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2013-04-03 7:35 AM

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A guy said that at work during one of the break room meetings.
I said, "Not like it's obvious you're Canadian or anything"

He has been trying his damnedest to clean up his slang and colloquialisms but every once in a while...

He gives me garbage for "buggy" being one of those four wheeled things you put groceries in when at a grocery store.




2013-04-03 7:51 AM
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haha -  i was thinking about our bagged milk the other day in the grocery store.  It never occurred to me that it was weird until a cousin from California was visiting and marvelling over it.    We have whole product lines devoted to supporting milk in a bag - special jugs, cutters, we even have a bag organizer where we can put the tab with the expiration date.  Weird.

But then, I thought milk in tetrapaks in France were weird ...

I know you were on about slang and such but i was actually thinking about milk the other day ... i know, my exciting life.

2013-04-03 7:58 AM
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juniperjen - 2013-04-03 8:51 AM

I know you were on about slang and such but i was actually thinking about milk the other day ... i know, my exciting life.



Nah, I'm just free associating. Getting on about milk sales items and such work just as well

2013-04-03 8:27 AM
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The only bag of milk I've ever seen was still attached to the cow.
2013-04-03 8:31 AM
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lol, i learn something new every day.  I've never in my life heard of bagged milk.

I'm so sheltered. 

2013-04-03 8:44 AM
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FYI Bagged milk is only in a couple of provinces in Canada, Ontario being one. Here in BC it's cartons or jugs.


2013-04-03 9:22 AM
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Same in Alberta.   Growing up in Ontario and Quebec, bagged milk was an essential part of life.  When I moved to Texas, it was one of the things I missed...    When I moved back to Canada (Calgary) I was very excited at the prospect of getting bagged milk again.  But no!!!  Denied by the milk gods.

Another classic Canadian dead giveaway... "Could you please pass me a serviette?  I spilled my poutine on the chesterfield"

2013-04-03 9:25 AM
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Hoos - 2013-04-03 10:22 AM

Another classic Canadian dead giveaway... "Could you please pass me a serviette?  I spilled my poutine on the chesterfield"



I pick up on the Chesterfield bit but never heard the other stuff.

2013-04-03 9:28 AM
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Glad someone cleared up the bag of milk thing.  I have only ever lived in Alberta so even though I know what you are talking about it wouldn't be a common thing at all for me.  I thought at first maybe it was an old people thing......haaha........now i must grab my toque and head out for the day.  Maybe I will have lobster poutine for lunch then chase it down with a double double from Timmy's. 

 

 

2013-04-03 9:36 AM
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Later on we can bring a 2-4 down to the ringette game!   Everybody chips in a loonie.

(No joke about the toque, by the way... nice layer of snow in Calgary this AM!)

2013-04-03 9:44 AM
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I'm married to a Canuckistani and know not of this bagged milk you speak of!


2013-04-03 9:49 AM
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I grew up in Ontario - I know all about the bagged milk, and the special plastic jugs everyone has to buy to hold their milk. I remember when I had cousins visiting from BC, they'd be very confused about why I was bringing home 4 L of milk home in a jiggly bag!

A(n American) friend of mine is staying at our house for a few days a week while she's doing some work involving culverts, streams and trout. We were talking about Americans like to point out how Canadians say "oot and aboot" (we don't, really) and I was telling her we don't say "troot" either. Now we've got a joke about her spending her days "oot and aboot tagging troot".

2013-04-03 9:51 AM
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Apparently it's even more regional than I know ... it really only applies to buying the biggest size - 4L - it comes in the bag and has three smaller clear bags inside it.

 

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2013-04-03 10:00 AM
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GreenMtnLabbit - 2013-04-03 9:49 AM

I grew up in Ontario - I know all about the bagged milk, and the special plastic jugs everyone has to buy to hold their milk. I remember when I had cousins visiting from BC, they'd be very confused about why I was bringing home 4 L of milk home in a jiggly bag!

A(n American) friend of mine is staying at our house for a few days a week while she's doing some work involving culverts, streams and trout. We were talking about Americans like to point out how Canadians say "oot and aboot" (we don't, really) and I was telling her we don't say "troot" either. Now we've got a joke about her spending her days "oot and aboot tagging troot".



Yes, you do. You don't know you do, but you do. It's not like people can tell the missus is from Canada by looking at her, but once she starts talking people will say `Are you Canadian?' You say it, OH YES! You say it.'
2013-04-03 10:02 AM
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Hoos - 2013-04-03 10:36 AM

Everybody chips in a loonie.



