Go canada!

[sparks19]

I never really realized how many misconceptions Canadians had about the US until I moved here and experienced it myself and then hear some of the things my family (my fathers side... NOT my mother) say about Americans.

I have heard some funny things in the US before I moved here. LIke one time in Florida the cashier somehow ended up with a loonie and thought it must be one of those english pounds lol. but I haven't really heard anything since moving here but they always bust my chops for saying "eh" lol and asking for the washroom instead of the bathroom.

 

[Dekka]

Washroom/bathroom is regional in canada too. The one that really got me when I moved from out west as a kid. Out west if someone gets in front we called it 'cutting' in line. Here when I arrived it was 'budding' or 'butting' in line. I was like what are they plants?

Or in winnipeg it was common when trick or treating to not use door bells or knock.. you sang out Halloween apples. Retrospectively I like this custom. The next day when the kids are hyped up on sugar they have no voices

 

[GipsyQueen]

Washroom/bathroom is regional in canada too. The one that really got me when I moved from out west as a kid. Out west if someone gets in front we called it 'cutting' in line. Here when I arrived it was 'budding' or 'butting' in line. I was like what are they plants?

Or in winnipeg it was common when trick or treating to not use door bells or knock.. you sang out Halloween apples. Retrospectively I like this custom. The next day when the kids are hyped up on sugar they have no voices

Lol it's totally cutting ^^

Kinda off topic, but what REALLY got me was when I was in London, and people said Queing in stead of standing in line? I was like wtf is queing?

 

[ACooper]

I've lived as far west as Arizona, as far south as Tennessee (Nashville around age 5) and as far north as Michigan. I've heard the line thing called cutting and butting. Never 'budding' the kind of 'butting' it means is like 'butting into someone's business' LOL

But we say "cutting" around here too. And ya, WTF is queing? hahaha, I sort of understand that I guess, you are 'in que' for whatever event you are standing in line for.........but ya, never heard that expression before.

 

[sparks19]

Washroom/bathroom is regional in canada too. The one that really got me when I moved from out west as a kid. Out west if someone gets in front we called it 'cutting' in line. Here when I arrived it was 'budding' or 'butting' in line. I was like what are they plants?

Or in winnipeg it was common when trick or treating to not use door bells or knock.. you sang out Halloween apples. Retrospectively I like this custom. The next day when the kids are hyped up on sugar they have no voices

LOL yeah I remember I went to a restaurant here and in a brief moment forgot where I was and asked where the washroom was and the guy looked at me like I have a third eye lol.

another one is Rye. Here it;s Whiskey... NOT rye. Again at a restaurant I ordered a rye and diet and she leaned in REALLY close and said "a WHAT?" LOL

one I find interesting... here Smarties are those little colored sour candies that I always refered to as rockets

But in Canada (or at least Ontario.) These are smarties

And if you say Kraft Dinner here... NO body knows what you are talking about lol

 

[bubbatd]

Took my Mom years to not ask for Rye and water here !













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[MandyPug]

LOL yeah I remember I went to a restaurant here and in a brief moment forgot where I was and asked where the washroom was and the guy looked at me like I have a third eye lol.

another one is Rye. Here it;s Whiskey... NOT rye. Again at a restaurant I ordered a rye and diet and she leaned in REALLY close and said "a WHAT?" LOL

one I find interesting... here Smarties are those little colored sour candies that I always refered to as rockets

But in Canada (or at least Ontario.) These are smarties

And if you say Kraft Dinner here... NO body knows what you are talking about lol

Holy Shihtzu i love rockets! Best candy on the face of the earth! or at least the canadian face of the earth (do they have them in the states?).

I confuse people with Chesterfield all the time. No it's not a sofa, it's a chesterfield!

 

[vanillasugar]

I confuse people with Chesterfield all the time. No it's not a sofa, it's a chesterfield!

Chesterfield has pretty much fallen out of most people's vocabulary from what I've noticed. Matt and I were discussing how we need to start using it more often again

And serviette!

Rockets are my favourite candy at halloween, I stockpile them!

