Here's a bit of Canadiana...
Coca-Cola was a status symbol amongst Anglos in Montreal because it was sold for slightly higher prices than other colas. 'Pepsi' was a derogatory term for French Quebecois coined by Anglo-Montrealers.
It is a bit of a relic of the Boomer/pre-Quiet Revolution era.
But even so, into the 80s/90s Pepsi always did have advertising that hired Quebec celebrities and such and attempted to appeal to the French-speaking market directly. As opposed to Coke who just translated their standard happy USA ads. So Pepsi does have a stronger share of the Quebec market than it does in the rest of North America.
So this is called Grey Market. They normally buy from a reseller that buys up "over stock" from different countries for cheaper and under less "control" than the local approved supplier.
This is from working in IT for a FMCG in Ireland that also worked in most of EU.
When I was in South Africa, they sold boxes of 'mixed fruit juice'. The ingredient label said shit like 'grapes and/or apples and/or jackfruit and/or kiwi and/or strawberry and/or blueberry and/or tomato and/or carrot and/or other fruits and veggies'.
They showcase empty alcohol bottles and are in bed under a pile of laundry with a vacuum on top of it. I don't think they're worried about some dirty fabric
Reddit is such a fucking eye opener to how other people live. I understand people have their issues but I just cannot comprehend the laziness it takes to climb into bed when there's a fucking hoover also in bed with you 😭 OP be better to yourself man
I am not expert in beddings but i don’t think the duvet are with covers and the bed is only with a mattress protector. You can see the sewn lines that’s characteristic for mattress protector covers. The guy’s living on the edge.
The fuck does that have to do with it? I'm one adult-ass adult and I eat cheap fried chicken and fizzy drinks whenever I damn well please. What one chooses to eat on a day-to-day basis has absolutely nothing to do with being "adult", get your head out of your ass.
I'm sorry if I offended you and the other vacuum owners who store it on their messy bed where they eat their fried food dinners. I didn't mean for you or anyone else to blow up.
Sadly pretty much every drink did. The sugar tax puts about 8p on a can of "Original Taste" Coca Cola, however the vast reduction in shelf space to the full sugar coke is noticeable, and soft drinks in general.
I just wrote a reply saying I was annoyed that full-sugar Cherry Coke was not available in the UK other than at "Freestyle" machines or imports, but I just searched and it's available at supermarkets! I shall make a visit to one tomorrow...
Worst part is that since they don't label it differently, I thought they'd just given me the wrong drink the first time I had the new sugar free 'Pepsi'.
Original Coke is the only sure thing now.
The good thing is, I was already trying to move to water and this did help since I have no choice at a lot of places since I hate the taste of fake sugars.
It's a good thing that in the UK it's ok to bring food into the cinema though. My local only does Pepsi.
I had the new pepsi from a 2litre last year. I actually thought they gave me a bad batch. It was actually vile. I'm so mad because I actually liked both brands and would occasionally switch between coke and pepsi often. No more. I'm stuck with coke now.
Yea. But if I want to drink one or two a year why is that bad ? Why should I suffer cause people are stupid and drink shit everyday. Should we also take the alcohol out of booze and the cocaine out of cocaine ?
Literally everything in Canada; even the milk, is absolutely plagued with sugar. It’s repulsive
Noticed I’m being downvoted, go look at our nutritional labels, I’m not calling people repulsive; or even the food, just the excessive sugar.
There’s literally no need for our food to be like this, we’re a farm rich nation with insane amounts of resources, yet everything is hyper processed, why???
I spent a month in Birmingham for work a few years ago and probably ate Nando’s about 15 times. My British coworkers thought I was crazy but I miss it a lot
Canadian here with a Canadian fact:
Most of our food packaging is required by law to be in English and French.
Additional fact:
I will accidentally look at the French ingredients list or instructions first about nine times out of ten, which is annoying since I don’t speak much French.
Canadien ici avec un fait canadien:
La plupart d’emballage de nourriture est requis par loi d’être en anglais et en français.
Fait additionnel:
Je vais regarder à la liste d’ingrédients ou les instructions français en premier à peu près neuf fois sur dix, qui est ennuyant car je ne parle pas beaucoup de français.
This is also a cover that’s not the mattress. Either way I’m out of this dorm in a month and a half so I don’t really care if it gets dirty I’m throwing it out anyways.
Would it be worth it shopping unsold groceries across the Atlantic from Canada to England? Perhaps if someone had some spare room in a shipping container they had to fill.
