I admire Canada for trying to target alcohol made in red states. The US’s allies need targeted tariffs that affect states, districts and industries full of Trump voters. They need to feel the most pain for the evil they’ve brought into the world.
BTW, it is working. Good for Canada.
Sure it is, but craft breweries have increasingly been moving to cans and decommissioning their botttling and recycling facilities if they even ever had them. I read an article a month ago or so about a BC brewery that did this and is now being hit with the cost of aluminum cans, but there’s no going back.
Interesting to learn from that article,
“Whiting, however, said that Canada accounted for only 1% of their total sales and that the company could withstand the hit.
He added the company would watch out for what happens in Mexico, which according to its annual report, made up 7% of its 2024 sales.”
Who’d have thought Canadians were such lightweights compared to the Mexicans?
I think Alberta is the only Canadian province with actual liquor stores, so for most Canadian they can only choose between different branches of the same store; at least for hard liquor. Many province do have private beer and wines sales; I know Ontario and Quebec (were most Canadians live) do.
I don’t like bourbon. Too sweet.
That shocked the shit out of me too! But, my guess is Canada makes up for their lack of drinking of US whiskey by drinking a shitload of Canadian whiskey. And right now, even more Canadian whiskey.
Not all. Stay away from the wheated swill and head to the rye section.
No, most have provincial stores. They may also have private stores.
Whoops, that should read "actual private liquor stores. I know about the government run stores; I live in Pennsylvania which has a government liquor monopoly.
Yes, one can find bottled beer, but here in BC the move is to cans.
Canadians actually care and have the cajónes to carry out boycotts.
Btw, what term works to say USA-ians and not disdain our northern and southern neighbors since they shouldn’t be tainted with our shit? I have always automatically defaulted to “Americans” being the US.
The US can’t even boycott Chik-fil-A for being anti-gay. How hard is it to not eat at one fast food chain in support of your personal beliefs? Naw, we can’t even pull that off.
Got an interesting message from a friend in Toronto. He belongs to a fancy private club, with a bar and a dining room. Apparently, while they will be running through their existing stock of Kentucky bourbon (I’ll assume they’re including Jack Daniel’s in that), and California wines, they won’t order any more. Not that they could, now that the LCBO is not distributing American product any more, but should this mess be resolved somehow, they don’t plan on ordering more American alcohol of any sort for a long while.
A drop in the bucket, perhaps, but my friend had no problem with it. “Every bottle of Jim Beam and Jack Daniel’s that is removed makes more room for the really good Canadian whiskies, and single-malt Scotches.”
As for cans vs. bottles—a case of 24 empty bottles weighs 16 lbs (source: my training and experience at Ontario’s Beer Stores); a case of 24 empty cans weighs maybe one pound, tops. Given that liquor stores here in Alberta do not accept returns, most people let things add up until it is worth your while to go return all beverage containers to the Bottle Depot. So last week, I took back maybe 6 cases of cans—96 pounds of bottles, instead of six pounds of cans. Easy to put into green garbage bags and to lift and take in, in one load, and cans don’t break in transit. That’s why cans are popular out here.
Don’t worry, we know exactly what it means when people refer to Americans. Unlike “Europeans”, “Africans”, or “Asians”, no one really refers to inhabitants of the full Americas continents by any one name.
Cojones.
Balls are cojones.
Cajones means “drawers,” as in “chest of.”
I remember, because I read a mystery once where furniture played a big role, and my Spanish was very much a work in progress, and I was confused as to why balls were so important, when it dawned on me that I’d heard the word, but never seen it written.
Today I learned that it’s “Jack Daniel’s” and not “Jack Daniels.”
As things have worked out, I am in charge of returning recyclable materials for our house. Bottles/glass is a drag.
Cans are not only lighter, they can be squished.
And good for Canada for the boycott.
“Americans” is the US. No one hears it and thinks “I wonder if he means Mexicans…”
But I suppose you could say Yankees. It’s a bit twee when you’re trying to be mad but no one will suspect you might mean Canadians.
I guess, in English, in some (most?) parts of the world.
If you say “Americano” in Spanish, in Argentina, Uruguay and parts nearby it may cause confusion, at first look it means “Someone from the Americas” (the continents), from context/cultural osmosis many would recognize that you mean “Estadounidenses” but even in that case many would be offended by the assumption that only USAians can be “Americanos”.
(I used to defend the usage saying that those of the United States of Mexico call themselves Mexicans and the first Brazilian republic (1889 to 1930) was also called “United States of Brazil” and their citizens “Brazilians”, but lately I’ve lost the urge, to be honest)
Not “Yankees” - “Yanks”. Yankees are a baseball team.
(I mean, yes, the word can also refer to U.S. citizens in general, or only to people from northern U.S., or only to people from northeastern U.S., or only to people from New England… so it’s probably best to avoid confusion).