Snao Cone Posted February 15, 2020 Author Share Posted February 15, 2020 20 minutes ago, Crazy Cat Lady said: And "kay-beck" That's what I meant by keh-beck, which my phone autocorrected and I had to change it back Link to post Share on other sites
Duke Memphis Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 And "queue-beck". Link to post Share on other sites
JustSomeBear Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 2 hours ago, CBC said: As a lifelong Ontarian, I've never been anywhere in the province that didn't have it. Definitely a thing everywhere here as well. Oh whoa, I didn't know that! I mean, I assumed English was fairly prevalent, but not that much. Interesting. I know some people from the GTA who didn't know about bagged milk lol. I always thought it was a thing all over there, glad to know I was wrong to think otherwise. There is a lot of French here and you'd assume it's the dominant language by just looking at it since all the signs and everything are in French. But most people use English day-to-day and probably a solid 80% of people here can speak English fluently and won't have a problem using it if they see you struggling with French. Very different off the island though. 1 hour ago, Duke Memphis said: I was talking about how there are multiple valid pronunciations of "Quebec". Ahhh. Well because of my French upbringing, I tend to use the French pronunciations. Have to force myself to pronounce it in English. I'd say any pronunciation is right, honestly. It kinda boils down to a bastardization of French because of the accent é lol. I have yet to hear anyone correct anyone else on the pronunciation of Quebec. Link to post Share on other sites
JustSomeBear Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 The way she says it locally in this video is how most francophones say it. Link to post Share on other sites
JustSomeBear Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 Just now, CBC said: That's... really bizarre. I've lived in several parts of the GTA, or just outside it, my entire nearly-35 years. Bagged milk is in literally every grocery store and most convenience stores. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Yeah I don't know either. Whenever we went to Toronto/Mississauga, we'd see some there. Link to post Share on other sites
JustSomeBear Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 5 minutes ago, CBC said: Yeah I lived in Mississauga for nearly a year. Spent 24 years rurally in the Oshawa area and another one right in Oshawa, and about nine in Barrie, which is where I am now... and I'm smug that Barrie isn't technically part of the GTA. Barrie! I've got a bunch of family out there. Link to post Share on other sites
JustSomeBear Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 8 minutes ago, CBC said: My home of choice. Not born here, but made it home. I'm not even sure why I love it so much haha, it's just a random city. I love living near the lake though, and it feels more... northerly... than Toronto does. I barely remember Barrie but yeah, anything not metropolitan city is great. Montreal's big but doesn't feel very big. We've got some building restrictions that prevents huge skyscrapers. I went from suburbs to small college town to city borough all on the island. Link to post Share on other sites
MetricalSky Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 I actually found out recently why bagged milk is a Thing back east because CBC Radio did some research into it for their Cost of Living programme. It's an interesting read/listen, but the short answer? Blame the metric system. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/costofliving/we-answer-your-burning-questions-about-things-like-milk-bags-tariffs-condo-insurance-and-printer-cartridges-1.5409407/here-s-why-milk-comes-in-bags-in-parts-of-canada-1.5409420 I find it interesting because I do remember seeing bagged milk when I was a child in Victoria, but that had to have been 25+ years ago... ever since the mid-90s we've only had 4L jugs out here. Link to post Share on other sites
Snao Cone Posted February 21, 2020 Author Share Posted February 21, 2020 1 hour ago, MetricalSky said: I find it interesting because I do remember seeing bagged milk when I was a child in Victoria, but that had to have been 25+ years ago... ever since the mid-90s we've only had 4L jugs out here. I remember seeing milk bags in Victoria back to about 1999. (Not that I lived there; I was just a frequent visitor for a while.) (Also, to be clear, I mean dairy milk made for human consumption contained within plastic bags, and not, you know..."milk bags".) Link to post Share on other sites
Skycaptain Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 2 hours ago, Snao Cone said: I remember seeing milk bags in Victoria back to about 1999. (Not that I lived there; I was just a frequent visitor for a while.) (Also, to be clear, I mean dairy milk made for human consumption contained within plastic bags, and not, you know..."milk bags".) As if we'd have thought anything else 😋😋 Link to post Share on other sites
Homer Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 What am I supposed to do with 4 litres of milk?! Okay now that's officially weird. Link to post Share on other sites
