I’m going to start calling Japanese people “Yellowknifers.”
I prefer to refer to them as “Borealically Disadvantaged”.
With four Canadian grandparents, I am going to have some fun next census.
Back bacon.
Yet. So they need to watch themselves. I think Yellowknife has yellowcake and this is an invasion we could all get behind.
Unless they’re from Spain, then they work in a lisp. “Jath, Jath, Jath…” I suppose.
If anyone’s interested my brother mentioned he saw national coverage of this in one of the major Canadian newspapers:
I grew up in ND and so we had many Canadian visitors. Even back in the 70’s and 80’s I’ve heard the word ‘Canadian’ to mean poor tippers. When waitstaff used it…it matched. When more non-whites moved in (primarily Hispanic) they were also poor tippers. Waitstaff used the word ‘Canadian’ to apply to them. It wasn’t meant to be directly racist…just a way to say poor tipper. LIke a Hispanic man and family would come in and a waittress would say “He’s cool…he’s not Canadian” which meant that he had a history of tipping.
I can see it has continued to evolve.
I see someone has beaten me to it.
It’s starting to look like the only people in the world who aren’t accused of not tipping are white Americans, maybe youse guys are tipping too much. 
When I was younger, I hated the tipping culture.
Now I embrace it.
The funny thing is Canadians tip when buying coffee at drive-thru’s fer Chrissake.
Well, golf is already taken…
Yeah, I’m not getting the whole Canadians don’t tip thing either.
My husband and I both worked in service for many years, when we were younger, and those tips paid for our trips to lands far and exotic, for months at a time.
I think this may be a subset of snowbirds (Canadian retirees headed to Florida), or perhaps Quebecors aren’t great tippers.
I’m having deja vu from post #1!
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Some Canadians have poor memories too.
So, recapping (roughly equal to “the least you need to know” part of Dummies books):
*“Canadian” seems to have begun as slang among wait staff for blacks and other ethnic minorities who were allegedly poor tippers in places where there were few if any Canadians encountered on a daily basis
*It doesn’t seem particularly based on whether natives of Canada are good tippers or not but rather it’s a sort of “fnord”- a word that everybody knows and that you hear all the time and thus don’t notice when others use it, but at the same time you hear it seldom enough {especially in regards to people in your community} that it lends itself to euphemism (much like people in Montreal might use “Texan”)
*There are similar intentionally misleading appellations (ima’s) in other subgroups
*Seems to have moved from wait staff into a more general “there are times you’d rather not say ‘black’” word (but not equivalent with the N word- there’s no evidence that most of its users would have said the N word rather than ‘black’ or were even particularly racist)
*Then it became equivalent to the N word for some people who were using it interchangeably with the N word
*Canada wants war
“Maple Sugar! How come you dance so good…
Maple Sugar! Just like a Canuck should…”
Yeah, I’ve heard that one for years and I’ve lived near Chicago almost my whole life. I first heard it when I was in high school in the early 80’s. My FIL makes Archie Bunker look like the biggest liberal in the world. In his own house he uses every offensive epithet possible about people of other races, countries, religions, sexual orientations or anything else. In public, though, he and his sons (the Hitler Youth) will talk about Canadians.
The guy is such an asshole. He sometimes calls black people “mulignans”, even though that is an epithet he picked up from the Italians that he hates.
I really pissed him off one time when he was going on and on about his Irish heritage (FTR, I’m part Irish, too). I reminded him of the rumors about the Moors who sailed with the Spanish Armada that landed near where his ancestors were from. I looked at his jet black hair and his tan skin and asked him if he ever heard the term “Black Irish” before. (I know there is little truth to the legend but he was getting on my nerves).
The really bizarre thing is that Canada has got to be the whitest country in the Western Hemisphere. (That’s why Pat Buchanan wants the U.S. to annex it, I’m sure.) The only possible exception would be St. Pierre and Miquelon. Even Greenland (which Buchanan also wants to annex) is at least half Inuit.
Okay, someone’s been blabbing…
Canada wants war, they’re just too polite to come right out and ask for it.
Obligatory Blame Canada. It’s all your fault, eh. You know what we’re talking aboot.
Of course, Canadians are special. We really love you. You are America’s hat.