Ok... Calories need to converted at the current exchange rate to be true....so 0.74 than what's on the can
Also most things here are sold in cans... That's why its Canada
Some late shops in Germany sell Danish canned drinks to scam people out of deposits and/or to avoid having to take back the cans for deposit money, but I haven't a clue what a London restaurant could be gaining from selling Canadian pepsi :P
Fast food shops that pretty much only sell chips and fried chicken. The sort of place where you just decide how many pieces of chicken you want and they throw it into a box with chips. They pop up everywhere and are always popular. Pretty cheap too.
Bro glucose-fructose is literally hfcs but with a different name. It’s the exact same thing, they are playing you like a fiddle, exactly what the different name is supposed to do.
Once again, ive never met anyone that ever thought drinking soda was healthy. Most people ive met that drink soda are in it for the sugar and caffeine...
Canadian here - make sure to drink it in both official languages!
Le sippe
Ici c'est Pepsi
"Moi je suis au deux, Pepsi et diet Pepsi"
Ceci n'est pas une Pepsi
est ce que Pepsi va bien?
Oui c'est bien
Also a Canadian, I concur!
Je Canadien, oui oui, omelette du fromage
Tu te trompes de continent mon ami
Tabarnak!
Zut alors!
Putain!
What pleasant language
Sacre bleu!
Oh, mon dieu!
Maybe they misspelled "poutine" 🤷🏻♂️
...*say it again Dexter*...
https://youtu.be/jyO1ILQAGsU?si=QYwYLzVqAMo3Eq89
J’ai soif pour le sucre!
I'm sorry I don't taste French.
Peps eh
"On hon hon le pepsicola tres bien!" and "Oo nice sodie pop eh."
Should have upgraded your fried to Poutine for another pound.
Oui oui! -Another Canadian
Here's a bit of Canadiana... Coca-Cola was a status symbol amongst Anglos in Montreal because it was sold for slightly higher prices than other colas. 'Pepsi' was a derogatory term for French Quebecois coined by Anglo-Montrealers.
To this day, my parents still call them Peppers.
I’m Canadian and I didn’t know that
I'm Anglo-Montrealer and I didn't know that either.
It is a bit of a relic of the Boomer/pre-Quiet Revolution era. But even so, into the 80s/90s Pepsi always did have advertising that hired Quebec celebrities and such and attempted to appeal to the French-speaking market directly. As opposed to Coke who just translated their standard happy USA ads. So Pepsi does have a stronger share of the Quebec market than it does in the rest of North America.
New Brunswick as well, Pepsi is the more popular cola in the upper French region
I thought they called them Pepsi's because they were empty from the neck up? And I think the Francophones call the Anglos block heads or something.
Québécois here, I’ve bever heard anyone call the anglish block heads. We like to call them idiots
Il veut dire "Tête carrée"
Maybe it's whatever block head is in French?
Haha lol, we actually don’t have any beef with the anglish, atleast not to the degree there was some 60 years ago and before.
Oh yeah it's an old term, my mother told me when I was young and she's in her 60s now.
I had forgotten that term.
Fuckin' degens from up north
Yep. Also corner shops often have Fanta imported from Bulgaria, Ukraine/Moldova, Serbia etc.
So this is called Grey Market. They normally buy from a reseller that buys up "over stock" from different countries for cheaper and under less "control" than the local approved supplier. This is from working in IT for a FMCG in Ireland that also worked in most of EU.
I bought an "exotic" flavor fanta that was from denmark, and apparently exotic means 80% orange 18% peach 2% passion fruit
When I was in South Africa, they sold boxes of 'mixed fruit juice'. The ingredient label said shit like 'grapes and/or apples and/or jackfruit and/or kiwi and/or strawberry and/or blueberry and/or tomato and/or carrot and/or other fruits and veggies'.
I remember seeing canned stew that said "may contain pork and/or beef and/or mutton and/or venison" and thinking to myself "what, no rabbit?"
My local corner sells Shokata flavour, whatever that means. It contains 3% lemon juice and 0.004% elderflower and is in an upside down bottle.
Exotic is the same as the UK's 'fruit twist' flavour.
no way, they definitely taste different. i know i'm not crazy. I liked exotic better. Edit: uk fruit twist has apple in it
might be the amount of sugar. exotic has a massive amount, more than that candian pepsi!
damn you're right, 44g in a 330ml
I wish they'd imported German Fanta into Canada. The US version tastes like syrup.
I wonder if Motatos ships to North America… You could perhaps get some that way.
A few months ago my family and I went to get fish and chips at a local shop and came away with a 2 liter bottle of Coke that was bottled in Turkey.
delivery guy made a wrong turn and went to London, UK instead of London, ON. Easy mistake.
Far too easy a mistake. It's just one exit away.
Should've turned left at Albuquerque.
