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Canadians healthier than Americans
A new study has shown that Canadians tend to be healthier than Americans. Is there anything Canada can’t do? Besides allow its citizens to compete on The Amazing Race? In related news, many young adults in the US don’t even have health insurance.
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May 31st, 2006 - 09:01
There are a LOT of things that we can’t do, or, more specifically, aren’t allowed to do, espiecially when living in the US.
But we also have better table manners. Sorry, y’all, but the whole eat-with-just-the-fork thing lacks class.
May 31st, 2006 - 09:03
Eat with just the fork? What? I’m supposed to use my feet as well?
May 31st, 2006 - 09:15
In Canada we also use an elaborate system of ropes and pulleys to maneouver large meats into our mouths.
Seriously, though, I have no idea what Chips means. Do you mean to say that where you live in the US, the general populace doesn’t use a knife?
May 31st, 2006 - 09:22
canada doesn’t have target stores, and for that i am one sad little canuck.
we do however have beaver gas stations.
May 31st, 2006 - 09:23
Who loves Beaver gas station? Me.
May 31st, 2006 - 09:30
Where I come from, we call beaver gas something else entirely. It starts with a Q.
May 31st, 2006 - 09:31
we have target gas stations, does that count?
It’s only a matter of time before we get Target….remember when we had no Walmarts?
I heart Target.
May 31st, 2006 - 09:32
The lack of target, that is a serious drawback.
As for the eating, watch people. Americans tend to use the fork in their right hand, stabby-stabby, using it to cut food that they don’t need a knife for, or they use their knife in the right hand, cut, then switch to the fork in the right hand to eat. canadians eat ina more european way, in which the knife is in the right, the fork in the left, and the knife is used as a tool to henp eat, to place food on the fork, etc.
i know, this sounds really stupid, but it’s something that I find odd, having lived in the states for over a decade.
Maybe the switchy-knife thing is a contributor to the better health of canadians. I’m just sayin.
May 31st, 2006 - 09:35
Don’t tell me that Canadians push the food onto the back of the fork and eat with it upside down like the Brits!?!? If that’s classy, then someone needs to re-teach me which side of the fork is to be used.
May 31st, 2006 - 09:37
Chuck, that beaver joke took me a second, but when I got it, I snorted. Nice job, my friend.
Chips. I don’t know what to say. Is it really all that upsetting as long as we uncivilized Americans manage to keep the food actually inside our mouths?
May 31st, 2006 - 09:44
I highly doubt these things are Canadian vs. American. It’s just a matter of from whom you learned your table manners. I know Americans who eat by pushing the food on the back of their fork. I have done it, but it’s not something I do all the time. I also sometimes switch hands when I eat with knife and fork. Switching and not switching are both correct table manners.
If I’m scooping rice or something, fork is in the right hand, right side up. If I’m piercing meat after I’ve cut it, fork goes in the mouth upside down, either hand. I’m a switch-hitter.
May 31st, 2006 - 09:53
Woooo! I’m started a controversy!
May 31st, 2006 - 09:54
Ha ha ha chips… dare we even bring up Smarties Vs. Smarties?
May 31st, 2006 - 10:01
Chip make trouble! What am Smarties vs. Smarties?
May 31st, 2006 - 10:05
The different Smarties these 2 countries have to offer.
In Canada it’s chocolate covered pellets of goodness, like an M&M only it tastes good, and in the States it’s those sugar pellets things…
or maybe times have changed? All I know is when I eat my Smarties it is with no assistance from a fork, spoon, knife, or even spork.
May 31st, 2006 - 10:16
In Canada, Smarties are called Rockets. The reason for this is because when they were introduced here, the name Smarties was already being used for candy.
http://www.nestle.com/Our_Bran...../Smarties/
http://www.smarties.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockets
May 31st, 2006 - 10:19
I hate Rockets/Smarties. Yuck. Tastes like chalk.
May 31st, 2006 - 10:26
Otherwise known as the candy cheap people hand out at hallowe’en! :)
Is it ironic that a discussion health has move to candy? Yes I’m fully aware that I’m responsbible.
May 31st, 2006 - 10:26
(responSIBLE)… sorry that Jesus pan has entered my subconcious.
May 31st, 2006 - 10:44
Smarties are goooood. They taste like icing. Sugary canadian goodness! (another canadian thing – out chocolate is sweeter, more european, than american choclate. hersey’s? sour.)
May 31st, 2006 - 10:53
Hopefully she’ll correct me if I’m wrong, but when Marjon was here, she gagged on American chocolate because it was way too sweet for what she’s used to eating in Europe.
May 31st, 2006 - 11:32
I gagged on a Hershey’s bar. And I spat it out. And I am a chocaholic, so it was baaaad!
Not because it was too sweet, but because it tastes like vomit. I think that might have been the sour Chips is talking about.
May 31st, 2006 - 11:46
Ahhhhh.
May 31st, 2006 - 11:46
I love Rockets/Smarties. I love that kind of powdery candy. The candy-covered chocolate Smarties I don’t like much at all. I think the candy coating is too hard. Back before Nestle aqcuired Rowntree, their chocolate was soo good, particularly Aeros and Kit-Kats. Now they’re meh at best. Unfortunate.
Hey Soosan, you should market that ResponsBible. You could ask it a question when you have a quandry, and it would quote scripture appropriate to your situation. And if you buy two, you could get a free Jesus Pan.
May 31st, 2006 - 11:51
My husband eats the Brit/Canadian way and he’s born and raised Californian. I dunno, I guess he’s just fancy :)
May 31st, 2006 - 12:04
Marjon – evidently, you’ve never eaten vomit – because it tastes NOTHING like a Hershey bar.
May 31st, 2006 - 12:08
Dutch people are so much sweeter than us that their vomit tastes like candy!
May 31st, 2006 - 12:11
Chuck, you are now my GO TO guy on vomit.
May 31st, 2006 - 12:11
Mmmmmmm, sweet Dutch candy vomit.
May 31st, 2006 - 12:20
I wanna go on record as being down with the Beaver as well. When I was skiing in Canada last month, I was in and around the Beaver every day. I heart the Beaver. And just when I thought the Beaver couldn’t get any better, I found out you can even get lift tickets in there!
May 31st, 2006 - 12:54
Hershey’s kisses DO taste rather odd don’t they…. maybe the vomit you tasted was the little bit you threw up in your mouth after eating the “treat”.
Maggie… a free jesus pan, and for a limited time offer get a Hail Mary Juicer
May 31st, 2006 - 12:55
Yeah, I can guarantee Canadian Beavers are the best.
May 31st, 2006 - 13:01
Weighing in on the healthcare thread: I have the table manners of a European, love American Smarties (there is a big fat bag of them on my desk right now), will eat American chocolate but prefer European chocolate, and as everyone already knows, am a major fan of the Beaver no matter what its nationality.
May 31st, 2006 - 13:11
hee!
May 31st, 2006 - 13:19
Canadian Beaver is SO convenient, yo.
May 31st, 2006 - 13:47
Jeremy goes to the Beaver across the street a lot. And I encourage it!
May 31st, 2006 - 14:49
Do you people realize that beaver is a slang term for VAGINA?
May 31st, 2006 - 14:57
Someone please tell me Chuck is joking.
May 31st, 2006 - 15:23
I heart Chuck.
May 31st, 2006 - 15:42
Pile on the Chuckwagon!
May 31st, 2006 - 15:50
TOOOOT TOOOOT!
May 31st, 2006 - 15:58
OMG i just laughed out loud, i couldn’t keep it in anymore – you kids!