Canadians

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:33 PM -0500 4/27/07, Mircea Sauciuc wrote:
>Hi -
>
>I was speaking with a friend last night who last summer worked in
>Kansas City as a waitress.  She said that fellow workers used to use a
>name for inner-city families that were known to not leave a tip:
>Canadians.  "Hey, we have a table of Canadians...they're all yours."
>
>Anyone know the reference or heard this said?  Is it made to actual
>Canadians because they're cheap (I'm not making that claim, just using
>it as a possibility) or is the term derived from something else?
>
Aren't a disproportionate number of Canadians descended from Scots,
who do have that reputation?  Just a guess.

LH

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