Does anyone else in Canada call a hot dog a smokie? Where does this come from?
The CanaDoper Café (2012 edition of The great, ongoing Canadian current events and politics thread.)
Smokie: http://www.smokielover.ca/sausage-hq/smokie-personalities-which-one-are-you/
Usually a coarser grind than hot-dogs, and usually a bit more spicy in one direction or another.
Smokies are always one of the options at hot dog carts in Regina.
Where was that? Thorold? Had buddies live out in those parts when at school at Brock. They’re pretty shitty.
Lacrosse probably doesn’t have the international base, much like what i think has plagued baseball. However, apparently Roger Goodell has been in talks to have American, NFL style FOOTBALL in the Olympic games (a logistical mindfuck for at least three reasons I can think of!), so anything is possible. 
Gotta love Thorold. It gives sailors a chance to get off the boat, get drunk and/or laid, hop in a cab, and get back on board before the boat clears the locks.
Lacrosse is the fastest growing sport in North America, and is played by quite a few college students in some very populous states in the US. It hasn’t reached hockey or football levels (yet), but it is coming along. 
Jim also says that lacrosse was a former Olympic sport.
Smokies are delicious.
Here’s a video for all y’all - Tom Brokaw explains Canada to Americans. I don’t suppose we all need to see this since we know most of it already, but I thought you might enjoy it.
Also on the streets of Toronto. And it just wasn’t a ball game at Skydome if I didn’t get a smokie. Mmm…
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Where was that? Thorold? Had buddies live out in those parts when at school at Brock. They’re pretty shitty./QUOTE]
I’ve been through there too, years ago, and some parts of St.Kits are still a little sketchy, but I was looking more at the ones with the 4 car garages and stone gates along the Parkway and around the concession roads… 
Smokies also have the added advantage of all that delicious cheese inside. Mmmm, jalapeno and cheddar smokies…Damn, I’m hungry now.
Greetings from sunny Manitoba. Smokie isn’t until Wednesday though.
Two things:
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Multicoloured sign on small on gas station/ice cream/bait and tackle shop “Smile Your on Camera.” Hey, I know that happens everywhere.
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I bought a chicken burger and fries from a take out window next to said store. The young girl (15?) had to use a calculator to figure out how much change to give me from a $20, when my meal was $9.50. And still got it wrong by three dollars! Yeah, I know that happens everywhere, especially these days.
Yup, that stuff does happen everywhere. I think we ended up with a couple of extra dollars one time because we gave up trying to get proper change from a cashier (she looked like her head would explode if we tried one more time).
It’s so much easier just to haul out the old debit card…
Sure. But they only took cash!
I can’t claim to have visited all of the street-meat carts in Toronto, but I haven’t seen one yet that advertised having “smokies” (even though they have sausages that might fit that description).
We often had smokies up at the cabin when I was a kid in Saskatchewan (although I preferred regular hot dogs, personally). I don’t think I’ve heard the term “smokie” since I moved to Ontario, though.
Toronto burger joint in trouble for racist burger names -the “Half-Breed,” and the “Dirty Drunken Half-Breed.” Oy vey. You’d think that someone at some point in the process would have said, “Hey, you know, those might not be very nice names to use for our new burgers!”
Its been decades since I’ve heard the term “half-breed”. and that was in the old westerns on tv and the movies.
I’m not sure what your point is - that it’s okay to use it now because it’s fallen out of fashion as an ethnic slur?
I hear it occasionally, and always in a bad context.
Not at all. I just find the term archaic and if used at all, way more likely to be used west of Sudbury and East of the Rockies. Maybe as a result of the English version of the “Halfbreed Adhesion to Treaty 3”.
During my four years in northern Manitoba and northern Ontario in the heavy construction industry I meant plenty of Metis and redneck whites and honestly never heard the “halfbreed” term myself that I can recall. “Metis” was heard often enough.
Here in B.C. a person of mixed ancestry will adopt or portray either identity for any given moment or one or the other exclusively. There really is no term that applies to them in social discourse. Metis doesn’t seem to be applicable either.
That is my experience anyway.
Thanks for the clarification, but I’m still not sure what your point has to do with a restaurant in Toronto getting heat for using racist terms to name their sandwiches.
Who gives a poop. Cheeseburgers will make you fat and kill you. I’m part Cherokee and I’m not offended. The unemployment rate in this country offends me but not Cheeseburgers. If your offended, don’t go there. Save your hard earned money, and your fat ass.