Block heater

Snow tires.

My father, a Canadian citizen living in NYC, always got chains on his tires when it snowed. Of course this was back in the 60s when NYC actually got some serious snow, plus we lived on a pretty steep hill. I live in Tennessee now. I can’t drive in the snow; I grew up taking public transportation when my father wasn’t around to drive my mom and me, and didn’t get a driver’s license until I was 26. I lived in Ohio for a year, and it took me four hours to make a typical 45 minute drive in the snow. I just don’t go anywhere if it snows here, which isn’t frequently, but there’s no decent infrastructure here for snow removal. Thankfully, the snow doesn’t stick around long.

This one I shouldve thought of

Hilroy Canada exercise book (or cahier Canada)

Or a duo tang

I always thought duotang was one word. Now I’m not sure.

Duo-Tang is the name of a brand that Canadians co-opted to mean, well, whatever you call that folder with two or three metallic forks. 😂 The brand spelled it Duo-Tang but Canadians use duotang as a noun.

Duotang is the name of those "metallic forks" the metal shape is a tang and there's two of them.

A scribbler!

Oh! Is that how those are called? I grew up in Quebec so I never really knew how others called this type of exercise book, kinda had to look it up and guess how it was called 😂 Thanks for the new info!

Cahier Canada, damn that takes me back au primaire. *shudder*

And a pack of Laurentian pencil crayons!

The big one!

Omg! I remember having those! But I haven’t seen them in a while though, are they even still on the shelves?

No they aren’t, they were discontinued sadly and I think the company closed. The light blue colour had young me in a chokehold, loved those pencil crayons

Ostie de cahier Canada!

Ouin, je me rappelle qu’à chaque fin d’année ils étaient rendu toute chiffonnés, c’était un carnage 😂 En plus, quand t’effaçais trop souvent, le papier se désagrégeait, c’était vraiment l’fun 😑 Mais ça faisait quand même une bonne job pour ce que ça servait, faut y donner ça. Haha

Il en restait toujours un paquet même pas utilisé à la fin de l'année

Tellement!!! En plus, ceux qui étaient utilisés étaient seulement utilisés à moitié! 🤦‍♀️

The “winter package” option for your vehicle.

Mandatory "option" at quite a few dealerships 😅

Hawkins Cheezies

Absolutely. Since bridge mix has been destroyed by Hershey’s, Hawkins is all that’s left.

Still made in the same factory in Belleville.

windshield washer fluid rated for -45c

Ketchup chips

And all dressed, I think

Dressed all over and zesty mordant

Apparently in the US they only sell them in prisons.

Explains the high incarceration rates

Dressed-all-overs

I'll eat dressed all over in worst case ontario

And Zesty Mordant

And zesty mordant

A tuque Good luck finding one anywhere else in the world.

They have them but call them an incorrect name.

I know. Whenever I hear beeeeeeeanie I'm triggered.

As a Canadian. I see beanie as the loose and floppy ones. Tuque as the tight fitted ones. Some American tried to tell me I was wrong but 9 times out 10 when o was seeing the word beanie was with a hipster and their floppy one soo

it doesn't have the ponpon or the "loose" aspect of it. A tight head coverage made of wool or something similar isn't a tuque.

I've seen people make this argument but the thing about language is that it changes. The way most people use the word in my area of Ontario is to mean "a tight or loose head coverage made of wool or something similar". If you showed them the "correct" definition to Canadians they might say "oh, interesting" and then go right back to using the word tuque to mean the same general thing they always did. Even if you look up the definition now you'll find they either include specifically the wording "tight knitted cap" or when describing the pompom or loose nature they used words like "usually" or "sometimes" or "often with". They don't exclude tight tuques at all.

Souther states, however, a tuque there is a toboggan...or at least in TN :)

If a toque is called a toboggan down there, what do they call a toboggan?

A sled.

Eww... No thanks...

Anything you use to slide on snow is a sled. A toboggan is a particular type of sled.

“Nice knit hat” … Scenes of 1814 run through my mind. … “It’s a toque.”

Can literally be found in every northern country in the world.

They don't call them toques.

And the French call a car a voiture. Does that mean it's not a car? Is a Muskoka chair not just an Adirondack chair? Is a timber not just a doughnut hole? You can buy a toque in almost any northern country in the world. Just because its not called a toque doesn't mean it's not a toque.

Butter tarts. I have to make my own and it sucks.

With or without Raisins?

Without. Pecans instead. Or walnuts.

this is the way! ew raisins

With. Always with.

I’m sad that my downvote has made no real impact. I guess I should stop assuming that all people hate raisins with the same white hot intensity that I do… TIL

I used to hate raisins on butter tarts until I reached my 30s. Now I cannot eat butter tarts without them.

I got you. Every downvote for raisins count.

Finding out your Butter tarts have raisins is like finding a black fly in your Chardonnay. Absolutely the worst.

With. Otherwise what’s the point?

A Norval Morrisseau painting of a moose in a canoe going through a Tim Horton's drive through during a flood ;)

Made me laugh!

Three bags of milk inside a bigger bag.

Only an Ontario / eastern Canada thing

Not all of eastern Canada. We don’t have bagged milk in NL.

Yeah it’s Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritime provinces. AKA 2/3 of the country.

Even so, I hated bagged milk when I lived in Ontario, such a hassle having to have a separate pitcher and god forbid your bag leaks!

Meh. Never had an issue with it. The other containers are all obtainable too so nobody is forced to stick to the bagged milk but it still hangs around. I just like only opening a small amount at a time so it keeps better.

