Uniquely Canadian

[Melody]

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Back Bacon? Touques? We have Bob & Doug MacKenzie for making us aware of our uniqueness, but otherwise we are largely unaware of what makes us uniquely Canadian. News 1130 did a blurb about Canadian words (http://www.news1130.com/news/local/article.jsp?content=20070629_090704_5120), which sparked my train of thought.

The East certainly has some unique sayings & word useage, or so I found out once I'd moved. One being 'some' as emphasis. "That's some nice fish you have!" "That fish is some aggressive!"

What other Canadianisms are there? What else sets us apart from the US or the UK?

Have a safe & fun
CANADA DAY!

[thegrandpoohbah]

Eh!

[Melody]

LOL Is that all ya got? That's some sad.... :;):

[CACAdmin]

Words like:

chesterfield (sofa/couch)
serviettes (napkins)
tourtiere (Quebec style meat pie)
whiskey-jack (Gray Jay (bird))
Mountie (RCMP officer)
steamies (Quebec style hot dogs)

[Melody]

We definitly have unique beer and our cigarettes are different. The smell of American cigarettes reminds me of burning wet cigars. We only found one place in Oregon that had Labatts Blue while we were there on business. The waitress said that's the first time anyone ordered it in the two years that she'd worked there.

Apparently some of us also have bad habits...lol.

[Pamelajo]

Crick (creek)
Tats ( hair knots)
Back 40
I work with a lot of people who's families have only been here for one generation and these are all foreign to them, but the Canadians who have been around for awhile knew what they meant.

[Melody]

Good ones! And for those among us who want to be more Canadianized (That means you, Ms. Katalyst...lol), you can read the book! In fact, there's an article about it here (http://www.guelphmercury.com/national/n063025A.html).

"Fakin Eh! How to Pretend to be a Canadian," written by Toronto author Dan de Figueredo. The book teaches you to "dress, act, speak, eat, sleep, drink, drink and drink some more like a Canadian." It includes familiar advice about using "eh" and touches on igloo dwelling, tuque wearing and doughnut eating.

De Figueredo's approach is not new. Lore has it that Americans have been slapping the Maple Leaf on their backpacks for years in hopes of avoiding anti-American sentiment overseas. T-Shirt King, based in New Mexico, offers a Going Canadian kit that includes a T-shirt sporting the Canadian flag and the phrase "O Canada," a matching Maple Leaf patch for luggage, a window sticker, a lapel pin and a little guide called "How to Speak Canadian, Eh?"

The Canadian Press - Canada's national news agency, eh? - informally surveyed people on a California beach and on our own beloved Prairies for advice on faking being from here.

Jin Ser Lee says anyone pretending to be Canadian should be as polite as possible. "You have to say 'thank you' very many times - just for just little things," advises the 25-year-old South Korean, who is studying physics at the University of Manitoba. "You say 'sorry' many times, too. In Korea, we don't do those things that much. It's such a small country, so packed. Unless you step on someone really hard on their foot, we don't really say sorry."

Party on! Eat Poutine!

[Pamelajo]

I think many of the "Canadian words" are used more in the older neighborhoods and communities, where families have been there for generations. I know when I go to Dad's I hear more of it. Dad's wife who's parents were English came home one day told Dad that the kids in her classroom mentioned a crick and she told them there was no such thing. Dad told her there was she crossed over it coming up the driveway.

Groundhog is the proper name for what some call a gopher. (sp?)

[Melody]

How about words that mean one thing here, but quite another elsewhere? Like 'f*a*g' for a cigarette?

Here's one that I found out had a whooooooooole different meaning in the UK. My Mother, ever the lady, never swore. If she fell on her butt, she'd say she fell on her fanny.

One day I'm talking about this to a business friend in the UK. I thought he was going to pee himself laughing. When he calmed down, he explained that in the UK, 'fanny' referred to a very personal part of the female anatomy. :Embarassing: When I told her, she was totally mortified....lol:swoon:. She's never said it since.

[Melody]

I think many of the "Canadian words" are used more in the older neighborhoods and communities, where families have been there for generations. I know when I go to Dad's I hear more of it. Dad's wife who's parents were English came home one day told Dad that the kids in her classroom mentioned a crick and she told them there was no such thing. Dad told her there was she crossed over it coming up the driveway.


