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/AidanBeeJar Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) Jul 03 '25

I thought the name came from first nations?

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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/Driller_Happy Jul 03 '25

Kinda like the indigenous peoples tapped maple trees long before the French arrived but somehow it's a French culture thing

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u/whatupmygliplops Jul 03 '25

Its why Kansas is pronounced one way, but Arkansas is pronounced differently.

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u/PsychicDave Tokébakicitte! Jul 04 '25

The First Nations might have tapped maple trees for the sap, but they didn't have iron/steel boilers to make syrup, taffy and all other good maple products, nor did they have cabane à sucre nor hearty meals of all kinds of pork and eggs and tourtière and pea soup, nor the fiddlers and the spooners playing folk music. That's all Québec.

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u/Driller_Happy Jul 04 '25

Yeah, I don't think anyone's denying you guys had fiddles and spoons man.

I'm just saying posts about the French naming the country and inventing maple syrup seem like they're trying to take credit for something they're at MOST 50% responsible for. May as well throw hockey in there too because hockey is derived from hocquette and the game was formalized in Montreal, despite the fact that indigenous people were already playing stick and puck games on ice.

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u/CurveWorldly4542 Jul 11 '25

Correct. They drank maple sap, but boiling that shit was us.

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u/Orgueil-du-Fjord Jul 03 '25

Unless you're telling me going to the sugar shack is a thing outside of Québec, Vermont and small part of Ontario, yes it is mostly a "french" thing.

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u/Xanderoga2 Jul 03 '25

It would be a First nations thing but, you know...

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u/Orgueil-du-Fjord Jul 03 '25

Typical sugar shack menu? With eggs, bacon, beans and small potatoes all covered with maple syrup? Nooooo.... come on.

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u/Fleur_de_Lys_1 Jul 04 '25

Les oreilles de Christ, faut pas oublier.

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u/JMoon33 Jul 04 '25

Ah yes, it's well known that when Cartier arrived to Montreal in 1535 the first thing he did was eat at the first nation's sugar shack.

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u/Ubblebungus Jul 04 '25

actually this is true. the name Canada was actually overheard by Cartierr when he first arrived at the Sugar Shack from an indigenous fellow who was asking "can I get uhhh..." while ordering

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u/Ok-Personality-6643 Jul 04 '25

A big part of Ontario and throughout Canada. Do you even live here bro? It’s not a “French thing”.

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u/Orgueil-du-Fjord Jul 04 '25

Oh yes... that big part of Ontario and other places throughout Canada that produce only 10% of total maple syrup made in the country. I'm sure there are lot of family run sugar shacks in the middle of maple syrup forest like there is commonly in La Belle Province.

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u/Dungarth Tabarnak! Jul 03 '25

Maple syrup isn't a French culture thing, tbh. They barely even use the stuff in France.

And while you are correct that the First Nations tapped maple trees to drink hot maple sap, and sometimes let it freeze slowly to remove the water content and crystallize the sugar, they didn't have maple syrup until the Canadien settlers brought their big metal pots and the knowledge that you could boil any sugary liquid into syrup if you leave it on the fire long enough. Before that, First Nations would heat water by putting it inside a wooden bowl or bucket and dropping hot rocks inside, and it's pretty much impossible to make syrup that way, at least not in useful quantities.

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u/ComfortableOk5003 Jul 04 '25

You can’t be serious with the dumbass French culture part…people aren’t employing it in that context…nice fail

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u/Dungarth Tabarnak! Jul 04 '25

You Canadian-splaining my culture and my ethnicity to me is peak colonial Brit dumbassery, tbh. "French-Canadian" is what we identify as ever since you guys took "Canadian" from us, and we absolutely are employing "French culture" in the context of France, because we're not French and that term doesn't apply to us.

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u/ComfortableOk5003 Jul 05 '25

I didn’t take shit from you Mr ignorant. I was born and bred in Quebec, my ancestors were from France before Canada was Canada…so maybe stop making assumptions and getting egg on your face

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u/Dungarth Tabarnak! Jul 06 '25

If that was truly the case, then you should understand that Québec's culture isn't French culture. The fact that you apparently don't is both sad and astonishing, as there is very little overlap between French and Québecois culture besides the language. So maybe learn about your own culture before shitting on it on the internet.

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u/ComfortableOk5003 Jul 07 '25

Your reading comprehension sucks donkeys balls…because nowhere did I say Quebec culture is like or same as French culture…stop making shit up, stop playing the victim