I'm Canadian, and once when I was in Nashville Tenn. on a business trip, we were in a bar. The smoker in our group moved away from us to light up until he was done. After the band finished a few songs and took a break, they asked us if we were Canadian. When we asked how the knew, they simply said that when he moved away for a smoke, they knew that no-one from the USA would be that polite!
I worked with a guy who was in L.A. for a trip, and he ducked into a bar on the way back to his hotel for a beer or two. It was pretty empty and dark but he didn't think anything of it. He was surprised to see ashtrays on the table in his booth as smoking indoors was banned up here for a long time. Several locals walked up and asked him why he's there, and to tell him that he seems to not fit in with the clientele. He apologized, and said he's just going to finish his beer and smoke and head out. Then the locals noticed his brand of cigarettes: Player's. They were tickled by this "Ayo, these are what a Player smokes, huh?" and "Pass me a Player, player!"
Poutine is NOT a Canadian invented dish!! In the early 70's thru late 80's both sides of my families (Scottish and Dutch) prepared and brought CHIPS 'N RUE at birthday parties and Thanksgiving.
As a Canadian I always found our reputation as being the friendly (push over) types ironic. Especially now we may be polite and come off as friendly but hop into a debate about our current politics and see how nice my countrymen and woman really are. Good manners does not equal kindness, we can be salty.
I'm amazed that anyone thinks Canadians are pushovers. I mean, look at every time you go to war. Canada is literally known as one of the nations that committed all the war crimes in WWI.
Reserved is a good word I think. Push comes to shove, watch out boys. You gotta earn that disrespect though. Also the further east ya get, friendlier people seem to get as well. East coaster spent time out west, still chill out there, But folks don’t hold doors for one another like they do here. At a Tim’s just outside Edmonton. Seen a lady coming with a “box” of coffee (has like 10-15 cups worth of coffee in a liquor store wine box/bag thing), bag of creamers and a box of donuts and muffins. So without thinking I opened the first set of doors and kicked the wheelchair button for the second. Told her to have a nice day. I get back inside, I see a man STARING me down. Points at me and tells me to go over. (Didn’t know if it was his wife or something). So I walk over, “your not from here are you?”. Kinda confused for a second and asked him what he meant. He said he’s never seen someone go out of their way to hold the door for someone like that. “Well Sir, back home that wouldn’t go over well if I didn’t and my old man found out” Small town vibes baby.
I'm Canadian, and I always found it hilarious when I was in England for school last year and people would ask if I was American. When I said no, they would apologize in case I was offended
Happens to me all the time here in Australia, and when I was living in the UK. I love how people in other countries really don't want to risk offending a Canadian because they see us as really nice and polite people. Like they'd be kicking a puppy. 😆
Canadians do put and inordinate amount of effort into making sure others don't view them as just the US Jr., even though we all know that is what they are :P
@@durk5331"I'm sorry Sir, we did not captured any POW. There weren't any germans willing to surrender. They tied their hands themself and scalped each other before slitting their throats and shot themself in the back of their head. What a shame, eh?" The troops from Canada were notorious for being brutal and to not taking prisoners
as a canadian buying bagged milk, i would like too clarify that it's 3 bags totalling 4L, so it's more like 1.3333L per bag 😂 And in french, cause poutine is from Quebec, the name for cheese curds does not associate with curdle milk
I'm Canadian and the way I can best describe why we say sorry is that we are not always apologizing. Sometimes we are empathizing with someone or trying to clarify a point. It's just our polite way and is stuck in our dna.
As a German visting several resorts in countries like Cuba, Mexico or the Dominican Republic I mostly could tell real fast who was American or who was Canadian. Canadians seem to be less self-centered, relaxed and not so much noisy like a lot of Americans, who seemed to believed that their emotios should be of interest of all the other guests.
Saw a lot of this in Mexico (Playa del Carmon) 30 years ago. Locals like Americans for there money and excessive tipping but they love Canadians just for who they are.
The reason the cheese curds on poutine are special is that ideally, they are made hours before they are put on poutine. Fresh and squeaky on the teeth is how I like them.
I'm not a Canadian, but I went up there for the first time this year on a fishing trip. I get why most of the population lives on the coasts and border. Rural interior Canada is strangely desolate. Where we were in central Ontario, it was nothing but water, rocks and pine trees. I spend a lot of time outdoors in fairly remote areas, and I couldn't believe how few animals I saw out there. There were fish everywhere, but its eerie when you're 150 miles from civilization and you're not seeing much for wildlife. Also, maple syrup beats corn syrup by an incalculable margin. Edit: born and raised in Wisconsin. Cheese curds are fantastic and anyone who says otherwise is wrong.
It's only because most of our wildlife are large and skittish and what isn't is nocturnal or birds. Deer, moose, bears and wolves have no interest in fucking around with people and since so much of the country is uninhabited, they're left more or less in their natural state. And as for where we live, pretty much every Canadian city or town is on or near a river/lake of some kind. Easiest for irrigation, hydro and water pumping/treatment.
No wildlife? Really? Even in Calgary we have, deer, coyotes, skunk, porcupine, racoons, hares, bobcats, that are born, live and die in the city. Plus the occasional, bear, cougar, and moose. Not to mention Aussies during ski season.
@AB..__.. I was only there for a week, but it was very quiet. We saw mostly waterfowl and a wood chuck that lived under the cabin. I managed to pick up one beaver with the binoculars on the other end of the lake, but that was about it. The strangest thing was that we barely saw song birds.
@DoIShootThemOrRun That makes good sense for larger animals. We saw a lot of loons and a few geese, but it seemed like there weren't any song birds around. I'm not claiming that they aren't there, I was just surprised by how little we saw compared to other trips I've taken.
@@notreallymyname3736 I forgot about Beavers. I live next to the Bow river and there are quite a few Beavers on a path my dog and I are on daily. I am so glad my dog has never caught one. You don't want to be bitten by a beaver. We are lucky in Canada and the USA that we still have so much wild area and wildlife.
In school we used to go to a Cabane à sucre (sugar shack) which was basically a maple syrup festival in Edmonton (6 hours north of our town). The tire d’érable (the taffy on snow thing) was the very best part.
As someone that works in a glass factory that uses recycled glass, I can tell you glass is actually having a bit of a resurgence. Particularly as you can make a bottle from 95% recycled, which makes the process extremely efficient and cullet is shipped to use from all over the world to make it 😊
Back when people got milk delivered, they didn't even recycle glass in the "recycling" sense. They just washed the bottles and reused them. But glass is definitely among the better materials for recycling for sure, so it probably should make a come back!
@@ThatWriterKevin There's a local Dairy near me that sells in glass bottles and the supermarkets will give you like $2.50 for bringing the bottle back. (its much more expensive than plastic jugs if you dont return the bottles)
@@themaskedhobo Yeah, that's how it always was with milk delivery. You paid for the milk and the glass bottle, but then got the bottle deposit back when they picked up the old bottles and dropped off fresh milk. I think I always heard of it as being like 25 cents per bottle though because people talk about it taking place back in the 60s.
Canada is the sibling you’d enjoy hanging with more, the cousins from the stable side of the family, the quiet witty one. We have different successes, other priorities and want to know about all the cultures of the world with willingness to adapt. We are modestly proud.
My brother came back from Canada to Oz and just couldn't stop saying eh at the end of every sentence. He still does it and his kids do too but they sound even funnier because they have an Australian/Canadian accent. The kids can get eh and mate in the same sentence flawlessly 😆
@@bluetocop but do you say it to state an opinion, as a declaration, to express surpise, as an exclamation, or to soften a critism? Do you use it to make a request, to confirm an opinion, to state a command or as a common narrative device? and most importantly have you ever once said "I'm sorry, eh"?
The pronunciation memes of “poutine” are the best! I’m from western Canadian, and my friend is from Quebec, and she definitely ensures that everyone pronounces “poutine” the proper Québécois way. The memes made me very happy! Also a Canadian thing!
ya I'm from North Ontario and pronounce it the French way (North Ontario is basically half French)... I lived in the Edmonton area for a few years and their pronunciation of poutine bothered me for some reason lol....
Actually the bagged milk thing seems to be only a big thing to people outside of Canada. It's not really a common topic of conversation in Canada. I'm in western Canada where there is no bagged milk, just cardboard cartons or plastic jugs, but there used to be, can't say I recall it being a big deal it was just a different form of packaging.
I still remember the first time going to Buffalo New York and finding milk in a plastic jug to be weird. Funny how something as simple as the way a product is packaged can result in so much discussion. In southern Ontario milk is still sold in bags or cartons. I've only recently seen it in a plastic bottle from one or two companies, but I think more people buy it in 1 or 2L cartons.
To be fair, western Canadians only really talk about eastern Canadian things when we're complaining about politics. Bagged milk is not politics, so there's no reason for it to come up in conversation.
You can get bagged milk out west I have back packed across the country from Montreal to Vancouver and saw it everywhere but for some reason Saskatchewan
At certain stores in eastern Canada, including in my own Montreal, they do sell plastic milk jugs, and I prefer those over both bagged milk and milk cartons.
As someone from "Winterpeg" -- that nickname is valid. We regularly have snow from Oct to May. Summers get up to the high 30s (celsius) but the fact remains that winter lasts very long and most of us wear that label proudly because what else can you do? lol
Ontarian here and in defence of Quebec I had never heard of poutine until about 20 years ago. It’s only become more common in the last decade or so, and cheese curds are delicious, please don’t compare them to spoiled milk. If you really want to open a can of confusing worms (even amongst Canadians) we could talk about peameal bacon.
@@brando8086you mean just shredded marble cheddar isn't proper poutine cheese? Honestly, i'm down either way though. There aren't many cheeses I dislike.
They're kind of like the loud, obnoxious cousin that people put up with at family events. You just laugh and smile and hope they wander somewhere else.
@@nicholeayt509 I always like to scroll through and look at what people say about my videos. The validation from people's enjoyment is my new, other cocaine. 😆❤🤘
As a Western Canadian I can say that my stock answer for the bagged milk topic is exactly we don’t do that out west that’s the other side of the country. Spot on by the writer 🤣 Oh also exclusively Canadian food…. Donair it’s amazing
Very proud Canadian here and yes, we take our maple syrup reserves verrry seriously. In the case of “The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist”, some scofflaws stole syrup over several months in 2011 and 2012 amounting to nearly 3,000 tonnes of maple syrup and valued at C$18.7 million from a storage facility in Quebec.
