Differences Between Canada and the USA

Well just my personal observations anyways.....:)

- you have way too many types of gravy...gravy should be brown and served on the Sunday roast....period

- guns are for hunting and cops not pickup trucks

- school overcrowding in Canada means it's not planting or harvesting season

- most people in Canada have never seen an eskimo or a polar bear and no we have never met your third cousin John who moved to Saskatchewan

- we can pronounce Saskatchewan

- we make better beer

- you make better cars

- we talk slower and "eh" is the proper way to end each and every sentence

- discussing childbirth with the girl in line at Becker's is quite normal, Canadians like to share and remember we talk slow so be patient

- we make great hockey players, you know how to buy them

- the only time Canadians are in a hurry is if Crappy Trash is about to close (if you are from Canada you know what Crappy Trash is)

- it's socially acceptable to do a complete engine overhaul in the parking lot of Crappy Trash....crowds will form and some guy named Jim will do your timing

- smart Canadian women do not give birth during hockey season, if they accidentally go into labor during the playoffs they don't expect their husband to show up

- nobody in Canada is quite sure what grits are and we don't really want to know

- you haven't lived until you've eaten poutine! (Americans tend to think this is a rude word?)

- you gave us WalMart

- most Canadians don't speak french other than the curse words (we also mumble through the french part of our national anthem)

- you have boring money....it's all green and none of it is referred to in fun terms like the looney and the twoney

- the proper response to a standard Canadian greeting is this..."how ya doin eh? good eh and yerself?" (please note that "eh" can be used not only at the end but also in the middle of a sentence...oh and it's also a form of punctuation depending on the tone and emphasis you give it :) )

- everyone who lives "out west" is a hippy, everyone who lives "down east" is a fisherman or a Newf

- Newf's make the best moonshine...it's called "screech"...drink it at your own peril (don't say I didn't warn ya!)

- people from Quebec will look down on you if you can't speak french, but they are french and therefore cannot help themselves

- people from Quebec are not actually speaking french (they speak le français québécois but are too snotty to admit it)

- our Acadians are sort of like your Cajuns...they make the best music and the best food

- socialized medicine rocks!

- you had a President that almost got impeached for immoral acts in his office, we had a Prime Minister that nobody wanted to sleep with

- your Presidents have many bodyguards, our Prime Ministers have been known to punch a reporter or two that got in the way or flash them a rude hand gesture....Canadians consider this an asset in a leader

- referring to the "rack" you have in Canada is not a reference to your wife's build, it's the antlers on your wall from last year's buck

- dead animals are considered a form of home decor

- we think pot is legal in Canada, they keep changing the laws though and let's be honest...the poor pot smokers just can't keep up!

- at the border the US guards will strip search you, demand documentation and glare menacingly at your grandma....the Canadian guards will simply say "have a nice trip eh?" (or you might stop for a lovely discussion of someone's recent childbirth experience)

- some Canadian provinces still have Grade 13 in high school, don't worry we don't understand why either

- milk comes in bags, three bags come in a bigger bag....if a Canadian asks you to grab a bag of milk it can mean two things....#1 if you are home it means get a single bag out of the fridge cuz the jug is empty, #2 if you are walking out of the house it means stop at Becker's and grab a bag of milk cuz we are out of milk (confused yet?)

- you have Vitamin D milk, we have Homogenized milk...it is commonly referred to as "homo milk" (stop laughing!!!)

- sausage gravy scares Canadians...remember gravy is brown and you get it on Sunday with the roast beef....white lumpy stuff is unnatural!

- we have a Queen, it's a lady over in England, not a guy wearing his mom's dress

- we don't have African-Canadians or Irish-Canadians, if you were born in Canada, you are a Canadian, if you weren't you're not...oh other than the French-Canadians but being french they can't help being a bit irritating that way

- Indians in Canada are from India, we have First Nations people or Aboriginal People...do not call them Indians please they don't appreciate it and heck they aren't from India!

- we like our clean water so please keep buying it, we need the cash to build more hockey rinks

- Toronto, Ontario is NOT the capital of Canada

- we don't have rednecks, we have "hicks"

- we aren't sure why you folks are in such an all fired hurry to get places, how will you have time to discuss life while standing in a bank line this way?

- there's a whole bunch of Canada you can't drive to (no roads) but that's okay...most of us didn't want to go there anyways :)

and the last and most important thing....

WE DO NOT HAVE ACCENTS...YOU DO! (well okay the Newfs do have accents and nobody understands what they say but they make good booze!)

:8: Hahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Good stuff!!!! :P :D :P

LOL gotta love it:D

Ha ha, good one Jo :)

Don't forget this one...

In Canada 4/20 is a National holiday, not just another day in April ;)

the reason babies are not born during the playoffs is simple... 9 months AFTER the playoffs is not another playoff :rofl:

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Originally Posted by Uncle Festae

Ha ha, good one Jo :)

Don't forget this one...

