Just 1 suggestion :) I heard many people said the Quebecs are not really "friendly", like they have their own pride, so they're like edgy and ... u know :) So if you want to find nice people, i would suggest not coming there :) Anyway it's just my own thinking and ye, not all people are nice so :D
Im from Quebec and not all people are friendly BUT a lot of them are friendly. If you want friendly Quebecois, come to Quebec City. Maybe one of the friendliest places on Quebec. PS Its mostly near Montreal that some Re less friendly. But there is mostly more friendly peeps in the cities near Montreal But for english tourists, Quebec is not bilingual. :(
So do I, he called pretty much everything in this video something I have NEVER heard before and I have lived in Canada my whole life and have never left even on vacation or something like that.
I'm a college student (getting my Bachelor's in English) and I must say your video helped me a lot with one of my projects (about World Englishes)! Thanks a bunch! As to some of the criticism you've received from other fellow Canadians as to how you pronounce certain words, I think that if others are also from Canada and are not happy with it, they should record one themselves instead of trying to bring you down. Then people like me could see different perspectives! Congrats and thanks again!
And I don't know if it's just Canadians but almost in every household people never wear shoes inside. It's considered rude if u don't take your shoes off before entering someone's home
Thanks for posting this video. I love Canada. I have toured all through British Columbia and the Yukon Territory. My best friend and I are planning a trip to Toronto and Montreal next summer. I can't wait. this American will be glad to spend my money in a friendly nation. :-)
From a Saskatchewanian: I noticed your "about"s and "out"'s and "houses" being different. And Buggy? Hydro was also new to me in moving here. From what I understand, most of SK's electricity is from coal-powered technologies :( We say napkins, not serviettes. We don't have milk bags. That was also new. We don't say supply teacher, we say "sub." And I noticed "eh" a lot once I crossed the Manitoba-Ontario border. I was stopped somewhere to have breakfast and I noticed it quite a bit actually. Some Saskatchewanian word: Bunnyhug (of course), Gitch, Gibled, Dainties, Grid Roads.
I'm from Saskatchewan too. I think we say about and house different here because Saskatchewan was settled by a lot of Germans, Scandinavians, and Ukrainians. We on the prairies tend to speak more harshly than they do in BC or out east. And hydro is such a weird word it seems to imply that all power comes from hydroelectricity. I've never heard of supply teacher. But I do think we say eh out here just not overly done.
oilersridersbluejays That's what I was thinking. I've learned German, and I notice that our "ou"s sounds like the German "au." Whereas the Ontarian (and Maritime) "ou" sounds like a Dutch pronunciation. And some people back home probably say "eh," but I feel like there are those who don't at all. Personally, I don't feel like I do. But over here, it's so common. Perhaps the proximity to québec.
That's funny you mention that, as the town where I live many older people (including my grandparents) spoke German very often, and I picked it up from there. A few towns away there are a lot of Ukrainians, and I've noticed people from that area talk slightly different, and sometimes have strange sentences.
Some stuff thats different on the west coast: 1. we say "hey" not "eh" at the end of a statement to turn it into a question or add an implied question OR ask for agreement with the statement. (ie. "I'll give ya a shout, eh/hey?" mean "I will call you later. Is that okay?", "You went to the store, eh/hey?" means "Did you go to the store?" and finally "This fookin party, eh/hey?" means "What do you think of this party? Are you enjoying it?") 2. we do not get our milk in bags, we get it in jugs or cartons. 3. we do not say 2-4 but rather the number followed by "pack" (ie. 6-pack, 12-pack, 24-pack). We do however say Mickey for a 13oz bottle, 2-6 for a 26oz. bottle, and 40 for a 40oz bottle of liquor. 4. a "keener" has a slightly different meaning on the west coast. It just means someone who tries very hard in school (aka a "try-hard"). Keeners are usually also teacher's-pets but it is not required. It still has a negative connotation though. 5. We say "kays" not "klicks" 6. To clarify for americans, toques are beanies. 7. Vinegar on fries is very strange. We use exclusively ketchup, although I have also noticed a lot of people mixing black pepper into it but I dont know if that's super common. 8. Shopping cart. 9. Clicker or remote, but I say Unit Blaster because my parents are from Saskatchewan. 10. Finally, napkins. I'm sure there's more differences but those or the main ones. Our accent is also more similar to California, Oregon, and Washington than the east of Canada. Cheers.
To be honest, I live in Canada, but every province/territory is different. In Alberta, we say gutters (for the rain to run off our roofs), and a buggy? I didn't understand the question, it sounded more like a shopping cart. Also, we use a 'remote control' or a 'tv control', not flicker. A sale on the front lawn would be a 'yard sale' and in your garage, is a 'garage sale'. We also say Rollie Pollie, we say both 'elastics' AND 'rubberbands'. I've never heard of 'Hydro' but we in Alberta say 'electricity' as well. We also say napkins, sweatpants/trackpants, runners/sneakers/gym shoes, bathroom/washroom/restroom, it's all the same over here. Public schools and elementary schools in Alberta are very different. Elementary is grades K-6, and public schools are for everyone who follow the modified /traditional calendars/schedules, private schools are not open to the public. We also use 'substitute teacher' or 'the sub'. Also, curfuffle? I've never heard of that! XD We just say commotion over here. And poutine is gross! Lol I visited Ontario once, and was surprised by the bagged milk! I thought it was very inconvenient, compared to what we use, a plastic jug. I'm not ranting and don't mean to take up the comments section, but there are a lot of differences between the east and the west of Canada. My Canadian accent is slightly different from yours, of course I know, because I can hear your accent. Love the video, it's nice to learn about different provinces. :) Keep posting more! :D
As a Yank I like the sound of 'eh?' I agree that it is better sounding than 'huh?' or 'what's that?' (as we too often use here in the States). I had a Canadian girlfriend (Calgary) who used it sometimes as well as 'sorry' and I really liked that about her. I lived and worked in England for a while and the Brits use 'sorry' all the time too. When they use it they really don't mean it. Only if they say 'I am sorry' does it mean that they are truly sorry about something they did. I live in Seattle and have spent considerable time in Vancouver. Great surfing at Tolfino on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Haven't gone there yet but hear it is some of the best surfing on the northern west coast. We have Canadian surfers surfing all the time along the Washington State coast. Good people.
