This title sparked a memory of a friend of my mom’s who had moved to just outside Minneapolis. I remember the first time she came back, she stocked UP on Robin Hood flour, pasta, and a bunch of loaves of bread for the freezer. She swore up and down that the American ‘white flour stuff’ didn’t taste right to her. Not…

I first read that here! Harvey’s is my most likely choice for a fast food burger but A&W is choice #2. I think Harvey’s is also Canadian...but I don’t think A&W is a common first pick in the states.

For awhile I shared a student office with a guy who was new to Canada and also worked part time at Swiss Chalet. We struck up a conversation a few weeks in and he asked me if I’d eaten there - yes. He asked if it was that popular everywhere in Canada - everywhere I’ve lived in Ontario, yeah. He then asked ‘.....can…

As of a month ago, condos are threatening Sneaks too :(

I used to live on Queen West near Spadina and went a few times to the Aji Sai location on that block. I saw this on the menu there and considered it....but I never ordered it, fully assuming it’d be cheesy. I feel regrets now.

They’re more like a Dunkin. No counter stools or wait staff, but slightly bigger menu and seating areas. Most Dunkin locations I’ve been to while visiting the U.S. don’t seem to want you to hang out for long. The chairs at Tims are uncomfortable, but there’s no denying that plenty of folks will post up there all…

Tim’s was my first job, part time in high school ~15 years ago. The switch from everything being made in store to parbaked ‘always fresh’ frozen stuff was maybe a year or two before I started there, and the coffee switch happened a few years after I quit.....so my remembered timeline matches up with yours more or less.…

COMPANY’S COMING. My mom had like 12 of them, and I had the Kid’s Cook edition. There was a recipe in the kid book for a chocolate/rice krispie bar cookie that my grandma wrote down into her own recipe box, it wasn’t playing around.

I swear to god that wonton soup is the worst kept secret, hahaha.

I had a similar experience in a UHaul with Arizona plates, driving it through my then-home of downtown Ottawa. My brother was like “take it easy on the gas” and I said, “relax, the limit here is 50 and I’m doing 45, it’s a 17' UHaul”. The speedometer was in mph, which my baby Canadian butt had never seen before, but I…

Even though lately I go to sleep at 11:30.....my heart says early. May we be able to impulsively go to the late movie again soon.

The ‘Acquired Tastes’ header seems to get applied to basically all pieces that read like personal essays. Like, ‘this food means a lot to me and here’s why’. That’s how I read it, anyways, not like ‘this food is weird you guys!’

One of my jobs in university was working the cash on Saturday at a kosher bakery. My Jewish friends let me know that meant I was a shabbos goy, haha, but it also meant that I have a deep love for all the traditional treats. I will go so far out of my way for good knish, bialys, hamentashen, challah.....and what I did…

Yeah, the outside shell of the statement (“I’ve fallen in a rut with my cooking”) could be vaguely relatable, but the delivery and the embellishment, my god!

I find it interesting that you say she’s not always great with instructions, and would be curious which other Youtube yoga channels you’d suggest instead? I’m very new to this whole world - over my life I’d say I’ve almost always had some kind of physical activity thing, to varying degrees of intensity - but I never…

The cereal part of Lucky Charms is wildly underrated, IMO.

I go through phases with my cooking too. There’s something intoxicating about really nailing a dish.....and if you’ve really nailed it, it’s obviously delicious, so you gobble it up quickly then repeat repeat repeat until the next thing comes.

....but why not both? No Indian restaurant meal is complete for me without an order of baingan bharta.

Fresca is not great for making floats - it’s an S-tier diet pop, but the aspartame does not play nicely with the real sugar in the ice cream.

.......35 g is not a lot of fiber, though?