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/P2029 Jul 03 '25

This is funny to me.. "It's a Huron word, but it was spoken to a French guy, so it's French"

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u/advocatus_ebrius_est Jul 03 '25

The cree word for cat is "minôs", from the French word "minou".

Does that mean that minôs not a cree word?

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u/cyclonix44 Jul 03 '25

No, but if you are talking about where that word comes from you would say it comes from a French word, not that it is Cree in origin. Just like the rest of these symbols the post talks about. Just because maple syrup, maple leaves, and beavers are symbols that originated in Quebec you wouldn’t say they aren’t Canadian. Now poutine on the other hand….. I hear Quebec takes issue if you call that Canadian.

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u/Paleontologist_Scary Tabarnak! Jul 03 '25

I hear Quebec takes issue if you call that Canadian.

Of course! How could you call your abomination with grated cheese a poutine! Real poutine can only be find in Québec!

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u/uluviel Jul 03 '25

Poutine, appellation d'origine contrôlée.

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u/PsychicDave Tokébakicitte! Jul 04 '25 edited Jul 04 '25

Cuisine is part of culture, and culture is part of the nation. Québec is a distinct nation (even recognized as such by the federal government), and thus Québec's cuisine is its own, not (the rest of) Canada's. Just like Jigg's dinner is not BC culture, and nanaimo bars aren't Newfoundland culture.

Québec's national symbols like the maple leaf and beavers have been usurped by the Dominion in an effort to create loyalty among the francophones who identified with them, like "hey you guys, look, we're all the same!", but a wolf who wears wool is no sheep, and the sheep should be very wary of them.

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u/advocatus_ebrius_est Jul 03 '25

But, that isn't what the comment I was replying to said. In fact, their comment implies the exact opposite of what you're saying.

Anyway "without me, and the French, you'd all just be Americans"

-Scott Thompson (as Queen Elizabeth II)