ROFL Like the old joke...

"Where do you live?"

"Cross the crick from Jethro."

"Where does Jethro live?"

"Cross the crick from me."

[Pamelajo]

LOL

[happy_pitbull]

We call Pepsi and Coke drinks here Pop, and in the US, soda. I hate that word, soda. Sounds silly ! They should say "give me some of that some good pop, eh!" LOL LOL!!


Min

[blainep]

Something I didn't know until this morning,

Butter tarts are unique to Canada.

They may have spread around now, but apparently there is a bakery in Ontario, near the border, that gets flooded with Americans every summer, looking for butter tarts .

[Melody]

I forgot about 'pop'! I think soda is something you bake with.

I didn't know that about the Butter Tarts. Reminds me of the song about stealing sunshine...

"Maybe we should do something to cheer him up then"

"Well, does he like butter tarts?"

Must be a Canadian band....lol.

[CACAdmin]

Some more words:

jacket heater (coal stove to heat the hot water tank)
hassock (footstool/ottoman)
kerchief (bandana)
Mars Water Bombers (airplane used in firefighting)
Avro Aero (1950's Canadian airplane)
Alexander Graham Bell (invented telephone)
gallery (porch/veranda)
The Canada Arm (on the space shuttle)

[CACAdmin]

More:

Loonie
Toonie
Roberston screws and screwdrivers

[Melody]

LOL You're doing your research!

Oh! Tim Hortons! How could I forget that one?!

[CACAdmin]

It was a team effort tonight... I had the family over for dinner and picked their brains.

[Pamelajo]

Oh! Tim Hortons! How could I forget that one?!
Double-double

Canuck
Buck/dollar
Chinook

[Melody]

"What year is your dogsled?"

:laugh:

[happy_pitbull]

Heres a good website ! : http://americansguide.ca/isms.html


Three I saw and had just thought of as well... KD (kraft dinner), Chips, and Donairs! (I know a guy in Lincoln Nebraska, and he does not know what Donairs are ! I am gonna try and send him some...someday ! ,LOL! )

And know some places dont even have ketchup chips, like out West where you guys are? I thought someone told me once that there are certain brands of chips you guys cant get out there?


Min

[Melody]

LOL We have Ketchup chips, but we don't have the Humpty Dumpty brand that I grew up with, or I've never seen it anyway.

Which reminds me...

Mrs. Dunsters Doughnuts...mmmm.....

Funny link!

[Soggybottom]

Apparently Molson Canadian is sold in California...
My horticulture teacher also there is a niche market for MacIntosh apples. I guess LA has the largest number of Canadians in one place outside of Canada. The talent has to come from somewhere haha!

I'm thinking give'r might be one more canuck turn of phrase...

[Melody]

Hmmm... that one definitly has a Canadian twang sound to it!

California is on my 'top 10 list' of places where I would never want to live, Canadian beer & apples or not :NoWay: .

[Gramma]

One can get Humpty Dumpty chips in Ontario. Old Dutch chips that you get here in BC remind me of Old Dutch cleanser. Yuck!!! However I have tasted them since I have been here (the chips, that is) and they are pretty good.

[_BaDgUy_]

I won't even start with all the crazy french stuff here in Quebec!

As for the chips, we have all of them over here!!
Lays, Pringles, Yum Yum, Humpty Dumpty, Old Dutch.... you name them, we have them!!

[Melody]

The chip capital of Canada! That's it, I'm brushing up on my French and planning a move.

[Katalyst]

Apparently Molson Canadian is sold in California...
My horticulture teacher also there is a niche market for MacIntosh apples. I guess LA has the largest number of Canadians in one place outside of Canada. The talent has to come from somewhere haha!

I'm thinking give'r might be one more canuck turn of phrase...

Molson Canadian is also sold in New York as well as Florida, there are even a few Timmy's in Florida where my parents live. They have quite a few Canadian neighbours. (hmmm that u is in the right place right? I forget sometimes) So just admit it once and for all, the U's you guys put in everything to confuse the heck out of us right? :twitcy: I just found out that 'mold' even has a u in it! Gah! Recently I we went out to dinner and when asked what I wanted to drink I said 'oh whatever diet soda you have with lemon' *blink blink blink* is what I got in return before I said 'Ohhh I mean diet coke' Pop is also used down South, I always used to make fun of my cousins as a kid for calling 'soda' pop. Next time I'll stick to beer or pop.

