STEINBACH, MB

A local home-style restaurant has started a new marketing strategy aimed at attracting a new kind of customer: canoes. Restaurant owner Bart B. Bueckert says he much prefers canoes to his usual Mennonite clientele.

“They’re a bit cumbersome, and they don’t always fit perfectly into a restaurant booth,” explains Bueckert, “but, still, better a canoe than a Mennonite. I say this…and I am a Mennonite myself.”

Bueckert says that Mennonites are far too buoyant and stable, and that his waitresses much prefer a customer whose a little more shaky on their feet, like a canoe.

“When you stand up in one, there’s a bit of danger there,” said Bueckert. “It’s exactly that potential that we’d like to exploit at our restaurant.”

When a canoe takes on water, or when someone rocks from si

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