la cabane à sucre
🇨🇦 French slang from Québec
What does “la cabane à sucre” mean?
sugar shack (maple-syrup feast in spring)
Example
“En mars, on va à la cabane à sucre.”
In March we go to the sugar shack.
Good to know
Pancakes, ham, beans and maple taffy on snow.
Who you can say it to
Fine with anyone
🌮 Food🎉 Going out
The textbook way to say it: érablière
Heard in a conversation
Weekend at the sugar shack
Mathieu Gab, on va à la cabane à sucre en fin de semaine avec la gang. T'embarques ?
Gab, we're going to the sugar shack this weekend with the gang. You in?
Gabrielle Ben oui ! Mais mon char est au garage, pis il fait frette en maudit.
Well, yeah! But my car's at the garage, and it's freezing like crazy.
More from Québec
- une brouea beer
- dépanneurcorner store
- souperdinner
- écœurantawesome (or disgusting)
- c'est maladeit's awesome, sick
- c'est l'funit's fun, it's great
- frencherto kiss (with tongue)
- tripperto have a blast; to be really into something
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