Just a quick interjection here at 17:59 . As a Canadian who has both been cussed out by Brits and has enjoyed the company of them, I have to concur that being cussed at or told off by a Brit is magical. I can’t even be offended because your accent and articulation make it sound so pleasant!
Canadian here, I'm from Toronto, Ontario and old enough to remember when the milkman delivered glass bottled milk to our door. We do have milk in one litre carton, two litre cartons, and four litre bags. In the four litre bag there are only three bangs not four.
7:45 One time back in the 1980's I spent TWO WEEKS rebuilding and reassembling a Taffy Pulling Machine at a popular brand name cough drop manufacturing facility. The machine was made in Italy, and literally folded stretched squeezed and pulled taffy, the actual rebuild was easy pressed in new bearings and bearing surfaces, and a brand new variable speed DC Drive motor. The dis-assembly and re-assembly was PAINSTAKING!!! I won';t bore with the technicalities, but we took over 100 "Polaroid" Photos of the machine as we disassembled and needed EVERY one of them to get it back together!. The factory 'owner' was extremely pleased with the results, he said it had not worked so smoothly, even when it was brand new :)
I'm glad you talked about the existence of both fast-food poutine and fancy gourmet poutine. If you can imagine it, it probably exists. Also, Canadians totally get passive-aggressive, I experience it every day with my family.
Not all Canadians are passive agressive though. I've also known quite a few who are just completely conflict avoidant and the only way you could guess they dislike you is that they don't invite you to their parties anymore. And then there's Albertans... they're not so bad to your face, but catch one driving and boy golly, polite is off the table. Maybe there's places that are worse, but I personally have never been flipped the bird for a perfectly safe and legal pass except for in Alberta.
For family with children bagged milk makes sense because it is slightly cheaper and the empties take a lot less space. By the way Simon, the unopened bags do not roll around in the fridge, they lay flat.
I worked at a milk plant when we were thinking of going back to glass. It is much more dangerous in the plant. When a glass bottle jams in the machine it explodes sending glass shrapnel everywhere. Also a study done (not by the milk company) showed that by the time you figured the extra fuel burned transporting the added weight and energy to wash the bottles a lot more oil was used. Finally the plastic used in milk bottles is of a type that is fully recyclable.
Plastic is only recyclable a handful of times before the material is too weakened and it ends up in a landfill anyway. Also, recycled plastic is weaker and new plastic has to be added to it everytime.
We were in Cuba for a month round about when Simon was there. We found some decent restaurants in Havana, around the old town. The general menu was notably more limited elsewhere in Cuba, but stuff like fruit and avocados was readily available - we were there in September.
For it to be true Poutine, it needs to be squeaky cheese curds. As a Canadian, I can confirm that this is indeed delicious. Montana's steakhouse adds Chorizo sausage to their offerings. It's goddamn delicious.
I'm always surprised that poutine hasn't become more popular in the U.S. French fries, gravy and cheese. Sounds like the most (U.S.) American thing ever!
@@jimcappa6815 There have been Americans (that tried it on vacation I think) that took poutine back to the USA. But cheese curds are not found everywhere (only had decent ones in Wisconsin). NJ has their version "Disco Fries" but I think it subs shredded mozzarella (because y'know... it's NJ). I've seen places in Ontario do the same because it's cheaper and cheese curds don't have a long shelf live. It's not the same when you swap out one of only three components of a dish.
The bagged milk, for me, at least is preferable because it keeps it fresher. The residue on the inside of the jug or carton starts to smell a bit and thus makes the milk start to taste strange. Also, 4L of bags is the same price as a 2L carton.
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Edit: I forgot an interesting detail; once washed, some would hang them on the laundry drying cord outside (don’t know what it’s really called) to dry them out completely under the sun 😂 (probably to prevent or kill fungus too though!) Fun fact, in the 70s and 80s, mothers on a tight budget would reused their empty milk bags 😂 they would wash it up and use it to warp kids sandwiches in their kid’s lunch, or snacks. Who remembers this?
My mother used the milk bags (the ones that actually had milk in them, not the outer bag that held the 3 milk bags) as freezer bags as the plastic was much thicker…once properly washed they work very well! 🙂
I think almost every Canadian child has made the maple syrup snow taffy treat thing at a maple syrup farm at least once because they made it a school trip staple at every school I went to in Ontario and New Brunswick. It was to teach us about maple syrup tapping while also mixing in some survival tips for getting stuck in the snowy forest. We also learned how to skate and went on hikes/canoeing and to some baller museums.. not sure if other parts of Canada have similar school trips. And I defiantly grew up with bagged milk in Ontario XD I never thought it was strange until the age of the internet
Honestly when you get west of ontario the rest of canada isn't batshit crazy about maple syrup. I suppose we don't produce it hardly at all which is why. That said most of us outside the east can take it or leave it.
We do not do such things in the rest of Canada. It's too cold to grow Acer Sacrum trees west of Sudbury. Except in parts of BC near the coast with a totally different climate which is also not compatible with sugar maples. I would have to drive over a thousand miles to see that leaf on our flag.
I'm 25 and this last summer I was in Ontario for the first time in my life. The size of Canada makes it pretty hard to generalize an experience that relies on a specific geographic location, as I can assure you no Saskatchewan middle school is flying a class two provinces over for a field trip about maple syrup. Some of us westerners may be as anal as the video host about maple syrup vs corn syrup, but it's definitely not nearly the same cultural phenomenon as the regions that can actually produce the stuff
@@demial4 He was born and grew up in Africa. His mum is Canadian, and he utilised this to his advantage whilst a young man as a backdoor into eventually gaining US citizenship. Yeah, apparently,US immigration is _that_ convoluted! It is, what it is, or at least what Wikipedia lays claim to. He's about as Canadian as the Puerto Rican congressman is a statesman but is as legally a Canadian as Bryan Adams.
3 thing about Poutine...1. The right pronunciation is like how Ryan Gosling saying it at the beginning of the part about it. The way you say it sound like Vladimir Putin. It's funny but we are used to it in Québec. 2. The cheese curds is more like mozzarella or light cheddar and not at all what you describe. It's a very basic cheese, the kind that last like 3 days but is very well made and super safe. Also because of the specific kind of cheese it's used, it's 100% sure it comes from my home region of Québec of Centre-Du-Québec, cause only Warwick produced that kind of cheese in the early 1900. Also the first to market it was Dominique Roy of Drummondville, who was owner of the Roy Jucep ( still exist and the poutine is not bad) and Victoriaville claims it's from there but it's because they are close to Warwick. To other Québécois, the version of poutine from the rest of Canada is usually shit because they don't use the right sauce or cheese, which unbalance the whole or doesn't melt which is sad. So poutine is mainly from Québec. 3. It's the ultimate late evening snack, as good if not better than pizza after a big party ! It got everything you need and more if you want a more fancy one with real bacon, or with spaghetti sauce instead, or just hot-dog sausage. It kills hangover with certain people and it's easy to share, so king of after party !
I sort of get it, when one grows up with thick Ms Buttersworth that doesn't get absorbed up by your pancakes. A more liquid, less sugary, more flavorful syrup is a totally different experience. I equate people like they to be like those who can't eat their pizza without a garlic ranch dip to cover up just how crappy that pizza is.
One time hanging out in the woods drinking beers around a fire with some Canadians I had sort of just met and one thing led to another and they got really drunk and started physically fighting with each other. The scuffle led over near my car and one of them minorly bumped into it and and they all instantly stopped fighting and were so SORRY about my car. Like pleading for forgiveness. I wasn't worried about the car at all just wtf are you guys doing? Funniest shit. They got wild drunk but in the morning totally respectful to each other again, made a major point of cleaning up their mess and then some.
As a person from Wisconsin, bagged milk is weird, but it is something i had occasionally, mostly because it was sold at Kwik Trip gas stations. And cheese curds are awesome!
Wanna give a shout out to today's writer, Kevin, for kicking off a bunch of memories with his mention of bagged milk! This video was very near and dear to my heart, so I hope I've done my fellow Canadians proud, eh! ...sorry.
In some cities we have Poutine Fest where multiple food trucks compete for the # 1 Poutine prize. Generally people go in groups and buy multiple different poutines so we can compare them. Very similar to Rib Fest
In southern Ontario (only an hour from USA) They still do the maple syrup taffy every spring for school trips teaching them how to harvest maple syrup. Lol Bagged milk was great. Grew up with it and it was the only way to go. You bought it on sale and store it in the freezer. The outer plastic milk bags and bread bags were often saved to line our boots in the winter to keep your feet dry.
You know, I’m a very curious person, and people sometimes ask if I have ever regretted my curiosity. The answer is once, in 2009. That was the year that I found a bottle of milk with an expiration date of 2006 in an old fridge at the office. I wondered what 3-year old milk would smell like. Oh, did I ever regret that moment of curiosity!
Great story, a couple corrections. -The population is 40 million people as of 2023. -I live in western Canada, we think bagged milk is odd as well, and I don't even think it is sold here.
@@zwhtan I meant currently sold here. I lived in BC as a kid and may remember it being available, I've lived in AB since 1990 and don't recall ever seeing it.
@@Japi506 LOL it's statements like this that highlight the reason the west is dissatisfied with the ignorance of the east. We are not that much younger, look at the years the western provinces joined confederation. Canada had only been a country for a few decades, or less.
@@mikehofmann3726 St Johns NFLD is the oldest city in North America, Saint John NB was the first incorporated city in Canada, which dates back to the 1700s. Acadia predates Ruperts Land by a long shot. Western was primarily build by Eastern Europeans and Asians. Eastern Canada was built by the founders of this country, England and France. Confederation occured in PEI. Sir Tilley lived in Saint John and coined the term the dominion of Canada. Even Benedict Arnold own property here. The west in Canada present and future. But traditional Canadian values come from the east and Atlantic Canada.
I always enjoy the editing in Simon’s videos. It helps lighten the mood in Casual Criminalist episodes and in Brain Blaze it reminds me that Elon’s brother is not named Fuck Musk.
We now deserve a series of what every country thinks is normal but everyone else thinks is weird. I think we start with Uruguay and second South Africa. Cheers from South Africa
Kudos to all involved on this one... but the editing had me falling out of my chair laughing. Great job Blaze team - and Hoser... I see you, bro, I see you..... rock on.
