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[pallid hawk]

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[thorn furnace]

Sounds like a machine translation of "baby spinach" more so than a québécois term. The French term for that would be "(jeunes) pousses d'épinards"

or "jeunes épinards"

But maybe a québécois should comment

[dawn condor]

ah okay

le terme est sur l'étiquette de mon épinard

[north lava]

not québécois, but canadian. I believe this is the right translation (though I've never used this term) and Google Translate, with their new Canadian French addon, agrees.

although it does say the plural form bébés épinards

[dawn condor]

québécois ≠ canadian french ???

i thought they were the same thing

[north lava]

they do overlap but I'd personally say they're not the same thing. We generally have the same accent and use the same regional stuff of course, but québécois specifically refers to the dialect in Québec or just being born in Québec

wait hold on

I'm not really sure if there are that many differences as I never really learned "outside-of-québec" french

[dawn condor]

ah okie

i see 🥸

[north lava]

I think it might just be like

France French = French spoken in France
Parisian French = French spoken in Paris

same thing with Canadian vs Québécois

Québécois is (a part of) Canadian French, but Canadian French isn't Québécois
does that make sense 😅 ?

[dawn condor]

ohhhhh

yas

that makes sense

thank you

[sterile pasture]

Iirc québécois developed a bit differently than other variations of Canadian French (there's also Acadian which kinda fits under the "canadian french" umbrella) but functionally a lot of French outside of Quebec ends up being québécois speakers who have moved
In general other forms of canadian french will sound closer to an anglo accent and may have less of the distinctive features/heavy accents you can find among québécois