# The CanaDoper Café, 2013 edition. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 1, 2013, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736 "2013-01-01T03:29:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 149
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/2961 "2013-12-15T06:02:20Z")
I brought the cold with me back to Winnipeg, but apparently, there was plenty to go around. Sorry. We were excited by the Magpies, Darby hadn’t seen one before. I didn’t think to mention. Funny what kids notice - like the black squirrels in Ottawa? ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/2962 "2013-12-15T20:16:42Z")
As I sit and watch the snow dance and swirl outside my window I wonder, is it best to shovel the first 15cm now and then do the last 15 cm worth before bed or is it best just to wait and shovel all 30-35cm at the end of the storm? ---
**Author:** ![Ibanez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a4c791/32.png) [@Ibanez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibanez)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/2963 "2013-12-15T20:45:51Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > So, it’s minus 18 and feels like minus 30. We have a winter storm blowing in expected to drop something like 25 cm of snow by tomorrow night. I got groceries today and gas for the snow blower. > > I have the wood stove going in the basement, the fireplace in the family room going. The kids are here this weekend and I have a big pot of chili simmering on the stove. > > Cold beer beside me and the Leafs and the Hawks coming up on HNIC. I’m feeling particularly Canadian at this point… 🙂 I loved that weather yesterday. Donned the long johns, and went for a long walk. Picked up the goods for my crock pot curry butter chicken. Stinking up the stairwell of my apartment as I typed this. Today, I heard from the hall way " sacrament ça pue !" ha ha. Cretins don’t know what their missing. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/2964 "2013-12-15T20:50:30Z")
> [@Ibanez](#): > > Cretins don’t know what their missing. Oh yes we do. You go ahead and enjoy it and I’ll stay warm and comfy here inside. Or I would if I had remembered to buy food recently ☹ I had to go out today to fetch provisions for the week. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/2965 "2013-12-15T20:55:20Z")
> [@Cyros](#): > > As I sit and watch the snow dance and swirl outside my window I wonder, is it best to shovel the first 15cm now and then do the last 15 cm worth before bed or is it best just to wait and shovel all 30-35cm at the end of the storm? Shovel the first 15 cm then the second 15 cm. It’s easier to shovel that way (assuming you’re old and feeble like I am). ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/2966 "2013-12-15T21:04:48Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Shovel the first 15 cm then the second 15 cm. It’s easier to shovel that way (assuming you’re old and feeble like I am). Feeble but not old (42 is the new 25, isn’t it?). I tried to do some shovelling but it is windy enough that it is drifting back almost as fast as I move it. I think I’ll wait until it is done to shovel. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/2967 "2013-12-15T21:08:28Z")
Ah, the pain-in-the-ass wind factor - I’d leave it too, then. ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/2968 "2013-12-15T23:01:27Z")
Done! I forgot how zen an experience shovelling can be. I just wish I could get the hang of using a sleigh shovel. I always end up with a slope that is too flipping steep to get the snow up. Because of that I can only really use it for two major snow storms and then it is back to the little push shovel. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/2969 "2013-12-16T20:38:40Z")
[55 Canadianisms You May Not Know or Are Using Differently](http://geekmom.com/2013/12/55-canadianisms/) How many terms on the list do you recognize? I admit to not having heard “parkade” before I visited Western Canada or “donair” before visiting Eastern Canada. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/2970 "2013-12-17T06:10:21Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > [55 Canadianisms You May Not Know or Are Using Differently](http://geekmom.com/2013/12/55-canadianisms/) > > How many terms on the list do you recognize? I admit to not having heard “parkade” before I visited Western Canada or “donair” before visiting Eastern Canada. That was interesting - I didn’t know that US Americans don’t use the term “housecoat” like we do - we use it for either gender; they only use it for women’s bathrobes, apparently. I was a little surprised by “pablum” and “freezies,” too - I assumed those were more universal than they are. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/2971 "2013-12-17T10:40:18Z")
I was not familiar with Texas Mickey (but I don’t drink and rarely go to bars, so my drinking vocabulary is limited). They missed by favourite regionalism (well, Thunder Bayism): _shag_. As in, want to buy a ticket to Donnie and Marie’s shag? Should be lots of folks there. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/2972 "2013-12-17T13:13:53Z")
Is a shag like what we Manitobans would call a ‘social’ - an evening of booze and dancing to raise money for an about-to-be married couple? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/2973 "2013-12-17T14:17:43Z")
Funny, I was just thinking about gonch pulls yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/2974 "2013-12-17T14:22:48Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > They missed by favourite regionalism (well, Thunder Bayism): _shag_. As in, want to buy a ticket to Donnie and Marie’s shag? Should be lots of folks there. Probably best not to invite a Brit to that event, lest they get the wrong idea! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/2975 "2013-12-17T14:23:37Z")
Here’s a term that I don’t think was on that list: “food fair” (what a food court is called in Vancouver. And maybe other places out west?) Though I’m not sure if that’s an exclusively Canadian term or if it’s used in the US too. ---
**Author:** ![gregorio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@gregorio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gregorio)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/2976 "2013-12-17T15:06:59Z")
My favourite only got a passing mention. Bunnyhug. Growing up my mother, and by assiciation I, called it a kangaroo or a kangaroo jacket. Now I just call it a hoodie, as do my kids. I can understand the etymology of kangaroo and hoodie. But bunnyhug? Where did that come from? Saskatchewan, I know, but still. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/2977 "2013-12-17T16:23:46Z")
I knew most of them, until it got into the drinking ones. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/2978 "2013-12-17T17:26:42Z")
> [@Flutterby](#): > > I knew most of them, until it got into the drinking ones. I knew most of those, but I take issue with the author’s assertion that a 12-pack of beer is called a “case.” Certainly, it isn’t nationally. I know that some here in western Canada consider a 12-pack to be a case, but it is not so in eastern Canada. There, a “case” is 24 bottles or cans, sold in a single package. Other names for such a package are “two-four” or sometimes, “deuce.” A 12-pack is just known as a “twelve,” or less-often (but logically), a dozen. I heard them all when I worked for the Beer Store in Ontario, but no Ontarian ever asked for a case and expected to get a 12-pack. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/2979 "2013-12-17T17:29:39Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > I knew most of those, but I take issue with the author’s assertion that a 12-pack of beer is called a “case.” Certainly, it isn’t nationally. > > I know that some here in western Canada consider a 12-pack to be a case, but it is not so in eastern Canada. There, a “case” is 24 bottles or cans, sold in a single package. Other names for such a package are “two-four” or sometimes, “deuce.” A 12-pack is just known as a “twelve,” or less-often (but logically), a dozen. > > I heard them all when I worked for the Beer Store in Ontario, but no Ontarian ever asked for a case and expected to get a 12-pack. Yep. A case is always a two-four here. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/2980 "2013-12-17T18:04:59Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > Funny, I was just thinking about gonch pulls yesterday. Hoping for one? 😛 I was just thinking about facewashes the other day - is that regional, or do all Canadians call getting your face rubbed with snow (against your will) a facewash? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736.md?page=148) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736.md?page=150)