A few things wrong here. I'm a Canadian and I say washroom, or bathroom. Americans tend to say restroom. I don't wear track pants I wear sweatpants or sweats. And most importantly, I go to a public elementary school. Many of my friends go to a catholic elementary school. Here in Canada we do have elementary school, which are schools that range from kindergarten to grade 8. If it's public that means it demonstrates no religion, only being loyal to the country of Canada. If it's catholic, that means students are loyal to Canada and to catholicity. That's my rant.
Chloe Peters I'm from Canada too, but I live in a small town. We have kindergarten to grade 3, grade 4 to 6 and 7 to 12. We also have a Catholic school (kindergarten to 10). I got the the public ones.
i've never gotten the whole track pants/ sweat pants thing??? they're different things and i've never once heard a canadian where i live say 'can i have a serviette'
when i speak french i say serviette but even sometimes when i speak french i'll say napkin. My parents used to say napkin even tho they didnt speak english. sometimes i'll say paper towel, but normally when i say paper towel i mean like the brand Bounty.. to wipe stuff on objets, not myself.
In Winnipeg Manitoba we say: Shopping cart Runners Napkin Remote (tv remote) Poutine is usually pronounced "poo-teen" (but some also pronounce it as "poo-tin") - Devil's night is also called Gate night - Native reserves are called "rez" or "the rez", whereas uni/college living spaces are just called a residence - We only say track pants IF they're actually gym-style track pants, all other styles are just called sweat pants - That "drive-through" beer/other alcohol store (more like "drive-up") is called a BEER VENDOR - Toque isn't what you're wearing, a toque is the one that's just round & fitted on your head. I think what you're wearing we just call a winter hat or ear hat. Some of the words you mentioned we don't use, like "keener"...
Alberta is the exact same way :) We also say "The States", because really, they're not "AMERICA". We're North American and there is still South America too. It almost sounds self-centred to call one's self 'all of America'. Some slang way of saying tissue in my city (not sure about other places), is Kleenix. Kleenix is actually a brand of tissues. The drying-tissues for your hands that you throw away in washrooms, are called paper-towels. Not sure if it's the same everywhere though. Just sharing a few thoughts :)
A couple more: We have a grad, not a prom - but that is changing quickly. University students live in residences (Rez) not dorms. First Nations communities are on reserves - not reservations. Soldiers, sailors and airmen are in the Canadian Armed Forces - or just the Forces. We've adopted a lot of American terms though, so they are also in "the military". We have military bases and stations - not camps or forts.
yeah thats a true and legit stereotype. we do say sorry a LOT, we burp we say sorry, we bump in someone we say sorry, Someone bumps in us we still say sorry,we hit into an innanimate object, we say sorry. I guess we are simply a polite nation in Canada haha
I have. It's just, regional. Yeah. Because it would depend on what city/state you live in. (I'm a Michigander.) I like my fries plain and with little salt.
French/Belgian influence = mayo with fries. British influence = vinegar with fries. American influence = ketchup with fries. Thus, in Quebec we use all three... but not all at the same time, of course!
this is all pretty regional for Canada , out west we call them shopping carts, bathrobe, we call it power, we call them sweats, milk in a bag is an eastern thing (we get gallon jugs of milk here), we call them soft drinks.
Just have to say this. Ontario is not all of Canada. I'm from New Brunswick; my wife is from North Dakota. SHE says "runners", I say either "sneakers" or "running shoes". "Chesterfield?" Not likely; it's a couch. "Buggy"? WHO says that? Nobody I ever met, and my mother was from Ontario. It's a shopping cart. "Flicker"? It's a "remote" or a "clicker", for the technologically illiterate. And it IS "zed". How can you have never heard of "candy bar"? Don't you watch American television or movies? Now, I will admit to a very regional phrase for it: "nut bar". But that's probably only here in southern New Brunswick. Nobody I ever knew says "eh". It's foreign here in Atlantic Canada. It's a western-Canadian thing. And that is NOT A TUQUE! Are you loopy? Shit. I have to stop. There are too many mistakes in your video. Poutine does not contain CHEESE! It has cheese CURDS.
OK. Just asking. I don't know who actually posted the "Canadian Accents..." thing, but I meant no disrespect. Although I have been told that some of my observations are a bit "sharp". I'm sort of like Sheldon Cooper in that regard P). Take care.
eh IS an maritime thing...its mostly from Newfoundland but we say it here in Nova Scotia all the time. it is defiantly not a western Canadian thing to do!! but your right that is not a toque .. a toque is what Americans would call a beanie. and its cheese curds in a poutine and they are delicious!!
The second way he pronounced it was French, and the second one is actually right. Poutine is a French word, I believe (from what my mother told me) If I'm wrong, I apologize :)
MeggyB11 Of course Poutine is a french word haha The proper pronunciation is "poo-tin", but some English speakers pronounce it "poo-tain" which means whore in French
Hey i'm Canadian as well and I live in Montreal currently, i'm just saying in Quebec "poo-tin" is the correct pronunciation haha If you go to Quebec and ask for a putain you won't get fries.
Who the hell calls it a buggy, it's a shopping cart. Called a remote, clicker, or sometime even a converter. never a flicker. Garage sale, yes, but also sometimes yard sale. I don't even know what you are saying for this one, but we call them gutters. lol, never heard bath robes (or just robes) called a "house coat" We use napkins... We call it both bathroom and washroom. none of that slang was right, never use any of it. That's not a toque. this is the most annoying one: AGAIN WITH THE MILK BAGS! I have lived in Canada my entire life and I have never seen a bag of milk. Not in stores, not in people's homes, I have never seen them. It has to be an eastern/ontario thing. That video was not quick. Those are all the things wrong with this video. I am from BC, Canada, born, raised, and still living here.
I completely agree, I live in Vancouver and we don't get our milk in bags. I went to Quebec once and they had bags of milk and it was really weird. Btw a toque is what people would call a beanie...
In BC, we called the new highway in Vancouver to the Fraser Valley the "freeway" in the 1960s when it was new to distinguish it from the old Lougheed highway that ran parallel to it.
Not so much the accent, but what your saying. I myself am southern Canadian (just about as southern Canadian as it gets) and I've never myself used or heard any of your slang terms. Although, I guess I forgot how big southern Canada really is. Maybe I was a little quick to comment. I'm sure that where you live in Canada uses the words you listed. If you ever decide you make another video like this for some reason, maybe make it a little more specific.
