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Canadians healthier than Americans

A new study has shown that Canadians tend to be healthier than Americans. Is there anything Canada can’t do? Besides allow its citizens to compete on The Amazing Race? In related news, many young adults in the US don’t even have health insurance.

Posted in Uncategorized. on Wednesday, May 31, 2006

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  1. Chips O'Toole said

    There are a LOT of things that we can’t do, or, more specifically, aren’t allowed to do, espiecially when living in the US.

    But we also have better table manners. Sorry, y’all, but the whole eat-with-just-the-fork thing lacks class.

  2. Eat with just the fork? What? I’m supposed to use my feet as well?

  3. In Canada we also use an elaborate system of ropes and pulleys to maneouver large meats into our mouths.

    Seriously, though, I have no idea what Chips means. Do you mean to say that where you live in the US, the general populace doesn’t use a knife?

  4. canada doesn’t have target stores, and for that i am one sad little canuck.

    we do however have beaver gas stations.

  5. Who loves Beaver gas station? Me.

  6. Chuck said

    Where I come from, we call beaver gas something else entirely. It starts with a Q.

  7. we have target gas stations, does that count?

    It’s only a matter of time before we get Target….remember when we had no Walmarts?

    I heart Target.

  8. Chips O'Toole said

    The lack of target, that is a serious drawback.

    As for the eating, watch people. Americans tend to use the fork in their right hand, stabby-stabby, using it to cut food that they don’t need a knife for, or they use their knife in the right hand, cut, then switch to the fork in the right hand to eat. canadians eat ina more european way, in which the knife is in the right, the fork in the left, and the knife is used as a tool to henp eat, to place food on the fork, etc.

    i know, this sounds really stupid, but it’s something that I find odd, having lived in the states for over a decade.

    Maybe the switchy-knife thing is a contributor to the better health of canadians. I’m just sayin.

  9. Chuck said

    Don’t tell me that Canadians push the food onto the back of the fork and eat with it upside down like the Brits!?!? If that’s classy, then someone needs to re-teach me which side of the fork is to be used.

  10. Chuck, that beaver joke took me a second, but when I got it, I snorted. Nice job, my friend.

    Chips. I don’t know what to say. Is it really all that upsetting as long as we uncivilized Americans manage to keep the food actually inside our mouths?

  11. I highly doubt these things are Canadian vs. American. It’s just a matter of from whom you learned your table manners. I know Americans who eat by pushing the food on the back of their fork. I have done it, but it’s not something I do all the time. I also sometimes switch hands when I eat with knife and fork. Switching and not switching are both correct table manners.

    If I’m scooping rice or something, fork is in the right hand, right side up. If I’m piercing meat after I’ve cut it, fork goes in the mouth upside down, either hand. I’m a switch-hitter.

  12. Chips O'Toole said

    Woooo! I’m started a controversy!

  13. Ha ha ha chips… dare we even bring up Smarties Vs. Smarties?

  14. Chip make trouble! What am Smarties vs. Smarties?

  15. The different Smarties these 2 countries have to offer.

    In Canada it’s chocolate covered pellets of goodness, like an M&M only it tastes good, and in the States it’s those sugar pellets things…

    or maybe times have changed? All I know is when I eat my Smarties it is with no assistance from a fork, spoon, knife, or even spork.

  16. In Canada, Smarties are called Rockets. The reason for this is because when they were introduced here, the name Smarties was already being used for candy.

    http://www.nestle.com/Our_Bran...../Smarties/

    http://www.smarties.com/

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockets

  17. I hate Rockets/Smarties. Yuck. Tastes like chalk.

  18. Otherwise known as the candy cheap people hand out at hallowe’en! :)

    Is it ironic that a discussion health has move to candy? Yes I’m fully aware that I’m responsbible.

  19. (responSIBLE)… sorry that Jesus pan has entered my subconcious.

  20. Chips O'Toole said

    Smarties are goooood. They taste like icing. Sugary canadian goodness! (another canadian thing – out chocolate is sweeter, more european, than american choclate. hersey’s? sour.)

  21. Hopefully she’ll correct me if I’m wrong, but when Marjon was here, she gagged on American chocolate because it was way too sweet for what she’s used to eating in Europe.

  22. I gagged on a Hershey’s bar. And I spat it out. And I am a chocaholic, so it was baaaad!
    Not because it was too sweet, but because it tastes like vomit. I think that might have been the sour Chips is talking about.

  23. Ahhhhh.

  24. I love Rockets/Smarties. I love that kind of powdery candy. The candy-covered chocolate Smarties I don’t like much at all. I think the candy coating is too hard. Back before Nestle aqcuired Rowntree, their chocolate was soo good, particularly Aeros and Kit-Kats. Now they’re meh at best. Unfortunate.

    Hey Soosan, you should market that ResponsBible. You could ask it a question when you have a quandry, and it would quote scripture appropriate to your situation. And if you buy two, you could get a free Jesus Pan.

  25. My husband eats the Brit/Canadian way and he’s born and raised Californian. I dunno, I guess he’s just fancy :)

  26. Chuck said

    Marjon – evidently, you’ve never eaten vomit – because it tastes NOTHING like a Hershey bar.

  27. Dutch people are so much sweeter than us that their vomit tastes like candy!

  28. Chuck, you are now my GO TO guy on vomit.

  29. Chuck said

    Mmmmmmm, sweet Dutch candy vomit.

  30. I wanna go on record as being down with the Beaver as well. When I was skiing in Canada last month, I was in and around the Beaver every day. I heart the Beaver. And just when I thought the Beaver couldn’t get any better, I found out you can even get lift tickets in there!

  31. Hershey’s kisses DO taste rather odd don’t they…. maybe the vomit you tasted was the little bit you threw up in your mouth after eating the “treat”.

    Maggie… a free jesus pan, and for a limited time offer get a Hail Mary Juicer

  32. Yeah, I can guarantee Canadian Beavers are the best.

  33. Weighing in on the healthcare thread: I have the table manners of a European, love American Smarties (there is a big fat bag of them on my desk right now), will eat American chocolate but prefer European chocolate, and as everyone already knows, am a major fan of the Beaver no matter what its nationality.

  34. Canadian Beaver is SO convenient, yo.

  35. Jeremy goes to the Beaver across the street a lot. And I encourage it!

  36. Chuck said

    Do you people realize that beaver is a slang term for VAGINA?

  37. Someone please tell me Chuck is joking.

  38. I heart Chuck.

  39. Pile on the Chuckwagon!

  40. Chuck said

    TOOOOT TOOOOT!

  41. OMG i just laughed out loud, i couldn’t keep it in anymore – you kids!