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podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host Sochil and her dog Duende.
Duende is very cute. So Duende is joining us. Today we are under the vocabulary
spotlight. And we're actually going to do a slang episode, but this is very
specific slang. This is Canadian slang. So I am going to test Sochil on her
knowledge of Canadian slang. And so and it's not all slang. Some of it are just
terms that they use to describe things that we don't in the United States or in
Europe. So Sochil, number one, what is a TOOQUE?
You got me a two. Give you a hint. You can see one right now in this in our
meeting right now. A dog? No. Oh, oh, a hat. Yes. It's a stocking cap. A
beanie. Oh, a beanie. Yeah. Yeah. Often a two will have like a little pump
pump on the top of it. Like a little ball on the top. Right. Yeah. But yeah,
it's a winter hat. Where listeners who aren't aware, they're also Canada has
Quebec and some regions that are just French speaking. And I think that if
that's their English too, like they're slang, I would. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. TOOQUE has got to be a
French word for sure. It has to be because of the spilling. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
Number two, double double. What's a double double? Like a super sized meal.
You're close. You're actually pretty close on this one. Like a double cheeseburger thing.
Okay. This is this is a this is related to Tim Hortons, which is a very, very
famous donut shop in Canada. The most famous donut shop in Canada. It's a chain.
A huge chain. And a double double means two creams and two sugars. Oh, okay.
And you say it was in the food vicinity. Yeah. Yeah. That sounds very sweet and creamy.
It sounds terribly unhealthy. But I mean, if you're going to if you're going to go with
like a order of bear claw or two and a double double, you might as well get the double
double if you're already eating the two bear claws. So. Right. Okay. This one I've never
heard of before. But I've been to have you ever been to Canada? Sorry not to interrupt.
Yeah. I've been to Canada. Yeah. I've been to but it was almost 15 years ago now. So
it, you know, I don't know any of these. But yeah. I went in the 90s. Oh, so you're you've
been even longer. Yeah. I'm interested. All right. Next one up. It's like America, but
I'll just a little a skew like a little off. Yeah. It's like a little nicer kind of like
the streets are cleaner. Well, a little bit and the people are more friendly and to little
cleaner. But that's it. I think. Yeah. Yeah. It's very much like. I'm kind of like
weirder to like. Oh, yeah. How are you doing? Welcome to Canada? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Canadians are Midwesterners plus or Midwesterners are Canadians minus. You know, it's almost
the same thing. Yeah. What is a Mickey? A McDonald's hamburger. No, that's not right.
I know I've heard of a Mickey before. I don't know. I've heard the term before better.
I don't remember what it was like referencing. Okay. Well, we know Canadians love their
donuts. They love their double doubles. Their coffees with lots of cream, lots of sugar.
They also enjoy their alcohol. And like a Mickey is a small bottle of alcohol, typically
375 milliliters. Oh, like those. I don't know how small that is. Kind of like an airplane
airplane bottle, something like that. Right. So you got a Mickey in your pocket. And if
you're having a hard day, you can just pull out your Mickey and throw it in your coffee
mug. Yeah. Put it with your double, double. Yeah. Double, double plus a Mickey. We're not
implying that all Canadians are alcoholics. No, no. Please Canadians don't stone us.
We're not. Yeah. We love our Canadian listeners out there. This one's I never heard this
one before. What's a loony and toony? Loony and toony. A crazy person. That's a good
guess because it sounds like it. It's like the Canadian one dollar coin and two dollar
coin. Wow. I was far off. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
And he's right. I said to look at you. You owe me a loony. You owe me a toony. Something
can I borrow a toony? You know, something like that. Yeah. Oh, it's only a loony. Yeah.
Yeah. A double double is only a loony and a toony versus you can get a double, double
and a donut for a toony. You know, something like that. Yeah. Okay. Okay. What do you
call someone who's a keener? Keener. I have no idea. I don't know. I look so stumped. You
can do that for nothing about Canada. No. I and I had Canadian friends and I just don't
know. I mean, I've had Canadian friends. They did not talk like this. This is like,
this is like a boomer Canadian slang or is this like modern Canadian slang? This is probably
boomer Canadians. That's like older like 50s, 60s. This is more like, you know, traditional
kind of Canadian, but Canadian speech. But I'm sure the younger generations don't want
to sound like this. You know, they don't want to sound like their parents. I mean,
you know, I'm sick in 80s. I'm having a hard time. I have no idea what that means. A
keener is someone who is really keen about something. So they're overly eager or overly
enthusiastic. That's such a rude term. Someone who's like happy about life and you're going
to call them a keener because you're like, man, I love, I love hockey. You're such a
keener. Yeah, like, okay, cool. All right. We're getting into the food stuff here for
a second. Poutine. What is poutine? Oh, I know what poutine is. It's fries and gravy
with like a type of cheese on top. Cheese curds. Yeah, exactly. Yep. You nailed it. French
fries. I ate it in Korea of all places. Yeah, me too. I've always I just wanted to try
poutine so badly. And so the first time I had the opportunity to get it, I just I ordered
it. But I was like, you know, it's like what you expect. It's french fries with gravy
and cheese. And you heard. It's kind of like, it's like drunk people food. I was drunk when
I ate it the first time. Sorry, listeners. Yeah, I have to be in. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I was out like at this place at J J's bar in blue sun. Hey,
J J's. If you guys are watching, um, and they, it's like we're all the foreigners hang
out. And we were a few drinks in and then one of my friends and I split up poutine there.
But I just, it is exactly what you would think. It's literally just fries with gravy and
cheese. Yeah. It's just, I mean, it was great because I was drunk. I mean, it was good.
It wasn't like mind blowing or something. Yeah. Yeah. Well, how could it not be good?
It'd be kind of like like like putting, uh, I don't know, you know, it's hard for it to
be like gourmet or excellent, but it's hard for it to be so bad. I'd be wouldn't want
to eat it. All right. So what is a hoser? Uh, someone, um, I have no idea. I don't know.
It's one who likes a band. Hosey. Okay. Okay. A hoser is a person who is foolish or inept.
So it's kind of like an affectionate way to call someone stupid or silly. You're such
a hoser. You're, yeah, just a silly kind of stupid person. Like a roof in English. Yeah.
Like a roof. Exactly. You're a hoser. You're, yeah. You're dumb dumb, you know, something
like that. Yeah. Okay. Here's the last one. What's a chest or field? Interesting.
A chest or field? An alcoholic beverage of some sort. No, not, not even close. Something
hockey game. Think, think more like the, think more in the furniture realm.
Uh, like a chest drawers or something. Yeah. That's a good, that's a good gas actually.
Like a chest or drawers. Yeah. War drove type thing. A chest or field is a Canadian term
for a sofa. What the heck? Yeah. They call it sofa a chest or field because it's a company
that used to make sofas like a famous sofa company. And so it's kind of like how we call
a Kleenex, you know, like a tissue. We say Kleenex. Kleenex is actually the name of a
company. Right. And, uh, or a Xerox machine is a Xerox is not a copy. A copy is a copy.
Um, so a chest or field is a word that they used to for sofa. Yeah. Which I thought is
kind of weird. Okay. Yeah. That is. Yeah. So that was it. That's the last one. You can
take us out now. Oh, thank God. Okay. All right, listeners. If you enjoyed seeing me fail
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