The Ugly Canada Thread - Page 605

Acajack · #**12081** Posted **Jan 31, 2018, 5:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

I remember some old timers said "Hambourgeois" instead of "Hambeurrgeur". Nobody said "Pommes de Terre Frites"...it was always "Une grosse patate" or "des frites medium" (the grammatically appropriate "moyenne" was not that commonly used). Even sometimes people would say "Une cafe Large". Very rarely would people say "Lait Frappe", rather "Une Milkshake..." was the way.

But they would say "MacPoulet" and "McCroquettes"

Ever hear "deux roteux pis une graisseuse"?

Acajack · #**12082** Posted **Jan 31, 2018, 5:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

A francophone friend of mine that worked as a manager at Loblaw's called it "LOOBLUES"

My mom has lived in Ontario for over 40 years and still has trouble saying Loblaws properly.

O-tacular · #**12083** Posted **Jan 31, 2018, 5:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by franktko

I have to share a funny language anecdote. I used to go out with a girl that came from Venezuela. She learned French here. A lot of people that aren't francophone have a hard time with the sound "ou" (like in igloo).

Anyways, it was one of her first job in Montreal and she was working at a store that sold clothes. A lady was trying a scarf on her head and my friend said: "Vous pouvez aussi le mettre dans le cul (cou)" ("you can also put it up your ass").

She mentionned that both the client and her boss had the most OMG reaction and she couldn't understand what happened.

FrAnKs · #**12084** Posted **Jan 31, 2018, 5:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

Est-ce qu'il y en a un sur la rue "Magoire"?

Ils m'ont eu à l'usure, maintenant je prononce Maguire comme eux pour me faire comprendre...

O-tacular · #**12085** Posted **Jan 31, 2018, 5:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

I remember some old timers said "Hambourgeois" instead of "Hambeurrgeur". Nobody said "Pommes de Terre Frites"...it was always "Une grosse patate" or "des frites medium" (the grammatically appropriate "moyenne" was not that commonly used). Even sometimes people would say "Une cafe Large". Very rarely would people say "Lait Frappe", rather "Une Milkshake..." was the way.

But they would say "MacPoulet" and "McCroquettes"

What about the MacRib de MacDo?

O-tacular · #**12086** Posted **Jan 31, 2018, 5:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

Ever hear "deux roteux pis une graisseuse"?

Yes but I can't remember what it means.

FFX-ME · #**12087** Posted **Jan 31, 2018, 5:43 PM**

Du monde du hockey, mes parents ont toujours dit les sharks de "Sanne Josée" au lieu de "Sanne Hosée" et ne me croyaient pas quand je les ai corrigé.

Acajack · #**12088** Posted **Jan 31, 2018, 5:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

What about the McRib?

I think it was called McCôte, but does it still exist? I admit to almost never going to McDonalds...

Acajack · #**12089** Posted **Jan 31, 2018, 5:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by FFX-ME

Du monde du hockey, mes parents ont toujours dit les sharks de "Sanne Josée" au lieu de "Sanne Hosée" et ne me croyaient pas quand je les ai corrigé.

C'est l'influence de Claude Quenneville!

Acajack · #**12090** Posted **Jan 31, 2018, 5:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Yes but I can't remember what it means.

roteux = hot dog

graisseuse = order of fries

MolsonExport · #**12091** Posted **Jan 31, 2018, 5:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

What about the McRib?

McCote (with the accents circonflexe and aigu)

And yes, my francophone GFs all called the place McDo (prounounced McDough)

Acajack · #**12092** Posted **Jan 31, 2018, 5:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by FrAnKs

Ils m'ont eu à l'usure, maintenant je prononce Maguire comme eux pour me faire comprendre...

J'ai fait de même avec le boulevard Maloney (mal-o-né) ici à Gatineau. Mon père qui est francophone hors-Québec archi-bilingue insiste toujours sur la prononciation irlandaise: "mull-oh-nee".

On a aussi le lac Leamy (et le casino qui porte son nom), prononcé "lemay" par la majorité des Gatinois.

MolsonExport · #**12093** Posted **Jan 31, 2018, 5:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

Ever hear "deux roteux pis une graisseuse"?

yes, but only at cassecroutes (which I remain a huge fan of). McD did not sell hotdogs.

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Acajack · #**12094** Posted **Jan 31, 2018, 5:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

McCote (with the accents circonflexe and aigu)

And yes, my francophone GFs all called the place McDo (prounounced McDough)

My Gatineau-raised kids say McDo.

My wife and I do remember "McDicks" from our Ontario days. I wonder if the American "Mickey Dees" is common among anglophones on this side of the border? I can't remember hearing it much in Canada.

O-tacular · #**12095** Posted **Jan 31, 2018, 5:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

My Gatineau-raised kids say McDo.

My wife and I do remember "McDicks" from our Ontario days. I wonder if the American "Mickey Dees" is common among anglophones on this side of the border? I can't remember hearing it much in Canada.

We pretty much call it McDicks here too. That or Rotten Ronnie's. My cousins from Quebec all call it "MACdo" instead of "McDo".

MolsonExport · #**12096** Posted **Jan 31, 2018, 5:51 PM**

Typical Casse Croute meal:

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MolsonExport · #**12097** Posted **Jan 31, 2018, 5:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

We pretty much call it McDicks here too. That or Rotten Ronnie's. My cousins from Quebec all call it "MACdo" instead of "McDo"

yeah! McDicks, Rotten Ronnie's and McShitties.

But the francophones almost universally called it Mc/Mac-Do.

Acajack · #**12098** Posted **Jan 31, 2018, 5:52 PM**

I recently heard a radio ad on an Ottawa station for St-Hubert. It seemed to a corporate ad as opposed to a local ad, and they pronounced it "saint yew-bair".

When I was younger (when St-Hubert had a much bigger presence in Ontario, down in the south of the province) I seem to recall their ads referred to them as "saint hew-burt", or maybe even "saint hew-burts".

Acajack · #**12099** Posted **Jan 31, 2018, 5:55 PM**

Harvey's = ar-VAYZ

MolsonExport · #**12100** Posted **Jan 31, 2018, 5:57 PM**

or Saint-Uber.

we sometimes called it "saint HuBBERTs" Anglos always had fun bastardizing (on purpose) the french way of pronouncing things.

and we would be amused at some of the translations.

Like "Collation Instantanee dans un gobelet" (for those instant soups in the styro containers).

Instant snack in a Goblin!

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