Canadianisms

A new book has come out on Canadianisms. I admit that I didn't know many of these were uniquely Canadian.

Here are a few for your reading pleasure...

• "all-dressed" potato chips or pizza


• bargoon (a bargain)


• back bacon (round, lean bacon cut from the eye of a pork loin)


• Cheezies (cheese-flavoured snack food made in Belleville, Ont.)


• date squares or matrimonial cake


• flipper pie (Newfoundland dish made of seal flippers)


• Gravol (outside of Canada, the drug is known by the brand name Dramamine)


• hanging up your skates (giving up or quitting)


• humidex (humidity index, a term invented by the Toronto weather office in 1965)


• joe job (a menial or monotonous task)


• kick at the can (an opportunity to achieve something)


• Nanaimo bar (dessert consisting of a crust of chocolate and cookie crumbs, a vanilla buttercream filling and chocolate glaze)


• Montreal bagel


• panzerotto (baked, pizza-like turnover)


• poutine


• rhyming off


• triactor (a bet on the first three finishers in a horse race, specifying their order of finish)

Colleen

Happy Birthday, Canada!

Can you pass a mini-citizenship quiz?

Check out Canada: A People's History.

History of Canada.

Have a great day!
Colleen