In Canada 4/20 is a National holiday, not just another day in April ;)

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It is not just another day in April here. :D

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people from Quebec will look down on you if you can't speak french, but they are french and therefore cannot help themselves

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This is so true.

AND many of them refuse to speak english LOL

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Originally Posted by recycling goddess

AND many of them refuse to speak english LOL

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True even if they can they won't, it's just the French thing, being rude as usual :eek:

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Originally Posted by recycling goddess

AND many of them refuse to speak english LOL

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pffft, I wish my wife would refuse to speak english :confused: Would make the day go by so much quicker :8: LOL

I loved it when her parents stayed with us...All french, all the time...couldn't understand a word :D

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Originally Posted by Uncle Festae

pffft, I wish my wife would refuse to speak english :confused: Would make the day go by so much quicker :8: LOL

I loved it when her parents stayed with us...All french, all the time...couldn't understand a word :D

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hahahahahahahahahahaha *snort*

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Originally Posted by Uncle Festae

couldn't understand a word :D

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Probably better anyway ;) .

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Originally Posted by GA_Ball_Pythons

Probably better anyway ;) .

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They don't even speak real french, they speak this weird Acadian style French that is a mix of Quebecois french, real French (you know, like they speak in France ;) ) Local slang/lingo, and English.......It's confusing at best, even if you do speak French :( All I hear is, ribbit ribbit :P LOL

Too funny! I just realized you live in London, Chris. My old stomping ground for a few years. Used to head over to London a lot when we lived in Woodstock.

Oh and a few more....


- it's pickerel (pronounced "pick-rill") NOT walleye (that one drives me nuts!)

- if you are dumb enough to wander around the woods on the opening day of deer season, you deserve to be shot

- duck season is referred simply as "blastin!"

- if you buy a vacation home in Canada and you dislike being startled awake at the break of dawn on the first day of "blastin!" season...please move somewhere else

- we have a chain of gas stations....their signs read..."Beaver....Working Hard For You!"....you may NOT point and laugh!

- Woodstock, Ontario has a lifesize statue of a milk cow (complete with a full udder mind you)...they do NOT consider it funny if one attempts to dress it up in fishnet stockings and a hat (don't ask me how I know this)....apparently those folks take their milk production REAL serious

- Wawa, Ontario has a giant goose statue...do not stand under the goose and expect that anyone will stop and offer you a ride...standing under a giant, concrete goose is considered bad form and just plain dumb

- if you come north and somehow miss Toronto and end up in Timmins...well too bad for you...no one in their right mind actually WANTS to end up in Timmins! (yes we are secretly laughing at you between periods in the game)

Hey, does anyone know where Deseronto is? Mark's mom lives there! I have to say, that in Canada, it just seems so much cleaner, at least where we went around her house on the Reservation.. hard to explain.

Talk about good fishing! Deseronto is it from what I know of that area (Bay of Quinte area if memory serves me). I think maybe Canada is a bit cleaner Jen only because it's a fairly large country with a fairly small population. We humans are just like most other mammals, overcrowd us and we mess up our area and squabble amongst others.

as a canadian... we all wake up and want out 'timmies'. we know what it is and we know how to roll up the rim!

Aleesha dear, now do take a deep breath because this is terribly shocking information but do you know I lived years in the vast wasteland of northern Michigan...WITHOUT MY TIMMIES FIX! (you probably just fainted dead away or broke into sympathetic sobs for my awful experience - I was very brave, I only whined weekly after the first couple of years).


Toledo however has a Timmies! Yes!!!!! I can now get my beloved double double and crueller! Life is good! :carrot:

:confuse: :weirdface :confuzd: :confused: :hmm: :confused: ....... what?

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Originally Posted by recycling goddess

as a canadian... we all wake up and want out 'timmies'. we know what it is and we know how to roll up the rim!

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I think I am staying in America......:P

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

- it's pickerel (pronounced "pick-rill") NOT walleye (that one drives me nuts!)

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Pickerel are completely different fish than a walleye. They are very close to a northern pike.


An American will say, "Hot day!" A Canadian will say, "Hot day, eh?" meaning "It's a hot day, isn't it?"

This is something deeper than spelling or pronunciation. It goes to the heart of the less-assertive Canadian character. The United States was born when Americans revolted against King George III and asserted their independence. Canada never came to a similar point of self-assertion and that little word "eh?" is their refusal even to assert that it's a hot day without inviting somebody else to verify it.

One definition of a Candian is "a North American who refuses to join the revolution".

Another way to tell the difference between a Canadian and an American is to invite the suspected Canuck to lunch and watch him eat. If he's really upper crust, he'll eat like an Englishman, with knife and fork held firmly in his right and left hands. He'll cut with his knife, pack the results on the back of his fork and convey the food to his mouth with the fork still in this left hand.

Many an American eats with knife and fork, too, but in a different way. He takes the knife in his right hand and the fork in his left to cut up the food. Then he puts the knife down and takes the fork in the right hand to convey the food to his mouth.