Lastly when moving here last year the huzbo was hanging out with the family drinking beer like it was going out of style saying ohhhh its okay the beer is much weaker here. Apparently the beer we had is exactly the same percentage of alcohol he was HAMMERED. lol

[CACAdmin]

Yup, we're definitely out to confuse you!:;): Now that you're learning where to put all those 'u's to spell words the 'Canadian' way, you'll find out that there are born and bred Canucks like me who omit the 'u' in many words ( I do because I'm lazy and don't see the point.) And, it's perfectly acceptable... so says my Funk & Wagnalls Canadian College Dictionary.:yes: So once you've learned all words in which the 'u' is added, your next assignment will be to figure out in which words it is acceptable to omit the 'u'. :spinny: Confused yet? No? Well, I'll have you know that when you figure out you've mastered it all... there's going to be a test. :DevilGrin:

[Katalyst]

Yup, we're definitely out to confuse you!:;): Now that you're learning where to put all those 'u's to spell words the 'Canadian' way, you'll find out that there are born and bred Canucks like me who omit the 'u' in many words ( I do because I'm lazy and don't see the point.) And, it's perfectly acceptable... so says my Funk & Wagnalls Canadian College Dictionary.:yes: So once you've learned all words in which the 'u' is added, your next assignment will be to figure out in which words it is acceptable to omit the 'u'. :spinny: Confused yet? No? Well, I'll have you know that when you figure out you've mastered it all... there's going to be a test. :DevilGrin:

Yes but it wouldn't be a Canadian test unless there's beer, right? And with all that beer how could I possibly pass the test? I'd be too busy holding my beer to write an exam.

[Katalyst]

Ready for another language barrier...

Contractor for housing authority (who behind his back I call Jed Clampett) shows up and says did you put in an order that your easedrops are upside down? I look at him and say wha????:Confused: And then I say, nope but all of my gutters (pronounced in Brooklyn-ese Gutta's) and rain spouts are clogged perhaps they got it wrong at the housing authority.

Apparently easedrops=gutter

D'oh! :Embarassing:

[CACAdmin]

Oh, do you mean eavestroughs? Never heard the term 'easedrops'...lol... either you misunderstood him, or it is a local term or maybe he is Jed Clampett.:twitcy: The term we use is eavestroughs (yup, spelled with a 'u'...lol). Gutter refers to the drainage area at the side of the road.

We call 'rain spouts' downspouts or downpipes. More confusion.

[Katalyst]

Oh, do you mean eavestroughs? Never heard the term 'easedrops'...lol... either you misunderstood him, or it is a local term or maybe he is Jed Clampett.:twitcy: The term we use is eavestroughs (yup, spelled with a 'u'...lol). Gutter refers to the drainage area at the side of the road.

We call 'rain spouts' downspouts or downpipes. More confusion.

It sounded like easedrops but yes he has a wicked accent, and it doesn't help that he was wearing old overalls...Or coveralls as well call em. Even though they don't seem to coverall. :Think:

[Melody]

I think that may be one of those misheard/mispronounced things. I think I call them eavesdrops :Blush: .

Coveralls are what mechanics wear to protect their clothes, overalls are the things with the shoulder straps. Catch-alls are 38DD's wearing overalls (not sayin' how I know that). Damnitalls are much like Murphey's laws. Neanderthals are most of the males I know. Knowitalls bug those of us who DO know it all....

Got all that?

[Katalyst]

I think that may be one of those misheard/mispronounced things. I think I call them eavesdrops :Blush: .

Coveralls are what mechanics wear to protect their clothes, overalls are the things with the shoulder straps. Catch-alls are 38DD's wearing overalls (not sayin' how I know that). Damnitalls are much like Murphey's laws. Neanderthals are most of the males I know. Knowitalls bug those of us who DO know it all....

Got all that?

Can we go back to talking about beer???? :rofl: :cheers: I understand that much better!

[Katalyst]

Oh oh oh! I have a great one! When the husbo and I were doing the long distance dating thing and I came here for the very first time I was amazed at several things.

