Funny Things that Cdns say/do at Disney that make Americans go 'huh?'

I asked a few cast members if they could guess where we were from based on our accent. (We're from Southwest Ontario). 2 CM's gave me a similar answers. They both would have figured we were from the Northern US, but they said that after me asking the question, they figured from Canada. I asked why and they said that apparently a lot of Canadians are desperate to prove that many of us don't say "aboot", "hoser" and "eh" all the time.

While I don't think I say aboot I am pretty big on eh and most of my friends are hosers. Bob and Doug are my heros - I am the Canadian stereotype. And proud of it!
 
Originally from Illinois (Ill-in-oy) and we do have backyards.
Yes, pardon me or I'm sorry should be expected.
My father said utensils which always made us chuckle in a fond way (and cry now that I don't get to hear it any more).
I also stand in line.

LOL, I just noticed where this was quoted from...what else would I call the space behind my house??!!:rotfl: I too have a backyard:thumbsup2
 
I asked my American friends (who work at Disney) while we were eating at EPCOT if they needed any serviettes. They had no idea what that meant. Also tried explaining milk in bags to them.
 
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As an American living in Toronto (which we love, thank you very much), raising a basically Canadian speaking child, my two cents:

American cheese = kraft singles ("processed cheese food stuff" per the label)
Mac and cheese = Kraft dinner
Restroom/bathroom = washroom (meanwhile we don't rest, bathe or wash in them!)
Hat/cap = toque
Z = zed (no American will know what you mean if you spell something out loud for them with a zed. Say Z or be doomed to repeating yourself)
I'm all set = no thank you

"Regular" for coffee is very regional so just be specific.

I laughed at the listing every place you're from, as I probably do that. What do Canadians do? Do you answer where you live right now? Where you were born?
wow! Thank you for the explanation of American Cheese! Who knew?? :confused3
 


I remember one trip to Florida, and when this person learned I was from Canada he asked me what Canadians thought of Americans. Well!! That's a loaded question! So I said that the Americans had a reputation of being aggressive.
He said "then what are Canadians like".
I said we are like "go away and leave us alone"
He said "Well, that's because we won the World Wars.
I said "You never won the world wars"
"Yes we did".
"No, that was an allied effort"
"Well, we have never lost a war".
"Yes , you did lose a war"
"Well you can't count Viet Nam. That wasn't a real war"
"I'm not counting Viet Nam".
"Well what war did we ever lose?"
"You lost the war of 1812"
"I never heard of it. What happened?"
"The Americans invaded Canada"
"I never heard of it"
"Look it up. The battle of Lundy's Lane, Queenston Heights. There's a lot of history"
"What happened?"
"We won"
"So then what happened"
"We said go away and leave us alone"
lol ;)
 
We also say 'decks' and more and more American's say 'Lanai,' which is basically the same thing except in Hawaiian.
 


More of an accent thing, but I had a lot of trouble when I was working at WDW last summer with the word 'bag'. Was a lot of confusion when asking a guest to take off her backpack and put it on the floor of a ride. I guess we say it more as "b-eh-g"? Americans tend to have a longer a (B-aaaah-g).
Other than that, I liked keener, runners, and give'r.
 
I usually take one trip a year with some american friends. They have got used to some of the terms and laugh at me and how I say "Out".
Words that they have gone. wait a minute, your speaking Canadian at me have been:

Pogo Sticks ( the food, they call them corn dogs)
Washroom
how many times I say sorry
 
I still remember the first time I was in WDW sol I had come out of DAK for the day and I was stopping at the gift shop just outside the park on my way to the bus station as I replied when I saw it that I had forgotten sun screen. It was in February the CM at the shop had on a winter jacket and I just had on a hoodie and a tshirt, I still had pants ion as I had only been there for a little bit after getting off my flight and didn't have my bags when i went out to the park. Anyway the commented about me being cold and then when i told them what temperature it was back home then they said "yeah that would be cold."
 
A few years ago I crossed the border into Detroit, Mi. The customs officer on the US side asked me to tell him what my license plate was. At the time it had a Z in it, which I pronounced "Zed". The customs officer immediately said "Why is it Zed, not Zee?" and proceeded to spend the next 10 minutes grilling me about the Canadian alphabet. After a while I was just thinking "I don't know, just please let me go!". Not a good way to start a day, but makes for a good story!
 
We got strange looks on our first trip end of January when we were swimming. I think there was one other kid in the pool. Everyone else was walking around in sweaters and coats. The pools are heated for goodness sake!

We got strange looks and a few comments of you must be Canadian for wearing shorts and flip flops in January on one trip a few years ago.
 
I get excited when I head down south because I can get unsweetened iced tea. Not a thing here in Canada at all! Although I have to say - I do like the pop-like pre-sweetened iced tea found in Canada. It is not the same as sweet tea though - totally different taste as they don't use real brewed tea.
You can get unsweetened ice tea at Starbucks in Canada, you just have to ask for no sweetener. Davids tea has it also.
 
Z = Zed I still laugh when I think of the time when my friend (an East Coast American) asked me why we say 'Zed'...and my other friend, a Canadian, jumped in and said, "No, dear. Why do YOU say zee?"

Or this classic:
American friend: "We should be like Canada, and just be one state"
Me: "There is so much wrong with that sentence that I don't know where to begin. One, we are not 'states' but provinces and territories..."
American friend (
interrupts): "Yeah, that confuses me!"
Me: "That is such an American thing to say."
 
I've been chuckling all the way through this thread (and am very happy to see some fellow East Coasters/East Coast-isms) :upsidedow

When I left Nova Scotia for Toronto 15 years ago I always got ribbed for calling bags 'Sobeys Bags'. Also - in Ontario they call turnips 'Rutabegas' which I had never heard of before (cause we eat a lot of turnip down east). And they never believed me that the peanut came on top of Squirrel Peanut Butter, not Skippy like in Ontario. Deep fried pepperoni is just a mystery here (in fact there is no good pepperoni culture up here) and one can't explain what a Donair is....they have these Gyro things.... And a 24 is a case, while a case is....I don't even know. They don't know what dulse is (and might swallow it if introduced). And scallops....these are a giant mystery..... Funny regional differences


Oh one other thing - people out west call Ontario 'Eastern Canada' but Maritimers and Newfoundlanders never think of Ontario as 'east'. Ontario refers to 'Atlantic Canadians' but we never call ourselves that...just the area. We're Maritimer's with our crazy cousins the Newfoundlanders across the strait :)
 
When I left Nova Scotia for Toronto 15 years ago I always got ribbed for calling bags 'Sobeys Bags'. Also - in Ontario they call turnips 'Rutabegas' which I had never heard of before (cause we eat a lot of turnip down east). And they never believed me that the peanut came on top of Squirrel Peanut Butter, not Skippy like in Ontario. Deep fried pepperoni is just a mystery here (in fact there is no good pepperoni culture up here) and one can't explain what a Donair is....they have these Gyro things.... And a 24 is a case, while a case is....I don't even know. They don't know what dulse is (and might swallow it if introduced). And scallops....these are a giant mystery..... Funny regional differences


Oh one other thing - people out west call Ontario 'Eastern Canada' but Maritimers and Newfoundlanders never think of Ontario as 'east'. Ontario refers to 'Atlantic Canadians' but we never call ourselves that...just the area. We're Maritimer's with our crazy cousins the Newfoundlanders across the strait :)

I'm from Ontario and I used to eat turnips. If you asked me what a rutabega was, I'd have no clue.
Maybe you should explain what a "dulse" and a "donair" is for those that don't know. Not sure what you mean by "gyro things" as well...
 

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