Christmas Shopping
You know what I love? When you go out to start your Christmas shopping and when you get home you realize that your almost done. That happened last night. My brother and I went out to pick up some stuff and while we were out we decided to do our Christmas shopping for our parents. We decided to go together to get stuff since the things we bought them are rather expensive. Now all I need to do is get one more thing for my mom and a present for my brother. Then I will be done for good. Yah for me :)
Those Quirky Canadians
Over at Live Journal there is a thread going on about the differences between Americans and Canadians. The thread can be found here. It's interesting stuff.
Here are a couple of comments about the thread:
Where I live we commonly call soda "pop", which is similar to a couple of the northern american states. Some pop is caffinated while others are not. I guess the most caffinated drink in the states is Mountain Dew while it is not allowed at all in the Canadian version. As far as I can understand pop producers can't add caffeine to drinks that are primarily citrus based. At least that is what I think. I'm not really sure. Our pops are made with real sugar as well and not corn syrup which I believe makes it taste better.
We do have weird potato chip flavours such as smokey bacon (not smokey beef as someone said), all-dressed, the works (which is suppose to taste like a fully loaded baked potato), ketchup (which I despise) to name a few.
Poutine (french fries, cheese curds and gravy) is a Quebec thing more than a Canadian thing but we love it none the less.
It isn't difficult to find Ginger Ale in Canada (we have a brand called Canada Dry). If you ask for Ginger Ale in the States a lot of the time you get mixed sprite and coke which is NOT Ginger Ale!!!!
We have $1 and $2 coins which we refer to as the loonie and the toonie respectively. The loonie is named that because there is a picture of a common loon on the tails face of the coin.
And no we don't all love Celine Dion. Most of us would like to see her thrown into a vat of boiling oil or at least put on one of those fear factor/survivor type shows. I think that would be kind of funny.