People are nice and polite there. My group got confronted by a very drunk local who wanted to tell us about everything wrong with Cuba we couldn't see. We all listened politely and learned something. I'm assuming that's not something you can do with an American. 😁
The part about Poutine being Québécois is real. 😛 For decades Québec people were being made fun of by english speaking Canadians for eating this dish as they perceived it as a «poor man's food» and something that only Québécois would eat. BUT, exactly as Poutine started to gain popularity with tourists coming to Québec City, Montréal or Québec in general, english Canadians started to really enjoy it, suddenly. Then it pread to the rest of Canada. To be more precise, Poutine has its roots in the city of Drummondville in the Centre-du-Québec administrative region! 😁
J'ai écrit le même genre de commentaire il y a deux semaines 🙌🏻 la vérité doit être entendue!! Poutine is Quebec's National dish. It represents French Canadian Culture. We get ostracized by the others Canadians because we speak french. Canada took our National dishes and make their own and want to suppress is true origin. they are not even sorry about it. Cultural Appropriation at it best !!
Newfoundlander here and there’s a really weird thing here we do with visitors called screeching in. You take a drink of screech (a type of whisky), kiss a fish, and then you’re officially an honorary Newfoundlander. … also I’ve never seen bagged milk in all the 28 years I’ve lived here so I’m guessing it was long before my time or a mainland thing.
Glad to see the editor's note about maple candy... in better years I had a tradition of buying some at craft shows (only place I've ever found it here in Michigan) and making sure to save enough to put it on top of my family's holiday oatmeal.
“Unless you’re Canadian and get offended and go on a terrorist rampage - but you probably won’t because you’re Canadian.” Oh, my sweet Summer child, allow me to introduce you to the Québécois.
I always get these PSA videos from Canada about staying away from the Southern Orca pod. I love that it always end with a little chime of "oh Canada" at the end. Imagine if we through in a few notes of the star spangled banner at the end of every government PSA. LOL I love Canada and Canadians. Been there many times. Marveled at the Cuban travel posters in the Toronto airport.
I immigrated to Canada in 1972 with my family. The first week we were there, we visited a KFC where they served chips with chicken gravy. I thought that was weird, (being used to just ketchup as a topping), until I discovered the gravy had the Colonel's 11 herbs and spices in it. I think they still offer that to this day. Salt and vinegar is also quite popular as chip seasoning. There is a chain in Canada called Smoke's Poutinery, which features all sorts of different toppings to go along with the gravy and curds. Sadly the chain's founder died this week, way too young. And Aunt Jemima's syrup? Company changed their name to The Pearl Milling Company several years ago, after it was deemed the company mascot was a racist stereotype of a black woman. Not even redesigning her to look like Aretha Franklin helped. They still have "Aunt Jemima recipe" in smaller letters towards the bottom on the bottles, and the boxes of pancake batter powder though.
Aunt Jemima was a real person and a female black business entrepreneur who was extremely successful and founded a big company which bore her name until Woke nazis removed it and her likeness from the bottles of her (admittedly not real maple syrup) products.
@@jonathantheunacceptable4259 you might want to know that just because a company is American, it doesn't mean that they carry the same menu in other countries as they do in the US, and restaurant franchises like KFC often offer menu items that reflect local culinary tastes, which IMHO is a smart business practice. That's why KFC offers chips and gravy on the menu here. It's also why Popeyes offers their take on poutine on their menus (which is featured on their Friday value menu in Canada). I mentioned the Aunt Jemima stuff because I wanted to point out the name change of the product, and why it was changed, not passing judgement on the quality of their syrup or claiming it was genuine maple syrup. Thought to tell you the truth, I'd prefer a bottle of E.D. Smith's sugarless syrup over Pearl Milling Company's product any day. Come to think of it, a Brain Blaze on companies who had to change their logos over controversies just might prove to be quite interesting. Simon should ask his writers to look into that......
All cheese blocks are made of cheese curds, they're just pressed into a block. I put ketchup in my poutine too. We actually even have gourmet poutineries that serve a variety of flavours.
As a Canadian I have to point out that not only can maple syrup only be produced in North America but only on the east coast of Northern North America. As a Québécoise I also have to point out that 91% of the world pure maple syrup is produced in Quebec! Maple syrup is a religion here and we take it very seriously, don’t give me that trash table syrup. You might as well spit on my grave.
I'm Australian and always think of it like Canada is to the USA what New Zealand is to Australia haha the weird little bro who gets less attention even though it's cooler in a quirky way.
I am a Canadian that does not have any desire to be an American, nor do I "look up to them". I think most Canadians have their own identity and feel more European than American. I always feel more at home in Europe than I do in the USA when travelling.
Actually that's how Americans feel about Australia. Cool little bro who does his own thing and ignores our opinion. Canada is our classy big sister who finds us ignorant, loud, aggressive and annoying and is overly concerned that we find her opinion funny while agreeing with her.
Proud Canadian here; there are just so many thing to address in this video! However, my dear late Mum taught me to 'Consider the Source' and move on. This was a fun video, at times wildly inaccurate, yet fun nonetheless . :) Subscribed. Cheers from Nova Scotia!
The bagged milk only has three bags inside the bag you buy at the store. Many people will freeze the other two bags for later use while they have one in the fridge.
Bags would make sense for freezing. They could lie flat stacked on top of each other in the freezer (or outside, however you do it there). Freezing a plastic jug wouldn't work.
Umm..... WHAT?! You may be using the term a lot of people fairly loosely there 😅 I have been all across Canada back packing Montreal to Vancouver then back to PEI and I have never seen or heard of anyone doing that ever lmao. I am honestly so confused reading that I am going to put a bag in my freezer just to see how it goes lmao
@@davidsmart3514 Well obviously I mean besides you lol... Point being of the probably actua half million Canadians I have met and spoken to in my life living in and traveling across Canada I have never once heard or someone freezing their milk. Also wouldn't the expansion and pressurization diffences cause the milk to pop the bag or become gross? (Like the fatty parts dissacosiating from the H20) On top of the crystallization process destroying the fat globules? It seems like that would also be a breeding ground for bacteria if it didn't freeze quickly enough. You don't fid it gross after freezing it? I cant imagine a situation where a milk bag would remain unused for so long it would need to be frozen in the first place. Why even buy it at that point lol
Cheese curds really don't have all that much flavour, but what they do add when they melt is this really amazing texture. Actually, in my experience, it's not a million miles away from mozzarella. I used to work with a Québécois and while he said the only real poutine was to be had in Québec, he told me that the stuff at Burger King was a pretty good version for the rest of the country. :) P.S. Oh, and by the way, in Canada, KFC has always sold fries, not mashed potatoes, and always with a big tub of gravy. Seriously, try it. Spuds are spuds; they always go great with gravy!
A&W isn't terrible as well, biggest thing you rarely get outside of Québec is the texture of the cheese.. rarely get a squeaky cheese curd.. or heaven forbid, mozzarella.
Re: milk bags being useful because they're easy to store and keep the milk fresh-- the bag of bags can be stored flat, which is fantastic for most refrigerators. It can also be stored in other configurations if your fridge is packed. The reason it keeps the milk fresher is that you're only opening one liter at a time instead of all 4L every time. If you're buying milk in bags you're going through it fast enough that the tiny hole you cut to pour through doesn't sour it fast enough to notice. It takes a week before I start noticing a difference in taste, and I'm rather sensitive to it.
Here in Australia our milk comes in 1 litre cardboard tetra packs, they store upright in the door of the fridge. We can also buy milk in 2 litre plastic bottles, which also fit into the door of the fridge. I have never seen a 4 litre container of milk.
@@janetpendlebury6808 our wine comes in bags though. Curious why Canada hasn't added the Aussie wine taps to larger milk bags, milk would still keep as long if they were used wouldn't it? I mean there's not really a need, I don't see an issue with milk in a bag, but it would be a little annoying having to find a container to put the milk into when you open the bag
Cheese curdle may sound disgusting but I assure you it is the superior way of snacking on cheese. I am from Quebec and my region is known for his incredible cheese (even the late Queen of the U.K. specifically loved cheese from my region) and the cheese curdle we have is known as being so legendary that when one of my friend went to see some of our friends who moved into western Canada he and his local friends made him bring them about 300$ of cheese
Could you let your friend know that we do have some decent cheesemakers out here? Closest to me at least is one called The Cheese Factory. It's over on Whyte ave. in Edmonton. They make all sorts of cheese like regular as well as smoked beer cheese and cheese curds. If he's in Alberta it's likely he may have tried it already.
@@LarsBlitzer he indeed was in Alberta but that was 10 years ago, he came back since. That’s interesting tho, my wife want to go visit the West so I’ll keep that in mind. If you come to Quebec someday try some Boivin or Perron cheese. It’s a delicacy! Perron has better high end cheese, but if you can come accross some fresh Boivin cheddar go for it instead!
The milkman was a thing all over the world. In the US and Mexico the story of the milkman bringing milk to your home while you were at work, than proceeding to sleep with your wife was not only true, but comical.
he forgot about putting "eh" at the end of sentences. It makes everything we say sound like a question eh. Because it makes sound inquisitive and therefore smarter eh.
The tragedy of Canada: They could have had British culture, American technology, and French cuisine. Instead, they ended up with British cuisine, American culture, and French technology.
The joke as I heard it is that Canada could have had American know-how, British politics, and French culture, but wound up with British know-how, French politics, and American culture.
I'm from the US, specifically Minnesota aka basically Canada. Last year we went on a Maple syrup tour & each got a tiny bottle of the golden syrup. So, I started putting it in my coffee... I went on to develop a 7oz a wk addiction to Maple syrup on top of the caffeine 😅 This fall, I found poutine from a "fair food" truck at a local apple orchard. It was okay, but idk how authentic it was🤷🏼♀️ Florida vaca, Fort Myers Beach, almost everyone we talked to was also from Minnesota 😂
I laughed out loud when Simon said “bagged milk” because I know this all too well. My husband grew up in Ontario and still has Canadian relatives. He told me about bagged milk and I only sort of half believed him until we went to visit them, and sure enough, his aunt and uncle had a pitcher in the fridge with a bag of milk in it. ETA: And my milk man just delivered my milk in glass bottles to my doorstep about half an hour before I started watching this video. So, yes, there are lots of places that still seel milk in glass bottles, you just pay a bottle deposit and get it back wehn you return them. Or, in our case, if we ever end our delivery service with the dairy, we will get our starting bottle deposit back.