Im New Brunswick Canadian, this video seems mostly correct to me, but being such a massive country there's obviously going to be lots of differences with different people growing up with different immigrated families and in different cities and town. The other Canadians who live further west say we've got the stereotypical accent more than they do, and though it seems none of us can hear the difference, we do hear other Candians who come from even further east and their accents are crazy stereotypical so I tend to believe it works this way for most of us.
UMMMMMMMMMM ?????? I AM CANADIAN AND I CALL A CART A CART NOT A BUGGIE AND I SAY HELLO AND I SAY Z I CALL A COUCH A COUCH i call it a bathrobe we dont care what we call bathrooms THIS IS A PARTIAL STEREO TYPE D: PLUS I DO NOT SAY EH [well maybe ONCE IN A AWHILE] but Americans say huh ALOT plus here in Alberta we get milk jugs [most of the heavily accented people live in the Ontario area] and i do say sorry alot
Woah calm down! Even if you are both Canadians (and me too), accents change from place to place and province to province, it's the same with America. Even in Québec where I live the French accents can change a lot between say Montréal and Québec city. It's just how he learnt things where he's from and how you learnt it where you are from.
ikr, i guess it depends where you got it, some restaurants have the gravy way too salty which makes it bad, but normally it's f'n delicious. and you cant either just judge by looking at it, you have to try it to know how it tastes lol
Yeah I was talking to an American yesterday from California I was playing online video game. and my parents we’re going out to McDonald’s and asked me what I wanted so I said a poutine and the American goes wtf is that so I say it’s french fries gravy and cheese curds. And he goes “that’s fucking disgusting what the hell how can you eat that” I said what part about is disgusting? He said french fries and gravy wtf. I found that pretty weird whenever I’m in Costco I order their french fries and get some gravy to dip it into maybe I’m weird but I do that
Just out of curiosity, how far north in Ontario do you live? Cause down in the GTA we call it them shopping carts, or just carts. And I've never heard of a drive-thru liquor store, damn, lol. but the walk-in variety is called the LCBO.
They are called cement bugs in MB, we also have drive thrus where you can buy beer usually or coolers. They dont really sell hard alcohol. It's like last call but you can drive with it if it's not open. The one I remember going to was called The SPike,
who the fuck says curfuffle .. I don't know ANYBODY or met ANYBODY In Canada who ever said that. ive been to every single province. and stayed for more then 2 weeks at a time.
Why are so many comments from other Canadians sooo negative, saying THAT'S WRONG I DON'T SAY THAT or whatever... Guys, don't know if maybe you forgot, but Canada is HUGE and believe it or not, we're not all the same! What's true for him isn't necessarily true for you. Get over it and appreciate our national diversity!
Buggy? Flicker? As a Canadian, from Alberta, I have never heard of those words. I did notice you pronounce "lawn" as "laan." Here in Alberta, the people in the small towns say eh a LOT :). I say soda. But I say bill. Lol. This is kind of cool.
I've heard "buggy" before. We call them carts (shopping carts) here I think. Never really heard "flicker". (Short for dooma-flicker?). And yes, the Easterners especially pronounce "about" as "aboot". ("Ou" in general is quite "oo"). Do you really say "soda"? Soda to me is definitely "club soda" - a non-flavoured/sweetened carbonated water. The kind you use to water down things like Scotch, or spray from a clown's bottle. Pop is flavoured/sweetened carbonated drinks. The rest is pretty much right on. Fascinating to me given how close we are to the US. If you do this again with the UK, it would be even weirder I'm sure!
There is regional differences in Canada. I'm from Saskatchewan and never heard of Devil's Night, a buggy, a flicker, or hydro. Here they are called October 30th, a shopping cart, a remote control, and power company/power bill. Interesting to know!
ahh me and my bf are planning to move to ontaria within the next 3 years... Were originally welsh and its nice to know that a lot of the terminology is the same!
I have to say, you are as Ontarian as you can get. :) I'm from bc and in bc we use a lot of American phrases and meanings. Milk bags are used in Ontario Quebec and some other province out east. We use cartons.. :D a lot of phrases are also said differently which was funny to see. Great work! :)
Our accents are similar. But I'm from Michigan, and that's close to Canada. I call icing frosting. And most Americans use ketchup on fries. Potato bug? Rolly polly.
Canadian from Ontario here and this guy is pretty accurate from my experience. Only thing I disagreed with is that we call it yard sales, not garage sales. Garage sales are for rainy days and also it's usually on a Saturday but also on Sundays. Also the milk in bags is not Canada wide either. I also say Zee not Zed but that is probably a habbit picked up from being close to the American border and watching their tv.
My husband was born and raised in B.C....Campbell River, Vancouver Island and Vancouver. He did have a few words that made him disclose his heritage. LOL Aboot, runners, pop, buggy, clicker, you guys, washroom, zed, hydro. One last one that came up was decal. He pronounced it as deck-cul. We pronounce it Dee-cal. He didn't care for poutine either. Mayo on fries? Yuuuuccck! Vinegar? YES! Milk in a bag? What kinda bag? Never heard of that. Oh yeah, and duct tape. He called it gaff tape. I'm a Floridian and I now say EH all the time. And the word Ya in place of the word Yes is used in B.C. a lot too. Liked the vid. Eh
Milk in a bag.. Mostly in Ontario. It's a plastic bag filled with milk that you put in a milk container so it doesn't spill. You cut one of the top corners of the bag to pour milk. Search up "Milk bag container" on google images and you should get a good example of what it looks like. Also searching "How to use a milk bag" on youtube could also give you a good example of how it looks like and how it works. Hope this helped you :)
Milk in a bag: the milk comes in a 1.5 litre bag, and you put it in a little milk bag holder and you snip the corner off so you can pour it into your glass, or on your cereal.
XD we had a drive thru liquor store here in Sydney, NS, but the store closed and moved over next to what is now for the last few years my uncle's grocery store(was a supervalue originally) and is connected to it as well. our liquor store was also a walk in on obviously, but if you wanted a 2-4, 8 pack, quart, 40 ounce, etc.. and were going on vacation/travelling or in a hurry it was convenient to use the drive thru. sadly it's now a midas auto shop... the drive thru window is still there, but not used. also i think it was the last drive thru liquor store in atlantic canada until it relocated to connect to the grocery store.
