Friday, October 2, 2009

Canadians: So Much Weirder Than We Give Them Credit

In Australia, it would be too embarrassing to mention -- and almost certainly illegal.




...but in Canada, they advertise it on the side of bus stops. O, Canada!
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13 comments:

  1. SueOctober 2, 2009 at 6:24 AM

    Remind me not to take any of our chickens when we visit Canada next!

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  2. Michael barnesOctober 2, 2009 at 1:23 PM

    O Canada!

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  3. Dr YobboOctober 2, 2009 at 3:18 PM

    Between that and wearing athletic tops proudly advertising 'ROOTS', them Canucks are an interesting bunch.

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  4. yankeedogOctober 2, 2009 at 4:44 PM

    Canadians are generally good sorts. I suspect they've been exposed to their southern neighbors a bit too long, which causes them to jerk their chickens.

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  5. FlinthartOctober 2, 2009 at 7:52 PM

    I am soooo disturbed by this. I keep thinking of my poor innocent little Australorps, out there in their chook run -- exposed to any and all of my neighbours who might be perverted enough to think that chicken-jerking is fun.

    Canadians! No chicken is safe...

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  6. Dr YobboOctober 2, 2009 at 10:49 PM

    To be fair, the bloke in the photo looks pretty happy about having his chicken jerked by his neighbour.

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  7. FlinthartOctober 3, 2009 at 1:19 AM

    Yeah. See, that's the bit I find most disturbing of all.

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  8. Bondiboy66October 3, 2009 at 1:56 AM

    We have Canadian friends who keep us well supplied with Roots gear and anything with maple leaves and/or 'Canada' emblazoned upon it. I'm wearing a Canadian Winter Olympic Team 2006 shirt right now in fact. In return we send them loads of Bondi Beach and Bondi Icebergs Club stuff in their winter.

    I shall enquire about chicken jerking with them.

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  9. FlinthartOctober 3, 2009 at 4:00 AM

    My first impulse was to say: no, no! Maybe it's a thing they want to keep private.

    But then I remembered -- advertising. On The Side Of A Fucking Bus Stop.

    Go ahead. Ask 'em about chicken jerking. I dares ya.

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  10. Natalia the Russian SpyOctober 4, 2009 at 3:00 PM

    We jerk beef....!

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  11. AnonymousOctober 4, 2009 at 9:22 PM

    Nat whatever turns you, on after all we're a broad church here.....

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  12. FlinthartOctober 5, 2009 at 2:11 PM

    Umm. Yeah.

    You know -- I do actually make jerky. My wife and kids love the stuff. I used to make it in the oven: set it to maybe 90C, lay out all the thin, marinated strips of beef over the oven racks, and leave the bastard to run for about five or six hours.

    There's a lot of cleaning after that, though. And you have to leave the oven door open a crack as well. So recently, I bought a dehydrator. It works even better than the oven, and it's easier to clean, so it's a win as far as I'm concerned.

    But... how the hell did "dehydrating" or even "drying" come to be placed by "jerking"?

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  13. YsambartOctober 5, 2009 at 5:47 PM

    Those canadians are pretty whacky, eh.

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