Regarding the French/English language labelling on all our stuff...most English-language Canadians just ignore the French part, and I would assume for the French-language Canadians it's the other way around, but I had a Pakistani girlfriend for a time, and she would deliberately pronounce the French words in an exaggerated English phonetic style just for fun. This resulted in horrible mispronunciations of the French words...and we'd both laugh.

Beans, for instance, became "har-i-cots", whereas peanuts were "ar-a-chides". Just pronounce it exactly as if it were an English word. I hope no French people ever overheard her doing this, they would have been pretty disgusted. ;-)

My girlfriend had utterly no comprehension of the French language, as should be quite clear from the above, but she did find French labelling handy for this odd form of humour.