Only in Canada can people wanting to eventually buy their bottle of Jack Daniels or Jim Beam again find themselves being pelted with eggs.
Not only does this anti-American product social media commenter say people will have egg on their face for buying re-stocked Yankee booze, but that people will “deserve” to have that egg used on them as a weapon as well.
“There’s going to be a stigma attached to buying American booze like there is wearing a MAGA hat downtown Toronto,” said a man in a post on social media, shared on X by Ryan Gerritsen. “You deserve, if spotted with such, to have a fucking egg thrown directly, here.”
The man is seen to then put his finger right between his eyes?
Imagine living like this?
— Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 (@ryangerritsen) August 21, 2026
Leftists are completely unhinged. pic.twitter.com/cXhcjj9ua0
It’s not Sunny Ways anymore in Canada. This takes elbows up to a whole other level. Gerritsen commented the whole nation is “unhinged.”
The RCMP said it’s not a crime since it’s not a direct threat.
But, still, the big question is will this kind of suggestion catch on and become a problem? Will buying California wine, Tennessee whisky and Kentucky bourbon again mean Canadians wanting those brands will have to walk on eggshells and also duck?
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Shame game involves egg pelting
Certainly, the shame game has already started. And this is happening even before Canada and the United States have a deal.
The backlash comes after word came out Thursday that Prime Minister Mark Carney had asked the premiers to consider putting the banned American products in their liquor retailers.
While Ontario Premier Doug Ford has not yet commented on this, Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew is telling Canadians to leave American hooch on the shelves .
“Stick with Canada,” Kinew said Thursday. “We have labels on our shelves. You see a maple leaf, buy that. You see the stars and stripes, maybe keep browsing.”
Ontario took the American wine and spirit catalogue off LCBO shelves March 4, 2025 , and this move was noticed south of the border immediately. In fact, my first video tweet on American products being taken off the shelves and boxed up for storage was shared 15-million times around the social media circuit.
Yes, American booze companies got paid for what the @LCBO was boxing up Tuesday. But down in Kentucky, Tennessee and California, they understand there will not be one more bottle sold to their best customer if @realDonaldTrump doesn’t remove the tariffs asap pic.twitter.com/ePrDIUgfj6
— Joe Warmington (@joe_warmington) March 5, 2025
Now, the move spearheaded originally by Ford, has become a sticking point and red line for President Donald Trump and his trade negotiators. They want American bottles back for Canadians to buy.
But while Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston said he has no problem putting American alcohol back up for sale in his province if it will help Carney finalize a trade deal, there are other Canadians who do have a problem with it.
So many Canadians are mentally unwell. pic.twitter.com/noO3OvW7cw
— Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 (@ryangerritsen) August 21, 2026
Canadian consumers should buy what they want
On social media, “Boomer Sue” made a video in which she said, “I get it we have got to negotiate with the orange sh.. Stain . . . and “appease” the “the toddler in chief” but the LCBO should have a back room “with a little window in” like the 1920s speakeasies where when you enter “you have to go in in front of everybody” to “buy your American booze” and “that should stop some of you.”
The other poster was tougher saying, “America flushed our friendship down the toilet” and was “fine with cratering our economy” and “fellow Canadians, when that American booze goes back on the shelves, you better not be touching it.”
Of course, from Premier Kinew to the social media posters, the whole notion that the government or anybody else gets to decide or shame another person on what legal product they choose to buy is not only ludicrous but a form of socialism.
When American liquor is back available for commerce again, individual Canadians will be the ones to decide if they want it or not – and no one should be hit with an egg or anything else for whatever they choose to purchase.
jwarmington@postmedia.com