In Alberta, we have jugs for our milk. I'm pretty cure bags are only in the eastern part, the western, and probably eastern too, have jugs and cartons. I haven't seen a bag of milk any time I've gone shopping, except in Ontario when i'm visiting an uncle
i have a friend from Lower Sackville and i definitely noticed something when she would say "About" but really its like any word with ou that i hear the difference between American accent and a canadian accent.
Omg!! We have a drive thru liquor store across the bridge in Québec. You pull up to the window and order your case of beer. You pop your trunk and they bring it out to your car.
It's interesting how different even different provinces are from each other. I was quite taken aback by some of the terms. Like here in Manitoba we say Gate Night, not Devil's night and a "buggie" is a shopping cart. There were many more. Plus your accent seems quite different though that doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Canada is big "eh?"
I'm sorry, but I'm from Montreal, Canada, and we use the etymology "aluminium". Most likely because we have both French and English as official languages and speak both. Aluminium is used in French etymology so we use it in English as well. Other than that we do say shopping cart and trolley depending on the sub cities in Montreal.
***** You could pass off as a southern person lol that's one of the best souther accents I've heard although I am from Connecticut so maybe that's why. And nice video dude.
I'm from Victoria and we say cart or buggy, couch or chesterfield, we do not get milk in a bag but in a one or two litre cartan or a 4 litre jug. We do say things like if it is barley raining "it is spitting out" and in Victoria if some one is out they are "out and about" and if we are north of Victoria on the Island we are "up Island"
Eh comes from the shortened version of the word for "Yes" back during the fur trade. I don't remember what the language is called, I think it might be Secwepemc?
That would be a type of toque you are wearing. The knitted or crocheted kind are also toques. I used to get milk in a bad when I was younger but I haven't seen it in a long time.
Canadians seem like the nicest people in the world. I would love to visit someday.
Im from America
It's an amazing place and its truly beautiful. Grew up hear and have and never will leave. I prefer the free health care
Aww! Thanks 😄
(I'm Canadian)
yess come aboot our facinating country
Just 1 suggestion :) I heard many people said the Quebecs are not really "friendly", like they have their own pride, so they're like edgy and ... u know :) So if you want to find nice people, i would suggest not coming there :) Anyway it's just my own thinking and ye, not all people are nice so :D
Im from Quebec and not all people are friendly BUT a lot of them are friendly. If you want friendly Quebecois, come to Quebec City. Maybe one of the friendliest places on Quebec.
PS Its mostly near Montreal that some Re less friendly. But there is mostly more friendly peeps in the cities near Montreal
But for english tourists, Quebec is not bilingual. :(
This is the most accurate and thorough Canadian Accent video I have come across so far ! You did and awesome job, so adorable !
a buggy?? Canadian here. I call it a cart....shopping cart.....
So do I, he called pretty much everything in this video something I have NEVER heard before and I have lived in Canada my whole life and have never left even on vacation or something like that.
ya i have never heard buggy either.. im from ontario too
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im From BC and i never heard of a Buggy either its called a shopping cart
I'm Canadian and I say grocery cart xD. I also say sneakers, not runners and a remote not a flicker.
Same here Bro but i just call it Shoes
I'm a college student (getting my Bachelor's in English) and I must say your video helped me a lot with one of my projects (about World Englishes)! Thanks a bunch! As to some of the criticism you've received from other fellow Canadians as to how you pronounce certain words, I think that if others are also from Canada and are not happy with it, they should record one themselves instead of trying to bring you down. Then people like me could see different perspectives! Congrats and thanks again!
And I don't know if it's just Canadians but almost in every household people never wear shoes inside. It's considered rude if u don't take your shoes off before entering someone's home
Well im Canadian and when im at my house i never wear shoes
I am from Nova Scotia living in Ontario and I love this ... when we feel bad for someone we say "What a sin" lol
Flicker?? What is that, im canadian and i call it a remote
Clicker or converter. My wife always says "converter". I always ask what it us supposed to convert... She says "the TV to the channel that I want"
I use clicker.
Thanks for posting this video. I love Canada. I have toured all through British Columbia and the Yukon Territory. My best friend and I are planning a trip to Toronto and Montreal next summer. I can't wait. this American will be glad to spend my money in a friendly nation. :-)
From a Saskatchewanian:
I noticed your "about"s and "out"'s and "houses" being different.
And Buggy?
Hydro was also new to me in moving here. From what I understand, most of SK's electricity is from coal-powered technologies :(
We say napkins, not serviettes.
We don't have milk bags. That was also new.
We don't say supply teacher, we say "sub."
And I noticed "eh" a lot once I crossed the Manitoba-Ontario border. I was stopped somewhere to have breakfast and I noticed it quite a bit actually.
Some Saskatchewanian word: Bunnyhug (of course), Gitch, Gibled, Dainties, Grid Roads.
+Brendan Campbell (DudeBren) Cool! I love seeing the differences between provinces!
I'm from Saskatchewan too. I think we say about and house different here because Saskatchewan was settled by a lot of Germans, Scandinavians, and Ukrainians. We on the prairies tend to speak more harshly than they do in BC or out east. And hydro is such a weird word it seems to imply that all power comes from hydroelectricity. I've never heard of supply teacher. But I do think we say eh out here just not overly done.
oilersridersbluejays That's what I was thinking. I've learned German, and I notice that our "ou"s sounds like the German "au." Whereas the Ontarian (and Maritime) "ou" sounds like a Dutch pronunciation.
And some people back home probably say "eh," but I feel like there are those who don't at all. Personally, I don't feel like I do. But over here, it's so common. Perhaps the proximity to québec.
That's funny you mention that, as the town where I live many older people (including my grandparents) spoke German very often, and I picked it up from there. A few towns away there are a lot of Ukrainians, and I've noticed people from that area talk slightly different, and sometimes have strange sentences.
Even the politics are often different too. We are definitely very conservative minded compared to the rest of Canada, both in voting and in lifestyle.
Some stuff thats different on the west coast:
1. we say "hey" not "eh" at the end of a statement to turn it into a question or add an implied question OR ask for agreement with the statement. (ie. "I'll give ya a shout, eh/hey?" mean "I will call you later. Is that okay?", "You went to the store, eh/hey?" means "Did you go to the store?" and finally "This fookin party, eh/hey?" means "What do you think of this party? Are you enjoying it?")
2. we do not get our milk in bags, we get it in jugs or cartons.
