# Things in the US that aren't in Canada **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 13, 2005, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-in-the-us-that-arent-in-canada/335370 "2005-12-13T03:53:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-in-the-us-that-arent-in-canada/335370/41 "2005-12-14T16:58:00Z")
Caffeinated Mountain Dew? ---
**Author:** ![McDeath\_the\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a3d4f5/32.png) [@McDeath\_the\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McDeath_the_Mad)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-in-the-us-that-arent-in-canada/335370/42 "2005-12-14T19:04:19Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > nor do we have Fatburger Sorry **RickJay** Vancouver, BC now has a Fatburger! MtM ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-in-the-us-that-arent-in-canada/335370/43 "2005-12-14T19:20:10Z")
> [@Spatial Rift 47](#): > > I’ve been told Canada is about 10 years behind the US in certain aspects of pop culture. I could be wrong, but assuming that’s true, maybe some DVDs of recent movies? Good idea! Me, I can’t wait til’ them new fangled Star Wars movies finally come out up here. I was going to go see it when I was in [Slovenia](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120915/releaseinfo) in 1999, but I thought I’d wait. Only 4 more years to go!! BTW, how did your interview with Rick Mercer go? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-in-the-us-that-arent-in-canada/335370/44 "2005-12-14T19:21:06Z")
> [@Max the Immortal](#): > > I’m told that in Canada, Coca-Cola is sweetened with sugar; in the States, they use corn syrup. When I asked a young american woman how american Coca-Cola tastes, she enthusiastically replied “Awesome.”. So, american cola is a possibility; just beware that you may raise a few eyebrows if you tell your friends that you’re planning on sending some Coke across the border 😉 . [hijack] Years ago I went to the Coca-Cola Museum in Atlanta; the best part was this one room where you could taste the different varieties of Coke as served all over the world. They said that they adapted the flavor to each country, based on the local palate – in some African varieties, for example, they used honey and nut flavorings. Anyways, I wonder how they came up with the Canadian variety… Therein, finally, may lie the elusive difference between Canadians and Americans. A kind of shibboleth taste test – “Here, taste this Coke. Don’t like it? You’re Canadian.” Next! Well, that and “Peace, Order, and Good Government.” [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-in-the-us-that-arent-in-canada/335370/45 "2005-12-14T21:00:56Z")
Ok - I thought of something. We don’t have JCrew up here - I have to order all my JCrew stuff online or from the Catalogue. Perhaps you could get her a nice JCrew scarf or something. Additionally, the only H& M in Canada is in Toronto. The only MissSixty store is in Montreal. You can’t get Marithe and Francois Gerbaud jeans in Canada anywhere, so maybe those are some ideas. (Of course you can order all of this stuff over the internet, but it’s a bit of a pain in the ass.) ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-in-the-us-that-arent-in-canada/335370/46 "2005-12-14T21:01:59Z")
BTW - this: > [@Spatial Rift 47](#): > > I’ve been told Canada is about 10 years behind the US in certain aspects of pop culture. I could be wrong, but assuming that’s true, maybe some DVDs of recent movies? is really, really funny. heh ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-in-the-us-that-arent-in-canada/335370/47 "2005-12-14T21:06:29Z")
An expat living in Alberta tells me that she couldn’t find Red Vines anywhere in Canada. I would think that some of the more obscure brands of barbecue sauce that are on supermarket shelves in the US are missing north of the border. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-in-the-us-that-arent-in-canada/335370/48 "2005-12-14T21:43:15Z")
> [@McDeath\_the\_Mad](#): > > Sorry **RickJay** Vancouver, BC now has a Fatburger! > > MtM OK, not Fatburger. But White Castle would still be a wonderful import. Actually, I should scrape up some money and open a White Castle in Toronto. A city this big surely has enough potheads to make a White Castle outlet profitable. ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-in-the-us-that-arent-in-canada/335370/49 "2005-12-15T07:27:48Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > OK, not Fatburger. But White Castle would still be a wonderful import. > > Actually, I should scrape up some money and open a White Castle in Toronto. A city this big surely has enough potheads to make a White Castle outlet profitable. The sad irony is that “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle” was filmed at least partly in and around Toronto. What a tease for the real Canadian potheads! ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-in-the-us-that-arent-in-canada/335370/50 "2005-12-15T07:49:03Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > **Nanoda** , I have never seen strawberry milk in Ontario. Maybe it’s a Western thing? I’m from the Maritimes, and strawberry milk was my daily work-drink. I used to stop off at the Irving station and pick it up. Could get the mix or the bottles at the local Save-Easy, too. (I think the compant was Northumberland? Yep, yep it [was](http://www.northumberlanddairy.ca/e/3000/3002e.cfm). They even have vanilla.) There was another kind I used to buy, from a different company, though, I think, and it was banana milk. Yes, we have Fluff in Canada. I couldn’t have had a real childhood without the Fluffernutter sandwiches. It was the only kind I would buy, right up until I left Canada two years ago, and it was the most popular brand where I shopped. Popularity will vary from coast to coast, and everywhere in between, I see. I used to have a tough time getting my paws on SnoBalls, but I think there was a generic brand that came out a couple years before I left. Funyuns used to be another one that was hard to get, but they were showing up in local stores shortly before I left, too. Cheese and onion flavoured chips were a rarity where I lived. The only thing I’ve noticed here in the US that you guys have that Canadians don’t: enormous, immense, towering variety. It’s basically all the same stuff, there’s just more of it. Much, _much_ more. Canadians have variety, too, oh yes. But… but not like this. My first few trips to the stores out here, shopping malls, etc, I was just overwhelmed. Five shops, side by side, selling the same wares, but with a different name. Dozens of varieties of grape flavoured soda. Vitamins with no warnings on them. A box of Goobers from the movie theatre just says “Goobers”, with no hint as to what’s inside. I mean, we have chocolate covered peanuts, too, but they’re not shrouded in mystery. Products with only English written on them, and no French. US containers look so uncluttered. I think US dill pickles taste way different. I never know what I’m going to get every time I get a jar. My husband claims to hate dill pickles, but I ask him how could he know? Every brand is a surprise! Try sending her something that just has one word on it, like the Goobers box or something. No French, no description, no nothing else but the word “Goobers”. I bet that would throw her for a loop. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-in-the-us-that-arent-in-canada/335370/51 "2005-12-15T17:09:42Z")
> [@GingerOfTheNorth](#): > > I also never had trouble getting into the doctor, can get strawberry milk, saltwater taffy, and Iowa. Only, we call it Saskatchewan. That’s okay, we call you Texas. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-in-the-us-that-arent-in-canada/335370.md?page=2)