Only thing about it that seems at all weird to me is that there's not been a tap added to the milk bags using the Aussie cask wine tech. Wouldn't make sense for small quantities, but for larger ones it would, wouldn't it?
It’s actually 4l divided into 3 bags containing 1.33l each, also the form factor for the bags of milk make them easier to shove into the back of the fridge until you need them. The other thing is that you can either create a small or large hole in the bag to control the rate of pour and decay
The container with the bag stays on the door lmao, you shove the other 2 bags to the back of the fridge so you don’t need to go to the store and buy milk again any time soon, and it’s easier to manage than a 4l jug. It’s also costs less money than buying 4 individual 1l cartons of milk. In Nova Scotia we can buy milk in 250ml cartons, 500ml cartons, 1l cartons and plastic jugs, 2l carton or plastic and big 4l plastic jugs or bags.
Bagged milk was sold in Canada for about a decade before we switched over to metric. The size of the bags changed slightly so that three small bags now contain four litres instead of one gallon. Older people still sometimes talk about buying a gallon of milk.
Yes, bagged milk is very much only a big thing on the eastern side of the country specifically Ontario. On the west coast we use 4 litre plastic jugs or 1-2 litre cartons or plastic jugs like the rest of the world. In Alberta we are charged 25 cents when a 4 litre jug is purchased and is refunded when taken back to the bottle depot. For the most part we don’t recycle plastic bags so most milk bags end up in the landfill.
As a Canadian i have been WAITING for this episode!!! I miss bagged milk… that brings back so many memories. As I am a walking disaster, I was never allowed to touch the bagged milk after i cut the corner once BEFORE putting it into the container and it just rocketed everywhere and our kitchen smelled like milk for WEEKS 😂
The "formal complaint" about the chef-created poutine was really funny. And accurate! The ONLY bastardization of beloved poutine that I'm willing to endure, is putting stuffing on top. Half-Newfie style! If the stuffing is delicious and home-made, it's actually really good.
Every bit of cuisine that makes it to the U.S. is free real estate. We will top it any way we please. We just haven't gotten around to it yet. If you don't believe me, ask Italy about pizza, Germany about frankfurters, and Mexico about tacos. We are the culinary equivalent to the Borg: Your food will be assimilated, and its distinctiveness shall be added to our own. Resistance is futile.
@@khironkinney1667 As a fellow poutine-purist I agree, I just tried it once and yum lol. Mind you, there's always a way to include good stuffing in anything. ;)
@@derekstein6193 No doubt Americans would do something like using "American cheese" or Cheeze Whiz on top lol. Or form it into a ball, roll it in sugar, coat it in some sort of crust, and deep fry it! Also like the Borg, Americans will also never acknowledge where it came from originally, or its cultural significance.
Comparing cheese curds to curdled milk is like comparing tasty mushrooms to shower mildew.
Pretty similar flavor comparisons by my estimation.
ikr. its deep fried cheese. they're delicious.
Neat fact about Cuba-- they have the largest Terry Fox run outside of Canada. As a Canadian, it makes my heart swell! 💝
I have never heard this. That’s incredible!
Really? That's awesome! I wish they talked about up here.
Absolutely amazing fact!
what!? never knew!
It's only cause we Castro is trudopes father. We got a connection. And cheap cigars
I’m Canadian and I love Cuba. The people are terrific and it’s American free. What’s not to love
😂😂
Communism...
@@jonathantheunacceptable4259pretty sure they're talking about the resorts lol , which don't feel communist at all 😂
Plus it is the homeland of our current PM's father....
😂😂 It's never been American free, making it "forbidden" only made people want to go more
As a Canadian, the fact that Americans can't go to Cuba is definitely part of the reason some of us head there 😅
Americans can travel to Cuba, though.
Ha!
But only Americans who aren't afraid Cuba is trying to fry their brains with an x-ray beam will go there.@@listondavis
@@listondavisbut they don’t.
Noice!
I'm Canadian, and once when I was in Nashville Tenn. on a business trip, we were in a bar. The smoker in our group moved away from us to light up until he was done. After the band finished a few songs and took a break, they asked us if we were Canadian. When we asked how the knew, they simply said that when he moved away for a smoke, they knew that no-one from the USA would be that polite!
I worked with a guy who was in L.A. for a trip, and he ducked into a bar on the way back to his hotel for a beer or two. It was pretty empty and dark but he didn't think anything of it. He was surprised to see ashtrays on the table in his booth as smoking indoors was banned up here for a long time. Several locals walked up and asked him why he's there, and to tell him that he seems to not fit in with the clientele. He apologized, and said he's just going to finish his beer and smoke and head out. Then the locals noticed his brand of cigarettes: Player's. They were tickled by this "Ayo, these are what a Player smokes, huh?" and "Pass me a Player, player!"
In online games I always get called out by Americans because I’m overly kind to the people I end up being put with.
i do this every time i have a drunk smoke near friends
Poutine is NOT a Canadian invented dish!! In the early 70's thru late 80's both sides of my families (Scottish and Dutch) prepared and brought CHIPS 'N RUE at birthday parties and Thanksgiving.
@@MAGGOT_VOMITdid ya add cheese curds?
As a Canadian I always found our reputation as being the friendly (push over) types ironic. Especially now we may be polite and come off as friendly but hop into a debate about our current politics and see how nice my countrymen and woman really are. Good manners does not equal kindness, we can be salty.
I look at it the other way. We are generally kind, which people equate to being nice and pushovers, which is not always true.
I'm amazed that anyone thinks Canadians are pushovers. I mean, look at every time you go to war. Canada is literally known as one of the nations that committed all the war crimes in WWI.
Ditto The English. Apologising for bumping into people and queuing politely didn't prevent us from ruling 1/3 of the earth and all of the sea.
For good reason
Reserved is a good word I think. Push comes to shove, watch out boys. You gotta earn that disrespect though. Also the further east ya get, friendlier people seem to get as well. East coaster spent time out west, still chill out there, But folks don’t hold doors for one another like they do here.
At a Tim’s just outside Edmonton. Seen a lady coming with a “box” of coffee (has like 10-15 cups worth of coffee in a liquor store wine box/bag thing), bag of creamers and a box of donuts and muffins. So without thinking I opened the first set of doors and kicked the wheelchair button for the second. Told her to have a nice day. I get back inside, I see a man STARING me down. Points at me and tells me to go over. (Didn’t know if it was his wife or something). So I walk over, “your not from here are you?”. Kinda confused for a second and asked him what he meant. He said he’s never seen someone go out of their way to hold the door for someone like that. “Well Sir, back home that wouldn’t go over well if I didn’t and my old man found out”
Small town vibes baby.
I'm Canadian, and I always found it hilarious when I was in England for school last year and people would ask if I was American. When I said no, they would apologize in case I was offended
Happens to me all the time here in Australia, and when I was living in the UK. I love how people in other countries really don't want to risk offending a Canadian because they see us as really nice and polite people. Like they'd be kicking a puppy. 😆
@@EveryFairyDieslol also because we've seen what happens when Canada's patience runs out (WW1 yikes)
@@ProbablyNotLegit what happened in WW1? Also don't forget Hockey >.> Canada's national sport is Brutal >.>
Canadians do put and inordinate amount of effort into making sure others don't view them as just the US Jr., even though we all know that is what they are :P
@@durk5331"I'm sorry Sir, we did not captured any POW. There weren't any germans willing to surrender. They tied their hands themself and scalped each other before slitting their throats and shot themself in the back of their head. What a shame, eh?"
The troops from Canada were notorious for being brutal and to not taking prisoners
as a canadian buying bagged milk, i would like too clarify that it's 3 bags totalling 4L, so it's more like 1.3333L per bag 😂 And in french, cause poutine is from Quebec, the name for cheese curds does not associate with curdle milk
Thank you! This needed to be said.
I don’t know why, but that error irked me. Good correction!
Indeed, it one of its names associates it with shit and we still eat it 🤷🏻♀️
Cheese curds are basically just farmer's cheese. Or if you're from India paneer. It's just basic assed bland cheese.
Cows keep their milk in bags...or udders as we call them.
On your next Canada segment, you should talk about one of our best kept confectionery secrets: Nanaimo Bars! 🇨🇦🇨🇦
Minced meat tarts 🎉
Or tire d'érable
@@jamess1787 That too!
Just not butter tarts those not good, that’s a flop
Nanaimo bars. An orgasm in your mouth.
All dressed chips
I'm Canadian and the way I can best describe why we say sorry is that we are not always apologizing. Sometimes we are empathizing with someone or trying to clarify a point. It's just our polite way and is stuck in our dna.
That's how I use it a lot and then people ask me why I'm sorry - am i part Canadian? 🤔
We also say it in place of "pardon?/what? " or "excuse me/pardon me"
Don't forget the passive aggressive sorry. Like the Apology to the US from This Hour Has 22 Minutes.
Kind of like how calling someone a cunt can be endearing in Australia
You saying sorry, is like me saying ope. 😅
As a German visting several resorts in countries like Cuba, Mexico or the Dominican Republic I mostly could tell real fast who was American or who was Canadian. Canadians seem to be less self-centered, relaxed and not so much noisy like a lot of Americans, who seemed to believed that their emotios should be of interest of all the other guests.
Well put.
Saw a lot of this in Mexico (Playa del Carmon) 30 years ago. Locals like Americans for there money and excessive tipping but they love Canadians just for who they are.
As an American, I've always wanted to move to Canada (more & more as the years pass); they're so much nicer than the arrogant nutjobs down here.
But in Cuba, you still have to deal with loud obnoxious Russians.😅
@@scottbain1383 Moreso the loud Brits who go there, actually.
The reason the cheese curds on poutine are special is that ideally, they are made hours before they are put on poutine. Fresh and squeaky on the teeth is how I like them.
I was literally like 15 years old when I first realized it wasn't actually just called squeaky cheese lol
As a Texan who has tried Canadian poutine l can honestly say, Well done Canada! I think the dish is great.
What is Canadian Poutine homie its called Poutine
As a Canadian who knows Texas very well.... well, poutine needs to be a thing in Texas.
It's not Canadian in general it's regional it's Quebecios poutine .
@@kyleklukas4808 invented in Quebec, but I assure you it’s Canada wide
As a poutine reviling citizen of Canada, I politely decry your message.
