It would be a pity not to come but I am newbie to such social events.
My neighbours, in the house where I'm living now, are organising 'apero le dinner canadien'. What is it exactly, should I bring something?
Where everybody brings their own food and booze, you then share around and the cooking is on a communal grill
Yep, everybody brings a dish to share around. There may not necessarily be a BBQ (if you want to take meat then check first) but you could take a plate of nibbles, a salad, a desert, a quiche....
It needs to be coordinated to make it a sucess or you end up with 10 green salads and 1 cervelas sausage.....
Not necessarily a communal grill so best to check that beforehand.
Most people bring a salad to share, to a dessert, or a quiche, or some nibbles for aperitif. They're usually better if people communicate beforehand so that there is a variety of different things and not loads of the same.
We call it a pot luck buffet where I'm from.
Everyone brings their own personal variation on poutine.
And there's lots of apologizing.
Sorry.
What's the difference between a Canadian and a Canoe?
A Canoe tips.
Who says Canadians are cheap?
What are they apologizing aboot?
i think it means music from Nickelback or Justin Bieber.
best to bring some earplugs or put cheese in your ears.
Bring shitty beer. Any standard Swiss brew will suffice.
Isn't it already way to warm for a Canadian apero?
Is this a Swiss French phrase? My French husband was just as confused as I was when we were invited to our first apéro canadien.
Potluck
Yes.
I've never heard it either, and my kids are Canadians (among other things).
Tom
Yes, it seems to be a Swiss-French phrase. We used to have such occasions when I was working at Uni Fribourg.
I'm pretty sure it must be.
As you know my son had a little 'issue' at school due to his not knowing the English term for this ( due to being excused from English classes and it not being a term he was familiar with).
I wonder what the Québecois use for that expression!
Yes, the original was 'souper canadien' - very common in the 50s. Here we often have Grill canadien- same principle- everybody brings something to share. We do that with a big group of friends on 1st of August, and also the week before Christmas- people bring instruments to play, kids prepare little plays and shows - simple and fun.
Patxi - bringing cheap beer or cheap wine is not necessarily the best way to make good friends honest. We all know who does that- and those two don't get invited to many dinners or parties- and yes, people DO notice, for sure.
He didn't say cheap, he said shitty and was refering to the inferior quality of pretty much all major Swiss brands.
(There is decent beer in Switzerland, but it takes more effort to find it than in most other European countries. I recommend Stiär Biär from Uri http://www.kleinbrauerei.ch/portal/ )