1) The Canadian Superstore has its own Aisle dedicated to hockey equiptment, I have been to almost every continent and never ever have I seen that anywhere else. I was and still amazed as well as the fact that they sell fireworks too. In NY fireworks are illegal so I have to get them from all my family members who are cops and do raids. :twitcy:

[Melody]

Yeah but you have beer in your grocery stores and I'd rather have that.

How's that for going back to beer? ::D:

[_BaDgUy_]

Yeah but you have beer in your grocery stores and I'd rather have that.

How's that for going back to beer? ::D:

You don't have beer in your grocery??

[blainep]

You don't have beer in your grocery??

BC and AB are still a little backwards in that respect, Alberta has privately owned liquor stores now, but grocery stores still can't sell beer in the grocery store, they have to have a separate building for liquor.

[Katalyst]

Yeah but you have beer in your grocery stores and I'd rather have that.

How's that for going back to beer? ::D:
The Beer Store was going to be #2..But I have ADD tonight. Yes we can buy beer at gas stations, Walmart, Costo, Supermarkets in NY. I'm kinda used to it now, but its still weird.

[Melody]

And the beer is cheap there too!

[Katalyst]

And the beer is cheap there too!

Unless you're in NYC...Husbo almost choked when they charged him $8.00 for a Imported Canadian LaBatts Blue. :twitcy: He was not amused and hates La Batts to boot.

[CACAdmin]

I don't know about beer (don't drink the stuff) but you can pay up to $5 more at a 'Private' liquor store here for the same bottle of wine you purchase at the government liquor store... what a ripoff!:mad: Mind you I guess that's the price you pay for the convenience of being able to buy it when the gov't liquor store is closed.

[Katalyst]

I don't know about beer (don't drink the stuff) but you can pay up to $5 more at a 'Private' liquor store here for the same bottle of wine you purchase at the government liquor store... what a ripoff!:mad: Mind you I guess that's the price you pay for the convenience of being able to buy it when the gov't liquor store is closed.

I don't drink a lot (during the summer) school year however its a whole different ballgame. I had a parent give me 3 bottles of nice wine last year with the funniest note, 'you had my son all year long, you need this!' Meanwhile I loved her son and still speak to most of my kids from last year.

That's the one advantage to being American and having parents who live in Florida for the winter. Booze is WAY cheaper in Florida and is sold in big bottles in Costo. I buy one big bottle of kettle one and I'm set for 6 months. What can I say, I'm a cheap date! :laugh:And I can't get charged on it, as its for personal consumption.

[_BaDgUy_]

BC and AB are still a little backwards in that respect, Alberta has privately owned liquor stores now, but grocery stores still can't sell beer in the grocery store, they have to have a separate building for liquor.

Wow!!
Didn't think we were so much "advanced"!!

We have our government operated liquor stores, but just for the good stuff, like imported beer, good wine and hard liquor!
Then we have the government operated liquor sections in grocery stores with regular wine, no hard liquor.
Then the corner store have their government operated sections with cheap wine!

All groceries and corner stores are allowed to sell beer, alcoholic beverages like wine coolers and the sort (cheap stuff). The government stores don't sell regular beer like Labatt or Budweiser!

[Melody]

Looking for more Canadianisms! Keep the flag flyin' eh!

[Gramma]

This is really hard.:yes: Everything I think of has already been mentioned. :idea: Here are a few I think are Canadian. Correct me if I am wrong.

fiddleheads

Maple syrup pie

Yellow Pea Soup

"all dressed" hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza

coppers = pennies (at least that is what my Dad used to call them)

[tiff]

What about the "bush"?
I said that to an american and he was:confused: .... you mean the forest?????
It's the bush when you can't walk more than 10 feet without getting scratched all over and getting carried off by the blackflies.


And what about "close the lights!!!" LMAO
I even find myself saying it

[Melody]

Everytime someone posts I hear more that I either didn't know were Canadian or forgot about. Thanks for the input!

'Bush' is used a lot in the North. We didn't use it in the Maritimes that I can recall but that was in my own little corner.