A common garden-variety Canadian does the job differently. He doesn't use his knife at all, except for particularly stubborn steaks and other such tough foods. Instead he takes the fork in his right hand and leaves the knife beside his plate. Then he cuts the food with the edge of the fork and feeds himself with the fork held in the same hand.

But suppose all these tests are inconclusive. There's one more, rather dangerous, way to tell a Canadian from an American. Just remark to the suspect that Canadians and Americans are so much alike that it's hard to tell one from the other. If the person involved is an American, he'll probably agree.

But if he's a Canadian he'll let you know, in no unterms, that you're wrong. And that stubborn sense of difference is one main reason why the two countries, despite similarities, remain separate.

Great thread! Very funny. You don't have to cross the border to have cultural differences. I grew up in N.Y. and traveled around the country in a band years ago. Talk about culture shock. I live in L.A. now but you can never take the N.Y. out of me. We are a unique breed. :sabduel:

If it's in season, on the end of my fishing rod and I've got a pan and some butter....it's lunch! :)

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Aleesha dear, now do take a deep breath because this is terribly shocking information but do you know I lived years in the vast wasteland of northern Michigan...WITHOUT MY TIMMIES FIX! (you probably just fainted dead away or broke into sympathetic sobs for my awful experience - I was very brave, I only whined weekly after the first couple of years).


Toledo however has a Timmies! Yes!!!!! I can now get my beloved double double and crueller! Life is good! :carrot:

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oh you poor thing... *picks self up and brushes off the dust bunnies* i can't believe you went through such a horrible existance!!!!

thank the gods you are now living near a timmies... tell me dear... did timmies make the transition to the USA without loosing it's uniquely addictive 18% fat cream? *takes a sip and stuffs a triple chocolate donut in her mouth*

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:confuse: :weirdface :confuzd: :confused: :hmm: :confused: ....... what?

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oh my dear dear uniporn... i mean unicorn... *clears throught* when we roll up the rim to win... we are looking for our prize under the rim! we even have a handy dandy little invention to assist us, so we don't have to use our teeth anymore!

http://www.leevalley.com/gifts/page....at=4,104,53210

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You caught that huh???? :P

Ok... what, like sardines???? :confused: (I'm still lost, not a shocker) ! :oops:

They invented a rim rollin tool! Holy moly I LOVE IT! (through really as a Timmies purist one must chew at the rim whilst sucking back coffee and inhaling the adorable Timmies coffee smell....Starbucks folks have no idea what they are missing pay $6.00 for that stuff of theirs!)

I would say the Timmies here is almost as good as home Leesha. Missing the Timmies fanatics though LOL.

What are lost about Laura dear?

Hahaha! I guess I'm lost on what rim you guys roll? :8: And what do you win once you've rolled the rim??? :oops:

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Originally Posted by recycling goddess

oh you poor thing... *picks self up and brushes off the dust bunnies* i can't believe you went through such a horrible existance!!!!

thank the gods you are now living near a timmies... tell me dear... did timmies make the transition to the USA without loosing it's uniquely addictive 18% fat cream? *takes a sip and stuffs a triple chocolate donut in her mouth*

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We don't need no Tim Hortons here...

Krispey Kreme, baby!! :salute: :sunny:

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Originally Posted by Laooda

Hahaha! I guess I'm lost on what rim you guys roll? :8: And what do you win once you've rolled the rim??? :oops:

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http://www.timhortons.com/

All shall be explained herein dear. Do remember to push open the english door unless you read french LOL. Click on the "In Our Store" tab and then you'll see information about the Roll Up The Rim To Win prizes. :)

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Originally Posted by Sausage

We don't need no Tim Hortons here...

Krispey Kreme, baby!! :salute: :sunny:

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Now, I love me some Krispy Kreme............... :P

Sausage, your avi is the greatest thing I've EVER seen.......

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

http://www.timhortons.com/

All shall be explained herein dear. Do remember to push open the english door unless you read french LOL. Click on the "In Our Store" tab and then you'll see information about the Roll Up The Rim To Win prizes. :)

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HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Thanks Hunie!!! :P OK, I got it now! :D Man, that's the best donut web sight I've ever seen. Actually, it's the first, but very impressive! :P

krispie kreme... sweeeet donuts.

timmies.... cake donuts. so you can eat WAAAAY more and not get all sweeted out :puke: and have to take a break. of course, if you consume the exact right amount of sips of your timmies (coffee) then the sweetness of the coatings and fillings is substantially reduced further... thereby allowing said eater to consume even more in one sitting... (yes technically you can walk while eating and sipping but then you miss out on all the yummy crumbs!)

Tim's sour cream glazed...mmmmmm! Don't forget Canadian Tire money, Kinder Eggs, Aero bars, and dulse :) (I spend alot of time in Nova Scotia)

Wow Aleesha you are my Queen of Timmies! You've got the correct formula figured out girl!


Oh I miss Kinder Eggs! (and for those americans that don't know....Crappy Trash = Canadian Tire) :)