I’ve postulated “Frodo’s first law of demonyms”:
“The area covered by a demonym grows in direct relation to the distance to the region originally covered by a demonym”.
Thus in New York only people from New England are Yankees, but in Alabama anybody from north of the Mason-Dixon line is a Yankee and in Buenos Aires anybody from the U.S. is a Yanqui.
In another example, in Buenos Aires City only people from the city proper are “Porteños”, while in the rural parts of Buenos Aires province anybody from Greater Buenos Aires is a Porteño, in the rest of Argentina anybody from Buenos Aires province is a Porteño and outside of Argentina all Argentines are Porteños.
Could be. I know I’ve asked my wife about this and she says the only people still trying to make “Estadounidenses” a thing in Peru are cranky old people who shake their canes at reality. That’s not to say the same is universal across the southern continent.
I’ve been called both by UK friends but, sure, Yanks.
How much turnover is there in a wine/liquor store? Like how long it would it take for shelves of American spirits to naturally deplete? I imagine some bottles can sit there for months, whereas others may not last a day. On average it probably can’t be that fast, otherwise they wouldn’t bother to pull the existing stock.
Yankee works fine. Especially because it mortally offends a certain class from the American South.
Generally I like to refer to others in whatever manner they prefer. I live in the American South, and while I don’t want to be called a Yankee, I’m not going to get bent out of shape if a Welshman or some sheep shagging colonial calls me a Yank. I don’t expect outsiders to know the subtleties of American identity anymore than I know theirs. I do know there are some folks outside the United States in North and South American who dislike that we refer to ourselves as Americans while excluding them. But we started calling ourselves Americans before the Revolutionary War and will likely continue doing so for a while.
It’s certainly more pronounced as you move south, and, as you say, in older generations.
However there are still a lot of people (and not only oldsters) who see things that way around here.
As in other things related to the U.S. I used to debate them on that but now I prefer not to be confused with a Milei supporter in their slavish adoration of all things U.S. related so I keep my mouth shut and save the ammo for more important stuff.
For what its worth, I’ve always used “Yank” for “generic American”.
I only seem to use “Yankee” and derivatives (“Yankee Doddle” “Yankee Crankee” etc.) if I’m being particularly angry, but that’s a reflection of my emotional state. I’m most creative when I’m angry.
It’d be bizarre if the reverse of Prohibition happened and American booze (i.e. bourbon) started to be smuggled into Canada.
You can’t always count on the Detroit River being sufficiently frozen over, though.
My experience with liquor stores is somewhat dated, and exclusively in the US. So this may not inform the Canadian situation especially state owned operations.
Depending on the volume the store does and the breadth of the assortment, maybe between 15-45 days on hand ON AVERAGE. There will be product within the store with high volume, frequent deliveries, and rapid turnover (Budweiser, Coors) with only a few days of inventory in hand. Many types of wines a single case (the minimum order quantity) could take months to sell through.
So a store doing a lot of volume and a small assortment will have fewer days of inventory on hand. Stores doing lower volumes and higher assortment will have many weeks on hand.
Heck, this board can’t sustain a boycott. They can’t stay away because the fries are just too good, or they love the pickle, or something.
I haven’t had any trouble boycotting Chick-fil-A, and have managed to shoot it down a couple of times when it was suggested as a place to eat. Granted, I generally avoid fast food restaurants as a whole, especially ones with such insane drive-thru traffic.
Getting back to the toponym hijack, I just wanted to point out that, in Canada at least, “America” refers to the US, while the apparently more restrictive, “North America” is generally understood to mean US + Canada, leaving Mexico in the gulf.
I instinctively think Canada, Mexico, and the US. pause. …then the Caribbean comes to my mind.
ETA: Apparently, central America is its own continent in my mind? Huh. Weird.
Would that be the Gulf of Mexico or the Gulf of America?
Sales might have to do with the population of Canada being 40 million and of Mexico 132 million.
No, not likely for the foreseeable future to be heading to any US section of the liquor store.
Cool. I was responding to your comment about bourbon being too sweet. Glad you are boycotting too which I guess was the actual point of this thread and not if we like bourbon or not. Glad you got your comments back on track!
Head for the Canadian section in the liquor store. I’ve discovered that both Collingwood and Forty Creek Canadian whiskies, each from Ontario, are every bit as good as, or better, than American whiskies. And they are much, much better than Canadian Club and Royal Reserve, and their ilk.
Plus, with the lowering of interprovincial trade barriers, you should be able to get some great Ontario and BC wines. Possibly Nova Scotian wine too—I’ve had it when I’ve been to NS, and it’s not bad at all.
I bet you’ve been called a septic as well (“Seppo” being the Australian version). As in rhyming cockney slang: septic tank = yank.
Keep up the boycott Canadians!
I’m reasonably well travelled, albeit in the Southern hemisphere. Bud Lite just does not exist in Africa, South America, Indonesia etc. Maybe Australia? But I have not been there.
I hear it is a really shit beer anyway, and when I worked in bars in London (UK) we certainly did not stock it, English people drink real beer.
ETA, maybe you were refering to generic shit beer. That is all over the world, for example Brazil has Sol, South Africa has Black Label (though I drink a fair amount of it)