That's like Supper. My co-worker commented on that the other day and didn't like the term on an invite. I believe she was implying that it lacked class :laugh: . Apparently Jesus didn't know that, since it is the original term used since biblical times...lol. The Maritimes & Prairies still use the term, and transplants. Dinner is lunch. The 'classy' way is inherently the wrong way - imagine that. :wink:

[CACAdmin]

Growing up in Montreal we always had we had breakfast, lunch and supper. Dinner was reserved for a special meal like 'Christmas Dinner', 'Thanksgiving Dinner', etc. Only any years after living in Vancouver did I start using the term dinner... hmmm, almost never hear the term supper here, come to think of it.

Anther word is Cheesies
(I think, if I'm not mistaken, Americans call them Cheese Puffs).

[Melody]

So I got an e-mail from my breeder buddy Bill, way down in Louisiana. My reply to him yesterday included a 'Happy Canada Day'.

He replied "...And what the h*ll is "Canada day"? You mean y'all have a whole DAY?"

And this man is a published writer with that grammar? lol

I told him "Yes, we-all have a whole day. It's when we clean out our igloos and take the sled dogs down to the ice road for fireworks.":rolleyes:

He finds it amusing to tease this Canadian. Someone asked about who was designing the ALA Mag these days. When Bill told him I am from Canada the person asked 'What city?', to which Bill replied 'They have cities in Canada?'

I think he's getting back at people for all of those 'down South' jokes :laugh: . We certainly do get poked in the ribs on occasion by other Countries, but then I guess we do some poking of our own too.

At least we don't say "Y'all" :NoWay: .... not much anyways.

[Pamelajo]

we always had we had breakfast, lunch and supper. Dinner was reserved for a special meal like 'Christmas Dinner', 'Thanksgiving Dinner', etc.
Ditto

[Pamelajo]

This maybe just a family thing not a Canadian thing. Has anyone heard of a pea vine?

[Melody]

Only the vegies & the sweet peas :Think: .

[Jeradatar]

Down in the maritimes we often referred to the Forest/Bush as the Woods.

We also have Dooryards in the maritimes, my husband couldn't imagine what a dooryard was when he first heard me say it. He's from Manitoba.

I suppose I could come up with all kinds of uniquely maritimerish sayings but ya'll would wonder what I would be talking about.

Juanita

[CACAdmin]

This maybe just a family thing not a Canadian thing. Has anyone heard of a pea vine?

I'm with Melody on that one... only heard of of pea vines in reference to sweet peas or the vegies. Are we on track or is there another 'pea vine'?


We also have Dooryards in the maritimes

Nope, like your hubby, I've never heard of a dooryard... translation, please?

[Pamelajo]

A pea vine was space of land at my uncle's farm that I believe was used for growing peas.

[Jeradatar]

Nope, like your hubby, I've never heard of a dooryard... translation, please?


It could be the front yard or the back yard but it referred to the yard upon which your Main Use Door opened onto. Maybe explained better at this link.... I was born in Carleton County so I guess I could understand all the terms found on this site. But I was raised in Toronto until grade 11 when we moved back home.

http://www.dooryard.ca/dooryard.html

Juanita

[CACAdmin]

Thanks for the explanations ladies and the link Juanita. I looked though it and came across 'elastics' as a term used for 'rubber bands'. I don't think anyone has mentioned that one yet. I don't know about the rest of you folks but I've always called them elastics.

[KnaveTO]

Oh my god... I can't believe you all missed out on POUTINE!

[Pamelajo]

I don't know about the rest of you folks but I've always called them elastics.
Ditto

[Melody]

It could be the front yard or the back yard but it referred to the yard upon which your Main Use Door opened onto. Maybe explained better at this link.... I was born in Carleton County so I guess I could understand all the terms found on this site. But I was raised in Toronto until grade 11 when we moved back home.

http://www.dooryard.ca/dooryard.html

Juanita

My Mother calls it the dooryard to this day. :smile:

[Jeradatar]

My Mother calls it the dooryard to this day. :smile:

So do I!

[CACAdmin]

Tomorrow is Canada Day, so I thought it only appropriate to :bump-5: this thread. Each year we get new insights to thing and expressions which make up truly Canadian:Canadian:.

