What have you heard about Canadians?

[Crystal]

Oh, I have heard the thing about Canadians not locking their doors, and even saw a guy on a TV show going around trying doors and finding them unlocked. I also personally know lots of people who live near me who don't lock their doors though, so I feel like that's not weird or specific to Canadians. I think it more depends how safe you feel in your neighborhood and what you were conditioned to do growing up.

I feel like I've seen it on a documentary somewhere, as crazy as that sounds. Like Supersize Me or something dumb. I can't remember.

Yeah, I think it was some kind of documentary, now that you mention it. I also remember it showing a TV with a "news flash" about new speed bumps and thinking that was fucking hilarious, but I could see a similar news story in any small town in the US, too.

Is Canada more rural than the USA? Canadian stereotypes seem like small town/rural stereotypes in a lot of ways (except they're less shooty).

Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore

 

[Kat]

Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore

Ahh, that's it, thanks.

 

[Crystal]

Ahh, that's it, thanks.

It pays to be a nerd

 

[Mark]

I don't lock mine. My back door likes to lock itself, so I once went out that way to smoke a joint and locked both me and my cat out. It was night, 50 degrees, and I was only wearing a robe. I felt so bad, she kept meowing to go in because she was cold but I couldn't let her. I had to go accost random people walking around for their cell phone while in my bathrobe like a crazy person. That sort of thing happened a couple of times so I quit locking the front door. It was only keeping me out anyway.

Nooo. That’s the worst, especially when you’re stoned. Instant buzzkill.

My car is a soft top, so I'd rather people rummage through it than cut the top. It's a manual, so it's not like anybody is actually going to drive away in it.

Fun fact: most car thieves these days are too young to know how to drive a standard transmission.

 

[canadaguy]

We talk a lot about states being red or blue, but a state going even 60% one way or the other is pretty rare. Oregon is so solidly blue that nobody ever bothers to campaign here for presidential elections, but Biden only got 56% of the vote. Our state governor race was even closer, 47% to 44% blue vs red.

My experience in Oregon was once I left Portland it got really red really fast

 

[Kat]

Also this is real

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What?! If somebody held a door for me that far away I think I'd just stop walking and stand there and stare at them.

 

[canadaguy]

What?! If somebody held a door for me that far away I think I'd just stop walking and stand there and stare at them.

You Americans......

 

[Smacktard]

I doubt the apologizing thing is true,

It really is true. We say sorry for everything. I once stayed at a hostel and everyone was sat on the stairs to get wifi from downstairs. It was just littered with people in my way, and I apologized to every one on my way up trying to get around them. When I got in the room, someone said, "You're Canadian, aren't you? I heard you apologizing." They were Canadian, too, and had done the same thing.

I can't think of a single American I've ever met who likes watching hockey

Not even a certain GW member who won the "best username of the year" award multiple times??

I have heard the thing about Canadians not locking their doors, and even saw a guy on a TV show going around trying doors and finding them unlocked

Maybe in VERY small towns people don't lock their door, but most people do. My dad and people in his neighborhood never did when they were growing up, but that's changed. We always lock our door. We actually were robbed by a group of teens once when I was a kid. They broke the window on our downstairs door and let themselves in.

I've heard of people keeping their car door unlocked in polar bear territory, but not their house. Sounds believable, I guess.

What?! If somebody held a door for me that far away I think I'd just stop walking and stand there and stare at them.

why are you like this

 

[Crystal]

Not even a certain GW member who won the "best username of the year" award multiple times??

And @Rick52 and I think our Massachusetts peoples like the Bruins. Don't think I count, though, I live in the states, but I'm not 'Murican.

 

[canadaguy]

why are you like this

Like the correct response is to immediately call over "sorry" then jog over, go through the door, thank them and apologize again.

The idle around a bit and then go back out because you weren't actually wanting to go through the door but you just did it because they held it open.


This is the most Canadian you can get

 

[Smacktard]

Like the correct response is to immediately call over "sorry" then jog over, go through the door, thank them and apologize again.

The idle around a bit and then go back out because you weren't actually wanting to go through the door but you just did it because they held it open.

Okay this is just hilarious

 

[Webster]

I’ve heard Montreal-style bagels are good

So too is Montreal-style smoked meat.

For a Different Kind of Brisket, Try Montreal’s Smoked Meat Sandwiches

The Canadian city has its own barbecue culture, and it centers on beef that's smoked—sometimes without wood—and served in old-school delis.

www.texasmonthly.com

 

[Kat]

And @Rick52 and I think our Massachusetts peoples like the Bruins. Don't think I count, though, I live in the states, but I'm not 'Murican.

I'm not saying they don't exist, obviously they do. I meant "met " as in "physically met". I've never had a conversation IRL about watching hockey, have never seen it playing in a sports bar, and couldn't name a single professional hockey team.

Like the correct response is to immediately call over "sorry" then jog over, go through the door, thank them and apologize again.

The idle around a bit and then go back out because you weren't actually wanting to go through the door but you just did it because they held it open.


This is the most Canadian you can get

This is downright psychotic, you know that, right?!

 

[Smacktard]

So too is Montreal-style smoked meat.

For a Different Kind of Brisket, Try Montreal’s Smoked Meat Sandwiches

The Canadian city has its own barbecue culture, and it centers on beef that's smoked—sometimes without wood—and served in old-school delis.

www.texasmonthly.com

I can't stand Montreal smoked meat, and I LOVE meats. Rest of my fam likes it though.

This is downright psychotic, you know that, right?!

