# Blam Canada! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 9, 2025, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blam-canada/1012757 "2025-01-09T09:25:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blam-canada/1012757/1 "2025-01-09T09:25:03Z")
Offers of immediate surrender from Quebec ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blam-canada/1012757/2 "2025-01-09T10:06:34Z")
[![](https://media2.giphy.com/media/4lBRztYRqfjUs/giphy.gif) ](https://media2.giphy.com/media/4lBRztYRqfjUs/giphy.gif) [![](https://media.tenor.com/S3pLpeNrRbYAAAAM/cheering-canada.gif) ](https://media.tenor.com/S3pLpeNrRbYAAAAM/cheering-canada.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blam-canada/1012757/3 "2025-01-09T12:19:18Z")
> _We must blame them and cause a fuss,_ > _Before somebody thinks of blaming us!_ Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blam-canada/1012757/4 "2025-01-09T12:26:46Z")
Dear Moderator, PLEASE do NOT fix the thread typo! LOL Hey, wait … was it really a Freudian Slip? 😈 ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blam-canada/1012757/5 "2025-01-09T12:49:23Z")
Pow Peru! ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blam-canada/1012757/6 "2025-01-09T12:54:39Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Offers of immediate surrender from Quebec Surrender? Watch yourself Yank. The Québecois were fighting in WW2 a full 2 years before the US even decided to enter the conflict. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blam-canada/1012757/7 "2025-01-09T12:59:47Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/VcPyKQIfNSs/maxresdefault.jpg "Canadian Bacon: "ALL I SAID WAS, CANADIAN BEER SUCKS!"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcPyKQIfNSs&t=88) ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blam-canada/1012757/8 "2025-01-09T13:11:22Z")
Well, sorry to say, as a beer snob: Canadian beer does suck. Molson etc. are just frozen Budweiser, and in the past year I’ve been in both Vancouver and Toronto and if there’s a decent craft beer scene, none of the hotels or restaurants I went to knew about it. ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blam-canada/1012757/9 "2025-01-09T13:38:15Z")
The two biggest breweries in Canada, and the stuff likely served at hotels, are Molson nd Labatt, and both are American-owned, Molson-Coors and Anheuser-Busch, respectively. So don’t blame Canada for those beers. Having said that, the industrial swills they produce in Canada stack up well enough to the comparable product in the US: Coors, Bud, Miller, etc. Can’t speak to Toronto, but Vancouver has a pretty vibrant craft beer scene. Take the SeaBus to North Vancouver, walk 10 minutes, and you can stagger into 7 craft breweries, not counting the braggot brewery, for example. Next time you’re in town, PM me! ---
**Author:** ![FluffyBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@FluffyBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FluffyBob)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blam-canada/1012757/10 "2025-01-09T14:00:10Z")
BC has some fantastic Craft Breweries, Vancouver Island especially. I find it strange that the restaurants you went to had no craft options. Not my experience in BC or Certainly Alberta. Even in Alberta there are small towns where the only pub is a craft brewery. But yes, mainstream Canadian Beer is shit, but that goes for mass market adjunct lagers everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blam-canada/1012757/11 "2025-01-09T14:01:59Z")
> [@orcenio](#): > > > [@elucidator](#): > > > > Offers of immediate surrender from Quebec > > Surrender? Watch yourself Yank. The Québecois were fighting in WW2 a full 2 years before the US even decided to enter the conflict. Yep, and in WWI, Canadian soldiers used to throw cans of corned beef over the trenches to the German soldiers, and when the Germans asked for more, the Canadians threw over grenades instead. Nicest people in the world, unless you make an enemy of them-- then _ **watch out** _ 😱 > **[Canadians Baited the Germans with Canned Beef, Only to Toss Grenades Seconds...](https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-i/canada-germany-wwi.html)** > > They earned a reputation among their allies and enemies for their ruthlessness. ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blam-canada/1012757/12 "2025-01-09T14:16:02Z")
Most had one or two local beers, but they were always mega-citrus IPAs. I love a good IPA, but in the vein of Harpoon or Sierra Nevada. I really don’t like these hazy ones that taste like orange juice, and that was literally the only craft offering anywhere I went. They did, of course, have the usual imports like Guinness, Urquell, Stella, etc. but we’re talking about Canadian beer. And I’ve often said that every country has its Budweiser. Bud, Stella, Carlsberg, Sapporo, Corona, they’re all the same and they’re all crap. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blam-canada/1012757/13 "2025-01-09T14:17:15Z")
They say American beer is like making love in a canoe. ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blam-canada/1012757/14 "2025-01-09T14:32:29Z")
Sure, four decades ago it was fucking close to water, but now I’d put the US beer scene against any in the world. And I have visited a lot of the world. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blam-canada/1012757/15 "2025-01-09T15:01:02Z")
> [@Kropotkin](#): > > both are American-owned, Molson-Coors and Anheuser-Busch Anheuser-Busch is part of AB InBev, headquartered in Belgium. ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blam-canada/1012757/16 "2025-01-09T15:04:54Z")
Bloody Sprouts! ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blam-canada/1012757/17 "2025-01-09T15:37:43Z")
I have not had any American craft beers as good as abbey ales. But Canada has some good craft breweries, at long last, only over the last fifteen years. A couple in my middle sized city have won global awards. ---
**Author:** ![FluffyBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@FluffyBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FluffyBob)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blam-canada/1012757/18 "2025-01-09T16:06:48Z")
That is too bad. Yeah, the Hazy IPAs seem to be a big thing now. I quite like then personally, but craft beer is about variety. I find there tends to be much more variety now than a few years ago when the craft beer scene seemed to be mostly daunting west coast IPAs, sours and themed stouts. I see a lot very good, proper, craft pilsners locally now for example. [Fat Tug](https://driftwoodbeer.ca/beers/fat-tug-ipa/) is one of my favorite west coast IPAs, im surprised it wasn’t on the menu. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blam-canada/1012757/19 "2025-01-09T16:23:37Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Pow Peru! Trump is going to blam Canada, dunk Denmark, grab Greenland, and pluck Panama Canal. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blam-canada/1012757/20 "2025-01-09T19:39:13Z")
Never mind. I tried to link the video of the Blame Canada song from _South Park_ and I couldn’t get it to work. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blam-canada/1012757.md?page=2)