We're from the Great White North, eh?

Some of us certainly are. Perhaps you are too.

That's why *we* know the secret wisdom behind the Great White North.

Oh gosh! I SURVIVED on Champs Frozen Steaks during my brief stint in the "Isolation Ward" living in the Old Folk's retirement home in Mira Loma. I thought it was Canadian Bacon.

As I said elsewhere... you'd think so. But Canadian bacon (which is NEVER called that here), back bacon or peameal bacon (as it is called) looks quite different. It's not quite the same colour, has the approximate shape of a pork chop, and has a strip of peameal along one side. Peameal is some kind of coursely ground grain that the whole side of bacon has been rolled in and adheres to the surface. Looks about like ground corn. So think pink, with a ribbon of yellow.

Sort of like how the French call french fries "pomme de terre frites"? Why is all this talk of bacon making me hungry? ;9

The French couldn't call them "French" fries because they were Belgian.

And in England, as in Canada for much of my life, they were called "chips." But insidious American culture has contaminated ours, so that most Canadians probably use the odious term "fries" now. Next we'll forget the proper way to pronounce "clique," "toupé" and "gratis" and say "click," "toop" and "gratise" instead.

ext we'll forget the proper way to pronounce "clique," "toupé" and "gratis" and say "click," "toop" and "gratise" instead.

I've only heard the first pronounced as "click". Can't seem to think of any other way without adding another syllable

The second I've only heard pronounced "too-PAY"

And the last I've only heard pronounced exactly as spelled.

You never never never hear anyone say "click" here. It's "cleek" as it should be, since it's a French word. We have a lot of easily iritated French speakers near us, and they keep us on our toes.

Hah. I would've thought they'd all been deported to Quebec :D

Even a few hundred miles away, they're squawky enough to be heard. Not long ago there was a protest from Quebec that one of the government's ministers made an incautious remark about how the Canucks were "Canada's team" in the Stanley Cup playoffs. Their complaint? The Montreal Canadien's are supposedly "Canada's team." Who decided this and on what page of the Guiness Book of Records it'sprinted, I don't know.

Suddenly I have the urge to play beer rolet..... And I dont even drink..

The Beerhunter!

Awesome Inaction Figures you got there.

Inaction figures... I like it. But all plastic figures are inaction, even the ones that are supposed to look like they're flying, kung-fu kicking, making a slap-shot, or lobbing a hand grenade.