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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:00 PM
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Hey YANQUI BASTARDS! You can't get THESE in the states!
Edited on Wed Oct-20-04 02:02 PM by HEyHEY




They're called smarties and YOOOUUUU can't have any!
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aden_nak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:01 PM
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1. Mmmmmmm. Old, stale M&Ms.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:02 PM
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2. Oh, you've had em?!
Yeah they have to be the worst kinda "chocolate" around
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Minstrel Boy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:25 PM
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15. Let's not forget the CANADIAN Mars Bar!
From the Institute of Candy Controversies:

A recent visitor to Canada noticed that the flag-ship candy bar of Mars Incorporated, had a distinctly different packaging, (Figures 1 & 2 above). This was all but ignored until a sample of the Canadian version reveiled differences that were indeed more than "skin-deep."

The first obvious difference was the lack of almonds in the bar from North of the border. In fact, the U.S. Mars® Bars proudly proclaim "Chocolate Almond Bar." As for its Canadian Cousin, the "full-sized" 58 gram versions sport the label "Energy Bar," with the following tag-line: "A Mars® Bar a day at work, rest and play." (Repeated of course in French). Some, but not all of the Canadian bars also include the warning: "May Contain Traces of Peanuts."




Our bar's just as big; it's just a smaller image (bastard Americans!)
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Demonaut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 04:49 PM
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51. dont forget the bar named after bush* " Flake" crumbles under pressure
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Droopy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:02 PM
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3. Uh, I hate to dowse your mock flame war bubble
but we do have smarties here in the states. I used to get them at halloween when I was a kid and it was one of my least favorite candies.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:03 PM
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4. Bah Liar!
You're lying cuase you're jealous!
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Droopy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:06 PM
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7. Nope, not jealous about that.
But I am jealous of you guys for having a much more liberal society than ours.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:07 PM
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9. That's cause there's special stuff in the smarties
Proving that you DON'T get them!

;-)
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Lavender Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:03 PM
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5. We have smarties
They don't look like that, though. They look like chalky, pastel Tylenol tabs.
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Selwynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:05 PM
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6. Erm... yeah you can get them in the states... :P
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:06 PM
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8. another liar! You guys should work for the Bush Admin
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:07 PM
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10. If I wanted to I could.
But I don't want to, so I'm not going to drive across the bridge. I can almost spit across the river into Canada. Not that I would, because I like Canada. :hi:
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woofless Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:12 PM
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11. Better to be the YANQUI BASTARD
than to be the YANQUER.
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frylock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:18 PM
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12. yeah? well you can't get one of these up in b.c.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:20 PM
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13. We're busy eating here!
Edited on Wed Oct-20-04 02:20 PM by HEyHEY
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Hand Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:24 PM
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14. Izzatso? Well, YOU can't get this down in... in... Nebraska!
Edited on Wed Oct-20-04 02:26 PM by Hand


Poutine is a French-Canadian concoction comprising french fries, gravy, and cheese curds.

This wonderful mélange of taste-tempting treats originated in Québec, in the region of the Bas-St-Laurent or Gaspésie, caught on in Montréal, and quickly spread from there to other parts of Québec and as far as Ottawa. Since then, it has spread across Canada, and is even available at fast-food chains such as Burger King.

Ha ha haaaaa! Eat yer heart out, Yanqui Pendejo!!!!!!!!!!

:crazy:
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frylock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:34 PM
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18. mmmmmmm.. please pass the mayonnaise..
:puke:
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Hand Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:38 PM
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23. Here, have some more!!!!!!!!!


Ve haf vays of making you cooperate...
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frylock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:50 PM
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34. you keep those.. those THINGS away from me!!
this is worse than when my British cubemate made me try marmite. :scared:
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BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:30 PM
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16. Well..Actually HeyHey...Seeing as almost 50 percent of...
..Americans like Bush, maybe OUR candy should be call "Dummies" :)
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:49 PM
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32. or "morans"
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frylock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:56 PM
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38. well, there are dum dums..

another halloween classic.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:32 PM
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17. No real Smartie lover would accept your shitty little Canuk knock-offs
Am I right, or am I right?
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frylock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:35 PM
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20. american smarties are my fav halloween candy..
I always buy em to pass out to the kiddies so that I can munch on the leftovers.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:38 PM
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24. You're even worse off.
American Smarties are half the worth of Canadian Smarties, which in turn are half as good as British Smarties.

