- Well, hello, everybody here
and we've been home for a long time
just sitting in our house thinking about life.
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- We thought that we would share
some of the funny things about Canada
that other people in the world think are totally weird,
but we think are totally normal.
("O Canada")
- When we went to the grocery store the other day,
we went to go grab some milk,
and I remember people had said to us,
"Hey, it's kinda strange
that you guys get your milk in bags."
It doesn't really mean anything to us.
I think it's a pretty convenient way to do it actually.
- After doing some research,
I found out why we have milk in bags, Dave.
Did you know why?
- No, I don't, it's just always been that way.
- Well, it's actually because in the 70s,
we switched over to the metric system here in Canada,
and because we used to have everything in the quart,
and pound, and all that other imperial system stuff,
when they switched over,
they were having a hard time fitting the milk
into the metric system,
so they just started making bags.
- Well, that makes sense to me.
- It's very Canadian.
- It is very Canadian.
- Oh, we can't make it work,
let's just put some bags and milk together.
- And this is how we open our milk.
We have a fancy milk opener.
We're ready.
I'm sorry.
- Sorry.
It is true.
Canadians do apologize a lot.
If you've ever heard that Canadians say sorry a lot,
it's true, and we say it in a certain way.
It's very much like "sorry."
Every Canadian will admit they say sorry
and people have been known to apologize to trees.
- Or a chair.
I've done that.
- 'Kay, keep comin', keep comin', keep comin'.
Oh, sorry!
Keep comin'.
- I don't know what it is.
We always say sorry to everything.
- Well, that's 'cause we also have the "Apology Act", right?
- Oh, yeah.
This is such a part of our national identity
that the government passed the "Apology Act."
And that means if you go to court in Canada,
you are allowed to apologize and say,
"I'm sorry, but I'm not admitting guilt
and you can't hold my apology against me."
So that is how much our apology system
is ingrained in Canadians.
So when you come to Canada, I'd try it.
Just bump into someone by accident,
and see if they turned around and say sorry.
- If you wanna pretend to be Canadian,
just apologize for everything.
("O Canada")
One thing we've been trying to figure out is
how a whole country embraced a loonie,
which is our one dollar coin,
and for lack of imagination,
our two dollar coin is called what?
- A toonie, it rhymes.
(Dave laughs)
- It does, so when you come up here
and you see people or you hear people ask for a loonie.
- That's a toonie.
- Or a toonie.
You'll know exactly what they're talking about.
Oh, by the way, do you have change for a five?
- All I've got are two toonies and a loonie.
Will that work?
- Works for me.
- All right.
- Can use those at Tim Hortons, thanks.
- Hi, I'd like to order a large coffee, double double,
and a dozen Timbits, please.
- No Canadian video would be complete
without mentioning Tim Hortons.
It is our beloved hockey player's original donut shop
that I believe is now owned by Americans,
which is kind of a Canadian thing.
But Hey, we love our Tim Horton's donuts.
(Dave exhales)
- Nothin' like a coffee and a Timbit.
- Why do we love Tim Hortons so much?
- It's a become a national identity for Canada.
- It has.
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Okay, Canada has some really funny named towns.
- They do.
- Yeah, they really do.
Yes, there's a town called Dildo in Canada.
- And you know what?
When you go there, you're not gonna miss it
'cause they got a huge sign.
They're very proud of that name.
- I think that's why "Schitt's Creek" had no problem
when they did the TV show "Schitt's Creek."
They're like, we got a Dildo,
I'm sure Canada can have a Schitt's Creek.
- Most definitely, most definitely.
There's some other ones too which are pretty funny.
- Can you think of some?
Well, there's Sexsmith, which is in Alberta.
- Oh, that's a good one.
Yeah, Alberta. - That's kind of funny.
Right?
- Those winters can get
really cold in Alberta, so.
A very typical Canadian name.
There's Stoner.
- Oh, Stoner,
and that's in BC.
- In British Columbia
- So typical.
- I have to laugh that one's in BC.
- We have Wawa in Ontario, Wawa
and in Wawa, you'll find a big, huge Canada goose
on the side of the highway, which is pretty fun.
I'm talkin' huge.
I'm talkin' stories
like not just this big, it's this many stories.
- Canada has those monuments too, right?
They got that big, huge nickel up in Sudbury.
- We have a big nickel, oh yeah.
- Yeah, they got that big apple.
- Okay, and I just have to give Newfoundland
its own special little shout out for their inventive names,
because not only are they the home of Dildo,
they also have Goobies.
- There's Nameless Cove.
- They have Blow Me Down.
Blow Me Down, Newfoundland.
- There's Spread Eagle.
- Spread Eagle, that's the best.
- There's a little bit
of a trend going on there in Newfoundland.
- Hey, a cool thing about Canada is
we're also the largest donut consumer in the world.
Something we're really proud of, our bellies show that.
- Yep, and you know what?
Tim Hortons has contributed to that, for sure.
- Big time.
You know, we have a really small population.
But it's really funny is that with 36 million people,
we consume like a billion donuts a year.
- That's a lot of donuts.
- Yeah.
(Deb laughs)
That goes with our maple syrup.
- And today we're doing all maple,
maple bacon and maple coconut.
Let's see how this is.
This is my first maple bacon donut ever in my life.
That is really good.
(Deb chuckling)
- And it's real maple syrup up here people.
It's not the the fake stuff that you get in other countries.
We actually have maple syrup farms
where we tap maple trees.
It's the actual maple syrup mixed with sugar.
And man, it is amazing.
You can put it on everything.
And we do here.
We put it on absolutely everything.
And even in the winter,
we have this thing where you pour it on snow
and you roll it up on a Popsicle stick
and you have a maple syrup toffee pop.
It's amazing.
