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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A few more that are apparently Canadianisms

donair
pablum
pencil crayons
hooped
freezies
homo milk
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Canadian married to an American, and I don't think I'll every forget the expression on my husbands face when I asked him to pick up some homo milk at the store. Having a hydro bill and a water bill amuses him along with hydro poles. Asking for just a regular coffee at Timmies did not go well, especially when he said they screwed up his order as there is cream and sugar in it. Ended in a lesson in Canadian coffee lingo:

plain old coffee with nothing in it - a black coffee
one cream and one sugar - a regular coffee
two cream and two sugar - double double
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The coffee definitely gets confusing! We had American visitors and they thought homo milk was just a colloquial nickname. Showed them at the grocery store that it is the official name on the packaging. Homo milk in bags! It is a whole new world up here!

Here is a link to a current grocery flyer at one of our grocery stores. https://www.nofrills.ca/Food/Dairy-and-Eggs/Milk-%26-Cream/2%25-%26-Whole-Milk/Homo-Milk/p/20305664_EA[/quote]

Some of us just call that whole milk, and not all Canadians get milk in bags, either.  I'm in Saskatchewan, 3.25% milk is whole milk and we don't get it in bags.

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