What Makes Canada Better than the US?


This is just a fun list I've put together of all the things that come to mind that make Canada better than the US. I'm sure there are plenty more out there so please e-mail me any suggestions.

• Hershey's Brown Cow

  Don't let anyone fool you. This is not the same as Hershey's Chocolate Syrup. It's better. And it's only available in Canada.

• Shreddies

  It's a bit like Life only better. If you haven't been so privileged as to have tried it, well, you don't know what you are missing.

• Tropicana Apple Juice

  This one escapes me to this day. Tropicana is an American company. Yet this delicious product, made from premium Canadian apples, is only available in Canada to my knowledge.

• Second Cup Coffee

  I love this place. The coffee is great and the service is unbelievable nice. Such a store just wouldn't fit in the US. That's why we won't let them have one. (Oh, and it's better than Starbucks, too.)

• Bick's and Strub's Pickles

  OK, so this isn't a big one. But there's just nothing like them in the States. Go ahead, try to find.

• Billy Bee Honey and Related Products

  Somehow we allowed the Americans to get a hold of this stuff and if you look hard enough you can find down there. By far the best honey.

• Canadian Beer

  I am not a big fan of beer but for those who are, this needs no explanation

• Hockey

  It's our sport and we will always be the best at it, Eh!

• Don Cherry

  Even a glowing puck could not animate the game of hockey like this man does. And he's ours!

• Our Head of State is not an Adulterer

  "Woe to you, o land, whose King acts like an adolescent" (Koheles 10:16)

• Our Head of State doesn't talk out of both sides of his mouth

  Just a figure of speech, not meant to be an insult to Mr. Chretien

• Never has a Canadian Prime Minister been Assassinated

• We Entered both World Wars on Time

  That's right. Don't believe what they teach you in History class, Americans. The US was not the only country to participate in World Wars I and II. In fact they entered both of them quite a number of years late. Canada does have an army, contrary to popular belief and we were in both World Wars from the beginning to the end.

• We Have not Lost a War Yet

  Kind of makes you scratch your head for a second but if you think about it, our war record is actually better than the Americans'

• We have not yet had a Civil War

  You can make fun of separatism all you want but will still never get as bad as it did in the South.

• The Metric System

  This really bothers me because I have to deal with annoying Imperial figures whenever I'm in the US. Hello! The entire world has switched already. Don't you think it's time you joined them.

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  The background colour, that's colour with a U, was specifically chosen for this page. It is Air Canada's background colour.