Posted on 03/11/2005 9:37:53 PM PST by quidnunc
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. – Margaret Atwood, Canadian writer
Vancouver, British Columbia – Whenever I think of Canada … strike that. I'm an American, therefore I tend not to think of Canada. On the rare occasion when I have considered the country that Fleet Streeters call "The Great White Waste of Time," I've regarded it, as most Americans do, as North America's attic, a mildewy recess that adds little value to the house, but serves as an excellent dead space for stashing Nazi war criminals, drawing-room socialists, and hockey goons.
Henry David Thoreau nicely summed up Americans' indifference toward our country's little buddy when he wrote, "I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada. … What I got by going to Canada was a cold." For the most part, Canadians occupy little disk space on our collective hard drive. Not for nothing did MTV have a game show that made contestants identify washed-up celebrities under the category "Dead or Canadian?"
If we have bothered forming opinions at all about Canadians, they've tended toward easy-pickings: that they are a docile, Zamboni-driving people who subsist on seal casserole and Molson. Their hobbies include wearing flannel, obsessing over American hegemony, exporting deadly Mad Cow disease and even deadlier Gordon Lightfoot and Nickelback albums. You can tell a lot about a nation's mediocrity index by learning that they invented synchronized swimming. Even more, by the fact that they're proud of it.
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You know McDonalds in Canada sells McPoutin. Really.
Tried it, too bland.
In Canada I sought out the best Maple Syrup. Turns out the best of the best is shipped back to the USA!
Canada is dull, dull, dull!
One thing that Canada has over America is beer and spirits.
And snow & cold
Yes, very serious.
McDonald does make poutin in Canada.
McDonalds does a good deal of including local food items.
Another example, during the athens olympics I was able to buy "McToast". There it is essentially a toasted cheese and slice of ham sandwich. A "toast" is just a snack type item. (The also sell the good "bad for you" deep fried apple pie.)
I do confess I did like poutin at the better restaurants.
Have you ever been there? My family and I took a weekend getaway in Toronto (and Niagara Falls on the Canadian side) back in August. We had a great time.
That is GROSS!
They seem to have this inborn need to say that they're not Americans. Unfortunately for them, that also means that they pass by America's nobility and strength.
But, then again, Canada is "morally superior" to hmmm, I forget, are they morally superior to everyone on the planet? or just the US?
Oh well. Who cares? It's Canada we're talking about I guess.
Yeah but I live near Green Bay, WI...so I know a thing or two about the cold.
A weekend is not enought to know what's going on up there. Canada, as well as other socialist countries...dull!
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