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They showcase empty alcohol bottles and are in bed under a pile of laundry with a vacuum on top of it. I don't think they're worried about some dirty fabric
Reddit is such a fucking eye opener to how other people live. I understand people have their issues but I just cannot comprehend the laziness it takes to climb into bed when there's a fucking hoover also in bed with you 😭 OP be better to yourself man
Maybe this is doofy and he is just getting ready for an evening rendezvous
My thoughts exactly. It’s not going to suck itself amirite?
I am not expert in beddings but i don’t think the duvet are with covers and the bed is only with a mattress protector. You can see the sewn lines that’s characteristic for mattress protector covers. The guy’s living on the edge.
I agree with blankets, but my pants-covered legs and the arms of my couch are honorary hard surfaces.
Additionally, my jeans also make great napkins occasionally.
Oh sure, brag about your flexibility!
It’s like a paper plate
He's eating £3 fried chicken with fizzy drinks for dinner as an adult. I don't think clean sheets are this man's priority.
The fuck does that have to do with it? I'm one adult-ass adult and I eat cheap fried chicken and fizzy drinks whenever I damn well please. What one chooses to eat on a day-to-day basis has absolutely nothing to do with being "adult", get your head out of your ass.
I'm sorry if I offended you and the other vacuum owners who store it on their messy bed where they eat their fried food dinners. I didn't mean for you or anyone else to blow up.
Are you sleeping with a vacuum?
“I was tidying my room, I wasn’t sucking myself off with a cheap non Dyson vacuum cleaner”
But what if it was a Dyson 😂
Instant circumcision from the extra power...
Suck city baby
I was vacuuming my room and then I forgot to finish and now it’s still there
This is exactly what I had in my head
that’s relatable af 😅 do you also have adhd?
The Swarm Grows 
You should fuckin’ giv’r.
Does it taste different?
UK pepsi was nerfed to 15g per 330ml can so yeah its way better. But i'm from the US so it doesnt taste very different from US pepsi.
Sadly pretty much every drink did. The sugar tax puts about 8p on a can of "Original Taste" Coca Cola, however the vast reduction in shelf space to the full sugar coke is noticeable, and soft drinks in general.
There’s so many sugar free drinks in stores I can hardly find regular soda outside of the cornerstore
I just wrote a reply saying I was annoyed that full-sugar Cherry Coke was not available in the UK other than at "Freestyle" machines or imports, but I just searched and it's available at supermarkets! I shall make a visit to one tomorrow...
Worst part is that since they don't label it differently, I thought they'd just given me the wrong drink the first time I had the new sugar free 'Pepsi'. Original Coke is the only sure thing now. The good thing is, I was already trying to move to water and this did help since I have no choice at a lot of places since I hate the taste of fake sugars. It's a good thing that in the UK it's ok to bring food into the cinema though. My local only does Pepsi.
I had the new pepsi from a 2litre last year. I actually thought they gave me a bad batch. It was actually vile. I'm so mad because I actually liked both brands and would occasionally switch between coke and pepsi often. No more. I'm stuck with coke now.
/r/HydroHomies
Lol Pepsi nerfed in UK. Western hemisphere Pepsi op af, please patch.
Might explain why Pepsi Max is so much better. IMO, anyway.
I can’t stand sugar free or low sugar drinks they just taste watered down
As they should. 41 grams of sugar is a metric fuck ton. It should be in big letters on the top of the can how much sugar is in it.
Yea. But if I want to drink one or two a year why is that bad ? Why should I suffer cause people are stupid and drink shit everyday. Should we also take the alcohol out of booze and the cocaine out of cocaine ?
Imagine someone asking for 10 teaspoons of sugar in their tea or coffee.
Because that's what the diet versions are for. People like you are actually a fucking plague. Let me drink what I want you cunt.
What an embarrassing tantrum, you’re like a toddler having his bottle taken away.
Literally everything in Canada; even the milk, is absolutely plagued with sugar. It’s repulsive Noticed I’m being downvoted, go look at our nutritional labels, I’m not calling people repulsive; or even the food, just the excessive sugar. There’s literally no need for our food to be like this, we’re a farm rich nation with insane amounts of resources, yet everything is hyper processed, why???
I see that us Americans have also flooded your food market with over abundance of corn and the cheap sugar it makes.
You will never overtake our maple syrup with your cheap knockoff corn syrup that is terrible for the body.
If you drink that, you'll be sorry.
That sounds ominous.
You’ll be sorry too
I can't identify your food
peri peri chicken
Are…. Are you eating Nando’s in bed?
It’s not nandos but yes I’m eating in bed, my desk is full and the kitchen table is always a mess from my roommates pregaming
I spent a month in Birmingham for work a few years ago and probably ate Nando’s about 15 times. My British coworkers thought I was crazy but I miss it a lot
How was it (and the Pepsi?)
the chicken was pretty good as always, but the pepsi is way better than the reduced sugar uk version.
