Interview with Canadians! 12/30/2018

[MasterWalks]

Canada

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Some articles on things happening in Canada

Spoiler for no more pennies:

https://www.cba.ca/phasing-out-the-penny-in-canada

Spoiler for You like weed eh?:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/world/canada/marijuana-pot-cannabis-legalization.html

[MasterWalks]

3 questions;

1) I live in Northern America. It gets cold here. -10 Fahrenheit i think is our lowest we have had in the past 5 years. Whats the lowest its been for you guys that you can personally remember?

2) Is it true that malt vinegar is a tabletop condiment for you guys?

3) Marijuana is also legally recreational where i live and it is HUGELY popular. How much does an ounce cost up there? For decent stuff, its about ~200- 250 but can go as high as 350 here.

[shockcannon]

Since you guys get a fair amount of snow, do anyone of you ski? If yes, how does it feel to always regret not having been a snowboarder?

How much maple syrup do you consume?

[iancudorinmarian]

Why are you so nice?

[dragonsdemesne]

I'm a Canadian so I'll do the honours

1) Well, in rest-of-the-world temperatures -10 Fahrenheit is -23 Celsius, which being from Edmonton, Alberta, that's cold, but it's nowhere near the coldest I've ever seen.  Most winters the coldest points will be somewhere in the -30s, and I think about the worst I've seen is around -40, which due to math reasons, -40 F = -40 C.

2) I don't know what malt vinegar is.

3) I'm not sure, since I don't smoke, and frankly, I'm super pissed off that it's legal here now, for various reasons.  I do know that it varies HUGELY from province to province, since each province was given the right to decide how it should be sold.  From what I understand it's roughly about the same price in my city as it was when it was still illegal, but how much that is per ounce I don't know.  If you're talking $250-350 I'm pretty sure it's WAY cheaper here, but we price it per gram, since, you know, we aren't from the USA, Myanmar, or Liberia (the three countries not yet on the metric system).

Being a curious sort, I decided to work it out :p There's about 28 grams to 1 ounce and the prices in the picture linked below are in Canadian dollars.  Based on that, though, it looks like about $150-300 Canadian dollars per ounce, depending on location.  If you're talking US dollars, then it looks like it's pretty similar; add roughly 30-odd percent to that to convert to USD.  (34% today anyway)  That would be around $200-400 USD an ounce then.

https://shawglobalnews.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/raw_348z_cannabis-cost1.jpg?quality=70&strip=all&w=1024&strip=all


I haven't skied since I was about 13, but there are at least 2 ski hills here in town, and lots in the Rocky Mountains a few hours west of where I live, though I've never skied there.  I've never snowboarded, and while it was hugely popular around the time I was a teenager, from the people I've talked to, snowboarding has been losing popularity around here for awhile, though I can't speak to the rest of the country.

Personally?  None; I don't like maple syrup.  My preference is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_syrup; we always buy 'Rogers Syrup' that's mentioned in that article; it's great.  As a country... tons, especially out east where it's produced.  For a funny story about maple syrup I'll give you this:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_Heist

I don't know about 'nice'... I guess it depends what you compare it to.  I generally think of it as simply 'not being an asshole' :p

[serprex]

For context: I'm in Southern Ontario, where a third of canadians live http://us-canad.com/images/163pop.jpg?crc=327628944 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Ontario

1 it's currently above zero, a few years ago I biked to work throughout the winter besides one day when there was a blizzard, turns out that was one of our colder winters in the past decade: Ctrl+F 'Max, Min and Average Temperature' (gosh I miss when people used ids in their dom which allowed for anchors..)

2 haven't really used malt vinegar unless it's on salad. Really like salt & vinegar chips tho. Also would do shots of white, red wine, & apple cider vinegar in college. Also anything good is better pickled

3 legal pot is more expensive & is being run terribly, Ontario happened to elect a right wing government shortly before hand so they've done their best to complicate matters. Government will have to get its act together to compete with the preexisting infrastructure. People talk about it more openly now tho, but for the most part nothing really changed, anyone who wanted marijuana could get it before, we're talking about a drug that was being distributed enough for high school students to be getting high every day between class. Also if you get to know your dealer they'll probably cut you some slack on price, so price depends on whether you're nice or not

I suppose I'll segue that to canadians being nice. Yeah, people say sorry all the time, it pisses me off, but I'm not particularly nice given people always think I'm shockcannon or Manuel while a guest in chat. I have watched people literally go back & forth saying sorry for saying sorry etc. I'll cut someone off & they'll apologize to me. We still have plenty of road rage & gossip. Maybe I'm an outlier being an ass & being surrounded by people who don't call me out has left me unlearned on filtering myself. Like I told my friend one time he should apologize to a client for being an idiot, & he stated he was sorry twice in the email, taking me seriously

Never skied, never snowboarded. Class trip went tubing once, went down the hill one time, then spent the rest of the time in a café chatting with one of the parent supervisors about random stuff

Maple syrup is great, but expensive if you don't settle for the artificial substitutes. It goes well on toast, pancakes, waffles, crepes, fries, eggs, oatmeal, etc

[CleanOnion]

Malt vinegar is a tabletop condiment here in the UK. But it's only used for chips really

[MasterWalks]

Poll for next country has been added

[Wyand]

When I'll have some free time I'll necro this topic and the Hungarian one.

ps: Forza Italia!

[Zyardran]

3 questions;

1) I live in Northern America. It gets cold here. -10 Fahrenheit i think is our lowest we have had in the past 5 years. Whats the lowest its been for you guys that you can personally remember?

2) Is it true that malt vinegar is a tabletop condiment for you guys?

3) Marijuana is also legally recreational where i live and it is HUGELY popular. How much does an ounce cost up there? For decent stuff, its about ~200- 250 but can go as high as 350 here.

1-for southern Canada, I can say it's been about -43 at worst. Stay warm fellas!
2-methinks it depends on the country. I don't even eat vinegar so iunno.
3-Depends on your dealer, but you should ask Google :,p

Why are you so nice?

Cus

Since you guys get a fair amount of snow, do anyone of you ski? If yes, how does it feel to always regret not having been a snowboarder?

How much maple syrup do you consume?

1-how does it feel walking home in a blizzard at 6am? Do the math friendo~
2-depends on the person really. I personally consume about 3.4 litres a week