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Who does this? Show yourselves
Not surprisingly this same piece claims Canadians, writ large, get milk in plastic bags
FYI this is the New Yorker, not the New York Times which, whole maybe the most prolific offender, does not hold a monopoly on Bad Stories About Canada
Apparently there is a subset of Canadians who do — or at least did do — this. However there seems to be a much larger set of Canadians absolutely baffled that this is A Thing https://twitter.com/rk_thorpe/status/1278439303425798145?s=19
Yes this is indeed a humour item it doesn't make the REAL FACT that *some* Canadians chant "Halloween Apples" any less strange! (It also doesn't make it more of a Canada-wide thing) https://twitter.com/1236/status/1278445656588369922?s=19
The most interesting part of this is some of my replies are like "I lived in [place] for decades and never heard of this" and others are "I live in [same place] and this is definitely a thing" https://twitter.com/jana_pruden/status/1278423765009993728?s=19
