Just how do Canadians eat anyway?

[BeardedOne]

No frenchi your not. Now go get me some freedomfries

Freedom Toast, Freedom Doors, Freedom Kissing, Freedom Ticklers...

Heh...Whassup wit' dat?

Let's not forget "Fredom active, Greek passive"!

*Snark!*

Ow! That hurt!

[Felicia Katt]

here is a link to some information about this controversy.

http://news.inq7.net/opinion/index.p...d=74937&col=84

Apparently, eating with a spoon and fork is a Fillipino custom, but the lunch room monitors at a school in Canada repeatedly made a recent immigrant boy eat alone at a table because he followed his cultural norm.

when the boy's mother called to complain, the school principal, Normand Bergeron said:
If your son eats like a pig, he has to go to another table because this is the way we do it and how we're going to do it every time."
Pretty remarkably insensitive, ignorant and intolerant. Its not known if this is a trend in Canada yet LOL

FK

[Ecstatic]

I didn't know this was the Filipino custom, but in Thailand pushing food onto the spoon with the fork and never placing the fork in one's mouth is a custom which began in the 19th century. Here's an account of how it came to be:

King Chulalongkorn the Great (Rama V) is largely credited with modernising Thailand in the latter half of the nineteenth century; he was educated by the an Englishwoman, courted Western diplomates and leaders and travelled abroad. One morning he ordered his kitchen to cook a multi-course Western meal and invited the British consul over, sat him down and asked him to 'eat as they do in Europe' so that he could observe their table 'skills'. After everything was done, the King decided he had no use for a knife when eating Thai food (for it was all already chopped up), but found the fork and spoon handy and so begun the use of cutlery in Thailand. Nowadays everyone uses the fork to push the food onto the spoon (in your right hand), which then goes in your mouth. The fork, however, never does.

I imagine something very similar developed in other Asian countries.

[markvictor]

Just got soda up my nasal passages when I red that one, A...classic

Sowweee.

Hey Arianna,A nose full of pepsi is well worth it to see you shoot a lurker down in flames...

[thmack]

As for the Canadians i hear they still wear animal skins and some even speak french.

lmao

WTF.....................

[plainBob]

LOL i was goin with the flow of joke at the begining. But I'm still trying to figure out whay they are on this kids back because he eats with a spoon. I guess I'll say im sorry for the freach remark . Canadians dont surrender as fast as the french, they atleast put up a fight.

[peyton]

Well this would appear to be an isolated incident with one dumb dicksmack of a principal.. We canadians eat like the rest of the world.
and the rest of the world is allowed to eat as they like. even when here.

so feel free to bring your chopsticks or other weapons of choice when coming here

Personally I eat my Pizza with my hands yet many use a fork and knife.
it was something i never encountered till i moved to muskoka but it's fairly common to see at the pizza places up here.

And Bearded one is right,, they don't speak french in Quebec,, they speak Quebecois.. which is sligtly different than french in say Paris..
and in other regions of Canada such as northern Ontario.. the french is even different still.. so,, the french isn't french I believe "different dialects" would be proper way of putting it.
Oh, and I love french toast,, and Poutine.

[JohnnyVee]

As someone who adores asian food...Indian, Thai...Toronto has some of the best asian cooking I've had. Many places remain American'ized / Canadian'ized.

[Friedrich_Nietzsche]

Another normal everyday story...

[BeardedOne]

Well this would appear to be an isolated incident with one dumb dicksmack of a principal..

@ 'dicksmack'

The last time I heard of something this ignorant was when a southern (I believe it was Florida) police department censured one of its officers because he used the 'European seven' in his reports.

To those unaware, pretty much all of the world except 'US' writes the one/1 as a line with a 'hat', much as it appears typed: 1 . To avoid confusion, the seven/7 is typically written with a stroke/line through it. I'm not sure when/where I picked up the habit of doing so myself (Probably when I was corresponding with the twins in Sweden...*Sigh*), but no one's ever said 'boo' about it. When I read the story of this cop getting shit about doing it all I could think of was the mantra: The American people clearly have too much free time on their hands.

And now it's the gawdamned Canucks emulating our own ignorance? Jeez, where can I go to escape this shit?