Canadians

[Paul Johnson]

First ran across this when we moved to Miami in 1983. The French
Canadians were infamous for being very bad tippers. These were the ones
who had enough money to spend the winter away from Quebec, but lived in
second rate motels and pensions in and around Lauderdale. The trade
phrase was "CAC's" Cheap Ass Canadians.

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?
>
> --
> Mircea Sauciuc
> University of Kansas
> Department of Linguistics
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