Many people enjoyed a free breakfast on Saturday at Windsor, Ont.‘s restaurant, Toast, as an unknown American couple paid for everyone’s bill. The gesture acted as an apology for the rift between Canada and the U.S.

Windsorite Susan Taylor was at Toast, ready to pay for her breakfast when she was told the bill had been covered.

“The waitress made an announcement in the restaurant that this lovely couple in the corner is paying for everyone who is in the restaurant at the time for breakfast,” Taylor told AM800’s Mornings with Mike and Meg.

“She (the donor) said that she was American, and she just wanted to apologize,” said Taylor.

“She said she knows that their president has caused a rift in what was happening between our countries, and she wanted us to know that not all Americans are bad people.”

  • @tomi000
    -12•13 hours ago

    Maybe because Japan wasnt the country with the crazy power hungry dictator who wanted to cleanse the world of non-caucasians? Sure they did some bad stuff, but so did the US. It was a war.

    Edit: if it makes people feel better, I can rephrase it as “horrible warcrimes”, I wasnt trying to play down ww2. Just trying to make the point that Germanys role was pretty prominent.

    • Garland
      2•3 hours ago

      Even with your edit, it’s clear you owe yourself a bit more research on this topic before making further assertions about it.

    • @ripcord
      11•11 hours ago

      You really need to read up about Japan in WWII (and several decades leading up to it).

    • partial_accumen
      16•13 hours ago

      Sure they did some bad stuff… It was a war

      I dare you to go to South Korea or China and say in a public place.

      • @CharlesDarwinEnglish
        2•4 hours ago

        I watch a lot of horror, but one of the legendary movies I’ve never tracked down is Men Behind the Sun due to its reputation as being quite a slog. That kind of subgenre is not really my thing; I’ve not watched Ilsa, either. But when you learn that vivisection was involved and that is something that actually happened, it’s quite eye-opening.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_Behind_the_Sun

        Also, when you learn of actual cannibalism - watch this until the end for the mind-blowing twist:

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB9-eS44A_8

    • @[email protected]English
      16•15 hours ago

      Hooo boy, you oughta look at the shit Japan did to Korea and China, they put the Nazis to shame sometimes

      Then again the US dropped two nukes on civilians and every president avoids apologizing when they visit the memorial so you have a point there