3. we do not say 2-4 but rather the number followed by "pack" (ie. 6-pack, 12-pack, 24-pack). We do however say Mickey for a 13oz bottle, 2-6 for a 26oz. bottle, and 40 for a 40oz bottle of liquor.
4. a "keener" has a slightly different meaning on the west coast. It just means someone who tries very hard in school (aka a "try-hard"). Keeners are usually also teacher's-pets but it is not required. It still has a negative connotation though.
5. We say "kays" not "klicks"
6. To clarify for americans, toques are beanies.
7. Vinegar on fries is very strange. We use exclusively ketchup, although I have also noticed a lot of people mixing black pepper into it but I dont know if that's super common.
8. Shopping cart.
9. Clicker or remote, but I say Unit Blaster because my parents are from Saskatchewan.
10. Finally, napkins.
I'm sure there's more differences but those or the main ones. Our accent is also more similar to California, Oregon, and Washington than the east of Canada.
Cheers.
+Loc Karr thanks for clarifying.
dude I'm Canadian too and I've apologized to walls for bumping into them 😂
love it
To be honest, I live in Canada, but every province/territory is different. In Alberta, we say gutters (for the rain to run off our roofs), and a buggy? I didn't understand the question, it sounded more like a shopping cart. Also, we use a 'remote control' or a 'tv control', not flicker. A sale on the front lawn would be a 'yard sale' and in your garage, is a 'garage sale'. We also say Rollie Pollie, we say both 'elastics' AND 'rubberbands'. I've never heard of 'Hydro' but we in Alberta say 'electricity' as well. We also say napkins, sweatpants/trackpants, runners/sneakers/gym shoes, bathroom/washroom/restroom, it's all the same over here. Public schools and elementary schools in Alberta are very different. Elementary is grades K-6, and public schools are for everyone who follow the modified /traditional calendars/schedules, private schools are not open to the public. We also use 'substitute teacher' or 'the sub'. Also, curfuffle? I've never heard of that! XD We just say commotion over here. And poutine is gross! Lol I visited Ontario once, and was surprised by the bagged milk! I thought it was very inconvenient, compared to what we use, a plastic jug.
I'm not ranting and don't mean to take up the comments section, but there are a lot of differences between the east and the west of Canada. My Canadian accent is slightly different from yours, of course I know, because I can hear your accent. Love the video, it's nice to learn about different provinces. :) Keep posting more! :D
its amazing how different we sound! (British Columbia girl here)
me too! BC FOR THE WIN!
Same here, if you think his accent is different then you should hear someone from the maritimes.
BC for the Win ps im in BC
BC's the best! and we don't have weird bags of milk like ontario!
mgmalherbe maritimes?
i personally think EH is more polite then HUH
perfectly ok, im from nova scotia/newfoundland (the land of funny accents) but im in BC now so yeah XD
100% agree! I do it and I dont even realize....just like saying sorry....the rumors are true....are a polite country.
hayley c
Hahaha I say sorry all the time!
I'm in Ontario Ottawa
As a Yank I like the sound of 'eh?' I agree that it is better sounding than 'huh?' or 'what's that?' (as we too often use here in the States). I had a Canadian girlfriend (Calgary) who used it sometimes as well as 'sorry' and I really liked that about her. I lived and worked in England for a while and the Brits use 'sorry' all the time too. When they use it they really don't mean it. Only if they say 'I am sorry' does it mean that they are truly sorry about something they did. I live in Seattle and have spent considerable time in Vancouver. Great surfing at Tolfino on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Haven't gone there yet but hear it is some of the best surfing on the northern west coast. We have Canadian surfers surfing all the time along the Washington State coast. Good people.
A few things wrong here. I'm a Canadian and I say washroom, or bathroom. Americans tend to say restroom. I don't wear track pants I wear sweatpants or sweats. And most importantly, I go to a public elementary school. Many of my friends go to a catholic elementary school. Here in Canada we do have elementary school, which are schools that range from kindergarten to grade 8. If it's public that means it demonstrates no religion, only being loyal to the country of Canada. If it's catholic, that means students are loyal to Canada and to catholicity. That's my rant.
Chloe Peters I'm from Canada too, but I live in a small town. We have kindergarten to grade 3, grade 4 to 6 and 7 to 12. We also have a Catholic school (kindergarten to 10). I got the the public ones.
Chloe Peters here we have k to 7 then 8 to 12 and in some cities it's k to 6 7 to 9 and then 10 to 12
Nice video Dude ! loved it :) Greetings from Sudan
i've never gotten the whole track pants/ sweat pants thing??? they're different things
and i've never once heard a canadian where i live say 'can i have a serviette'
I'm not a Canadian but the family I lived with said serviette and that's when I learnt the word. Never heard them say napkin or something else 0.0
the term paper towel is popular to
I don't call them napkins
when i speak french i say serviette but even sometimes when i speak french i'll say napkin. My parents used to say napkin even tho they didnt speak english. sometimes i'll say paper towel, but normally when i say paper towel i mean like the brand Bounty.. to wipe stuff on objets, not myself.
In Winnipeg Manitoba we say:
Shopping cart
Runners
Napkin
Remote (tv remote)
Poutine is usually pronounced "poo-teen" (but some also pronounce it as "poo-tin")
- Devil's night is also called Gate night
- Native reserves are called "rez" or "the rez", whereas uni/college living spaces are just called a residence
- We only say track pants IF they're actually gym-style track pants, all other styles are just called sweat pants
- That "drive-through" beer/other alcohol store (more like "drive-up") is called a BEER VENDOR
- Toque isn't what you're wearing, a toque is the one that's just round & fitted on your head. I think what you're wearing we just call a winter hat or ear hat.
Some of the words you mentioned we don't use, like "keener"...
Alberta is the exact same way :) We also say "The States", because really, they're not "AMERICA". We're North American and there is still South America too. It almost sounds self-centred to call one's self 'all of America'. Some slang way of saying tissue in my city (not sure about other places), is Kleenix. Kleenix is actually a brand of tissues. The drying-tissues for your hands that you throw away in washrooms, are called paper-towels. Not sure if it's the same everywhere though. Just sharing a few thoughts :)
That's EXACTLY the same here in Manitoba too! ^^
tenshimoon Many people here (in Ontario) call them "the States" as well.
I'm from Edmonton, some of those things you said aren't the same here...