Couple years ago, right before I did my IM, I found a Toonie on my last run. I do believe I'm gonna keep that one for life and it's now out of circulation



2013-04-03 10:04 AM
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GreenMtnLabbit - 2013-04-03 10:49 AM

We were talking about Americans like to point out how Canadians say "oot and aboot" (we don't, really)


Tell ya what, come to my hometown for a week. I'm from the hills of Tennessee. You'll go back and say, "We really sound like that??" and tell your buddies, "Americans are incomprehensible when they're speaking!"


2013-04-03 10:04 AM
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mr2tony - 2013-04-03 9:00 AM
GreenMtnLabbit - 2013-04-03 9:49 AM

I grew up in Ontario - I know all about the bagged milk, and the special plastic jugs everyone has to buy to hold their milk. I remember when I had cousins visiting from BC, they'd be very confused about why I was bringing home 4 L of milk home in a jiggly bag!

A(n American) friend of mine is staying at our house for a few days a week while she's doing some work involving culverts, streams and trout. We were talking about Americans like to point out how Canadians say "oot and aboot" (we don't, really) and I was telling her we don't say "troot" either. Now we've got a joke about her spending her days "oot and aboot tagging troot".

Yes, you do. You don't know you do, but you do. It's not like people can tell the missus is from Canada by looking at her, but once she starts talking people will say `Are you Canadian?' You say it, OH YES! You say it.'

 

For the last time -- it's not "oot and aboot".   It's "oat and aboat"!   

Now, I'm off to Come by Chance to buy some beaver tails.

2013-04-03 10:05 AM
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DanielG - 2013-04-03 11:02 AM
Hoos - 2013-04-03 10:36 AM Everybody chips in a loonie.

Couple years ago, right before I did my IM, I found a Toonie on my last run. I do believe I'm gonna keep that one for life and it's now out of circulation

haha - Twoonies are still in circulation.   I do have one of the old two dollar bills tucked away somewhere ... 

We just started removing the penny... those are now really valuable

My uncle likes to tip in loonies and twoonies when he's in the 'States - i think he thinks he's being funny ...

2013-04-03 10:07 AM
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juniperjen - 2013-04-03 11:05 AM

DanielG - 2013-04-03 11:02 AM
Hoos - 2013-04-03 10:36 AM Everybody chips in a loonie.

Couple years ago, right before I did my IM, I found a Toonie on my last run. I do believe I'm gonna keep that one for life and it's now out of circulation

haha - Twoonies are still in circulation. 



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2013-04-03 10:08 AM
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mr2tony - 2013-04-03 8:44 AM I'm married to a Canuckistani and know not of this bagged milk you speak of!

Isn't she from BC?   Bagged milk is an Ontario / Quebec thing.   People from Vancouver will substitute BC Bud.



2013-04-03 10:12 AM
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juniperjen - 2013-04-03 11:05 AM

My uncle likes to tip in loonies and twoonies when he's in the 'States - i think he thinks he's being funny ...



I got LBS (Lost Bigger than ... well you get the idea) in '86 around the Niagara Falls area. Ended up in St. Catharines, wondering where the hell I was and how to get back.

Bought a map, paid with a US dollar, got a CAN dollar in change. Never did quite figure that one out

I think they're basically at parity right now, though.

2013-04-03 10:29 AM
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We lived in Montreal for two years...spent the whole time b!t@/!ng about milk in a bag and what a pain in the butt it was. About six months AFTER we moved back to the States we found out about the line of equipment associated with the milk in a bag phenomenon. Somehow, I feel like that should have been included in the "orientation to Canada" we received at work.
2013-04-03 10:50 AM
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drfoodlove - 2013-04-03 9:29 AM We lived in Montreal for two years...spent the whole time b!t@/!ng about milk in a bag and what a pain in the butt it was. About six months AFTER we moved back to the States we found out about the line of equipment associated with the milk in a bag phenomenon. Somehow, I feel like that should have been included in the "orientation to Canada" we received at work.

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2013-04-03 10:52 AM
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I grew up in Ontario, my Mom used the milk bags for sandwich bags as a true recycler...so embarrassed as a kid to take out my milk bag lunch......then I moved to Manitoba and "What? You buy milk in jugs?"  How does that fit in my backpack? Jugs take up so much room in my fridge
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