Snao Cone Posted February 21, 2020 Author Share Posted February 21, 2020 19 minutes ago, Homer said: What am I supposed to do with 4 litres of milk?! Okay now that's officially weird. Pour it into bowls of breakfast cereal every morning like a normal human. It's good for two weeks. Plenty of time to consume that much milk, even as one person (if you eat breakfast cereal regularly). When I was growing up, my family of five consumed an average of four of those jugs (again, dairy milk containers) every week. When I helped bring the groceries in from the car, I could carry all four at once by positioning the handles to face each other so I could hold onto two per hand. Link to post Share on other sites
MetricalSky Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 26 minutes ago, Homer said: What am I supposed to do with 4 litres of milk?! Okay now that's officially weird. Oh, I don't have an issue there. I drink a lot of milk and can easily go through a 4L jug in four days. Link to post Share on other sites
daveb Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 I usually buy my milk in one gallon jugs, which is roughly the same amount. Like Snao says, for me it's usually not hard to use it up before it would go bad. Link to post Share on other sites
ColeHW34 Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 The fact that people have been killed over maple syrup and that the whole Great Canadian maple syrup heist. Here I thought people killing people for their phones was bad. Link to post Share on other sites
Duke Memphis Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 If it's high quality syrup, I could probably understand the violence, but murder? Link to post Share on other sites
Lilyandtwitch Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 maple syrup is worth it Link to post Share on other sites
JustSomeBear Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 I remember seeing rumours about turning that maple syrup heist into a movie. I wonder what ever happened to them 🤣 Link to post Share on other sites
daveb Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 I am reminded of the maple syrup flavored tea I got in Montreal a couple of years ago. Link to post Share on other sites
Ortac Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 2 hours ago, Arodash said: Im from Maine Depending on precisely where you are in Maine, you may have Canadians neighbors to the west as well as the north, and that would also be true for the state of New York (sorry, I am not suggesting that you didn't know that, because I am sure you do, but...)... it does lead me on to an interesting fact: Residents of Detroit have Canadian neighbors to the SOUTH. Link to post Share on other sites
daveb Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 I have Canadian neighbors to the south (their house is down the street from me). There are parts of Canada that are farther south than parts of California (just barely). Link to post Share on other sites
the great acescape Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 I have a few Canadian friends and I can remember with starkness the time one of them told me that while they were visiting friends in the U.S., they saw a commercial for a private hospital and thought it was some type of joke I suppose that's more of an indictment of America's weirdness than it is for Canada. Link to post Share on other sites
SaturnOOO Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 10 hours ago, Arodash said: 3. Poutine..... why? How can you even ask this question 😧 Link to post Share on other sites
SaturnOOO Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 2 minutes ago, Arodash said: Because I love my Canadian neighbors and love poking fun at them. Hehehehe You clearly know how to get a reaction Link to post Share on other sites
robnrdbrd Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 On 2/25/2020 at 3:04 AM, CBC said: I'm a terrible Canadian. Maple syrup is wonderful and all, but goddamn if I don't love that artificially-flavoured pancake syrup crap. 😍 Aunt Jemima Butter Flavoured is class-a drugs in liquid, ingestable form!!! I do love the real stuff as well, but the taste can vary. Link to post Share on other sites
robnrdbrd Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 On 1/16/2020 at 12:08 PM, Scribbles said: I find this charming, more than anything. Tomorrow Tom-ah-row vs Tom-ore-row Sorry sah-ree vs sore-e Heard it on Anne with an E, then was so happy to hear it when I visited Canada last summer! (Also here in Montana we joke we're Diet Canada.) "Tuh-more-uh" for me, I think. "Tuh-more-ow" if I think about it. I definitely say "sore-ee" though. Another distinguishing one is how people say "Toronto". I also say "Traw-na" a lot, or "Tur-on-oh". I think most outsiders say Tor-on-to. My dad says things like "ruff" (roof) and "tor" (tour). I come from central Ontario where it took until adulthood to realize "pertineer" wasn't a word (I never used it, but LOTS of family do), to describe that you are "pretty near" completing / doing / etc. something. Link to post Share on other sites
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