We've had lots of new members over the past year. I'm sure some of you can think of something uniquely Canadian to add to our ever growing list. :yes:

[GaryofMontreal]

I just finished reading the entire thread, and it was fun. I love language.
So here in my little anglo-irish ghetto culture, surrounded as it is by a sea of French speakers, we have some different ones. TV has flattened our language, so a lot of these (not all) refer to the language of geezers like me...
We don't have pop or soda. We have soft drinks.
My New Brunswick wife buys flats of beer - I buy cases or twelves. Here, we live in flats, not apartments.
I buy beer at the dep (corner store). When I lived downtown, I'd call the dep and the case would be delivered to my door by a kid on a beer-bike - a modified bicycle with a rack for a few cases of beer on the front. That fine tradition is dying quickly though. There aren't many beer delivery guys, like there aren't paperboys.
My grandmother never ate 'lunch'. The mid-day meal was "dinner". Supper was at suppertime.
Swearing in French was allowed, while English was frowned on. So the French "tabernacle" becomes Taaahberrrr-insert most anything.
When I hit my thumb with a hammer, I become extremely bilingual, yelling "s**t la merde!!!" Many Montreal anglos are proficient in Italian too, but only when we're cut off while driving (every 37 seconds or so).
We don't lead or chair meetings, we animate them. There is a lot of French in our English. Get that baby its suce! Pacifier sounds like something you'd hit a seal with.
And we absolutely snap that "t" in often.

[Pamelajo]

We don't lead or chair meetings, we animate them.
Do you get more animated after a few beers?
Taxi will deliver beer in northern towns and maybe here, never tried.






We now have Canadian Flag ice cream. Not sure if it is available in stores but I can order it for the residents at work.

[CACAdmin]

Gary, thanks for the walk down memory-lane. When I was growing up in Montreal, we rented a downstairs flat (which of course I have learned to subsitute the word'duplex' for as no one here would understand. It took me years to get used to saying 'pop' instead of 'soft drink'.

Canadian Flag ice cream? Pam, do you know which dairy it's from (not that it would be much help out here... just curious). I'll have to check and see if we can get it. That would be really neat for Canada Day celebrations!

[Pamelajo]

Chapmans, whole farm or ??? I am thinking chapmans.

[Pamelajo]

A site with some Canadian isms


take off! = you are kidding, no way, fly an airplane
swish = a drink made from leftover screech barrels
Ogopogo is Canadian (Ogopogo, a distant and less-famous relative of the Loch Ness Monster, is said to sill live in Lake Okanagan, B.C.)

http://members.shaw.ca/kcic1/canisms.html

[Laura]

Z=zed
coles notes = cliff notes. I knew they were called something diff in the states and when I looked it up, I found this. http://americansguide.ca/isms.html Some are possibly very regional.

[Pamelajo]

Thanks Laura that bought back a couple. I have not heard of alcool for a long time. We used to mix it with grape koolaid or grape juice not sure which and called them Purple Jesus not sure why they were named that.

[GaryofMontreal]

Oh dear, swish. I had forgotten that stuff. I knew some people near Asbestos Qc who used to buy whiskey barrels from Seagrams and soak the swish out them. They would mix it with seven-up. Only a fool would sniff the stuff, let alone drink it. And let me tell you, it hurt the next day....

I don't think I'd get Canadian Flag ice cream here. I've never even seen Molson Canadian in Quebec. You could make a float - 1/3 swish, 1/3 Molson Canadian, and 1/3 maple syrup with a huge dollop of Canadian Flag ice cream! Of course, the next morning, you might wake up thinking we should give all our water (and other liquids) to the States.

[GaryofMontreal]

Pam is at fault for saying "Thanks Laura that bought back a couple. I have heard of alcool for a long time. We used to mix it with grape koolaid or grape juice not sure which and called them Purple Jesus not sure why they were named that."

Come to Quebec and have a 'ti-jaune', which I have managed to avoid. You take 'Bear's Paw" alcool and add a tablespoon of Tang. The hunters like it. I'm not a hunter.

[Pamelajo]

Come to Quebec and have a 'ti-jaune', which I have managed to avoid. You take 'Bear's Paw" alcool and add a tablespoon of Tang. The hunters like it. I'm not a hunter.
I think I'll pass, not quite as daring as I used to be. Do the hunters actually get out and hunt the next day after drinking it???Or do they sound a bit like the bears they are hunting?

[neon]

ROFL Like the old joke...

