Signs that I’m home again
Signs that I’m home again:
• Bilingual packaging (yes, we call it Kraft Dinner).
• Lays Ketchup chips
• French fries (chips) served with tiny packets of vinegar
• Having to look for the Canadian price on books and magazines
• Remembering to ask for the ‘washroom’ instead of the ‘rest room’
• Eating Dinner and Supper instead of Lunch and Dinner
• Needing a sweater during the chilly mornings
• Canadian Chocolate: Coffee Crisp, Crispy Crunch, Wunderbar & Zero Bars
• Mary Brown’s Fried Chicken (mmmmm….taters and gravy)
• Tim Horton’s on every corner instead of Starbucks (medium double-double please).
• Television news I can stand to watch
• Less traffic, less pollution, less rat race mentality.
• Driving without air conditioning
• Newfie accents swirling all around me like music to my long lost ears.
• McDonalds sells poutine
• It is difficult to get the girls to sleep because sun does not set until 9pm, and it is not fully dark until around 10pm.
I’ll be home around mid-August, but will post whenever I can!
I don’t visit or comment too often but love this topic.
It is amazing how two countries can live side-by-side but still have so many unique differences. I can’t stand going to McDonalds and not getting my vinegar - thought that was so odd you couldn’t get the packets even in Buffalo (just across the border here). You can add Laura Secord chocolate, nanaimo bars, Harveys and serviettes. I have never heard of Zero Bars but love Coffee Crisp (such a shame not to have them down south).
Have fun at home.
PS - Some of Tim Horton’s timbits have trans fats - I was shattered.
Comment by Ann — 07.08.06 @ 4:17:48
So - I guess no last minute flights up here (or rather, from there, over here) to make it two births in a row, eh? Ah well
Any guesses, by the way, on when this one is to arrive, seeing as you are 1 for 1 right now?
Have an absolutely wonderful time, my dear and walk in the ocean for me…
Love, Laura
Comment by Laura, Iain and Little One 2.0 — 07.08.06 @ 10:33:28
Okay, as a born and bred American (darn the luck), I went to the links and I still can’t figure out what poutine is. Any more info for me?
But to the PP, can I be an honorary Canadian just for my love of nanaimo bars? One of my mama friends makes them. She always has a stash handy in her freezer. Wonderful! She also has a license plate that says “NFLDER” and we once celebrated Canada Day with her family.
Comment by Tara — 07.09.06 @ 6:19:24
Ooh, ooh, you’re here at home? Cool. Funny the things we take for granted - it’s rather amusing to hear them from you, now that you’ve been gone for so long. The dinner/supper thing is a Maritimes/Newfie thing as far as I know. I never heard lunch called dinner until I went to MTA.
I will be in NS the 2nd week of August, visiting my BIL in Greenwood. Are you near there/will you still be there then? If so, email me!
Comment by Jen H. — 07.10.06 @ 2:51:59
PS to Tara - poutine is french fries smothered with melted cheese curds and gravy. It’s Quebecois and you either love it or you hate it. And it will kill you if you eat enough of it!
Comment by Jen H. — 07.10.06 @ 2:53:22
Isn’t going home fun? Having visited Canada recently and having come home after making a life long friend, I understood most of your post completely.
Just a note . . . in lots of places here in southern Louisiana we eat dinner and supper, too!
Have fun!
Comment by Lisa P — 07.10.06 @ 2:58:14
Waaaahhh! I miss you!!!!!
Comment by Maisha — 07.10.06 @ 11:37:47
I can’t wait to come home… I miss you, I can’t wait to see you… be home soon:)
Lynn
Comment by Lynn — 07.12.06 @ 3:19:24
It’s breakfast, dinner, supper in the nether regions of Kansas, too…
Comment by Melinda — 07.15.06 @ 8:18:29
Can you bring home a bag of ketchup chips? I’m curious and a big fan of ketchup…
Comment by Karen — 07.18.06 @ 6:19:37
Hey there! I just checked out your Photoblog again and it looks like Julianna is walking, or close to it. Is she?! Amazing.
Comment by Rebekah — 07.21.06 @ 5:47:04