A US woman living in Australia has shared the everyday habits that often leave Americans confused – including a surprising home feature.

Tara Lappan, who moved Down Under to start a family after marrying her Aussie husband, regularly posts about her cultural discoveries.

She explained that there are certain Australian customs that make little sense to most Americans – starting with one of the most baffling: meat raffles at the pub.

Pubgoers take home a tray of assorted raw meats, including steaks, chops and sausages, from the pub after holding the winning raffle ticket.

Participants typically buy a raffle ticket at a pub or sports club, which usually costs $2, and they go into the draw to win a butcher’s meat tray. If the number on your raffle ticket is drawn, you get to go home with a variety of meats.

The revelation struck a chord with locals, many of whom rushed to the comments to defend the beloved tradition.

‘Who doesn’t love a good bargain if they win a meat raffle? That’s like over $100 (worth) of meat,’ one Aussie wrote.

Another point she mentioned was a bit more technical, referring to the household feature of having to flip a switch on power outlets in Australia.

Americans don’t have plug switches on outlets because they typically use a wall switch near a room’s entrance for one or more outlets, which is standard for controlling lamps.

‘You have no clue how many times I woke up to a dead phone because I forgot to turn the outlet on,’ a fellow American wrote.

‘Wait – there’s no switches on the power outlets in the US?’ one Aussie said, along with an emoji showing she was ‘mind blown’.

Another cultural curveball came when Tara discovered that Australians finish off the ‘Happy Birthday’ song with a loud chorus of ‘hip hip hooray’ – something that doesn’t happen back in the States, where the tune simply ends.

Dozens of Australians admitted they didn’t realise this wasn’t the norm everywhere.

‘I didn’t know we sang Happy Birthday differently until I moved overseas… I got looks,’ one person confessed.

Tara also found herself intrigued by what happens at Christmas time, noting that Australians embrace a very British-style tradition involving ‘crackers and crowns.’

Her fourth observation was one that’s long confused expats and even divides Australians themselves, and that is the country’s insistence that seasons start at the beginning of the month.

‘What do you mean starting a season at the beginning of the month? Surely you can’t start anywhere else,’ one local wrote.

‘The actual date for the start of the seasons is the 21st – you have the summer and winter solstice on June 21 and December 21,’ another pointed out.

It’s not the first time Tara’s Australian lifestyle revelations have amused her followers. In another recent video, she revealed that her husband still teased her about the way she used to make a cup of tea.

‘He said to me the other day “it was life changing for you meeting me, wasn’t it?”‘

She was referring to his humorous comment that if she hadn’t met him, she would still be boiling water in a mug in the microwave instead of using a kettle.

‘You’re right,’ she agreed.

When it comes to Australia’s most quintessential foods, it’s taken nearly five years for Tara to come around to Vegemite.

She wondered why it took so long to appreciate the spread, which was first developed in Victoria in 1922.

‘(Is it) just an acquired taste that takes five years to kick in. I have no idea, but I like Vegemite on toast now,’ she said.

Viewers told Ms Lappan she was now officially a ‘true blue Aussie’.

‘This is your unofficial citizenship clearance,’ another wrote.

Others said her ‘American tastebuds’ were to blame for her negative experience.

‘It’s because your sugar contaminated US palate has now been de-sensitised and can appreciate the taste of Vegemite on toast,’ one wrote.

‘You’ve finally been weaned off the American high-sugar diet your taste buds were accustomed too,’ another said.

‘Doesn’t mean that everyone eats that way. The US is the land of unlimited options. I would just eat things without corn syrup,’ she said.

Vegemite may be iconically Australian, but it was first owned by the US company Kraft, before it was bought by Australian firm Bega in 2017.

Some joked even bigger changes were on the way for Tara.

‘Next step is you will wake up one morning, look in the mirror, and somehow you will have a mullet,’ one wrote.