Same I'm from Calgary and we don't say buggy or flicker
Same here in New Brunswick
same here in ontario
Jess Kalfordactually,ive heard buggy a bit, but mainly its shopping cart
+Jacob Code i'm from Alberta and we dot say things like that.....
A couple more:
We have a grad, not a prom - but that is changing quickly.
University students live in residences (Rez) not dorms.
First Nations communities are on reserves - not reservations.
Soldiers, sailors and airmen are in the Canadian Armed Forces - or just the Forces. We've adopted a lot of American terms though, so they are also in "the military". We have military bases and stations - not camps or forts.
I hit a pole in a bus once and said 'sorry'.
Oh my gosh I do to and when someone steps on my foot or something I even say sorry
i ran into a pole once and tried to make it say sorry
yeah thats a true and legit stereotype. we do say sorry a LOT, we burp we say sorry, we bump in someone we say sorry, Someone bumps in us we still say sorry,we hit into an innanimate object, we say sorry. I guess we are simply a polite nation in Canada haha
LOOOOL i hit a garbage can and sayd sorry :")
Linda Nidal Sadeck
i hit my head on a pole and said fuck u to it
that was pretty accurate... i had fun listening to you!!.... you covered a lot of stuff. tyty!
I live in the states and I never heard of someone putting mayonnaise on their fries
I have. It's just, regional. Yeah. Because it would depend on what city/state you live in. (I'm a Michigander.) I like my fries plain and with little salt.
Matt Williams mmmmm salt+vinegar fries
French/Belgian influence = mayo with fries. British influence = vinegar with fries. American influence = ketchup with fries. Thus, in Quebec we use all three... but not all at the same time, of course!
I'm Canadiana and I put mayo on fries
im american and i put mayo and ketchup on my fries lol its an itailian thing
Great video man!
I am Canadian and I agree that We use "Sorry" A lot
You're accent is so awesome! I'm Aussie =) Thanks for showing this video!
My dad was in the states once and asked for a pop and they said sorry we don't sell Popsicles
+SarahJane Comeau LOL
+Sjc Challenges and vids kinda feel sorry for americans.
I say pop...
I'm totally addicted to this video!
btw i dont call it a buggie or whatever, i call it a shopping cart ;)
same here!
this is all pretty regional for Canada , out west we call them shopping carts, bathrobe, we call it power, we call them sweats, milk in a bag is an eastern thing (we get gallon jugs of milk here), we call them soft drinks.
Just have to say this. Ontario is not all of Canada. I'm from New Brunswick; my wife is from North Dakota. SHE says "runners", I say either "sneakers" or "running shoes". "Chesterfield?" Not likely; it's a couch. "Buggy"? WHO says that? Nobody I ever met, and my mother was from Ontario. It's a shopping cart. "Flicker"? It's a "remote" or a "clicker", for the technologically illiterate. And it IS "zed". How can you have never heard of "candy bar"? Don't you watch American television or movies? Now, I will admit to a very regional phrase for it: "nut bar". But that's probably only here in southern New Brunswick. Nobody I ever knew says "eh". It's foreign here in Atlantic Canada. It's a western-Canadian thing. And that is NOT A TUQUE! Are you loopy? Shit. I have to stop. There are too many mistakes in your video. Poutine does not contain CHEESE! It has cheese CURDS.
Whereabouts in NB? From Saint John here :)
Yep. Saint John. I used to hang around with a Peter DesRoches; any relation?
I'm not completely sure, there very well could be but I personally don't know him.
OK. Just asking. I don't know who actually posted the "Canadian Accents..." thing, but I meant no disrespect. Although I have been told that some of my observations are a bit "sharp". I'm sort of like Sheldon Cooper in that regard P). Take care.
eh IS an maritime thing...its mostly from Newfoundland but we say it here in Nova Scotia all the time. it is defiantly not a western Canadian thing to do!! but your right that is not a toque .. a toque is what Americans would call a beanie. and its cheese curds in a poutine and they are delicious!!
It's interesting to see something you thought was so natural in your country seem so bizarre to someone else. Nice video dude :p
The first pronunciation of poutine you said was right, because "putain" has another veeery different meaning.
The second way he pronounced it was French, and the second one is actually right. Poutine is a French word, I believe (from what my mother told me)
If I'm wrong, I apologize :)
MeggyB11 Of course Poutine is a french word haha The proper pronunciation is "poo-tin", but some English speakers pronounce it "poo-tain" which means whore in French
no, he said poutine in the french pronunciation. im canadian, and thats how we say it at school in class bc french school
Hey i'm Canadian as well and I live in Montreal currently, i'm just saying in Quebec "poo-tin" is the correct pronunciation haha If you go to Quebec and ask for a putain you won't get fries.
Lol swear word
Haha cool video, enjoyed it a lot!
Who the hell calls it a buggy, it's a shopping cart.
Called a remote, clicker, or sometime even a converter. never a flicker.
Garage sale, yes, but also sometimes yard sale.
I don't even know what you are saying for this one, but we call them gutters.
lol, never heard bath robes (or just robes) called a "house coat"
We use napkins...
We call it both bathroom and washroom.
none of that slang was right, never use any of it.
That's not a toque.
this is the most annoying one: AGAIN WITH THE MILK BAGS! I have lived in Canada my entire life and I have never seen a bag of milk. Not in stores, not in people's homes, I have never seen them. It has to be an eastern/ontario thing.
That video was not quick.
Those are all the things wrong with this video. I am from BC, Canada, born, raised, and still living here.
***** that's stupid lol. Rather have a jug, that is easy to store, easy to pour, and still tastes better than eastern milk
***** not at all. unless you stuff your fridge with tons and tons of food. Do you have bags of chocolate milk too?
I completely agree, I live in Vancouver and we don't get our milk in bags. I went to Quebec once and they had bags of milk and it was really weird. Btw a toque is what people would call a beanie...
I use plastic milk bags all the time
Yea milk bags are only a Ontario thing.
I am from Australia and we are sooooo similar! I love Canadians!
OH please do not say that!!! I am Canadian. And if anything, I would rather be similar to Americans than Aussies and Britts. Ewwwwww…….
CANADA ROCKS !!!!!!
In BC, we called the new highway in Vancouver to the Fraser Valley the "freeway" in the 1960s when it was new to distinguish it from the old Lougheed highway that ran parallel to it.
