• Smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1134·
    7 days ago

    Goddammit, another American pretending to be Canadian and fucking things up for us. She’s clearly avoided any words with Z in it for fear that she’ll give herself away when she fails to pronounce it “zed”.

    Maple syrup is the greatest thing on earth, and we treat it accordingly, with moderation, not like ketchup which is the third handle on American faucets.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 days ago

      I wonder if it has anything to do with lack of enforcement making weed effectively decriminalized long before the official legalization went through. Official legalization was more of a “government and their buddies want in on the lucrative market”, ignoring that weed was only as expensive as saffron because of the legal risk (or illusion of one) that went along with trading it.

      Saffron is expensive because each plant grows 1-4 flowers, and each flower has two yellow and two red stigmata, and saffron is the two red ones. A whole acre of it will yield less than a kilo IIRC.

      Weed, on the other hand, is aptly named because it is happy growing pretty much anywhere from swamps to dessert mountains. Only real complication with it is the whole determining the sex of the plant ASAP to remove/separate the males before they pollinate the females and then watch for hermaphrodites. Though, even then, it only affects the quality of the final product, as fertalized females still produce bud, it just has seeds in it (at a surprisingly high density if you’ve never gotten seedy bud before) and doesn’t mature the same. Still works fine for extracts.

      If done properly, you can get the whole yield of an acre of saffron from a single weed plant.

    • Frostbeard@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 days ago

      I spent a season in Whistler 20 years ago, and even though Whistler is “Disney Mountain” I managed to get to know some local residents through Japanese home stay students. Weed was everywhere, granted season skiers and and snowboarders are perhaps not a random selection of the population in that regard.

  • paperboy@lemmy.zip
    25·
    7 days ago

    What’s that look on her face… aggressively horny? Is this normally how Canadian ladies get while smoking BC buds??

    • qaeta@lemmy.caEnglish
      21·
      7 days ago

      Nah, that’s the maple. We get crazy with the sticky tree blood in us.

    • hector@lemmy.today
      3·
      6 days ago

      That’s the reefer madness. East Asia takes a very hard line against drugs. As late as the 70s people in Japan would get 30 years in prison for possession of marijuana. Dealing drugs is often the death penalty across the region.

  • AlfalFaFail@lemmy.ml
    29·
    7 days ago

    Mordecai. Human. Level 50.
    Manager of Princess Donut.
    This is a non-combatant NPC.
    This is a human. This one is something called a Canadian. Part French. Part maple syrup. He’s weirdly obsessed with ice hockey and snowmobiles and semi-erotic lumberjack fan fiction. Has a well-worn Tim Hortons loyalty card in his Velcro wallet. He says “aboot” instead of “about” and gets really, really upset when you point it out, claiming you’re hearing things and that it’s a harmful stereotype. It’s not a stereotype, and that’s exactly how it sounds. He has a relative who was trampled to death by a moose. You get the idea.

    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
      12·
      7 days ago

      The one detail in this that slightly annoyed me is the timmy’s card. patriotic people don’t shop there anymore because of the ownership, also their products have sucked for the last decade anyways. idr when that book came out, though

      also, side note, nobody but the east coast is pronouncing it “aboot”. there’s a clear difference between “about” and “boot”. americans just really draw out the “ow” in “out”, so yes it sounds closer to “boot”, but it’s hardly ‘exactly how it sounds’. /angryrant

      side side note, I don’t have a relative who was trampled by a moose, but I do know someone who had their car trampled by a moose

      • blarghly@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        7 days ago

        also, side note, nobody but the east coast is pronouncing it “aboot”. there’s a clear difference between “about” and “boot”. americans just really draw out the “ow” in “out”, so yes it sounds closer to “boot”, but it’s hardly ‘exactly how it sounds’. /angryrant

        He says “aboot” instead of “about” and gets really, really upset when you point it out, claiming you’re hearing things and that it’s a harmful stereotype. It’s not a stereotype, and that’s exactly how it sounds.

      • KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca
        3·
        7 days ago

        I would say the Tim’s card would imply from an era the company was less shit (RIP their OG Ham & Swiss sandwich with the crunchy bread).

        But I don’t think Tim’s ever had a loyalty card did they? Maybe a roll up the rim “free coffee” they forgot to ever cash in.

      • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
        1·
        7 days ago

        The ownership of Timmy’s is Restaurant Brands International, a publicly traded corporation headquartered in Toronto. Sure there’s a lot of American shareholders, but a significant chunk of the shares are owned by Canadian banks too.

        Also it employs people at the coffee shops. I’m all about boycotting American products, but boycotting Timmy’s seems a bit much.

    • merc@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      7 days ago

      IMO, it’s more “aboat” not “aboot”.

      But, Americans say “abawt” instead of “about” so we’re even.

  • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    18·
    7 days ago

    During my study abroad in japan we visited an elementary school as a cultural exchange. The class that day had to pick a country and list three things about it. A bunch of them picked america and the three most common things were McDonalds / hamburgers, pancakes and Disney.

      • BanMe@lemmy.world
        20·
        7 days ago

        Corruption goes with Disney, fat goes with McDonalds, and racism… goes with everything.

        Pancakes are fine tho

      • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        6 days ago

        Corruption and racism aren’t really unique to America though. If you look at current Japanese politics you’ll see they can be just as racist and corrupt as the US.

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    14·
    7 days ago

    You may be tempted to think that the syrup thing is because of the bud, but actually she took up bud to stop getting so many questions about it.

    • Lemminary@lemmy.world
      15·
      7 days ago

      Short answer: yes

      Long answer: yeeeeeeeessssss*

      * With some exceptions for medicinal marihuana

        • BrickEater@lemmy.world
          22·
          7 days ago

          America. During occupation we forced Japan to make marijuana, hemp and every other drug illegal. Partially its said to force our own ideas of morality on Japan. Part of it was specifically to destroy the Japanese hemp industry which was quite large at the time, to the point were Hokkaido has a large wild hemp/marijuana population that is actively watched and destroyed still.

    • Jagarico@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 days ago

      I was quite shocked when my neighbor here once offered me a joint. And it’s Osaka’s central area, and it wasn’t that late! Though I sometimes can smell it in the air, and occasionally see teenagers (on the older side) smoking weed, it’s usually somewhere far from the crowds and popular places.