The funniest thing to me in the whole episode was the moose at the very end. Next to a Mountie, nothing seems more Canadian (to a non-Canadian) than a moose.
Best Canadian stereotype in "Not without my Anus"!
Apr 4, 199817 posts by 13 postersalt.tv.southpark
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I'm sure the Australian exchange student I knew last semester would have said that it was the way everyone said "aboot". He made fun of me mercilessly aboot that, so I just bugged him aboot Ned Kelly.
Scott Newman Vancouver, BC Go Roughriders!
Go out to your local video store and rent the 1995 movie "Canadian Bacon", starring John Candy and Rhea Perl. This is were the "abbot" joke originated. Great movie, though. Even though CB was produced by Americans, only Canadian viewers could ever appreciate all of the jokes and satire.
Pete DeMoss wrote:
If you're referring to poutine, that's not very wide-spread, you know. Poutine is a Quebec thing that's probably widely known in Ontario, but that's about it. I'd never even heard of poutine until about five years ago (I'm 41). Poutine was unknown in western Canada until the Canadian branch of Burger King started offering a version of it on their menu.
Just like to set the record straight. Ed
On Sun, 05 Apr 1998 18:46:17 GMT, Ed Wilson wrote:
Seems to me someone tried to combine American cheese fries with British chips in brown gravy, and made a horrible mushy mess.
On Mon, 06 Apr 1998 06:41:43 GMT, [email] (biohazard) wrote:
-=>On Sun, 05 Apr 1998 18:46:17 GMT, Ed Wilson -=>wrote: -=> -=>>If you're referring to poutine, that's not very wide-spread, you know. -=>>Poutine is a Quebec thing that's probably widely known in Ontario, but that's -=>>about it. I'd never even heard of poutine until about five years ago (I'm -=>>41). Poutine was unknown in western Canada until the Canadian branch of -=>>Burger King started offering a version of it on their menu. -=> -=>Seems to me someone tried to combine American cheese fries with -=>British chips in brown gravy, and made a horrible mushy mess.
There was a book released in Canada a number of years back, at the height of the problems in Quebec over the language question. In it, among other things, they talked about poutine.
They described it this way. "French fries with cheese curds, covered with gravy of sufficient viscosity to lubricate the wheels of a Montreal City bus for 50,000 miles."
The book was called The Anglo Guide to Survival in Quebec.
The Dutchman
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If you're gonna set the record straight, set the whole record straight. You're right about the poutine (altho I'm happy it's getting much easier to find in Vancouver). I know from my travels south of the border (into the States) that we Canadians do things to french fries that Americans don't do (at least in the states I've been to). For example, I got the oddest looks the first time I ever asked for gravy on my fries. Also, I'm told that Americans are less likely than us to use vinegar on their fries. Then there is the small but noticable number of canucks who put mayo on their fries (like the europeans).
Speaking of europe, when I was in Belgium (which is french fry crazy - even posh restaurants serve fries as a usual item with meals), I saw the Baskin Robbins of french frie - nearly 40 varieties of fries. Number 19 was "Frites Americain", which was merely french fries with ketchup.
As for other T&P stereotypes, this "aboot" thing is totally lost on most of us westerners, who pretty much figure it's the maritimes that says "aboot". Out here we say "abowt". The word I notice that differs out here is "roof". We all pronounce it to rhyme with "moo", and it's really jarring to cross over to Seattle and hear everyone say it "ruff".
I'm surprised that I failed to notice a single "eh" in the whole episode.
Sean
I thought you could find it at any New York Fries? And now at burger King?
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What bugs me is when I go to restaurants down there for an iced tea, and it's unsweetened! I have to put in my own sugar? What's up with that!
As I've said, I've been told that I say aboot, but I tend to say eh a lot more. Ruff is bad, but their spelling is atrocious! They spell grey, neighbour and colour wrong!
Scott Newman Vancouver, BC Go Roughriders!
You want annoying? North of the border, we have WASHROOMS in the restaurants and stadiums, and down there, they have RESTROOMS.
Does that mean we wash and they just rest? No wonder the waitresses in New York state have to wear gloves when they serve food. I wouldn't want to touch the customers either...
Go Roughriders!
P.S.: I must confess, I now prefer my iced tea unsweetened and not brewed. Damn hard thing to find in Toronto.
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Design OwnerUh, I meant unsweetened and not instant... Unsweetened and not brewed is something I call water, whoops.
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Design OwnerHeck, it's hard enough to find a decent cup of tea down south, period!! [Altho I did have a damn good pot of tea from a hotel down in Seattle years ago]. However, you can't fault a country which produces the best root beer anywhere.
Sean
On 8 Apr 1998 07:12:30 GMT, [email] (Fluit) wrote:
Oh please! They don't even use real sugar any more. Now its corn syrup... <YECH> The best Root Bear, Coke, Iced Tea, Oreos, McDonalds are Canadian. The americans are great at grease as evidenced by Cartman's favourite foods.
Is Coke in Canada still made with REAL sugar? I thought Coke switched everything to "high fructose corn syrup" after the New Coke fiasco about 12 years ago (when "Classic" first came out.) New Coke was designed to make everyone forget Real Coke, so they could switch from sugar to HFCS without anyone knowing...
In article , Nick Posteraro writes:
If I was you, I'd snap up the Kosher-for-Passover Coke while you can... Since HFCS is not usable on Passover, all the Coke is made with real sugar.
Jeremy B
"Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm a Viking!"- Ralph Wiggum
Interesting. If I can find the kosher stuff. All the Coke around here seems to have some kind of contest on it dealing with baseball. Haven't seen any marked "kosher for Passover" this year, although I have seen it before.
It would be a good opportunity to taste-test this stuff, with people who remember the "old" Coke.
That's what I also said, it's only a cartoon show! But i suppose some were totally offensed because it was an all "canadian" show. I didn't mind that, we are overload everyday by those american shows and news and for a change it was the opposite (in a cartoon show).
So i don't care at all for who is Cartman's dad, whoever it is, I don't give a beaver's ass hehehehehe!!!!!
-> I'm surprised that I failed to notice a single "eh" in the whole -> episode.
No, there were summa those, too.