Canada is a land of goofy dopes. Ontario’s got hosers, the prairies’ve got north-of-Fargo hosers and cowhosers, the west coast has its breathy hippie hosers, and Quebec’s just a heavy metal mess. But all the things that make Canada’s hosers hosers–dressing like a 70s extra, drinking whatever beer your province sells cheapest, listening to music you have to drink shitty beer to listen to, and talking like a habitual gas huffer–all are at their most extreme on the east coast. And Newfoundland is the east coast of the east coast. Newfoundlanders, or “Newfies” are heavy-drinking, cod-fishing, funny-talking island folk that didn’t join Canada until 1949. They are almost as easy a target as the French.
