Hey again BrainGlutton:
I just found something to add to matt_mcl’s list of Canadian things…
Mcgill University has an awesome medical school, with great faculty, including a research chair in the genetics of pain
"At best, Mogil’s work may lead to new drugs providing life-saving pain relief, as anyone living with chronically debilitating conditions such as arthritis or ruptured discs can attest.
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(hope your headache is not too bad today!)
For me this is great. I’m half-Canadian (on my father’s side) and now I’ll finally be able to sing the blues.
I woke up this morning, eh?
And then I heard the news
Canuck’s the new negro
Now I got those maple syrup blues
From this site:
Yeah, we’re claiming it. 
I remember seeing this in a police story of some sort. Apparently cops used it over the radio as a code for blacks so as not to be seen as “profiling”.
I am pretty sure it was one of those “My life as a cop” books, sorry I can’t for the life of me remember what it was called and this was probably a few years ago.
But… Canadians are just these nice, unprepossessing, humble folk from the Great White North. They worry that they take up too much room on the subway and stuff like that. They say please and thank you and you’re welcome–and mean them.
I have a few images in my head when someone says the word Canadian:
Nelson Eddy and Jeannette MacDonald singing(think Mountie operettas); Anne Murray songs; those moron with the hit comedy song in the late 1970’s, eh?; SC-TV and a friendly looking white guy in a clean shirt, tucked in, wishing me a nice day.
Too bad they’re such lousy tippers… 
That’s like saying the atomic bomb was a German invention. It happened in America, it’s American. So there.
Just so no one is confused if they visit the Detroit area, you may hear the word “Canadian” used as an insult frequently, but rest assured that in this case it refers to actual Canadians. I have never heard it used the other way here.
I agree with your atomic bomb analogy, at least as regards this particular list. Still, I must ask: was Massachusetts in Virginia back then?
Eh, it’s all the same.
Confessing my own ignorance: I’ve lived in the south/among black people all my life, but tonight I went to see the new Harold & Kumar movie (totally worthy successor if you liked the original, incidentally) and learned a new one. Rob Cordry of The Daily Show fame plays an extremely ignorant and racist Homeland Security agent and in one scene—
VERY MILD but Unboxed SPOILER alert (skip if you like, but it’s not a major thing and I’m not even giving the context)
there’s a reference to black guys loving grape soda.
I’m familiar with the association of blacks and watermelon/fried chicken/collard greens/grits/pigtails, etc., but I don’t know many rural southerners of either color (myself included) who didn’t eat all of those things growing up and most (myself included) love them (though collards not so much- had some problem once with some that weren’t washed well and never got over it). Never heard the grape soda one, though; I saw the movie in a Montgomery AL with a mostly young and mostly white but racially and age mixed audience that was convulsing with laughter even in the Bama redneck parts (literally had Coke spewed on the back of my neck during one of the Neil Patrick Harris scenes), but they were pretty quiet during the grape soda scene so apparently I wasn’t the only one who didn’t get it.is that part of the stereotype well known?
I’ve heard it with Sunkist but not with grape soda
I would say yes, either grape soda or “grape drink.” David Chapelle even does a skit on the grape drink stereotype.
When Magic Johnson announced the founding of his chain of movie theaters in the black neighborhoods in LA, he made a point of saying the concession stands would serve grape *and * orange soda.
Indistinguishable, one version of the Quebec Act of 1774 in Parliament would indeed have moved its border down this far.
I’ve heard of it before, but with reference to fruit-flavored sodas in general, not just grape. (If one of the Feud threads asked me to pick a soda that I associated with racial stereotyping, I’d pick Cheerwine, for what it’s worth.)
Sampiro, I didn’t hear of that stereotype until I moved up to New Jersey and a coworker kept ribbing me about it. I kept telling him there was no truth in it since I don’t particularly like grape soda (or orange soda, which he also believed was a “black thing”). But then I started noticing the preference among my own relatives and I realized there may a grain of truth to it.
It’s funny, because I liked grape soda when I was a kid (once won an entire case of Welch’s at a school raffle) and I’m so pale I can unwittingly disrupt astronomical observations by wandering too close to the telescope.
I’ve heard the grape soda thing before, and purely anecdotally, it does seem that I’ve known more black folks than white folks who drink grape or orange soda.
Really? I associate Cheerwine with white country folks. I grew up drinking it at my grandma’s house, and I still love the stuff.
If someone mentions grade pop or soda, I think of Radar O’Reilly and his grape Nehi.
There was a corrupt Massachusetts judge (since disbarred or whatever you do to corrupt judges), who had such code words. “Canadian” was a jewish lawyer, “Hawaian” was a black defendent, and so on…
Well, this may be why I generally come in pretty close to last place in the Feud threads 