Not so much the accent, but what your saying. I myself am southern Canadian (just about as southern Canadian as it gets) and I've never myself used or heard any of your slang terms. Although, I guess I forgot how big southern Canada really is. Maybe I was a little quick to comment. I'm sure that where you live in Canada uses the words you listed. If you ever decide you make another video like this for some reason, maybe make it a little more specific.
What he forgot to mention is that Canada is always on top of America (look at the map).
And the map was created by rich white northern hemisphere people. There is no up and down in space.
I live in Saskatchewan and we don't have bagged milk
I think we only have them in Atlantic
We don't either in BC. It must be an ontario thing, and they seem to think all of Canada has it.
Yeah I'm from Alberta and I've NEVER seen a bag of milk
I live in Ontario, and when I was younger, my parents would have milk bags. Now we have jugs, but some of my friends and family still have bags. :)
MeggyB11 bags are so stupid, I can't even understand how anyone would possibly use them.
Im New Brunswick Canadian, this video seems mostly correct to me, but being such a massive country there's obviously going to be lots of differences with different people growing up with different immigrated families and in different cities and town.
The other Canadians who live further west say we've got the stereotypical accent more than they do, and though it seems none of us can hear the difference, we do hear other Candians who come from even further east and their accents are crazy stereotypical so I tend to believe it works this way for most of us.
UMMMMMMMMMM ?????? I AM CANADIAN AND I CALL A CART A CART NOT A BUGGIE AND I SAY HELLO AND I SAY Z I CALL A COUCH A COUCH i call it a bathrobe we dont care what we call bathrooms THIS IS A PARTIAL STEREO TYPE D: PLUS I DO NOT SAY EH [well maybe ONCE IN A AWHILE] but Americans say huh ALOT plus here in Alberta we get milk jugs [most of the heavily accented people live in the Ontario area] and i do say sorry alot
umm hate to break it to you but people in Ontario have the most tame accents and they get heavier the further east or west you go....
well i am down in alberta and really no one but olders men talk like that [70 or 80 years old]
Woah calm down! Even if you are both Canadians (and me too), accents change from place to place and province to province, it's the same with America. Even in Québec where I live the French accents can change a lot between say Montréal and Québec city. It's just how he learnt things where he's from and how you learnt it where you are from.
Whitney! down in Alberta?
well from where he is yes down or to the side idc
Hey I am from Newfoundland and I now realize how different we are from Canada. Thanks for the video!
WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU, YOU DON'T LIKE POUTINE?!?!?!?!
ikr, i guess it depends where you got it, some restaurants have the gravy way too salty which makes it bad, but normally it's f'n delicious. and you cant either just judge by looking at it, you have to try it to know how it tastes lol
Yeah I was talking to an American yesterday from California I was playing online video game. and my parents we’re going out to McDonald’s and asked me what I wanted so I said a poutine and the American goes wtf is that so I say it’s french fries gravy and cheese curds. And he goes “that’s fucking disgusting what the hell how can you eat that” I said what part about is disgusting? He said french fries and gravy wtf. I found that pretty weird whenever I’m in Costco I order their french fries and get some gravy to dip it into maybe I’m weird but I do that
Just out of curiosity, how far north in Ontario do you live? Cause down in the GTA we call it them shopping carts, or just carts. And I've never heard of a drive-thru liquor store, damn, lol. but the walk-in variety is called the LCBO.
As a german I think the canadias have the best understandable english accent.
They are called cement bugs in MB, we also have drive thrus where you can buy beer usually or coolers. They dont really sell hard alcohol. It's like last call but you can drive with it if it's not open. The one I remember going to was called The SPike,
Milk in jugs not bags xD you know the works.
who the fuck says curfuffle .. I don't know ANYBODY or met ANYBODY In Canada who ever said that. ive been to every single province. and stayed for more then 2 weeks at a time.
Well you just met one... because i do.
And now there's TWO! I say that all the time, alone with canoodle, another favourite of mine :)
almost every teacher i've ever had, and myself.
My family used to buy the cartons of milk but when I was little it was so heavy for me and I spilled it so my mom decided to by the bags of milk XD
That is NOT a toque.
I am also from Ontario and we use grocery carts, remotes, and running shoes, haha.
Loved the video!!!
Why are so many comments from other Canadians sooo negative, saying THAT'S WRONG I DON'T SAY THAT or whatever...
Guys, don't know if maybe you forgot, but Canada is HUGE and believe it or not, we're not all the same! What's true for him isn't necessarily true for you. Get over it and appreciate our national diversity!
Being from Québec, I smiled like a maniac when you said poutine! XD
This is one of the most accurate explanation I've seen yet, not COMPLETELY but very close.
I think they put the "water fountain" thing in there because in certain parts of america, people say "bubbler" instead
buggy and flicker? I've never heard that in Ontario ever
delfiglio I'm from New England and we say carriage/cart and clicker.
Buggy? Flicker? As a Canadian, from Alberta, I have never heard of those words. I did notice you pronounce "lawn" as "laan." Here in Alberta, the people in the small towns say eh a LOT :). I say soda. But I say bill. Lol. This is kind of cool.
I've heard "buggy" before. We call them carts (shopping carts) here I think. Never really heard "flicker". (Short for dooma-flicker?).
And yes, the Easterners especially pronounce "about" as "aboot". ("Ou" in general is quite "oo"). Do you really say "soda"? Soda to me is definitely "club soda" - a non-flavoured/sweetened carbonated water. The kind you use to water down things like Scotch, or spray from a clown's bottle. Pop is flavoured/sweetened carbonated drinks. The rest is pretty much right on. Fascinating to me given how close we are to the US. If you do this again with the UK, it would be even weirder I'm sure!
There is regional differences in Canada. I'm from Saskatchewan and never heard of Devil's Night, a buggy, a flicker, or hydro. Here they are called October 30th, a shopping cart, a remote control, and power company/power bill. Interesting to know!
Actually I'm from Ontario and have never head any of those terms before ether
ahh me and my bf are planning to move to ontaria within the next 3 years... Were originally welsh and its nice to know that a lot of the terminology is the same!
I have to say, you are as Ontarian as you can get. :) I'm from bc and in bc we use a lot of American phrases and meanings. Milk bags are used in Ontario Quebec and some other province out east. We use cartons.. :D a lot of phrases are also said differently which was funny to see. Great work! :)
I'm Canadian and I say please and thank-you a lot .
