Homo milk: whole-fat homogenized milk.
Parkade: parking garage
“Aboot!”
Which is in… what state? 
And invented at the Owl’s Nest in Calgary on the ground floor of the International Hotel.
Bunny Hugs were called kangaroos or a kangaroo jacket at my house growing up because of the pouch like pocket at the front. Now called hoodies it seems.
<Dons Calgary Hat and gumboots>You sound suspiciously like you’re from out East…like Ontario…:dubious:
Not really, a Stag and Doe is a basically a party to raise funds for the wedding.
Usually held at a bar or hall. Invitation is not necessary and admission tickets are sold, and there are raffle, auction, contests, prizes, etc…
26’er - 26 ounce liquor bottle
Smokes/Darts - cigarettes
Poutine - french fries, cheese curds, and gravy.
Box - 12 pack of beer
Where I grew up in upstate NY, local syntax turned
“My father works at IBM” into “My father works up to the IBM”.
Sugar Shack - not a place where you go for a little nookie but a shack in the woods where you boil maple sap down to make maple syrup.
Sugaring Off - not the final act of nookie action but a gathering in early spring where you eat maple syrup spread on snow cones and enjoy other delicious foods that benefit from generous helpings of maple syrup (pancakes, ham, etc…)
Shack Up - actually this is a possible result of extended succession of nookie. To live together before or instead of being married.
A note on pronunciation:
At one point, when I was still in Vancouver, Zyada considered knitting me a “toke” as a gift when she came up from Texas to visit. Luckily, she didn’t get around to it, so I was the one to explain that “toque” is pronounced “tooook”, instead of Customs taking her into the back room to clear things up.
Also:
- Liquor comes in a mickey, a 26, or a 40. (Those are Imperial ounces, a bit larger than US ones, and the bottles are now labelled in metric.)
- Poutine is, of course, made with chips or pommes frites, no matter what you Merkins call them.
(Shoulda previewed, eh?)
It’s the biggest thing you can drive with a standard driver’s licence.
Many of these are regionalisms. We live in a big country.
Fr’instance, I’ve never heard of #3, 13, 16, 17 or 24.
Similarly people out west don’t know what a sugar shack (cabane à sucre) is, since they don’t have the correct trees and/or winter.
Oh, and smoked meat is NOTHING like corned beef. The closest American equivalent is pastrami.
STOP TELLING THE AMERICANS ABOUT CAESARS. Some of them are starting to catch on, but it would be nice to just have this to ourselves.
AMERICANS: Caesars are made of CLAM JUICE! Isn’t that disgusting? Clams are biologically rocks with snot in them. Should have called the drink snotsers instead of caesars.
Caesars are catching on everywhere.
I was able to get Clamato in Acapulco a few years ago and I just got back from 2 weeks in Costa Rica and my SIL was able to stock up there as well!
The other key ingredients are tabasco and Worcestershire sauce, after that people start to improvise their own.
My daughter came home from a TO visit with tales of poutine. Bleah.
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I am unfamiliar with most of those terms despite living here for 49 years.
Smoked meat is different from either corned beef or pastrami, although closer to the latter.
I think poutine has spread all over the US, the northern part at least.
And I call it a tuque. A toque is what a chef wears on his head.
Wait, wait, people have been drinking that here in the US for ages. Didn’t know the name of it, but people have been drinking it. I thought that the only reason people bought Clamato, universally always available in grocery stores, for that purpose.
Snotser is a pretty good name, though.
Didn’t think these were Canadianisms, but standard terms in all maple sugar country, such as Upstate New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, etc. I’ve known them all my life.
US ounces are bigger than Imperial ounces, by about 4% (29.57 vs 28.41 mL). But US pints/gallons/etc. are smaller, because there are fewer (16 US oz vs 20 Imp oz per pint, 128 vs 160 per gallon).
Therefore the 26 is just another name for the standard US liquor size, which is 750 mL or 25.36 US oz, and most commonly called a “fifth.” The larger size of US liquor (“handle”) is 1.75 mL or 61.6 Imp oz.
But wait, they sell 3 L bottles of liquor???
IIRC some of these are Ontarioisms, like hydro?
The Caesar is pretty well known in the US by reputation, but fewer people have tried it. Clamato-based drinks are fairly common, particularly in areas with higher Mexican populations.