How Much of a Montrealer Are You?

This story originally appeared in a special edition The Main x URBANIA Micromag. Read the full collection here.

There's no citizenship test for this city (or any city for that matter), so what makes you a Montrealer? There’s the time you live here, presumably long enough to learn how to live here. Over time, you just accumulate knowledge one steamie, one inebriated navigation, one heartbreak on a park bench at a time.

So consider this a check-in: Below are eleven sentences with the important parts missing. If you've lived here long enough, you'll fill them in without thinking. If you find yourself reaching for your phone, well, that's an answer too.

Tally up your score at the end, and be honest, or don’t—Montreal will know if you're lying.

…oh, and we’ll give you a pass on #7 if you don’t get it.

1. Fuck inflation! I can still buy ______ for $2 and ______ for $5.

2. When a cashier says ______ your reply decides which language the conversation goes in. Most people just pick one and commit.

3. An all-dressed hot dog comes with ______, ______, ______ and ______; bonus marks if you know that last final topping is ______.

4. At Wilensky's, you don't ask for the ______ without ______, and you definitely don't ask them to ______. These aren't suggestions.