Pétoncles, not Scallops!

[Shironu-Akaineko]

Oh man, I went to work this morning HOPING for a good story to post here, my only regret is not having been the one to serve this genius!

SC= Silly Customer
"Lisa"= My manager.

Please note the entire conversation was in french. Pétoncles and Scallops are the same darn thing, but you'll soon understand why I'm using both words.

SC= Excuse me, where are the frozen Pétoncles?

Lisa= *opens door SC was leaning on, pulls out bag of frozen scallops, hands them to the customer.*

SC= These are Scallops.

Lisa= That's what you asked for.

SC= No, I wanted Pétoncles.

Lisa= *points to bag* It says so right there, Pétoncles.

SC= No, I want the bag that only says "Pétoncles" on it.

Lisa= *insert Kusanagi's Hobbes avatar here*

SC= *getting educational* When it's written Scallops on the bag, it means it's english Pétoncles, and they don't taste as good as local Pétoncles!

+ <---Me for 30 minutes after hearing the story.

[tollbaby]

wow..... just..... wow....

I'd say tell me it wasn't a Canadian, but I doubt too many Americans would even know what pétoncles are. (damn yummy is what they are!)

I'm just north of Ottawa in Gatineau Whereabouts are you?

[BusBus]

*headdesk*

Newsflash! All food packaging is bilingual!

You should have grabbed a bag with "petoncles" written on the side facing up. There you go!

Gatineau eh? Let me guess-you work for the government?

[Shironu-Akaineko]

wow..... just..... wow....

I'd say tell me it wasn't a Canadian, but I doubt too many Americans would even know what pétoncles are. (damn yummy is what they are!)

I'm just north of Ottawa in Gatineau Whereabouts are you?

not only a canadian, but a local my good woman.
It think it's something in the water supply. Me and my parents don't seem affected because we get ours from an underground well, not the aqueduc system.

I'm in Quebec's dickerydoo shaped Gaspesian peninsula.

*headdesk*

Newsflash! All food packaging is bilingual!

Maybe I should buy french Salmon sometimes. We've been eating english Salmon so far for my dad to be able to digest it. Maybe it's the accent.

[petslave]

Hehe, my Aunt is in Aylmer, Toll . My mother grew up in Gatineau, and makes sure to point out how much worse it was when she lived there (1970's).


Shironu, I hate to say it but I find French customers so much more ignorant in general. Not to say I haven't met some delightful French Canadians but they have the whole "French superiority" complex. Not to diss the French, since I'm bilingual and half French myself .

[Shironu-Akaineko]

Shironu, I hate to say it but I find French customers so much more ignorant in general. Not to say I haven't met some delightful French Canadians but they have the whole "French superiority" complex. Not to diss the French, since I'm bilingual and half French myself .

Unfortunately my dear, I am under the law fully french and am not one bit insulted by that because I have experienced it myself. I deal with both languages at work but I have a lot more SC french stories than english ones. We are just so afraid of being assimilated by the english and are so convinced our french is superior...

Quebec french :" Yeah, monhomme, viens t'en icitte qu'on enbarque dans le char changer mes tires, yes sir, pis driver au McDo prendre un Happy Meal, fuck yeah!"

Yes, let's be superior customers, we're protecting THAT.

:slow sarcastic clap:

[Mr B Rabbit]

Yes, let's be superior customers, we're protecting THAT.

Seems the French-Canadians are doing a better job than the French themselves on this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/14/franglais/

[BookstoreEscapee]

Seems the French-Canadians are doing a better job than the French themselves on this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/14/franglais/

Oh no!! Not loanwords!! aaaggghhh!!!!

English speakers are word-whores. We'll take 'em from anywhere

"papillon" for post-it note --I thought a papillon was a butterfly. (or a dog .)

[Shironu-Akaineko]

And yet, despite using all those anglicism, 12 grade french student still do vocabulary sheets in english class.

Now, before people get on my case that learning a second language is hard, believe me, I understand. I seem to have an ease of learning new languages, other people don't. I understand that. It's not easy.

BUT.

You have no excuse when you've been taking just as much classes as me, (4th grade till 12th grade), still read on a kindergarden level and the College exam to decide your level of english includes "What color is an orange" WITH A MULTIPLE CHOICE ANSWER!

I'm sorry, but I looked at my teacher and said "Are you kidding me?"

We are ignorant. Because we're hard headed. That's why most of my SCs are french.

[Mr B Rabbit]

"papillon" for post-it note --I thought a papillon was a butterfly. (or a dog .)

Isn't papillion a butterfly? The extra 'i' makes all the difference after all.

[Cia]

Quebec french :" Yeah, monhomme, viens t'en icitte qu'on enbarque dans le char changer mes tires, yes sir, pis driver au McDo prendre un Happy Meal, fuck yeah!"

I Babelfished this and it came back as: "Yeah, monhomme, come t'en icitte that one enbarque in the tank to change my cars, yes to sir, worse driver in McDo to take Happy Meal, fuck yeah!"

What did you actually write because everytime I ask my co-worker to translate Canadian-French she giggles at me.

[Shironu-Akaineko]

What did you actually write because everytime I ask my co-worker to translate Canadian-French she giggles at me.

Yes my man, come over here so we can get in the car, change my tires then go to McDonalds to get a Happy Meal, Fuck yeah!

Heck, I'M Canadian-French and sometimes I need it translated!

[Cia]

Hey thanks Shiro. My co-worker is from New Brunswick and she likes to tell us stories about the rivalries between the English schools and the French schools.

Her Mom refuses to learn French because "she doesn't live in Quebec and everyone should speak English". Her parents are very nice and even sent me some Provincial quarters and a Timmy quarter. Totally cool.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

When my family went on vacation to Canada almost 20 years ago, we stopped at a McDonalds in Sault St. Marie Ontario.

Mom ordered a filet of fish and the wrapper, which was bilingual, identified the sandwich as "filet de poisson."

For some reason I get the giggles imagining somebody going to a Canadian grocery store and demanding poisson, NOT fish.

[tollbaby]

*headdesk*
Gatineau eh? Let me guess-you work for the government?

errr... *BLUSH* yes...

Environment Canada, actually