He's joking about the second part (I hope)

 

[Webster]

I can't stand Montreal smoked meat

I've tried it a few times over the years and it simply doesn't hold a candle to my two favorite deli places - Langer's in Los Angeles and Katz's in NYC (and of the two, I give Langer's the nod simply 'cause its' in Southern California).

 

[Smacktard]

I've tried it a few times over the years and it simply doesn't hold a candle to my two favorite deli places - Langer's in Los Angeles and Katz's in NYC (and of the two, I give Langer's the nod simply 'cause its' in Southern California).

I'm not a huge fan of deli meats typically, but I tried this one famous place when I was in Houston, and hoooo buddy was it good. Also made me understand the obesity epidemic in the US. I eat big, but the one sandwich I got was legitimately two full meals.

 

[Crystal]

I'm not saying they don't exist, obviously they do. I meant "met " as in "physically met". I've never had a conversation IRL about watching hockey, have never seen it playing in a sports bar, and couldn't name a single professional hockey team.

Ah, understandable. Well we get hockey here in AZ in most sports bars, but only on one screen, lol. 40 screens or so, 1 gets the game

Fair enough, hockey fans are spread thin in the Western US.

 

[shortkut]

I'm not a huge fan of deli meats typically, but I tried this one famous place when I was in Houston, and hoooo buddy was it good. Also made me understand the obesity epidemic in the US. I eat big, but the one sandwich I got was legitimately two full meals.

The sandwiches at Katz’s are insane

 

[shortkut]

Back on topic: I’ve heard that when Canadians are out of Canada for too long, they get chlamydia and spread it around

 

[Smacktard]

Back on topic: I’ve heard that when Canadians are out of Canada for too long, they get chlamydia and spread it around

 

[Tubby23]

The also get Rambo fantasies in Cambodia

 

[Mark]

I'm not a huge fan of deli meats typically, but I tried this one famous place when I was in Houston, and hoooo buddy was it good. Also made me understand the obesity epidemic in the US. I eat big, but the one sandwich I got was legitimately two full meals.

The sandwiches at Katz’s are insane

Southern BBQ joints and Jewish delis are responsible for 95% of meat consumption in the US, and I’m okay with that.

 

[A Slightly New Used Server]

Confirming love hockey from Boston.

Also my wife loves Schwartz Deli. We go there every time we're in Montreal. Also the meat itself is gluten free so I just get a plate of meat with mustard. I quite like it.

Montreal is the food capital of Canada. I feel like that's a stereotype but might actually just be accurate.

 

[Smacktard]

Confirming love hockey from Boston.

Also my wife loves Schwartz Deli. We go there every time we're in Montreal. Also the meat itself is gluten free so I just get a plate of meat with mustard. I quite like it.

Montreal is the food capital of Canada. I feel like that's a stereotype but might actually just be accurate.

Seems accurate based on my experience. Halifax has some really nice eateries too, considering its size (but then, I'm a whore for Halifax).

Montreal also has some amazing breweries and tons of microbrew beers. They have some of the highest rated beers in the world. Halifax also has some fantastic breweries too, though.

 

[A Slightly New Used Server]

I also, in a year when I was only in Montreal for 3 days, happened to be there for a cider festival. It was lovely.

And unlike the ones I've been to in the States, all the ciders were from within like an hour of the city. Y'all take that shit serious and I love it.

 

[A Slightly New Used Server]

Cider is SO GOOD.

On our way to Montreal this summer we drove through Rougemont. It seems like every other building there is a cidery or vineyard.

 

[Kat]

I agree, Montreal has excellent food. The best creme brulee I've ever had was in Montreal. I got an ice apple wine there too which was good and hard to find elsewhere.

 

[Tommy Boy]

The sandwiches at Katz’s are insane

Insanely overhyped, yes.

 

[shortkut]

Insanely overhyped, yes.

I haven’t been in years, but they were not over-hyped. Maybe you ordered the wrong stuff

 

[Tommy Boy]

I haven’t been in years, but they were not over-hyped. Maybe you ordered the wrong stuff

I'm not saying Katz isn't good, but it's just not the only place anymore. I don't like the lines when you can get the same quality sandwich from a handful of others, now. You can't go wrong with pastrami there, they're the kings for a reason. But a lot of the sandwiches are overpriced and the wait is sometimes laughable. The only time I will ever eat there is if there's not a line for some random reason, and I'd only know that by riding by it, which is not in my usual route. I'm not knocking them, but half their business is people thinking they need to make Katz a destination. They are consistent which makes them good.

 

[shortkut]

I'm not saying Katz isn't good, but it's just not the only place anymore. I don't like the lines when you can get the same quality sandwich from a handful of others, now. You can't go wrong with pastrami there, they're the kings for a reason. But a lot of the sandwiches are overpriced and the wait is sometimes laughable. The only time I will ever eat there is if there's not a line for some random reason, and I'd only know that by riding by it, which is not in my usual route. I'm not knocking them, but half their business is people thinking they need to make Katz a destination. They are consistent which makes them good.

Eat at Katz once and take out any other time. It might be pricey, but you get 3-4 sandwiches worth of meat on your one sandwich

 

[Jawneh]

About the locked door thing, for the longest time we weren't locking our front or backdoor or car doors. I live close enough to Canada to see a tree line to the promised land over a field and at night you see the lights in the sky for a fairly large border crossing. We only started locking the doors just before or after covid lock down as there had been reports of a lot of break ins as well as border hoppers. I was waved down by a couple Venezuelans looking for a place to stay for the night in the beginning of summer. So yeah. Now we lock our house doors for the night.