Canada in Pop Culture

[MrsOldManBalls]

From the Blind Items thread:

(maybe Canadians are too busy thinking about Cheese Wiz and Molsen to be too debaucherous)

Cheeze Wiz comes from Canada? Cool!

[foxfair]

I dunno MrsOldManBalls - I read that and kinda went huh? as well. Did we invent cheez whiz? I hate that crap, and it's not like I am a snack food purist.

[underjoyed]

Why are they pimping the 2010 Olympics already? Do the athletes even care yet?

No one in Vancouver seems to. Or, rather, they care very little about the actual sporting events and the prestige of hosting them (ha!), but seem to be greatly excited by the money potential of leaving Vancouver for the duration of the Olympics and renting their accomodation out for as high a price as can be got.

(maybe Canadians are too busy thinking about Cheese Wiz and Molsen to be too debaucherous)

Or, alternatively, things that are often widely considered "debaucherous" south of the border (though not by all those living there), seem to get Canadians alot less worked up (gay marriage, religion in general, marijuana, etc.). Actually, very little seems to get Canadians worked up. Except Quebec. That one word can cause an entire nation of relatively mild-mannered people to begin foaming at the mouth. Well, that and hockey. Canadians in general don't seem to get angry; as Foxfair noted in an earlier post, we choose to get deeply, deeply offended instead.

That Cheez Whiz quote seems to be another example of someone thinking they've managed to get off a pithy little zinger based on some totally random association, which doesn't work. I mean, Cheez Whiz? Why? Are Canadians strongly associated with Cheez Whiz in the US? Go with "back bacon" or "Tim Horton's doughnuts", and you'll at least be flirting with some established pop-culture connection.

[MrsOldManBalls]

I hate that crap, and it's not like I am a snack food purist.

I used to love the stuff. Then I got old enough to read labels.


It's so true about Quebec.

[batmom]

Perhaps the poster just got confused. We're not so much about Cheese Whiz but I have heard that we consume the most Kraft Dinner per capita.

And, apprently, we don't much care about the Olympics themselves, but we have much to say about the new Olympic logo, Illanaaq.

[MrsOldManBalls]

They should have used a Tim Horton's coffee cup! That's something that says Canadian.

[topher]

Tim Horton's

I have seen the signs plastered all over the NHL hockey rinks and never been in one. I have one question; how good are the doughnuts?

[bbug]

The donuts are okay-- better than Dunkin Donuts, I would say, but not earth-shatteringly wonderful or anything. They have scary jelly-filled muffins, too, and okay sandwiches. The coffee is incredibly, incredibly addicting...a large double-double is heaven. I almost never go anywhere else for coffee anymore, even though Montreal is littered with higher-end chains and independent places that I should really try.

[sasharae]

They should have used a Tim Horton's coffee cup! That's something that says Canadian.

In Vancouver, unfortunately, it would have to be a Starbucks cup. Aside from the tiny outlets in Esso stations, the only Tim Horton's I've ever seen in Vancouver is the one on West Broadway. I'm sure there are others, but this is definitely Starbucks country. Even if it's not called Starbucks, they probably own it. Moving here from Ontario was a culture shock, to be sure.

[Benni]

I love my Tim Horton's. I am sorry for you SashaRae. I love their IceCaps. Aaaand Tim's is half the price of Starbucks.

I am curious. In other places in Canada do they do that stupid thing that is PAY IT FORWARD when you are in the coffee drive-through. Which is when the person in front of you pays for your coffee. Then you of course HAVE to pay for the person that is behind you coffees. I say horrible because the favourite thing for radio show's to do is to hide and watch for the first person not to pay and swoop down and harrass them. Whenever someone pays for me when I drive through for like 1 small coffee there is usually a rig truck full of 12 crew men ordering 2 large coffees each and a dozen doughnuts each for breakfast. But of course I PAY IT FORWARD.

DAMN THE VERY FIRST PAY IT FORWARD PERSON.