I'm not a Canadian, but I went up there for the first time this year on a fishing trip. I get why most of the population lives on the coasts and border. Rural interior Canada is strangely desolate. Where we were in central Ontario, it was nothing but water, rocks and pine trees. I spend a lot of time outdoors in fairly remote areas, and I couldn't believe how few animals I saw out there. There were fish everywhere, but its eerie when you're 150 miles from civilization and you're not seeing much for wildlife. Also, maple syrup beats corn syrup by an incalculable margin.
Edit: born and raised in Wisconsin. Cheese curds are fantastic and anyone who says otherwise is wrong.
It's only because most of our wildlife are large and skittish and what isn't is nocturnal or birds. Deer, moose, bears and wolves have no interest in fucking around with people and since so much of the country is uninhabited, they're left more or less in their natural state.
And as for where we live, pretty much every Canadian city or town is on or near a river/lake of some kind. Easiest for irrigation, hydro and water pumping/treatment.
No wildlife? Really? Even in Calgary we have, deer, coyotes, skunk, porcupine, racoons, hares, bobcats, that are born, live and die in the city. Plus the occasional, bear, cougar, and moose. Not to mention Aussies during ski season.
@AB..__.. I was only there for a week, but it was very quiet. We saw mostly waterfowl and a wood chuck that lived under the cabin. I managed to pick up one beaver with the binoculars on the other end of the lake, but that was about it. The strangest thing was that we barely saw song birds.
@DoIShootThemOrRun That makes good sense for larger animals. We saw a lot of loons and a few geese, but it seemed like there weren't any song birds around. I'm not claiming that they aren't there, I was just surprised by how little we saw compared to other trips I've taken.
@@notreallymyname3736 I forgot about Beavers. I live next to the Bow river and there are quite a few Beavers on a path my dog and I are on daily. I am so glad my dog has never caught one. You don't want to be bitten by a beaver. We are lucky in Canada and the USA that we still have so much wild area and wildlife.
In school we used to go to a Cabane à sucre (sugar shack) which was basically a maple syrup festival in Edmonton (6 hours north of our town). The tire d’érable (the taffy on snow thing) was the very best part.
@@satbobsmith7261 Yeah. This was back in the mid-70's.
As someone that works in a glass factory that uses recycled glass, I can tell you glass is actually having a bit of a resurgence.
Particularly as you can make a bottle from 95% recycled, which makes the process extremely efficient and cullet is shipped to use from all over the world to make it 😊
whyprim: Glass coke bottles came back a few years ago, I think they were gone for a long time.
Back when people got milk delivered, they didn't even recycle glass in the "recycling" sense. They just washed the bottles and reused them. But glass is definitely among the better materials for recycling for sure, so it probably should make a come back!
@@ThatWriterKevin There's a local Dairy near me that sells in glass bottles and the supermarkets will give you like $2.50 for bringing the bottle back. (its much more expensive than plastic jugs if you dont return the bottles)
@@themaskedhobo Yeah, that's how it always was with milk delivery. You paid for the milk and the glass bottle, but then got the bottle deposit back when they picked up the old bottles and dropped off fresh milk. I think I always heard of it as being like 25 cents per bottle though because people talk about it taking place back in the 60s.
The the Rs. Reuse, refurbish,recycle
Canada is the sibling you’d enjoy hanging with more, the cousins from the stable side of the family, the quiet witty one. We have different successes, other priorities and want to know about all the cultures of the world with willingness to adapt. We are modestly proud.
And your maple Sirup is liquid diplomacy
And the poorer, slower family.
It's not like NO American is like that. But then many of my distant family is Canadian . . . Genetics, I suppose.
@@marcbeebee6969 *syrup
in comparison, sure, but as far as acceptance and appreciative of others, well, spend some time in Alberta or Quebec or better yet, ask the natives
As an unfriendly Canadian, I take exception to the stereotype that we're all nice people.
That fact that you kindly warned others that you are unfriendly.. was very respectful and helpful…making you a very nice Canadian. ❤
... probably a Canadian goose in disguise... 🇨🇦
Being nice about not being nice. So Canadian. ✌️
@@bellaususfitzpinguidpalate8732 🪿……LMAO
As an American living in the GTA, the drivers alone confirm that many Canadians are incredibly self-centere and rude, just like everywhere else.
My brother came back from Canada to Oz and just couldn't stop saying eh at the end of every sentence. He still does it and his kids do too but they sound even funnier because they have an Australian/Canadian accent. The kids can get eh and mate in the same sentence flawlessly 😆
brits say eh as well
@@bluetocop but do you say it to state an opinion, as a declaration, to express surpise, as an exclamation, or to soften a critism? Do you use it to make a request, to confirm an opinion, to state a command or as a common narrative device? and most importantly have you ever once said "I'm sorry, eh"?
That's so amazing lol
:)
Canadians don’t say eh all the time. Crisps I’ve heard more Americans say than Canadians. 🇨🇦
The pronunciation memes of “poutine” are the best! I’m from western Canadian, and my friend is from Quebec, and she definitely ensures that everyone pronounces “poutine” the proper Québécois way. The memes made me very happy! Also a Canadian thing!
ya I'm from North Ontario and pronounce it the French way (North Ontario is basically half French)... I lived in the Edmonton area for a few years and their pronunciation of poutine bothered me for some reason lol....
I have a cousin from Quebec, and he gets pretty annoyed when I say it wrong! :)
I'm from Winnipeg and I pronounce it the French way, drives some of my friends bonkers. 😂
I'm in BC, I wouldn't dream of pronouncing it the French way.
Winter peg is a common nickname for Winnipeg
Actually the bagged milk thing seems to be only a big thing to people outside of Canada. It's not really a common topic of conversation in Canada. I'm in western Canada where there is no bagged milk, just cardboard cartons or plastic jugs, but there used to be, can't say I recall it being a big deal it was just a different form of packaging.
We in western Canada get our milk in plastic, er, …paper cardboard jug box thingy’s. Just ask out PM who was elected only by eastern Canadians.
I still remember the first time going to Buffalo New York and finding milk in a plastic jug to be weird. Funny how something as simple as the way a product is packaged can result in so much discussion. In southern Ontario milk is still sold in bags or cartons. I've only recently seen it in a plastic bottle from one or two companies, but I think more people buy it in 1 or 2L cartons.
To be fair, western Canadians only really talk about eastern Canadian things when we're complaining about politics. Bagged milk is not politics, so there's no reason for it to come up in conversation.
You can get bagged milk out west I have back packed across the country from Montreal to Vancouver and saw it everywhere but for some reason Saskatchewan
At certain stores in eastern Canada, including in my own Montreal, they do sell plastic milk jugs, and I prefer those over both bagged milk and milk cartons.
As someone from "Winterpeg" -- that nickname is valid. We regularly have snow from Oct to May. Summers get up to the high 30s (celsius) but the fact remains that winter lasts very long and most of us wear that label proudly because what else can you do? lol
Yeah his friend is definitely in the minority of us from here. My usual response is a chuckle and then going "yeah"
Yeah, I had a buddy from Winterpeg and he was proud of it!
Bombers rule
Could be worse, snow wise. Could be in Labrador 😂
The defination of Winterpeg.......nine months of winter, three months of piss poor sledding.........(Left Coaster here.....LOL)
Ontarian here and in defence of Quebec I had never heard of poutine until about 20 years ago. It’s only become more common in the last decade or so, and cheese curds are delicious, please don’t compare them to spoiled milk. If you really want to open a can of confusing worms (even amongst Canadians) we could talk about peameal bacon.
That and in many parts of the country it's made with the wrong type of cheese... especially in the west.
It’s known as Canadian bacon outside Canada.
@@briankearn6991 Therein lies the confusion. The slices of round, smoked, ham-like meat sold in the U.S. is not the same as peameal bacon.
@@brando8086you mean just shredded marble cheddar isn't proper poutine cheese?
Honestly, i'm down either way though. There aren't many cheeses I dislike.
Nope lol The cheese curds give poutine its unique texture. It's a whole other experience!@@reaganharder1480
As a Canadian, I have always seen America as southern Canada.
The US is Canadas shorts
Or as the selfish violent noisy drug taking problem neighbour?
They're kind of like the loud, obnoxious cousin that people put up with at family events. You just laugh and smile and hope they wander somewhere else.
Americans refer to us as Northern Mexicans
Canada's fiery pants
So glad we had a Canadian editor for this!!! Well done!
You're welcome, eh!
@@EveryFairyDies Ahh! I've never had the team respond! :). So 😎
@@nicholeayt509 I always like to scroll through and look at what people say about my videos. The validation from people's enjoyment is my new, other cocaine. 😆❤🤘
Finally a Brain Blaze about us Canadians 😂
Waiting for the moment when we drop the hockey gloves.
Eh?
I’m sorry.
If you come to Arizona, please learn what MPH is 🤔
@@daxleoneno that is madness. Cheers from Europe
As a Western Canadian I can say that my stock answer for the bagged milk topic is exactly we don’t do that out west that’s the other side of the country. Spot on by the writer 🤣
Oh also exclusively Canadian food…. Donair it’s amazing
Very proud Canadian here and yes, we take our maple syrup reserves verrry seriously.
In the case of “The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist”, some scofflaws stole syrup over several months in 2011 and 2012 amounting to nearly 3,000 tonnes of maple syrup and valued at C$18.7 million from a storage facility in Quebec.
I had an Australian kindly tell me they thought of Canada as "Popsicle Australia". Yeah, I'll take it. :)
Me and my Australian buds call each other Tundra Australians and Desert Canadians lol I stand by it honestly xD
Just a quick interjection here at 17:59 . As a Canadian who has both been cussed out by Brits and has enjoyed the company of them, I have to concur that being cussed at or told off by a Brit is magical. I can’t even be offended because your accent and articulation make it sound so pleasant!
Canadian here, I'm from Toronto, Ontario and old enough to remember when the milkman delivered glass bottled milk to our door. We do have milk in one litre carton, two litre cartons, and four litre bags. In the four litre bag there are only three bangs not four.
In Manitoba, our milkman delivered milk, juice, bread, eggs, face cream, and pantyhose.
7:45 One time back in the 1980's I spent TWO WEEKS rebuilding and reassembling a Taffy Pulling Machine at a popular brand name cough drop manufacturing facility.
