Glossary Addendum
Some new additions to the Vancouver glossary. I've added these to the original page too.
Canadian food – What people in the States arrogantly call "American food," but with more gravy and donuts.
Donair — I saw this at a pizza place and had to look it up on the web. A sauce made of sweetened condensed milk, vinegar, and garlic. I cannot possibly imagine how this combination would taste good (I mean, at least poutine has that greasy cheesy thing going for it, but Eagle brand milk and garlic? Geez.) It's native to Halifax, Nova Scotia, but appears to have made it over here to the west coast. I think Americans have successfully shunned it south of the border. It goes on pizza, burgers, and other stuff.
Flying Wedge — The best pizza place in all the great white north, eh? Where else can you get a spinach fettucine or a sexy mexi?
football — a game played on a field 110 yards long by skinny athletes with mullets who weren't good enough skaters to play hockey. Loosely related to the US sport called "NFL football." Somehow the American version lost their 12th player to create a 4th down. Weird, eh? The BC Lions are almost as big here as the Canucks.
whereabouts — Not a noun, as in "the most recent whereabouts of the perpetrator," rather an interrogative pronoun, as in "Whereabouts are you headed after you finish that beer, eh?" This expression is so Canadian folksy it makes me laugh like a silly person.
Canadian food – What people in the States arrogantly call "American food," but with more gravy and donuts.
Donair — I saw this at a pizza place and had to look it up on the web. A sauce made of sweetened condensed milk, vinegar, and garlic. I cannot possibly imagine how this combination would taste good (I mean, at least poutine has that greasy cheesy thing going for it, but Eagle brand milk and garlic? Geez.) It's native to Halifax, Nova Scotia, but appears to have made it over here to the west coast. I think Americans have successfully shunned it south of the border. It goes on pizza, burgers, and other stuff.
Flying Wedge — The best pizza place in all the great white north, eh? Where else can you get a spinach fettucine or a sexy mexi?
football — a game played on a field 110 yards long by skinny athletes with mullets who weren't good enough skaters to play hockey. Loosely related to the US sport called "NFL football." Somehow the American version lost their 12th player to create a 4th down. Weird, eh? The BC Lions are almost as big here as the Canucks.
whereabouts — Not a noun, as in "the most recent whereabouts of the perpetrator," rather an interrogative pronoun, as in "Whereabouts are you headed after you finish that beer, eh?" This expression is so Canadian folksy it makes me laugh like a silly person.