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Re: A Typology of Canadianisms

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Post by sellmesoap » Mon, Jul 14, 2025, 9:13 PM UTC

switchbak wrote: post #340

sellmesoap wrote: post #310

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Molasses has a lot of minerals in it, and the notion that eating fat makes you fat is a lie purpitrated by big sugar/grain that has lead to a lot of diabetes and heart desease, your grandmother knew where it was at! Also Big Sugar is an underrated band from Canada IMO

That isn’t just fat, it’s heavily saturated fat. Lard in particular is nasty stuff. And yeah molasses has minerals in it … and a ton of sugar. It’s no health food. I’ve loaded up on this stuff as a kid. You’re basically eating cake. That’s fine for a treat, not for eating every day.

Would you expand on how nasty lard is? I had a quick search and the top result was a reddit thread of people breaking down the different fatty acids in lard and coming away surprised that the good outweighs the bad. I don't eat a lot of lard personally, but I'm not as concerned about it compared to microplastics or highly processed foods. Looking at the nutritional info on the side of the blackstrap molasses carton indicates a small amount of it covers a significant portion of daily intake for a few key minirals against less surgar then one puts in their coffee. I agree it's cake, but does a slice of generic sheet cake get part of your daily dose of iron, potassium, b2, b6, magnesium?

Re: A Typology of Canadianisms

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Post by SECProto » Tue, Jul 15, 2025, 2:48 AM UTC

switchbak wrote: post #113

qualeed wrote: post #54

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BC, AB, ON. Same as you, brown bread = whole wheat. Not sure I've even heard of molasses-sweetened bread, let alone eaten it.

https://www.crosbys.com/sarahs-molasses-brown-bread/ It’s made with ungodly amounts of molasses. My grandmother used to make it with lard or shortening, yikes.

I would note that's a recipe on a molasses website. My family recipe uses one quarter cup of molasses, which is ~48g sugar in two loaves. Leave the spoonful of sugar out your morning coffee and you'll be even with the sugar in your couple slices of toast.

Re: A Typology of Canadianisms

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Post by BehindBlueEyes » Wed, Jul 16, 2025, 2:12 PM UTC

xattt wrote: post #45

KayEss wrote: post #41

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Only in some parts of the world. In many it's the room and the object

Soviet apartments had a separate rooms for the toilet and the area with a bath/shower/sink. The area behind the toilet was usually a hinged wall that could be opened to reveal the entry point for utilities. I assume toilet hands were an unspoken issue, because there was no possible way to traverse from the toilet room to the washroom without touching anything. For a complete tangent, I’ll mention that Soviet toilets…

I guess by design since odor can inform health too. Also, a poopshelf may lack odor control, but it offers splash control.

Re: A Typology of Canadianisms

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Post by switchbak » Wed, Jul 16, 2025, 8:47 PM UTC

sellmesoap wrote: post #341

switchbak wrote: post #340

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That isn’t just fat, it’s heavily saturated fat. Lard in particular is nasty stuff. And yeah molasses has minerals in it … and a ton of sugar. It’s no health food. I’ve loaded up on this stuff as a kid. You’re basically eating cake. That’s fine for a treat, not for eating every day.

Would you expand on how nasty lard is? I had a quick search and the top result was a reddit thread of people breaking down the different fatty acids in lard and coming away surprised that the good outweighs the bad. I don't eat a lot of lard personally, but I'm not as concerned about it compared to microplastics or highly processed foods. Looking at the nutritional info on the side of the blackstrap molasses carton i…

Sort I meant to say “shortening” and not lard … the former is just nasty synthetic stuff.

Certainly molasses is better than sugar, I’m just saying that brown bread is a tasty delicacy, but not something you would want to consume on the regular. The recipe I looked at called for 3/4 of a cup for a loaf of brown bread btw.

Re: A Typology of Canadianisms

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Post by kennethrc » Wed, Jul 16, 2025, 10:41 PM UTC

dismalaf wrote: post #314

slumberlust wrote: post #186

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I've always took it as the opposite. Chriping is just noise with no real threat (most chirping birds are not a threat to humans). It's just someone being friendly with their banter usually in a making fun of you type context.

Maybe it's regional but definitely was fighting words when I grew up in Alberta. If you were bantering with your friends we'd just call it "bullshitting", "talking shit", etc...

"Fuck you, Shoresy!"