The machine was made in Italy, and literally folded stretched squeezed and pulled taffy, the actual rebuild was easy pressed in new bearings and bearing surfaces, and a brand new variable speed DC Drive motor.
The dis-assembly and re-assembly was PAINSTAKING!!! I won';t bore with the technicalities, but we took over 100 "Polaroid" Photos of the machine as we disassembled and needed EVERY one of them to get it back together!.
The factory 'owner' was extremely pleased with the results, he said it had not worked so smoothly, even when it was brand new :)
I'm glad you talked about the existence of both fast-food poutine and fancy gourmet poutine. If you can imagine it, it probably exists. Also, Canadians totally get passive-aggressive, I experience it every day with my family.
Not all Canadians are passive agressive though. I've also known quite a few who are just completely conflict avoidant and the only way you could guess they dislike you is that they don't invite you to their parties anymore.
And then there's Albertans... they're not so bad to your face, but catch one driving and boy golly, polite is off the table. Maybe there's places that are worse, but I personally have never been flipped the bird for a perfectly safe and legal pass except for in Alberta.
For family with children bagged milk makes sense because it is slightly cheaper and the empties take a lot less space. By the way Simon, the unopened bags do not roll around in the fridge, they lay flat.
It’s gotta be a mainland thing because I haven’t seen bagged milk here in Newfoundland and I’ve lived here for over a couple decades!
They don't have it in Saskatchewan either.
One bag lies flat. Do you spread them out, taking up far more space than a jug/carton, or do you stack them making a wobbly tower?
You mean our tetra packs? Its like a milk carton thing we have in Germany
No it's a weird Ontario thing
I worked at a milk plant when we were thinking of going back to glass. It is much more dangerous in the plant. When a glass bottle jams in the machine it explodes sending glass shrapnel everywhere. Also a study done (not by the milk company) showed that by the time you figured the extra fuel burned transporting the added weight and energy to wash the bottles a lot more oil was used. Finally the plastic used in milk bottles is of a type that is fully recyclable.
Plastic is only recyclable a handful of times before the material is too weakened and it ends up in a landfill anyway. Also, recycled plastic is weaker and new plastic has to be added to it everytime.
But you can transport glass with electricity coming from windmills and nucear etc non-oil
Cardboard milk cartons are lightweight, recyclable, and biodegradable, and they don't generally explode.
There's the extra transport to the washing facility & then the filling factory too, so not jjust added weight for the same amount of travel
True and once power is clean many things will need to be revisited.@@mjfan653
We were in Cuba for a month round about when Simon was there. We found some decent restaurants in Havana, around the old town. The general menu was notably more limited elsewhere in Cuba, but stuff like fruit and avocados was readily available - we were there in September.
For it to be true Poutine, it needs to be squeaky cheese curds. As a Canadian, I can confirm that this is indeed delicious. Montana's steakhouse adds Chorizo sausage to their offerings. It's goddamn delicious.
I'm always surprised that poutine hasn't become more popular in the U.S. French fries, gravy and cheese. Sounds like the most (U.S.) American thing ever!
@@jimcappa6815 There have been Americans (that tried it on vacation I think) that took poutine back to the USA. But cheese curds are not found everywhere (only had decent ones in Wisconsin). NJ has their version "Disco Fries" but I think it subs shredded mozzarella (because y'know... it's NJ). I've seen places in Ontario do the same because it's cheaper and cheese curds don't have a long shelf live. It's not the same when you swap out one of only three components of a dish.
Wisconsin has some of the best cheese curds in the USA , it would make for a damn good poutine :)
Squeaky cheese curds are also amazing on their own. Such a good snack
There are a few types of gourmet poutines available throughout Québec.
I really enjoyed the Great Canadian Maple heist episode!
The bagged milk, for me, at least is preferable because it keeps it fresher. The residue on the inside of the jug or carton starts to smell a bit and thus makes the milk start to taste strange. Also, 4L of bags is the same price as a 2L carton.
In what alternate universe do you exist? lol
@@cdpond C'mon over! The weather is... well, cold. Haha
Another huge reasons Canadians love to travel to Cuba, the lack of Americans.
Yes! This!
Same with Puerto Vallarta ❤
Ditto
Technically you are also American as Canada is part of North America we need a new word...staters??
Plus we get to take advantage of Cuban slave wages
Then you should include
Mexico
Guatemala
Haiti
Dominican Republic
Cuba
Coming to this after watching warographocs. Gotta say, ive gotten much more out of your content and spent more time watching you compared to netflix or literally any other streamng service or youtuber. Really the King of RUclips. And your team behind the scenes that keeps it all going is so very appreciated. Thank you guys and girls so much!
Thanks!
Edit: I forgot an interesting detail; once washed, some would hang them on the laundry drying cord outside (don’t know what it’s really called) to dry them out completely under the sun 😂 (probably to prevent or kill fungus too though!)
Fun fact, in the 70s and 80s, mothers on a tight budget would reused their empty milk bags 😂 they would wash it up and use it to warp kids sandwiches in their kid’s lunch, or snacks.
Who remembers this?
We had milk jugs. They made for lousy sandwich wrappers.
We wore milk bags on our feet as liners for wet boots in the winter. 😂
BTW; clothesline
My mother used the milk bags (the ones that actually had milk in them, not the outer bag that held the 3 milk bags) as freezer bags as the plastic was much thicker…once properly washed they work very well! 🙂
My mom still to this day reuses the milk bags as freezer bags lol
Ah memories!
I think almost every Canadian child has made the maple syrup snow taffy treat thing at a maple syrup farm at least once because they made it a school trip staple at every school I went to in Ontario and New Brunswick. It was to teach us about maple syrup tapping while also mixing in some survival tips for getting stuck in the snowy forest. We also learned how to skate and went on hikes/canoeing and to some baller museums.. not sure if other parts of Canada have similar school trips. And I defiantly grew up with bagged milk in Ontario XD I never thought it was strange until the age of the internet
Honestly when you get west of ontario the rest of canada isn't batshit crazy about maple syrup. I suppose we don't produce it hardly at all which is why.
That said most of us outside the east can take it or leave it.
We do not do such things in the rest of Canada. It's too cold to grow Acer Sacrum trees west of Sudbury. Except in parts of BC near the coast with a totally different climate which is also not compatible with sugar maples. I would have to drive over a thousand miles to see that leaf on our flag.
I'm 25 and this last summer I was in Ontario for the first time in my life. The size of Canada makes it pretty hard to generalize an experience that relies on a specific geographic location, as I can assure you no Saskatchewan middle school is flying a class two provinces over for a field trip about maple syrup. Some of us westerners may be as anal as the video host about maple syrup vs corn syrup, but it's definitely not nearly the same cultural phenomenon as the regions that can actually produce the stuff
I grew up in BC, where we don’t have the cold climate for maple syrup, so no sugar shacks, or taffy for us. But we still LOVE our maple syrup!!
As a Canadian I love this episode, especially the Elon Musk and his brother comparison 😂😂 love you simon
Isn't Elon Musk Canadian?
I checked his wiki page and apparently he has three citizenships: South Africa, Canada, and the US. How is that possible?
@@demial4
He was born and grew up in Africa.
His mum is Canadian, and he utilised this to his advantage whilst a young man as a backdoor into eventually gaining US citizenship. Yeah, apparently,US immigration is _that_ convoluted! It is, what it is, or at least what Wikipedia lays claim to. He's about as Canadian as the Puerto Rican congressman is a statesman but is as legally a Canadian as Bryan Adams.
@@GeorgeVCohea-dw7ouHe was born & raised in South Africa
@@jeremyborder6794
Yes, I know. This was noted in my previous reply, and his accent is still quite thick.
3 thing about Poutine...1. The right pronunciation is like how Ryan Gosling saying it at the beginning of the part about it. The way you say it sound like Vladimir Putin. It's funny but we are used to it in Québec.
2. The cheese curds is more like mozzarella or light cheddar and not at all what you describe. It's a very basic cheese, the kind that last like 3 days but is very well made and super safe. Also because of the specific kind of cheese it's used, it's 100% sure it comes from my home region of Québec of Centre-Du-Québec, cause only Warwick produced that kind of cheese in the early 1900. Also the first to market it was Dominique Roy of Drummondville, who was owner of the Roy Jucep ( still exist and the poutine is not bad) and Victoriaville claims it's from there but it's because they are close to Warwick. To other Québécois, the version of poutine from the rest of Canada is usually shit because they don't use the right sauce or cheese, which unbalance the whole or doesn't melt which is sad. So poutine is mainly from Québec.
3. It's the ultimate late evening snack, as good if not better than pizza after a big party ! It got everything you need and more if you want a more fancy one with real bacon, or with spaghetti sauce instead, or just hot-dog sausage. It kills hangover with certain people and it's easy to share, so king of after party !
Kevin you master mischief, video editing, and memes! couldn't stop laughing 😂
Simon trying to remember Elon's brother name followed by Sunny's "NO🙁🤖"
Well the video editing and memes are all Lorelei, I only did the words. But thanks!
@@ThatWriterKevin But such excellent wording!
I once knew some college age guys who called real maple syrup “weird organic stuff”, and they didn’t like it?!
It was absolutely bizarre.
Eh? That's a weird concept right there, eh?!
When you're feed high fructose corn syrup all your life, real food tastes 'weird'.
I sort of get it, when one grows up with thick Ms Buttersworth that doesn't get absorbed up by your pancakes. A more liquid, less sugary, more flavorful syrup is a totally different experience. I equate people like they to be like those who can't eat their pizza without a garlic ranch dip to cover up just how crappy that pizza is.
One time hanging out in the woods drinking beers around a fire with some Canadians I had sort of just met and one thing led to another and they got really drunk and started physically fighting with each other. The scuffle led over near my car and one of them minorly bumped into it and and they all instantly stopped fighting and were so SORRY about my car. Like pleading for forgiveness. I wasn't worried about the car at all just wtf are you guys doing? Funniest shit. They got wild drunk but in the morning totally respectful to each other again, made a major point of cleaning up their mess and then some.
As a person from Wisconsin, bagged milk is weird, but it is something i had occasionally, mostly because it was sold at Kwik Trip gas stations.
And cheese curds are awesome!
Wanna give a shout out to today's writer, Kevin, for kicking off a bunch of memories with his mention of bagged milk! This video was very near and dear to my heart, so I hope I've done my fellow Canadians proud, eh! ...sorry.