- I'm just laughing
that that's probably not very COVID friendly anymore.
- Yeah, maybe not.
- But we'll still do it.
- Yeah, we'll still do it.
- I don't care.
- Gotta get my syrup fixed somehow.
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- I love that you mentioned winter too
because when we we're like 20 below,
we're like, "Yeah baby the ice is frozen
and we're out playing hockey or we're going snow shoe.
We just love our winters.
And we love to show off that we love our winters.
Canadians like to go,
"I can handle winter, how 'bout you?."
- We wear it as like a badge of honor, right?
- Oh, totally.
If we're stuck up here for the winter.
- We're gonna get out and enjoy it man.
We're havin' some great pond hockey here.
And speaking of hockey,
a lot of people think that hockey
is actually our national sport,
and you know what?
We play a lot of it here.
All the great hockey players come from Canada.
You know, they may play in the U.S.
but they all come from Canada.
But really our national sport is lacrosse.
A lot of people don't know that,
which is a game which is actually played
with what kind of looked
like hockey sticks with little nets on it.
I can see how there would be a bit of a translation,
but that's been our national sport for a very long time.
It's actually very fun.
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- Sine we are talking about the Apology Act.
I thought I'd have to go through a few
of the weird laws that we have here.
- There are a few, yeah
- We do have some really odd ones.
But one of the coolest and weirdest ones that we have
is that it is illegal to kill Sasquatch.
- Really?
- Yeah, really.
If you do happen to see Sasquatch
you are not allowed to kill it at any cost.
Him or her.
- Yeah.
You could definitely spend some time in jail for that one.
- Yeah.
Smelling bad is illegal in Canada.
And if somebody really wanted to go to court
over this, I could take you to court,
and if I could prove that you smell bad
you could face two years in jail
- Two years in jail for smelling bad!
(Deb laughing)
- So the actual law is anyone offending a public place
with an offensive smell could spend two years in jail.
So I'm wondering if that's something like putting
off a stink ball, doing something like that.
- I've never heard of it being enforced,
but that's not to say it hasn't,
- Ya never know.
Why take your chances?
Put on deodorant people.
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And one thing I love about Canada,
I like a lot of things, but I really love our money.
It's not that green stuff
that you get down South of the border.
I don't know how you guys tell a difference
between a 20, a five, a single, who knows?
But in Canada, our money is colorful.
Look at that.
Isn't that pretty money?
I think it's pretty money.
And you can really tell what is which.
You know that this is a 50.
You know, that the purple one is a 10.
You know that the green one is a 20.
And you know, the blue one is a five.
So you're never confused.
And you're never going to give somebody the wrong bill.
- Nope, it's very pretty money.
- It is.
- And you may have noticed that Dave pointed
out that all the hockey players in the NHL are Canadian.
That is a very Canadian thing to do.
- Oh yeah, for sure.
We want to make sure everybody knows
that that person came from Canada.
- Yeah, we love to point out who's Canadian.
Like for example, like if somebody said
Hey, have you seen one of the,
the new "Avengers: movie or something?
- You mean like "Ant Man" or something like that?
- Oh, like "Ant Man."
Did you know that Evangeline Lilly is Canadian?
Or what about "Doctor Strange?"
- Yes.
Did you know that Rachel Mccadams is Canadian?
You do now.
- Or what about "Deadpool?"
- Yes. Ryan Reynolds.
He's very proudly Canadian.
Everybody knows he's Canadian.
Right?
- Everyone knows that the two Ryans are Canadian.
And if they don't, we're very much proud to say
did you know they're Canadian?
- Just ask because we'll point it out to you.
- I did that just the other day.
I was talking with an American friend
who said she was up in Northern Michigan.
And she was saying
that the record, the Edmund Fitzgerald went down
and she goes, you know that song?
And I said, of course I know that song.
It's Canadian.
We say that's Canadian, eh?
- Oh yeah.
There's the eh.
So like that is, you know, everybody associates,
Canada with using eh, but a lot of people
reference us using it in the wrong context
or the wrong way.
- So explain how you use eh?
So if you're going to use eh,
has to be number one at the end of a sentence
and number two, it has to be
like a realization like, you know,
"Hey this, this Tim Horton's coffee is pretty cool, eh?"
- We're almost looking for validation.
We want people to agree with us.
And like, that's kinda like throw it to the other person,
it's including other people.
- It's inclusive.
Like Canadians.
We want your input.
- Yes, your input.
That's what eh is.
I think that's a good way of putting it.
- I like that.
- Canada has a really fun national animal.
- Oh yes.
Our national animal, our national animal is.
- Wait for it.
The Americans have the proud bald eagle..
- Yes, and we have the humble beaver.
- It is so fitting for each country.
But you know, there's a fun story about that.
Canada was actually built on the fur trade.
So we had the Hudson Bay Company
and trappers and European fur traders
were up North killing as many beavers as they could.
So I kind of laugh at this one because to
reward the beaver that we almost hunted to extinction
we decided to make it our national animal.
So since we almost killed it,
we gave it to a chance to live on.
And now there's actually a lot of beavers
- We give it actually iconic status
by making it our official animal.
It's not on our flag or anything.
But if you ask anybody, the noble beaver
is what you associate with Canada.
- I was gonna say it's on our Roots emblem.
Roots has the beaver.
- Ah, it does too, yeah.
- But I'm wearing the wrong Roots shirt.
- Great Canadian clothing company.
- Everybody has Roots.
So those are a few fun Canadian quirks and funny things
about Canada that we wanted to share with you.
We're going to be doing a little bit
of series to teach you more about Canada.
So stay tuned for more things Canada in the coming weeks.
- So if you are Canadian
and there's some things here that we haven't mentioned
some funny things that you want to add
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