“Not if you’re nuking your steaks, I can’t.”
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Okay, I agree one can be quite happy alone.
That said, this video never fails to crack me up:
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Something to show the next time someone gets too wrapped up in the “Canadians are nice” stereotype:
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On Greer Garson Day on TCM last month, which meant it was also sort of Walter Pidgeon Day, they aired “Scandal at Scourie”. I’m wondering - how’s the Catholic/Protestant situation these days in Canada? Is it purely religious, or is it partly Frog vs. Limey? (I’m descended from both, and enjoy using racial slurs against my own, LOL - I dunno why, but it just tickles me! Does that mean I’m part Kermit?)
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It probably depends on the region, but I’d say Frog vs Limey died around the same time Duplessis did (1959), earlier in other regions. The postwar immigration boom meant there were a lot of non-Frog Catholics around.
The other thing is thanks to declining church attendance, it’s just not a big deal anymore. Only 21% of Canadians go to church regularly as of 2005 (Statscan). I found varying numbers for how many Americans go to church, but most of the numbers are over double that, in the 47-51% range.
Put it this way: announcing which church a Canadian PM was going to attend as part of news coverage on the opening of Parliament would be weird.
I’m sure you could still find some diehards, especially in smaller towns, but mostly nobody cares.
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My gods, what even is that? Are you sure that’s not photoshopped? I just can’t even begin to parse what message the ad agency thought they were putting across…
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The '70s were a very different time. (Didn’t know Lumpy’s Dad had it in him…)
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I have a unique perspective because MrPants is from NFLD.
So the whole Protestant vs. Catholic thing is still very much alive.
But it has nothing to do with religion. LOL - its all cultural.
Also education on the rock was the jurisdiction of the catholic church, they wrote it into their constitution, so you either went to catholic school, or if you were not catholic, you went to the “protestant” school, even if you were Jewish or Hindu or Muslim. That was your only choice. So their culture got split into two from an early age.
Basically NFLD is weird.
I’m a “mainlander” so by default, I’m Protestant, despite never being raised in any church at all. Doesn’t matter, I’m not catholic therefore I’m protestant.
There is still some Frog vs. Limey thing, but mostly I only hear it from ex-pat Brits, I think they brought that here with them, not that it grew here. (Ok legit only talking about my step-father here)
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Totally agree. When it does come up, it’s shorthand for culture/racism, as opposed to people actually caring about transubstantiation or whatever.
Re: Frog vs Limey, I have heard the opposite as well – some Quebeckers (francophones from elsewhere in Canada know better) referring to anglophones as “English”, which generally leads to loud reminders that anglophones are hardly all “English”.
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Dick Van Dyke Show theme hijack evolving
Now we know why he tripped over the ottoman: Buddy shared lunch at the office.
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OK, I stand corrected; cookbooks from the 70s and 80s are uniformly the most depressing thing ever.
Can we stop this now, please? 
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Mrs. Cynical says “No. No, we cannot.”
Bringing this back on-topic to Canada; I’m so, so sorry. I will stop now…
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It’s okay. There’s no point in pretending the 70s never happened.
It wasn’t all Jell-O and tinned pineapple. My medieval cookbook was written and published in the 70s:
ETA: with University of Toronto Press! Therefore CanCon.
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Yeh, but:
Like the gelatin-encased madness of a sick, uncaring god. 
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Yeah 
It makes me glad my parents were still mostly into 50s food in the 70s, which at our house mostly meant pork chops and potatoes fried in carefully saved bacon drippings, dark rye, and sour cream. And lots of cruciferous vegetables.
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Yeah but smoked salmon mousse is delicious!
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It hasn’t really been a religious thing for a long time. It was stronger in Quebec while the Catholic church still had a firm hold on the province, but since then the Quebecois have gone secular with a vengeance. Any remaining suspicion of The Other is mostly political/linguistic. I don’t know for sure, but I suspect that anti-Catholic feelings in Ontario a century or so ago were as much anti-Irish as anti-French.
I don’t know if francophones ever used the term “limey” much. If they refer to les anglais, these days it usually means anglophones rather than English nationals.
There are bigots everywhere, but I haven’t heard “frog” used much lately. I have noticed a couple of instances where Americans use the term in a nudge-nudge attempt to ingratiate themselves to anglophone Canadians, on the assumption that the two solitudes are still at each other’s throats.
That’s probably the biggest source of Protestant/Catholic friction in Ontario today. Other religions are not always happy that Catholic schools are funded by the province while their own religious schools aren’t, but there are good historical reasons for the status quo. A proposal to extend public funding to other faith-based schools may have cost the Conservatives the 2007 provincial election.
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I used to have that book! I don’t know what happened to it. If I recall, the recipes were not that descriptive, even if one had a good source for swan.
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I’ve used it for dinner parties a couple of times. Mostly people are surprised Europeans have been cooking with spices for so long, I guess because wartime and post-war food was so bland. Also that they ate food now considered new and/or non-European, like almond milk and chunks of lamb cooked on sticks.
Yeah, the instructions can be pretty vague in the book, but a lot of my family recipes are the same way, so I just fill in from those. It may not be authentic but it tastes okay 
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