Editing *on fire* today!
@@jimwilliams9225 Thank you!
Your work is fabulous.
@@madaug4389 Aw, thanks!
Nice one mate ! Cheers from New Zealand 🇳🇿
Canadian here. Never eaten poutine and never will, I hate cheese, but gravy on fries is amazing.
Whoa. I was literally thinking about looking up what exactly poutine is earlier today and now i know quite a bit about it. It sounds good to me.
you should try it out! i make it at home on the regular :)
i had it for dinner yesterday
In some cities we have Poutine Fest where multiple food trucks compete for the # 1 Poutine prize. Generally people go in groups and buy multiple different poutines so we can compare them. Very similar to Rib Fest
In southern Ontario (only an hour from USA) They still do the maple syrup taffy every spring for school trips teaching them how to harvest maple syrup. Lol Bagged milk was great. Grew up with it and it was the only way to go. You bought it on sale and store it in the freezer. The outer plastic milk bags and bread bags were often saved to line our boots in the winter to keep your feet dry.
You know, I’m a very curious person, and people sometimes ask if I have ever regretted my curiosity. The answer is once, in 2009. That was the year that I found a bottle of milk with an expiration date of 2006 in an old fridge at the office. I wondered what 3-year old milk would smell like. Oh, did I ever regret that moment of curiosity!
That made me laugh because I would likely do the same thing 😂
I am so excited for this! Love hearing ahout the quirks of my country 🇨🇦🇨🇦
Hope you enjoyed!
Great story, a couple corrections.
-The population is 40 million people as of 2023.
-I live in western Canada, we think bagged milk is odd as well, and I don't even think it is sold here.
It's available in central and eastern Canada. Western Canada is quite New and don't carry the same traditions as rest of Canada.
@Japi506 Nice try but incorrect. We had bagged milk in BC for about ten years. Don't know precisely why it stopped but i'm fine with cartons.
@@zwhtan I meant currently sold here. I lived in BC as a kid and may remember it being available, I've lived in AB since 1990 and don't recall ever seeing it.
@@Japi506 LOL it's statements like this that highlight the reason the west is dissatisfied with the ignorance of the east. We are not that much younger, look at the years the western provinces joined confederation. Canada had only been a country for a few decades, or less.
@@mikehofmann3726 St Johns NFLD is the oldest city in North America, Saint John NB was the first incorporated city in Canada, which dates back to the 1700s. Acadia predates Ruperts Land by a long shot. Western was primarily build by Eastern Europeans and Asians. Eastern Canada was built by the founders of this country, England and France. Confederation occured in PEI. Sir Tilley lived in Saint John and coined the term the dominion of Canada. Even Benedict Arnold own property here. The west in Canada present and future. But traditional Canadian values come from the east and Atlantic Canada.
I always enjoy the editing in Simon’s videos. It helps lighten the mood in Casual Criminalist episodes and in Brain Blaze it reminds me that Elon’s brother is not named Fuck Musk.
I do so enjoy editing in these little extra bits of information to help make Simon's videos as informative as possible.
We now deserve a series of what every country thinks is normal but everyone else thinks is weird. I think we start with Uruguay and second South Africa. Cheers from South Africa
Kudos to all involved on this one... but the editing had me falling out of my chair laughing. Great job Blaze team - and Hoser... I see you, bro, I see you..... rock on.
I used to work as a chef at a fancy hotel in the Canadian mountains and I'd make the maple freeze pops for guests. They were all so shook
"Fancy hotel in the Canadian mountains" is so beautifully vague, but also immediately identifiable.
@@Carthybp My thoughts immediately go to "Chateau Lake Louise".
@@BatCaveOz It could be Jasper Park Lodge, Banff Springs Hotel, Halcyon, Malcolm, of any number of places really.
As a Canadian who has never been, I always heard people went there because you wouldn't be assumed to be American because of the embargo in the past.😅
That's why a lot of my relatives used to vacation there - no Americans!🤣
People are nice and polite there. My group got confronted by a very drunk local who wanted to tell us about everything wrong with Cuba we couldn't see. We all listened politely and learned something. I'm assuming that's not something you can do with an American. 😁
The part about Poutine being Québécois is real. 😛 For decades Québec people were being made fun of by english speaking Canadians for eating this dish as they perceived it as a «poor man's food» and something that only Québécois would eat. BUT, exactly as Poutine started to gain popularity with tourists coming to Québec City, Montréal or Québec in general, english Canadians started to really enjoy it, suddenly. Then it pread to the rest of Canada. To be more precise, Poutine has its roots in the city of Drummondville in the Centre-du-Québec administrative region! 😁
J'ai écrit le même genre de commentaire il y a deux semaines 🙌🏻 la vérité doit être entendue!! Poutine is Quebec's National dish. It represents French Canadian Culture. We get ostracized by the others Canadians because we speak french. Canada took our National dishes and make their own and want to suppress is true origin. they are not even sorry about it. Cultural Appropriation at it best !!
I’m from Winnipeg and I love when my city gets called winter peg.
Newfoundlander here and there’s a really weird thing here we do with visitors called screeching in.
You take a drink of screech (a type of whisky), kiss a fish, and then you’re officially an honorary Newfoundlander.
… also I’ve never seen bagged milk in all the 28 years I’ve lived here so I’m guessing it was long before my time or a mainland thing.
Screech is a Jamaican rum, isn’t it?
@joshuahadams Yes, it is.
Glad to see the editor's note about maple candy... in better years I had a tradition of buying some at craft shows (only place I've ever found it here in Michigan) and making sure to save enough to put it on top of my family's holiday oatmeal.
You got me on the thumbnail alone, damnit 😂 god work Simon and Co!
Hope you enjoyed!
Canada is like a loft apartment above a really annoying and loud downstairs neighbor.
“Unless you’re Canadian and get offended and go on a terrorist rampage - but you probably won’t because you’re Canadian.”
Oh, my sweet Summer child, allow me to introduce you to the Québécois.
I always get these PSA videos from Canada about staying away from the Southern Orca pod. I love that it always end with a little chime of "oh Canada" at the end. Imagine if we through in a few notes of the star spangled banner at the end of every government PSA. LOL
I love Canada and Canadians. Been there many times. Marveled at the Cuban travel posters in the Toronto airport.
In Manitoba, we don't get many PSAs about staying away from Orca Pods, but the federal PSAs we do get have the "Oh Canada" chime at the end.
I immigrated to Canada in 1972 with my family. The first week we were there, we visited a KFC where they served chips with chicken gravy. I thought that was weird, (being used to just ketchup as a topping), until I discovered the gravy had the Colonel's 11 herbs and spices in it. I think they still offer that to this day. Salt and vinegar is also quite popular as chip seasoning.
There is a chain in Canada called Smoke's Poutinery, which features all sorts of different toppings to go along with the gravy and curds. Sadly the chain's founder died this week, way too young.
And Aunt Jemima's syrup? Company changed their name to The Pearl Milling Company several years ago, after it was deemed the company mascot was a racist stereotype of a black woman. Not even redesigning her to look like Aretha Franklin helped. They still have "Aunt Jemima recipe" in smaller letters towards the bottom on the bottles, and the boxes of pancake batter powder though.
KFC isn't canadian and aunt Jemima is flavored syrup, not actual maple syrup. It's the cheapest pancake topping that is borderline acceptable
Aunt Jemima was a real person and a female black business entrepreneur who was extremely successful and founded a big company which bore her name until Woke nazis removed it and her likeness from the bottles of her (admittedly not real maple syrup) products.
@@jonathantheunacceptable4259 you might want to know that just because a company is American, it doesn't mean that they carry the same menu in other countries as they do in the US, and restaurant franchises like KFC often offer menu items that reflect local culinary tastes, which IMHO is a smart business practice. That's why KFC offers chips and gravy on the menu here. It's also why Popeyes offers their take on poutine on their menus (which is featured on their Friday value menu in Canada).
I mentioned the Aunt Jemima stuff because I wanted to point out the name change of the product, and why it was changed, not passing judgement on the quality of their syrup or claiming it was genuine maple syrup. Thought to tell you the truth, I'd prefer a bottle of E.D. Smith's sugarless syrup over Pearl Milling Company's product any day.
Come to think of it, a Brain Blaze on companies who had to change their logos over controversies just might prove to be quite interesting. Simon should ask his writers to look into that......
All cheese blocks are made of cheese curds, they're just pressed into a block. I put ketchup in my poutine too. We actually even have gourmet poutineries that serve a variety of flavours.
As someone from Winnipeg, that dude who doesn't like it being called "Winterpeg" is in the definite minority.
As a Canadian I have to point out that not only can maple syrup only be produced in North America but only on the east coast of Northern North America. As a Québécoise I also have to point out that 91% of the world pure maple syrup is produced in Quebec! Maple syrup is a religion here and we take it very seriously, don’t give me that trash table syrup. You might as well spit on my grave.
We buy Bernard Sirop D'Érable by the case from Costco. 24 540 ml cans of grade A dark syrup for $199.
🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁
@@icouldjustscreamif it’s in a can you know it’s good
As a Canadian, I enjoyed this very much 😂
I'm Australian and always think of it like Canada is to the USA what New Zealand is to Australia haha the weird little bro who gets less attention even though it's cooler in a quirky way.
I am a Canadian that does not have any desire to be an American, nor do I "look up to them". I think most Canadians have their own identity and feel more European than American. I always feel more at home in Europe than I do in the USA when travelling.
Sort of. However, Australia and New Zealand haven't been at war against each other multiple times so there is a difference.
We Canadians tend to think of Australia as the weird, quirky little brother. :)
Actually that's how Americans feel about Australia. Cool little bro who does his own thing and ignores our opinion.
Canada is our classy big sister who finds us ignorant, loud, aggressive and annoying and is overly concerned that we find her opinion funny while agreeing with her.
Proud Canadian here; there are just so many thing to address in this video! However, my dear late Mum taught me to 'Consider the Source' and move on. This was a fun video, at times wildly inaccurate, yet fun nonetheless . :) Subscribed. Cheers from Nova Scotia!
The bagged milk only has three bags inside the bag you buy at the store. Many people will freeze the other two bags for later use while they have one in the fridge.
Don't last 3 days in our fridge...too many cups of tea. lol
Bags would make sense for freezing. They could lie flat stacked on top of each other in the freezer (or outside, however you do it there). Freezing a plastic jug wouldn't work.