Oh my Gosh!! I'm from Ontario, Canada too!!! :D I've never seen another youtuber from Ontario :)
pretty sure there are one or two other people from Ontario on youtube. Just a guess though.
I'm Canadian. Torontonian
all you said is so true!
Our accents are similar. But I'm from Michigan, and that's close to Canada. I call icing frosting. And most Americans use ketchup on fries. Potato bug? Rolly polly.
Oh my gosh I love that word you use for potato bug! Rolly polly...it's so much more fun!
in BC we call them wood bugs
the1andonlykid123 So that's what other people are taking about when they say "Rolly Polly" and "Potato Bug" ITS A WOOD BUG.
Canadian from Ontario here and this guy is pretty accurate from my experience. Only thing I disagreed with is that we call it yard sales, not garage sales. Garage sales are for rainy days and also it's usually on a Saturday but also on Sundays. Also the milk in bags is not Canada wide either. I also say Zee not Zed but that is probably a habbit picked up from being close to the American border and watching their tv.
aw i love this video.. I'm actually going to visit canada soon and hopefully go to school over there. I'm trying to learn all the fun facts =]
My husband was born and raised in B.C....Campbell River, Vancouver Island and Vancouver. He did have a few words that made him disclose his heritage. LOL Aboot, runners, pop, buggy, clicker, you guys, washroom, zed, hydro. One last one that came up was decal. He pronounced it as deck-cul. We pronounce it Dee-cal. He didn't care for poutine either. Mayo on fries? Yuuuuccck! Vinegar? YES! Milk in a bag? What kinda bag? Never heard of that. Oh yeah, and duct tape. He called it gaff tape. I'm a Floridian and I now say EH all the time. And the word Ya in place of the word Yes is used in B.C. a lot too. Liked the vid. Eh
Milk in a bag.. Mostly in Ontario. It's a plastic bag filled with milk that you put in a milk container so it doesn't spill. You cut one of the top corners of the bag to pour milk. Search up "Milk bag container" on google images and you should get a good example of what it looks like. Also searching "How to use a milk bag" on youtube could also give you a good example of how it looks like and how it works. Hope this helped you :)
this year, in my town, we had snow till the end of may (i'm from Canada btw)
Milk in a bag: the milk comes in a 1.5 litre bag, and you put it in a little milk bag holder and you snip the corner off so you can pour it into your glass, or on your cereal.
That sounds like a lot of hassle. Our jugs and cartons out west work remarkably well.
oilersridersbluejays It actually isn't a lot of hassle at all! It's very easy to hold and the bags are recyclable and small.
XD we had a drive thru liquor store here in Sydney, NS, but the store closed and moved over next to what is now for the last few years my uncle's grocery store(was a supervalue originally) and is connected to it as well. our liquor store was also a walk in on obviously, but if you wanted a 2-4, 8 pack, quart, 40 ounce, etc.. and were going on vacation/travelling or in a hurry it was convenient to use the drive thru. sadly it's now a midas auto shop... the drive thru window is still there, but not used. also i think it was the last drive thru liquor store in atlantic canada until it relocated to connect to the grocery store.
In Alberta, we have jugs for our milk. I'm pretty cure bags are only in the eastern part, the western, and probably eastern too, have jugs and cartons. I haven't seen a bag of milk any time I've gone shopping, except in Ontario when i'm visiting an uncle
i have a friend from Lower Sackville and i definitely noticed something when she would say "About" but really its like any word with ou that i hear the difference between American accent and a canadian accent.
I live in florida but half of my family lives in Matinoba and Ontario and I have that type of accent . I think it sounds cool .
EastTexan here, we call carbonated beverages like sprite coke here. Washrooms are restrooms and no milk bags ;)
HAHAHA. "A potato bug!! Yes, it's a potato bug."
Man, I love your videos. (:
And.. Stephen.. Um, Maple syrup on .. potatoes? :x
Omg!! We have a drive thru liquor store across the bridge in Québec. You pull up to the window and order your case of beer. You pop your trunk and they bring it out to your car.
Me and my family and everyone - basically - in my area call the bug that rolls into a bug when you touch it, a "rolly polly"
What part of Ontario are you from because I have never heard half those things
In Saskatchewan we are not cool enough for milk in bags. Just super expensive plastic jugs and cardboard that likes to fall apart
love this video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's interesting how different even different provinces are from each other. I was quite taken aback by some of the terms. Like here in Manitoba we say Gate Night, not Devil's night and a "buggie" is a shopping cart. There were many more. Plus your accent seems quite different though that doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Canada is big "eh?"
the beginning was prety funny! :)
Massachusetts they call the water fountain a "Bubbler", that maybe why the question was sent.
Milk does not come in a bag in Alberta. Also, proper poutine is with cheese curds.
I'm from New England and you say a lot of the same things that we do, pronunciations and all.
I'm sorry, but I'm from Montreal, Canada, and we use the etymology "aluminium". Most likely because we have both French and English as official languages and speak both. Aluminium is used in French etymology so we use it in English as well. Other than that we do say shopping cart and trolley depending on the sub cities in Montreal.
***** You could pass off as a southern person lol that's one of the best souther accents I've heard although I am from Connecticut so maybe that's why. And nice video dude.
Bro, the way you say sorry lol, I say it almost with an ''AH'' sound SAHRRY STAHP
This video is nice and clear and entertaining. A lot of videos are ruined with very loud music.
I'm from Ontario and I moved out west. They have never heard of bags for milk here. Everything is in jugs like I used to get at Beckers. :P
I'm doing a project and this really help me. Thank you
I'm from Victoria and we say cart or buggy, couch or chesterfield, we do not get milk in a bag but in a one or two litre cartan or a 4 litre jug. We do say things like if it is barley raining "it is spitting out" and in Victoria if some one is out they are "out and about" and if we are north of Victoria on the Island we are "up Island"
In Ontario our milk comes in a bag but we also have the option to buy it in a carton.
Amazing
the way you say about sounds very common with the scottish accent
Eh comes from the shortened version of the word for "Yes" back during the fur trade. I don't remember what the language is called, I think it might be Secwepemc?
That would be a type of toque you are wearing. The knitted or crocheted kind are also toques.
I used to get milk in a bad when I was younger but I haven't seen it in a long time.
I've always wanted to live in Canada. It's sucks living here in Florida because the weather is all over the place. Snow and better food ftw!