I have worked at a lot of bakeries in Canada, a technically bilingual country in which we all have to take french classes until we’re 14 or so. I think ‘cruss-ont’ is how 90% of people would request that particular item; legit francophones say it in French, which is fine; and then there’s the brutal 2-3% like your…

Man FUCK the Vancouver airport security. I am also a boring blonde lady (and born-in-Canada citizen) and I have never, EVER had a worse experience with security than I had there. They made me stand, alone, at an arbitrary line like 8m out from the wall in a large, busy room for almost an hour without explaining why. Wh…

I love this story.

I recently got married and the matriarchs of the family insisted that I needed a bridal shower, despite being a pretty established cook with a full kitchen of mostly good stuff already. (I did want to replace my electric kettle, but ironically nobody picked that off the registry I was nagged to make.)

I think this is exceptional and so was your recent piece on the racial disparities in the Canadian media landscape on Longreads (and the bullying one recently before that!) I don’t post on Twitter much, so I’m posting this here in the hopes that you see it - genuinely thank you for the depth and breadth of the work…

I have a lot of mugs. The most recent one I added to the collection is this one:

I hear you re: not jumping to using ‘bitch’, but why ‘human’ rather than ‘person’?

Does she do it directly to you, in a ‘yes, dear’ kind of way? That would also get under my skin, I think! To clarify - the way I used the word ‘dear’ in my first post....I could have used ‘close’ instead or just left it at ‘old friend’, since I put it there to communicate that it’s someone I care about. The tone feels…

Oh, that’s not the sense I’m talking about. I’m talking about the affectation of saying something like, “hello humans! welcome to my Youtube channel”, or when describing a mutual acquaintance, “what a lovely human”. Not into it. A petty gripe, to be sure, but if we’re complaining already....

A couple of years ago, when I’d just moved to where I live now, I was on a real nostalgia kick. Remembering the holiday spreads at parties when I was a kid, I brought either homemade spinach dip in a pumpernickel loaf and/or a shrimp ring to every party I went to. Now, these are my consistent moves. Both of them are…

Really glad we collectively agreed on cancelling calling people ‘humans’. I don’t know why it drives me nuts, but it does! An old dear friend of mine has taken to saying it and it just.......it’s faux quirky in the worst way. I feel like I should gently say something but IRL it’s hard, you know?

Isn’t that the default blue for Microsoft Office products, if you’re just throwing together a quickie graph in Excel??

THE TAKEOUT GOING HARD AGAIN FOR THE GEMS OF THE MIDWEST NORDIC DIASPORA!! First you highlight bread cheese, now kringle? My people!

Oh, they run big for sure. I wear a medium in pretty much every other brand of tights or leggings (5'8", cyclist thighs) and the Heattech small fits generously on me. I probably should have said that earlier.

I still don’t understand the system here. Not 100% sure who ungreyed me once upon a time but my best guess is Lindy. That didn’t change when she moved on, so I don’t think that the writers leaving is the whole reason.

I went looking in this family recipe book I was given and our specific version wasn’t in there, but Google has given me something that looks close (and even mentions making it for Thanksgiving!!) The only difference is that I’m about 90% sure ours swaps ground allspice for the nutmeg, or is maaaaybe a combination of…

Ugh I was already hyping Uniqlo in another comment but they have a packable, decently warm, decently cheap puffer jacket that my friends (who fit the desired male aesthetic, haha) keep hyping up for getting around at this time of year in Toronto - been looking to buy one myself soon. Would agree with everything you…

Re: all of the above - Uniqlo has a ‘Heattech’ line of products that I’m in love with as a Canadian trying to look good all winter. The black Heattech leggings in “Extra Warm” are indeed as advertised, pack super tiny, and are 100% worth being somewhat more expensive than other simple leggings (like ~$20 CDN). There’s…

THANK YOU for writing the name of this!! I worked at a bakery that sold it and I’ve struggled to describe it ever since. We just labelled it ‘poppyseed loaf’ because our regulars knew what it was, and we sold out pretty much every day. I miss it and I’ve never seen it anywhere else since. Half the reason I clicked on…

I worked for awhile at a bakery that made hamentaschen in a wide array of flavours. The absolute best ones were the poppyseed, followed closely by the prune, with everything else a distant 3rd/4th etc.