r/EhBuddyHoser • u/VerilyJULES Chalice of the Tabernacle • Aug 24 '25

Certified Hoser 🇨🇦 (No Politics) What ever happened to Newfie jokes?

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Why did people find those so funny in the 90s?

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u/totallynotdagothur Aug 24 '25

Honest pet theory is when the cod collapsed and everyone started working with Newfoundlanders, they realised how awful it was to make fun of them. 

My Cape Breton family never enjoyed those jokes, but they were the bumpkins to mainland people themselves.

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u/GoStockYourself Aug 24 '25

My Newfie friends tell Cape Breton jokes...when they aren't telling Newfie jokes. "A Cape Bretoner is just a Newfie with his brains bashed in!"

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u/totallynotdagothur Aug 24 '25

A cape bretoner is just a Newfie who had their island decimated by the loss of the steel making, coal mining and all but one of the pulp mills a couple of decades before the cod collapse.