1. Loonies – The most basic unit of Canadian Money. Originates from the 'Loon' a type of duck, i think. 2. Toonies – Compress a loonie and stick it inside a big silver coin and you have a toonie. Unfortunately this piece of currency is not named after any form of poultry 3. Tuque – The quintessential winter accessory in Canada. Necessary if you don't want to freeze your ears off. However, you will often see teenagers wearing tuques in the summer, because they have become 'cool'. 4. Tim Hortons – Asia has rice, whereas Canada has Tim Hortons. Timmy ho's is the staple of a true Canadian diet. It is not uncommon to find two Tim Hortons locations less then a block from one another in large cities. 5. Double-double – Often heard at Tim Horton’s. This is how old people who have eaten there too often order their coffee. 2 sugars and 2 creams. 6. Pop – The Canadian slang for 'soft-drink' or 'soda'. 7. Washroom – Don't try looking for a 'bathroom', its Washroom or nothing, sucka. 8. Poutine – A bowl of French fries, cheese curds and gravy originated in Quebec. Pretty much the pinnacle of Canadian foods... it makes me wonder why Tim Horton's doesn't serve it . 9. Canuck – Used to be synonymous with 'Canadian', but if someone called me a canuck, i would probably say 'excuse you' and give them a tissue. 10. Runners – Casual sports shoes, otherwise called sneakers or tennis shoes. 11. Click/Kilometer – The right way to measure distance. 12. Bill – In Canada, a bill is what you pay at a restaurant... yes, more poultry related slang... we are a strange group of individuals. 13. Chesterfield - The Canadian word for "Sofa" or "Couch" 14. Futureshop - The exact same thing as Best Buy, but with a nice Canadian red logo. Ironically Canada now has both stores. 15. Postal Code - Versus the American Zip Code 16. "Eh?" - The wholly Canadian word that allows a Canadian to turn every sentence into a question; often used rhetorically. 17. Smarties - M&M's, only canadian. 18. Mounties - Like the FBI, except instead of rollin in helicopters and sexy black SUV's, they ride horses. 19. Nanaimo Bar - One of the better Canadian Deserts. consists of a bunch of layers of good tasting stuff sandwiched in between some chocolate stuff... yeah, im canadian but i'm not a baker. 20. Mickey - 375 ml bottle of liquor and a good saturday night
Hey, I never knew/used a few of them myself... 1. Loonies – The most basic unit of Canadian Money. Originates from the 'Loon' a type of duck, i think. It's named after the loon on one side of the coin. 4. Tim Hortons – Asia has rice, whereas Canada has Tim Hortons. Timmy ho's is the staple of a true Canadian diet. It is not uncommon to find two Tim Hortons locations less then a block from one another in large cities. There's also Second Cup (National) and other regional coffee shops which are counterparts of Starbucks. 5. Double-double – Often heard at Tim Horton’s. This is how old people who have eaten there too often order their coffee. 2 sugars and 2 creams. You can have it triple-triple too, just that most people worry about their BP. And yeah, Canadian coffee run much darker than the states. 7. Washroom – Don't try looking for a 'bathroom', its Washroom or nothing, sucka. We don't rest there so no restroom either. 8. Poutine – A bowl of French fries, cheese curds and gravy originated in Quebec. Pretty much the pinnacle of Canadian foods... it makes me wonder why Tim Horton's doesn't serve it . Because otherwise many fastfood chains will have to go bankrupt and pull from Canada. 12. Bill – In Canada, a bill is what you pay at a restaurant... yes, more poultry related slang... we are a strange group of individuals. You can ask for the cheques too, but servers make sure they give you a strange look before you get it. 14. Futureshop - The exact same thing as Best Buy, but with a nice Canadian red logo. Ironically Canada now has both stores. It's kind of sad. Futureshop had been acquired by Best Buy (if you work at either, you will get employee discounts at both) 16. "Eh?" - The wholly Canadian word that allows a Canadian to turn every sentence into a question; often used rhetorically. Also a way to best stereotype our very Canadian talk... 18. Mounties - Like the FBI, except instead of rollin in helicopters and sexy black SUV's, they ride horses. And instead of suits, they wear uniforms =_=b See series "Due South" for details. ETA> 21. T&T Supermarket - if you happen to be in one of the Chinese hubs in Canada, this will be your best bet in getting grocery in a clean, organized, non-smelly setting. Bonus for its extensive stock of snacks and drinks imported from Japan and Hong Kong.
As far as I know, no, click is a nautical metric measurement... But I am not too sure (in fact, I just learned that it's a Canadian unit =_=b)
r u talkin about car clicks? when ppl say clicks usually means milege of car....we measure in km's whereas usa measures in miles
if anyone is curious, a loonie is equivalent to a dollar, not a penny. wanted to make clear b/c my friend just read this (she's in new york) and she asked why we just call our penny a loonie. just to be clear again---loonie then toonie, therefore, toonie=two dollars. yes, we have another coin for a toonie. this i have never understand. why have a toonie coin when we already have a loonie. VERY important for winters!!! teenagers that wear it during the summer are just idiots. if u do it, let it be known that if i see u on the streets, i WILL make fun of u. -i grew up in the city with the most timmy's. there is literally one on every block. someone once asked me for a soda, so i thought they wanted a cream soda. this point is so true, it is pop, nothing else. because it's gross. true that. i have never heard of this...
lol just to clear up the 'click' 'kilometer' thing, a click is just slang for 1 kilometer... and i think it originated from military lingo. Also - poutine is the shiznit, i dunno what lee-lee is smoking, maybe she has just never gotten the real stuff from Montreal.
Poutine is the best during winter... All the calories you can find in a meal And yah for Metric measurement system~
i can't help it. i've been to montreal. i've had the poutine there. still don't like. i can't stand gravy and cheese together. i have never been able to eat stuff with a lot of cheese or gravy, let alone putting it together...ugh, i'm getting sick just thinking about it.
lol.. never heard of most of them.. But 'click'.. we do use them.. short for kilometre. Although I always tot it was more like.. 'kilc' or sth..
We have them too in Europe... Oh, I did a wikipedia search on 'Smarties' and found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smarties_(Nestlé)
Canada oh Canada. oh wait, I gotta cross the border in order to say that. And aren't mounties same as a state trooper and not the same as f b i agents? And U.S. is the only country that doesn't use the metric system as a formal measure. Miles instead of kilometers. Inches instead of millimeters.
Inches instead of "centimeters"... not "millimeters". And no, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (aka Mounties) do more than riding around on horseback. They in fact are those investigating strange deaths as well... or so I think Since we don't have FBI here... Though we have SQ (Sureté du Québec), BCPP (British Columbia Provincial Police), OPP (Ontario Provincial Police) and RNC (Royal Newfoundland Constabulary)...
man..u ppl suck at ur cdn facts....CSIS is the equivalent of the FBI. and for those who don't know...Canadian Secret Intelligence Service