Hershey's, the shittiest chocolate company in the history of mankind *you could call it the Bose of cocoa* probably has a hand in this somewhere.
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frylock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:51 PM
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35. the bose of cocoa!!
that's beautiful.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 04:42 PM
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50. Thank you, I'm quite proud of that myself
:7
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:52 PM
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36. Swallow yer pride - and our terrible candy!
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Lex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:34 PM
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19. The real smarties are pictured here


I don't know WHAT you guys are eating up there!

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Minstrel Boy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:40 PM
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25. Looks like Rockets to me
I don't go for those cheap American knock-offs.

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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:50 PM
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33. Yeah they can't call em rockets
Cause people will get upset when they don't shoot anything
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 03:00 PM
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43. Hahaha!
On that note: Rockets = awesome.
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:42 PM
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27. shout out to Lex - let's highjack this thread
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Lex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:46 PM
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28. Howdy yardwork!
:hi:

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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:47 PM
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29. heh heh
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:35 PM
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21. I thought you were going to post a picture of the flu vaccine
something we really can't get in the U.S.

Oh yeah, you guys have something called "socialized medicine" up there. I hear it sucks! I hear it's no good! We don't want none of your steenking "socialized medicine." It ain't murikan!

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frylock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:37 PM
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22. better dead than red!!!
or something like that.
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:40 PM
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26. Our blood's red! True murkan blood is red!
I dunno what color your blood is.
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Minstrel Boy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:47 PM
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30. Hey Americans, how do you like your coffee?
Edited on Wed Oct-20-04 02:51 PM by Minstrel Boy
In Canada, the correct answer is "crisp."





Man Loves His Coffee Crisp

TORONTO-- It has taken Edward Eden almost a lifetime, but he believes he has found his soulmate of chocolate bars--the Coffee Crisp. After years of candy-craving uncertainty and snack-related confusion, Edward thinks that he has found the right chocolate bar, the ideal candy confection that represents him the best.

"I can't believe it's taken me this long to find my match," said Edward, 39. "I spent the last ten years of my life as a Kit Kat man. I thought the bar was snappy, like me. It had four fingers of delicious chocolatey wafers--you didn't have to commit to the whole thing at once. It was a chocolate bar with class, yet carried a hint of smarm, that showed off my frivolous side."

http://www.thetoque.net/020618/coffeecrisp.htm

Here's a website devoted to Coffee Crisp sightings in the States:

http://coffeecrisp.org/
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:48 PM
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31. They JUST WON'T GET IT!
;-)
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yvr girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 03:14 PM
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49. totally awesome chocolate bar


and this



and this

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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:56 PM
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37. What's with the German?
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:58 PM
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39. It's our official third Language
Across the prairies german is widley the most spoken language.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:58 PM
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40. ....
Did I get ya?
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 03:02 PM
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45. I don't believe you.
:P
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 03:03 PM
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46. Dang!
You've won this round! I guess I misunderestimated you
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 03:07 PM
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47. Arschloch
:D j/k
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frylock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 03:01 PM
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44. joy joys, mit iodine..
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Kellanved Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-21-04 05:40 AM
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52. That's not German, that's Denglish
Edited on Thu Oct-21-04 06:08 AM by Kellanved
Singlerolle ?
Pop-Up Eis?
Cookies?
:grr:

Stupid Marketing/Advertisement speech. I don't know who started the meme that using pseudo-English for product names is a good idea.

Anyway, now new products tend to get French names. All it took (besides Bush) was a slogan for the perfumery chain Douglas : "come in and find out".
That slogan was used by a research group with interesting results.
Particularly that the majority of those polled believed the slogan to mean "Come in and let's see if you can find the exit".
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 02:59 PM
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41. For a minute I thought it was going to be flu shots
that would've been just stone cold. You wouldn't do anything like that to us poor, benighted Yanquis, now, would you? </sarcasm>

P.S. Yanquis are, in fact, trekking north of the border for pure, uncontaminated, available Canadian flu shots. Bush*'s response: "Well, as you know, those shots only protect against the Canadian flu." :-)
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 03:00 PM
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42. Canadian Flu?
"Eh-cho"?
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GingerSnaps Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-20-04 03:07 PM
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48. They sell them at our English Import store
:9
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