We should be friends because you have excellent taste in fast food burgers.

There is hope if you change your mind.

Yeah, Old Dutch really seems to be concentrated in the centre of Canada. My Mom's from Thunder Bay (or Port Arthur as my Grandmother still refers to it) and I grew up in Regina and Winnipeg, so my whole childhood was spent with Old Dutch.

I like Old Dutch's Salt n Vinegar. The first time I had Old Dutch Ketchup chips I put one chip in my mouth and immediately threw up. It is one of my most vivid childhood memories (I was 5 or 6 and I was at the Winnipeg Zoo with my Dad).

There was a later Malcolm in the Middle episode where the family goes to Burning Man and Hal treats it like a middle class, suburban camping trip (rented RV, barbecue cookouts, astroturf lawn and portable picket fence around his "camp site", etc). All the weirdos think it's some sort of ironic performance art piece…

Well by your logic, perogies can't be Polish because they were introduced to Poland either by (most likely) the Kievian Rus or (less likely) the Tartars.

Just stuck to the giants of the prairies, so mostly Alberta, Saskatchewan, and a bit of Manitoba so we could visit Flin Flon so that we could see the only city in the world (I believe) to be named after a science fiction character.

Thanks for the correction. I have visited all of the above listed sights as part of a "giant things of Canada" road trip one very bored summer. While Mundare sausage is delicious, the texture they've put on the giant keilbasa makes it look a lot like a giant's turd when seen up close.

That's silly. Tea was brought to Britain, pasta was brought to Italy, chocolate was brought to Belgium, and apple pie was brought to America. Yet each of those foods is now considered tied up in the identity of those countries.

Pierogi are Polish, varenyky are Ukrainian, pyrohy (usually anglicized as perogy) are Western Ukrianian/Canadian, vareniki are Russian, bryndzové pirohy are Slovakian, colţunaşi are Romanian, and derelye are Hungarian. Despite the different names they are all the same or similar dishes derived from an origin that has…

Canada has the 3rd largest Ukrainian population in the world (after Ukraine and Russia).

Yes, yes, we all get it, jobs within my Rimworld religion will be called Rimwork.

Like the rest of the world I went to download No Man's Sky earlier this week but was given pause by the… shall we say… "mixed" reviews on Steam. So I decided that I'd wait a month or two to see how things shook out. Having already decided I was spending some cash on games I took a quick look at my queue and stumbled…

I thought maybe this was somebody having a bad day and then doubling down on their stupidity… but then I read the Daily Dot article on this clown (that someone else posted further down the thread). There's a lot of terrible shit in it.

I was pretty ambivalent about the whole older men younger woman thing to start. But the fact that you feel the need to justify your attraction with this (and other) walls of text filled with outdated stereotyping, over generalization, and pop psych bullshit has actually raised a red flag for me.

Come on man, have you really never heard of New Zealand's fourth most popular pop folk parody duo?

What else would they be in the backroom for?

It's actually at the point where if I'm in a theatre and a preview for a movie I'm already planning on seeing comes on I will close my eyes, put my fingers in my ear, and softly hum.

Some how I managed to avoid any marketing or previews for Edge of Tomorrow when it was first released to theaters. When my wife suggested we go see it I thought it was just a generic future soldiers vs. aliens movie. The first time Cruise died and the day restarted was a pretty spectacularly WTF moment for me.

Crazy coincidence that eight year's earlier Brave Starr had convinced me it was okay to move to the planet of New Texas.