"Where do you live?"

"Cross the crick from Jethro."

"Where does Jethro live?"

"Cross the crick from me."
:laugh::laugh::laugh:

[CACAdmin]

Those lists are great Pam and Laura. Reading down the lists, I realized I had forgotten about the TV shows my kids grew up with: Mr. Dressup (Casey and Finnegan) and The Friendly Giant.

And there is nothing tastier than Montreal Smoked Meat. Thankfully, I can now get it here in New Westminster at Anny's (a little cafe down the street). The owner, a lovely French-Canadian gal, brings it in from Montreal. Safeway was selling 'Montreal-style' smoked meat... not bad but just not like the real thing.

I didn't realize that Shreddies was a Canadian cereal. Most of us have taken Joe jobs when we had to. Another one mentioned there was what we as fishkeepers are often concerned about... the hydro bill (as in electricity bill).

Any more uniquely Canadian things you can think off?

[CACAdmin]

Here's a list of 50 Canadian inventions (http://www.cbc.ca/inventions/inventions.html), the inventors who created them. Some have been mentioned here already but other listed include: the pacemaker, the elctron microscope, Plexiglass, the Snowblower, the paint roller, the green garbage bag, UV Degradable Plastic, the instant replay, and many more. Check out all 50 of them and be pleasantly surprised how creative and innovative Canadians are.

[Melody]

I can't help but notice that this thread always comes back to booze. :cheers:

Yes, flats of beer, a two-four. We still go with pint, quart and 40-ouncer too. A 'Mickey' is the little sample bottles.

'Flat' in terms of apartments is British - imagine that, Quebec using a British term?

How about some Newphisms (http://www.explorenewfoundlandandlabrador.com/newfoundland-words-and-sayings.htm)?

I have a Molson Canadian t-shirt on.... which apparently shrunk since I got it free in a case of beer several years ago.:Dunno:

[CACAdmin]

:laugh: I think the case of beer might have had a little something to do with the shrinking of the Molson Canadian T-shirt.:wink:

[OldMan]

I never thought washing a T-shirt in beer would make it shrink, Jay. LOL

[Melody]

In my typically wild fashion, I had two (admittedly large) glasses of slush but they were too sweet. My choices were to stop or add more vodka to take the edge off. Luckily for you people, I'm now drinking a bottle of water :laugh: .

Jay, the distorted flag isn't on my belly, lotsa room there...lol.

[CACAdmin]

I never thought washing a T-shirt in beer would make it shrink, Jay. LOL
OldMan, I can see why you're still married to the Mrs... and why I'm single.:laugh:



Jay, the distorted flag isn't on my belly, lotsa room there...lol.
:laugh: Well, if beer has that effect it's definitely a vast improvement over the typical beer-belly us guys get. :wink: Now I'll take my cue from OldMan and as I don't have his talented way with words, I'll simply shut-up now. :twitcy:

[Melody]

LOL It's not an improvement when you're already more than 'voluptuous' enough. I'm sure it's broadened shoulders from the new gym routine. :rolleyes: I have no desire to be boney so it doesn't bother me much, but we have to catch it before it becomes a problem if we're smart.... mmm.... Smarties...

:twitcy:

[CACAdmin]

Smarties are good... they make you smarter, don't they? (maybe they'll make 'em in a lo-cal variety)

[Melody]

Smarties definitly make you smarter. So does beer - it made Bud w(e)iser. :yes:


:swoon:

[CACAdmin]

:laugh:

[Melody]

Pam, you hit the wrong button...lol...I couldn't figure out what happened to my post. No more coolers for you!

[Pamelajo]

Maybe that is why my quote did not work, had to manually do it. OOops sorry.

[Melody]

No worries, I do much worse all the time... don't tell Jay :laugh: .

[CACAdmin]

OK... that's it... you two are officially cut off... no more drinks for you ladies (until tomorrow that is. :wink: )

[Melody]

You look silly in that cop costume and we're not letting you confiscate our booze.:NoWay:

[CACAdmin]

Well, if you won't let me confiscate the booze, will you share some?:wink:

[Pamelajo]

Got to think about that!!!

[CACAdmin]

:Skeptic:Let me know when you ladies come to a decision (and it had better be before it's all gone!...lol)