There's nuance, but it's a distinction of degrees, not of kinds.

-Canadian football is actually more challenging than American football, but it's always had some... overtones.

-We call soccer football because the sport is called football. I was never entirely sure why they called the other game football since 95% of the time the ball is in your hands. They also have tried to learn hockey. It's very kind of all our best players to go down there and help them not embarrass themselves.

-We both have rather eclectic food tastes (a brown English gravy on cheese curds and fries? Les Parisiens sont choqués et alarmés), although I will grant we don't stick corn and/or corn syrup in everything and are less obsessed with tacos. We're rather fond of maple anything and a good donair is lovely though.

-Their Cajuns speak something vaguely resembling French (let's not get into the reason for that too deeply) and the rest of them speak something vaguely resembling English. It's not polite to make fun of them just because they can't spell or speak clearly, their education systems are deeply backward.