Umm..... WHAT?! You may be using the term a lot of people fairly loosely there 😅 I have been all across Canada back packing Montreal to Vancouver then back to PEI and I have never seen or heard of anyone doing that ever lmao. I am honestly so confused reading that I am going to put a bag in my freezer just to see how it goes lmao
@@jaytbo5676 Umm I'm Canadian
@@davidsmart3514 Well obviously I mean besides you lol... Point being of the probably actua half million Canadians I have met and spoken to in my life living in and traveling across Canada I have never once heard or someone freezing their milk.
Also wouldn't the expansion and pressurization diffences cause the milk to pop the bag or become gross? (Like the fatty parts dissacosiating from the H20) On top of the crystallization process destroying the fat globules? It seems like that would also be a breeding ground for bacteria if it didn't freeze quickly enough.
You don't fid it gross after freezing it? I cant imagine a situation where a milk bag would remain unused for so long it would need to be frozen in the first place. Why even buy it at that point lol
I love the bagged milk! Nothing better than drinking right out of the bag and then washing and reusing the bag to pack your sandwich in for lunch.
Nah lol
Cheese curds really don't have all that much flavour, but what they do add when they melt is this really amazing texture. Actually, in my experience, it's not a million miles away from mozzarella. I used to work with a Québécois and while he said the only real poutine was to be had in Québec, he told me that the stuff at Burger King was a pretty good version for the rest of the country. :)
P.S. Oh, and by the way, in Canada, KFC has always sold fries, not mashed potatoes, and always with a big tub of gravy. Seriously, try it. Spuds are spuds; they always go great with gravy!
A&W isn't terrible as well, biggest thing you rarely get outside of Québec is the texture of the cheese.. rarely get a squeaky cheese curd.. or heaven forbid, mozzarella.
Re: milk bags being useful because they're easy to store and keep the milk fresh-- the bag of bags can be stored flat, which is fantastic for most refrigerators. It can also be stored in other configurations if your fridge is packed.
The reason it keeps the milk fresher is that you're only opening one liter at a time instead of all 4L every time. If you're buying milk in bags you're going through it fast enough that the tiny hole you cut to pour through doesn't sour it fast enough to notice. It takes a week before I start noticing a difference in taste, and I'm rather sensitive to it.
Plus you can store it in the freezer!
make sure to shake that bag before you open it :)
@@sarahwbsBut why are you freezing milk?
Here in Australia our milk comes in 1 litre cardboard tetra packs, they store upright in the door of the fridge. We can also buy milk in 2 litre plastic bottles, which also fit into the door of the fridge. I have never seen a 4 litre container of milk.
@@janetpendlebury6808 our wine comes in bags though.
Curious why Canada hasn't added the Aussie wine taps to larger milk bags, milk would still keep as long if they were used wouldn't it? I mean there's not really a need, I don't see an issue with milk in a bag, but it would be a little annoying having to find a container to put the milk into when you open the bag
Cheese curdle may sound disgusting but I assure you it is the superior way of snacking on cheese. I am from Quebec and my region is known for his incredible cheese (even the late Queen of the U.K. specifically loved cheese from my region) and the cheese curdle we have is known as being so legendary that when one of my friend went to see some of our friends who moved into western Canada he and his local friends made him bring them about 300$ of cheese
Could you let your friend know that we do have some decent cheesemakers out here? Closest to me at least is one called The Cheese Factory. It's over on Whyte ave. in Edmonton. They make all sorts of cheese like regular as well as smoked beer cheese and cheese curds. If he's in Alberta it's likely he may have tried it already.
@@LarsBlitzer he indeed was in Alberta but that was 10 years ago, he came back since. That’s interesting tho, my wife want to go visit the West so I’ll keep that in mind. If you come to Quebec someday try some Boivin or Perron cheese. It’s a delicacy! Perron has better high end cheese, but if you can come accross some fresh Boivin cheddar go for it instead!
St. Albert is the best! Sorry it just is.
Cheese curd must be at room temperature not in the @&@##^fridge
Saguenay?
The milkman was a thing all over the world. In the US and Mexico the story of the milkman bringing milk to your home while you were at work, than proceeding to sleep with your wife was not only true, but comical.
Cant wait to see Simon make fun of my people
Incels?
Canadians are the best
We are weird for sure.
Right?! He barely remembers we exist most of the time.
@@TheCroneit's like I've always said. Canadians don't mind being the butt of a joke. They're just happy to be included!😂
4:20 - Chapter 1 - Strategic reserves
8:45 - Chapter 2 - Bagged milk
13:15 - Chapter 3 - An island getaway
16:30 - Chapter 4 - Sorry
20:35 - Chapter 5 - Poutine
he forgot about putting "eh" at the end of sentences. It makes everything we say sound like a question eh. Because it makes sound inquisitive and therefore smarter eh.
Editor notes are on point! as a Canadian i was screaming with them half the time.
I've only ever met a couple of Canadians. So they were nice people until hockey comes up.
Hockey and peacekeeping are the two things we're good at.
Hello from Canada. Best time to visit Ontario is early to mid October. The leaves are gorgeous! Look me up. We'll go to Tim Hortons.
The tragedy of Canada:
They could have had British culture, American technology, and French cuisine.
Instead, they ended up with British cuisine, American culture, and French technology.
The joke as I heard it is that Canada could have had American know-how, British politics, and French culture, but wound up with British know-how, French politics, and American culture.
I'm from the US, specifically Minnesota aka basically Canada. Last year we went on a Maple syrup tour & each got a tiny bottle of the golden syrup. So, I started putting it in my coffee... I went on to develop a 7oz a wk addiction to Maple syrup on top of the caffeine 😅 This fall, I found poutine from a "fair food" truck at a local apple orchard. It was okay, but idk how authentic it was🤷🏼♀️ Florida vaca, Fort Myers Beach, almost everyone we talked to was also from Minnesota 😂
I remember pouring hot maple syrup on the snow and then rolling it up onto a Popsicle stick ❤🇨🇦
I laughed out loud when Simon said “bagged milk” because I know this all too well. My husband grew up in Ontario and still has Canadian relatives. He told me about bagged milk and I only sort of half believed him until we went to visit them, and sure enough, his aunt and uncle had a pitcher in the fridge with a bag of milk in it.
ETA: And my milk man just delivered my milk in glass bottles to my doorstep about half an hour before I started watching this video. So, yes, there are lots of places that still seel milk in glass bottles, you just pay a bottle deposit and get it back wehn you return them. Or, in our case, if we ever end our delivery service with the dairy, we will get our starting bottle deposit back.
As a Manitoban a lot of us find that odd
I grew up in SE Pennsylvania, and we had bagged milk *shrugs*. I don't find it weird at all.
Living in Canada for 37 years I have never seen a bag of milk. It's very localized to eastern Canada.
Only thing about it that seems at all weird to me is that there's not been a tap added to the milk bags using the Aussie cask wine tech. Wouldn't make sense for small quantities, but for larger ones it would, wouldn't it?
I grew up in Sask, and we had bagged milk for quite a while.
It’s actually 4l divided into 3 bags containing 1.33l each, also the form factor for the bags of milk make them easier to shove into the back of the fridge until you need them. The other thing is that you can either create a small or large hole in the bag to control the rate of pour and decay
The container with the bag stays on the door lmao, you shove the other 2 bags to the back of the fridge so you don’t need to go to the store and buy milk again any time soon, and it’s easier to manage than a 4l jug. It’s also costs less money than buying 4 individual 1l cartons of milk. In Nova Scotia we can buy milk in 250ml cartons, 500ml cartons, 1l cartons and plastic jugs, 2l carton or plastic and big 4l plastic jugs or bags.
Bagged milk was sold in Canada for about a decade before we switched over to metric. The size of the bags changed slightly so that three small bags now contain four litres instead of one gallon. Older people still sometimes talk about buying a gallon of milk.
And it was an Imperial gallon, larger than a US gallon, 4.56l.
Yes, bagged milk is very much only a big thing on the eastern side of the country specifically Ontario. On the west coast we use 4 litre plastic jugs or 1-2 litre cartons or plastic jugs like the rest of the world. In Alberta we are charged 25 cents when a 4 litre jug is purchased and is refunded when taken back to the bottle depot. For the most part we don’t recycle plastic bags so most milk bags end up in the landfill.
Storing it in the door prevents it from getting to optimal temperature
As a Canadian i have been WAITING for this episode!!!
I miss bagged milk… that brings back so many memories. As I am a walking disaster, I was never allowed to touch the bagged milk after i cut the corner once BEFORE putting it into the container and it just rocketed everywhere and our kitchen smelled like milk for WEEKS 😂
lol
Bob* musk . . Perfect canadian name off the cuff, great job
USA is Canadas “Main Floor”
Canadian Veteran
The "formal complaint" about the chef-created poutine was really funny. And accurate! The ONLY bastardization of beloved poutine that I'm willing to endure, is putting stuffing on top. Half-Newfie style! If the stuffing is delicious and home-made, it's actually really good.
That sounds great it ain't right but it ain't going to mess anything up
Every bit of cuisine that makes it to the U.S. is free real estate. We will top it any way we please. We just haven't gotten around to it yet.
If you don't believe me, ask Italy about pizza, Germany about frankfurters, and Mexico about tacos.
We are the culinary equivalent to the Borg: Your food will be assimilated, and its distinctiveness shall be added to our own. Resistance is futile.
@@khironkinney1667 As a fellow poutine-purist I agree, I just tried it once and yum lol. Mind you, there's always a way to include good stuffing in anything. ;)
@@derekstein6193 No doubt Americans would do something like using "American cheese" or Cheeze Whiz on top lol. Or form it into a ball, roll it in sugar, coat it in some sort of crust, and deep fry it!
Also like the Borg, Americans will also never acknowledge where it came from originally, or its cultural significance.
I agree on overpriced designer poutine, but after a night at the bar poutine with bacon passes just fine by my Canadian standards!
I’m Canadian and we really don’t compare ourselves to the US. We are just grateful to not be American😂
Right? I feel like Kevin’s Canadian friend was being polite and concealing the general air of disdain Canada has towards America. 😂
I just visited st john and halifax a few months ago. Was a very nice trip didnt meet one unfriendly person
I think you misunderstood. I was saying how Americans perceive Canadians, not that you all actually want to be us.