 

[mjb]

Growing up in the South (USA), we would cut in line, but we would have known what butting in line was, I think. In the same region, my kids growing up would say 'He skipped me!!" when someone cut in line.

When I was living and working in South Carolina, I had a co-worker, originally from Taiwan, but college-educated in Princeton. She said the people in that area of the country had given her the idea that she was about to move to a place that had no running water, indoor plumbing, etc. She was very pleasantly surprised at the civility she found in the Southern state.

 

[MandyPug]

Chesterfield has pretty much fallen out of most people's vocabulary from what I've noticed. Matt and I were discussing how we need to start using it more often again

And serviette!

Rockets are my favourite candy at halloween, I stockpile them!

This is my favourite purely Canadian sentence:

Please pass me a serviette, i spilled poutine on the Chesterfield.

Also Americans don't know real maple syrup. Heck alot of western Canadians don't even know maple syrup most of the time! I stocked up on it when i was in Ottawa/Gatineau lol. I love pancakes (they're called Pancakes not Flap Jacks!).

 

[vanillasugar]

This is my favourite purely Canadian sentence:

Please pass me a serviette, i spilled poutine on the Chesterfield.

Also Americans don't know real maple syrup. Heck alot of western Canadians don't even know maple syrup most of the time! I stocked up on it when i was in Ottawa/Gatineau lol. I love pancakes (they're called Pancakes not Flap Jacks!).

I wouldn't try telling people in the North Eastern states that they don't know real maple syrup

I love real maple syrup, but I like maple butter better. On Beaver Tails thank you very much!

 

[MandyPug]

I wouldn't try telling people in the North Eastern states that they don't know real maple syrup

I love real maple syrup, but I like maple butter better. On Beaver Tails thank you very much!

Lol i've never been to North Eastern USA so i forgot about them lol... I know alot of Californians and they think that sugary crap is actual maple syrup. I actually just mailed my friend there a can of maple syrup, should get there soon.

I've never had maple butter and beaver tails are called Elephant Ears here.

 

[Criosphynx]

aaaah, those are smarties not rockets!! Omg everything I know is wrong!




do you guys call it soda, cola, or pop?

 

[MandyPug]

do you guys call it soda, cola, or pop?

I think it depends where you are in Canada. Here it's called Pop alot of the time, but it's also commonly just call it by name. Like Coke, Pepsi, Sprite, Cream Soda, Root Beer etc.

 

[GipsyQueen]

Lol i've never been to North Eastern USA so i forgot about them lol... I know alot of Californians and they think that sugary crap is actual maple syrup. I actually just mailed my friend there a can of maple syrup, should get there soon.

I've never had maple butter and beaver tails are called Elephant Ears here.

North Easterns deffinatly know what real maple syrup is ^^ I remember going syruping in grade school, and puttig dabs of syrup on snow SO GOOD.

 

[vanillasugar]

do you guys call it soda, cola, or pop?

I call it pop. Or by it's brand name.

 

[Criosphynx]

I think it depends where you are in Canada. Here it's called Pop alot of the time, but it's also commonly just call it by name. Like Coke, Pepsi, Sprite, Cream Soda, Root Beer etc.

gotcha, its regional here too. I visited Iowa and they kept calling it pop and I felt like I was in the twilight zone.

I never heard a soul call it anything but "soda" until I was like 24.

 

[sparks19]

Holy Shihtzu i love rockets! Best candy on the face of the earth! or at least the canadian face of the earth (do they have them in the states?).

I confuse people with Chesterfield all the time. No it's not a sofa, it's a chesterfield!

yes but here they are called smarties... they don't have the Canadian kind of smarties lol. So Rockets are smarties to the US

 

[AllieMackie]

No more Canada vs. USA silly arguments. Great people on both side of the border, stupid people on both side of the border.

Yay for Canadians having the most golds, and yay for USA winning in medal count!

 

[sparks19]

I also call it pop here in Lancaster it goes either way... MOSTLY soda but I've heard pop too


another funny one but I think it's a local thing as not many outside of lancaster county area know it... olly all (probably not the correct spelling but the best way to type it so you know how it sounds) Or "It's all" ... means there is no more left or it's all gone lol