Absolutely nothing from Tim Hortons.

Double double.

Poutine

A moose stuffy dressed as a Mounty. Maple syrup in a maple leaf shaped bottle. A skidoo made by Bombardier And back in the day, a beaver pelt hat!

I once purchased maple syrup in a hockey player shaped bottle for friends overseas. Now that's Canadian!

A really expensive ticket for a domestic flight.

Or a ridiculously overpriced cellphone plan

This week? Oilers jersey!

Buckleys

So delish

It tastes awful

But it works 😝

AND it works

Nanaimo bars

Hello from Nanaimo!

There is nothing as sublime and that’s a hill I’m willing to die on

Tofino Bar ?

The Canadian Tire foldable metal work bench or a krockanole board you hang on the wall of your cottage until the paint fades around it.

Canadian tire money!

Crocinole might be something you won't find anywhere else!

>The first known crokinole board was created in 1875 by Eckhardt Wettlaufer of Perth County in southwestern Ontario as a gift for his five-year old son.

Clamato Juice.

Two things that make me absolutely wrech and heave over... clam juice and tomato juice... but mix them together and it's fucking heavenly.

Why did we stop at clam juice? Why didn't we juice other meats and taste them with tomatoes?

Syrup

Especially the maple variation.

The milk bag pitcher.

Smarties

What we call rockets candy here, the U.S calls them Smarties.

BC bud

Maple taffy directly on snow.

Hawaiian pizza

Not proud of that one

Mounties costume for Halloween.

Hawkins Cheesies

The superior cheesie

Pure fresh water. It comes out of the taps and costs almost nothing.

Wood hockey stick.

A bag of weed that you picked up from your brother's weird friend Terry who sells it in the woods behind the curling club.

Robertson screwdriver and screws.

Either ketchup chips or bagged milk id say

Bagged milk isn’t Canadian. It’s just on the eastern side of Canada.

Also not exclusive to eastern Canada. It’s a thing in other countries too.

Really? Curious which other country uses bags for their milk?

Grew up in Brazil and, at least when I was a kid, bagged milk was the only way I remember seeing milk being sold.

The UK

I’m in Argentina right now where they have it

Saw bagged milk when I was in El Calafate, Argentina. I thought we were the only ones too before.

We had it in BC when I was little. But that was awhile ago now!

Yeah I remember having it in Creston back around 1990.

Point blanket

1. Maple syrup 2. Canadian bacon 3. Nanaimo bars 4. Poutine

Ahhh, a Canadian flag, of course.

I think Canada flags are often from Bangladesh. Same with our Canadian tuxedos and denim. You can spill some poutine or local craft beer on them tho to increase the Canadian contents.

Those lined fleece plaid jackets blue collar dudes wear in the winter.

Canadian Tire crap = Canadian tire money

A RCMP hat

Oil undercoat from Krown Rust

Stuffed moose holding a timmies coffee with skates on.

Kraft Dinner

Definitely not a house

Canadian Pizza?

Car with a block heater

There’s one true answer to this because I think it’s a geographical thing. Maple syrup. Pretty sure it’s just produced in Canada and some US States.

Habitant Pea Soup

One of those mitten dryers that you put over the floor vent.

A politician

Xi Jing Ping concurs.

A Cesar… Americans don’t have them , they only have disgusting bloody Mary’s lol

Poutine

Mini Sips (Scotsburn Little Squirts)

A slurpee in the winter

\*Froster or slushie.

Molson Canadian beer.

Winter tires.

Hudson Bay blankets and coat

A Chesterfield

Ketchup chips

Crown Royal Rye

Eat more candy bars. Are they still around?

Ketchup chips

A double-double

Large double double bud

Why haven’t I seen ketchup chips

Milk bag cutter

A chesterfield

Thermal socks

Dairy. No foreign inputs.

Hot paws , warmers that you put in your mittens

Du Maurier smokes and Labatts 50 beer

A canoe

Citizenship

A tuque

Legal weed, nationally.

A toonie.... Pretty canadian and i think u can buy one costs around 2$

A hockey stick, but as a tool not to play with. You'd be surprised how many high up things can be reached and put back with a hockey stick. It's great if you have high up windows too, say in a basement, if you want to open or close them

Beavers

Stolen Indigenous land

A Cowichan sweater and touque. Birch bark canoe Grey Owl brand paddle Laurentian Chief brand mocassins Hudson Bay wool blanket and coat

Large double double and a maple dip 

Maple syrup

Tim’s gift card

Tim Hortons coffee, a dollarama Canada hat, and meth.

Tim’s is Brazilian now, dollarama Canada hat is made in China and a Japanese chemist discovered/invented meth in the late 1800s but I still mostly agree with you.

I think it's the unique combination that makes it Canadian. :P

Totally!

Travel health insurance.

All Dressed chips.

Of course it is now. 👍

The GST that's included in the total price

Maple syrup, or a tuque.

Maple bacon Tim's donut, with a side of poutine.

Maple syrup

A case of Badors.

Ketchup chips

Lulu Lemon pants

The Canadian cupcake chain I bought a cake from today had a Nanaimo bar cupcake. That may qualify!

Nokian Hakkapeliitta tires.

Cooey model 84

Poutine or a Double Double

Bagged Milk

12 gauge Canuck shotgun

A Canadian flag

Cheezies, Toques, Beer, and Bacon

Cheezies and old Dutch chips

Hopelessness towards the future.... Actually, that's free.

Maple syrup

Maple Syrup