crap, i found this place

[neptunian]

wow, lots of canadians in here!  

[Lise]

W-what? Who? Canadia? W-what??? EH? *eyes shifting left and right*

  Canadians, nope, we're no Canadians here but we're all lunatic here. *burn burn burn the tadpole*

[Michel]

   

[neptunian]

I am actually half and half, i moved back to canada from Portland several years ago.  Not much different, except the "eh" and poutine, and vinegar for fries.

[Gopher]

Can you really eat fries some other way?

[Lise]

How dare you speak vulgarism! Don't you know it's a bad word when it comes to POUTINE?!?!!? Read thread number ******* on the Lunch Thread. Hmph!

[purelife]

What's wrong with being a Canadien, eh?

[Russ]

canadien? I thought it was spelled canadian? hmm.. I think I missed that day in skool.

  Welcome!

[purelife]

actually, it's Canadienne. with some sort of accent slanting somewhere on teh e.  hee hee..

[Michel]

     

[Orik]

 Lise wrote:
[div style="font-style: italic;"]W-what? Who? Canadia? W-what??? EH? *eyes shifting left and right*[/div] [div style="font-style: italic;"] [/div] Canadians, nope, we're no Canadians here but we're all lunatic here. *burn burn burn the tadpole*

Don't you dare harm any tadpoles... otherwise I shall be forced to hunt you down and feed you to the fishes...


 

[Orik]

 Gopher wrote:
Can you really eat fries some other way?

yes you can. The best way is with hot and spicy chilli on top of them with a few dashes of tobascoe and horseradish juice... to hell with the poutine... give me chilli...


 

[P.C.]

Not much different, except the "eh" and poutine, and vinegar for fries.

  I always find this method of identifying Canadians amusing.  Eh....is an Eastern Canada thing.....as is poutine......although the poutine is trying desperately to make it out west.  I have never said 'eh'....nor does anyone I know.  On the rare occasion I hear it.....it's usually from someone from back east.

  I didn't know that they didn't have vinegar on fries in the States.  I remember the first time I asked for some vinegar for my fries, the gal was stumped.  She came back to the table 3 times to ask us what kind of vinegar we wanted, and then finally brought us a big soup bowl of it. rofl

[Sportsdude]

 P.C. wrote:
[em]Not much different, except the "eh" and poutine, and vinegar for fries.[/em]
 
I always find this method of identifying Canadians amusing.  Eh....is an Eastern Canada thing.....as is poutine......although the poutine is trying desperately to make it out west.  I have never said 'eh'....nor does anyone I know.  On the rare occasion I hear it.....it's usually from someone from back east.
 
I didn't know that they didn't have vinegar on fries in the States.  I remember the first time I asked for some vinegar for my fries, the gal was stumped.  She came back to the table 3 times to ask us what kind of vinegar we wanted, and then finally brought us a big soup bowl of it. rofl

Eh? is an atlantic canada phrase. But everyone around here my age uses it plus the cabbies and workers. So, I'm going to say its a class phrase. I haven't run into any professionals use the phrase. Just college kids and blue collar workers.
 

[Sportsdude]

we talked about this in anthro class. This happens a lot in countries, one part of the country dominates it culturally wise and it expands. We also talked about this in Geography. lol

Examples in the states would be the Philly cheese steak, doughnut (east coast), brat(mid west), deep dish(east) pizza and thin crust pizza(midwest) and buffalo wings(east) and coffee houses (west coast).
Then nachos (southwest), angus steaks(plains) and so on.

Cultures aren't just limited anymore to a certain area. Hence the popularity of Eh? poutine, etc. across Canada.