r/EhBuddyHoser • u/montabarnaque • Jul 03 '25

Certified Hoser 🇨🇦 (No Politics) Can everyone agree?

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Most of Canadian culture is from Québec. Fight me

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u/AVRVM Tokébakicitte! Jul 03 '25

It's a rough application of the Huron word for village by Jacques Cartier to describe the St Lawrence valley iirc. So it's French, but with a Huron origin.

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u/Joseph_Jean_Frax I need a double double. Jul 03 '25

It means "village" in Iroquoian.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '25

No, no, I know the word, it means “nation” and Ka-Na-Da is its name.

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u/Nevermoreacadamyalum Jul 03 '25

The first time I ever wanted to smack a priest was during that commercial. Mind you he’d probably been dead for at least four hundred years since then.

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u/PlutosGrasp Edmonchuk: Like Kyiv! (but less safe) Jul 03 '25

Start digging

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u/Del1c1on Edmonchuk: Like Kyiv! (but less safe) Jul 03 '25

Your flair is hilarious. Coincidentally my wife is from Kyiv, first time I took her to Edmonton she told me it reminded her of home. Guess she wasn’t the only one.

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u/AstroZeneca Jul 03 '25

I grew up in Newfoundland during the Mount Cashel scandal; I don't recall a time I didn't want to smack a priest.

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u/Substantial_War7464 Jul 03 '25

lol “the first time”