third ball is actually a second stomach because so many Americans are overweight;
• There's more snow in the States so they can build larger snowmen, and two heads would look odd;
• American snowmen are actually snow-insects.