Dawgluver
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One thing Canada is great for is as a source of excellent Discusscooking.com members.
+1!!
One thing Canada is great for is as a source of excellent Discusscooking.com members.
The comparison between American and Canadian chocolate is interesting. The British chocolate brand Cadburys was recently "acquired" by Kraft and the taste and texture of the chocolate has really gone down the drain (and Cadbury's was never a high end chocolate anyway).10 things Canada does better than anywhere else - CNN.com
attention, all our dc canucks: what do you like, dislike on this list? any additiions, subtractions, comments from our canadian ranks?
cool, right? i heartily agree with #5! i don't know where it comes from, but in this category you canadians totally rock!..
One thing Canada is great for is as a source of excellent Discusscooking.com members.
You missed some important ones.
Beer
Poutine
Peacekeeping
Hockey
Medical R&D
Beer
Its an interesting list. Interesting to ME because it shows what Non Canadians think we are good at. Oh, and I agree with most of them except for road food. Its OK, but not exceptional.
Sorry, you can't have hockey. You have to share custody with the U.S. I don't know about the beer. I have a good number of friends that are local/micro-brew enthusiests and would probably argue that one but since I'm making you share hockey, and don't really care about the beer, you guys can have that one.
Poutine is gross so you can definitely have that one (although the best fries I've ever had were in Amsterdam).
I think we in the US hold our flag in more reverence.
I think we in the US hold our flag in more reverence. We do have laws regarding the way it may be displayed. Almost every law officer in the country has a patch of the American flag on their sleeve. As well as our military. Of the ten houses on this street where I live, six of the ten homes are flying the American flag. And on and on!
addie, i must admit that i don't have the first idea what you mean by this post, or what earthly vision prompted you to write it. but now that someone else felt offended enough to respond to it, i will simply add my voice to say that however innocuous your remarks about our national flags were intended, they came across as prejudicial and mean-spirited. you are neither of these things, addie. we know you better than that, so....
As the list says, Canadians have pride in their flag. We have an almost religious reverence for ours. No offense intended. If you want to get arrested, try burning one on the National Capitol steps in Washington, DC. Just about the whole nation will turn on you.
Your chocolate: I remember, most fondly, eating Jersey Milk candy bars on family vacations driving from Ohio to a rented Ontario fishing cabin -- a mere 50 or so years ago.
Canadian fresh-water fishing is tops.
I'm glad you said that about poutine. Chips and cheese possibly, chips and gravy at a pinch but chips and cheese and gravy! Bleuch!Sorry, you can't have hockey. You have to share custody with the U.S. I don't know about the beer. I have a good number of friends that are local/micro-brew enthusiests and would probably argue that one but since I'm making you share hockey, and don't really care about the beer, you guys can have that one.
Poutine is gross so you can definitely have that one (although the best fries I've ever had were in Amsterdam).
I'm glad you said that about poutine. Chips and cheese possibly, chips and gravy at a pinch but chips and cheese and gravy! Bleuch!
@PAG - can we claim basketball since we invented that?
Aren't you thinking of lacrosse?If memory serves, wasn't basketball initially based on a game played by various North American tribes? Hockey might have the same ancestry. I should see if I can find the history of those sports.
Anyways, I'm not really a basketball fan so sure, as long as you are willing to share custody of hockey (which really is a good idea since I don't think either country could keep it from being stolen by the Russians without help).