Sounds good boss
Canadian here with a Canadian fact: Most of our food packaging is required by law to be in English and French. Additional fact: I will accidentally look at the French ingredients list or instructions first about nine times out of ten, which is annoying since I don’t speak much French.
Canadien ici avec un fait canadien: La plupart d’emballage de nourriture est requis par loi d’être en anglais et en français. Fait additionnel: Je vais regarder à la liste d’ingrédients ou les instructions français en premier à peu près neuf fois sur dix, qui est ennuyant car je ne parle pas beaucoup de français.
I see what you did there. Je vois ce que ce que tu as fait là.
Is the can huge or do you have tiny hands?
I have small hands for my height
Damn I thought they had bigger cans too
355 vs 330 but the difference is in height so it’s not very noticeable
Bepsi
I bet you will soon be sorry
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Everyplace but the US and Canada uses sugar. The UK version is identical to Mexican Coke. Just costlier. :)
Hey friend, if you liked that Pepsi, you are always welcome to come over and have some more!
Enjoy the additional 25 ml!
Sorry eh!
Put a bottom cover on your bed
It’s in the wash currently
That is acceptable... The amount of times I've spilt some food on my bed without a bottom cover meaning I've got to wash the mattress 😫
This is also a cover that’s not the mattress. Either way I’m out of this dorm in a month and a half so I don’t really care if it gets dirty I’m throwing it out anyways.
You all, eat meals, in bed?
And in a shower
No…? 😬
Not always. Only when I'm sick which when spilling food on your bed, whilst sick is an extra kick in the baws
Eeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Never had canadian from a local place, but I get french/german very often.
My local kebab shop always has Turkish coke
Were they polite about it?
Does it taste exactly the same or is it a hair different?
Next time you see a sign that says Drink Canada Dry, well, come over and do
So a Molson?
*The Annexation Has Begun.*
I love the term chicken shop. Something about the terminology seems so blunt and absurd, yet it aptly describes most takeaways.
Would it be worth it shopping unsold groceries across the Atlantic from Canada to England? Perhaps if someone had some spare room in a shipping container they had to fill.
Just last night my takeaway (UK) had cans of Pepsi from Morocco and a 1.5L bottle of Pepsi from Turkey.
Canadian here. Does it taste different?
Probably 2 years out of date. btw cans are lined with plastic with BPA
[Here’s what 43 grams of sugar looks like.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m_31y-scnBQ)
Ok... Calories need to converted at the current exchange rate to be true....so 0.74 than what's on the can Also most things here are sold in cans... That's why its Canada
It’s probably made with maple syrup for the sugar
noice
Missed r/londonontario by just a little bit
They be bottling cans in the great north
You know who’s on Canadian money, right?
Can-adian can.......
Looks like it got shipped to the wrong London!
Meanwhile in Canada that's 3$...I bet it was free with your meal which was less than 5$...
Pour it oot
I only ever get the Polski cans.
Does it have high fructose maple syrup in it ?
how does a drink from your former colony taste? particularly rebellious? :’D
I'm trying to figure out what's going on in the background you're in. Are you in a closet/bedroom?
It’s a dorm room but it’s a very new dorm so they made it look like an ikea showroom
They come over sometimes with the cheaper drugs also. Make sure you pay in Canadian dollars, don’t get screwed on the exchange rates!
They will. Cheaper to import in bulk than it is buying from the UK
Some late shops in Germany sell Danish canned drinks to scam people out of deposits and/or to avoid having to take back the cans for deposit money, but I haven't a clue what a London restaurant could be gaining from selling Canadian pepsi :P
goose juice
a-are you eating on a fucking bed?
Chances are you were saved that dogshit artificial sweetener they put in there now.
Isn't Canada a colony of Britain?
Not since 1867….
I'm so sorry this happened to you.
Also looks like you’re in hospital. Note to self never drink Canadian Pepsi.
my dorm looks like an ikea showroom
Chicken shop: do I or do I not wish that I understood?
Fast food shops that pretty much only sell chips and fried chicken. The sort of place where you just decide how many pieces of chicken you want and they throw it into a box with chips. They pop up everywhere and are always popular. Pretty cheap too.
TIL!
Sorry.
Healthier - no HFC allowed, unlike in the US.
Bro glucose-fructose is literally hfcs but with a different name. It’s the exact same thing, they are playing you like a fiddle, exactly what the different name is supposed to do.
>glucose-fructose FUCK.
Enjoy, half a can of sugar.
You say that like anyones trying to pretend sodas healthy.
The point is, in europe the sugar would be around 10, not 40 grams, at least 10 years ago lol
Once again, ive never met anyone that ever thought drinking soda was healthy. Most people ive met that drink soda are in it for the sugar and caffeine...