Eh & W.

Apparently our A&W is superior? As in, actually good.

Canadian here, and I also agree that Swiss Chalet Sauce is terrible. I’ve dined with others that order so much extra, they could bathe in it like some lustful vampire. To me, it tastes like sadness.

My husband is Canadian and LOVES this stuff. I do not care for it a bit. We have to hit up Swiss Chalet every time we go up there and one of the first times it was with his parents. His father DRANK this sauce. Anyway, he orders the sauce packets and makes it for himself here at home. I suppose it’s an acquired taste,…

I’ve eaten at Swiss Chalets on and off for most of my life (barring years-long stints in South East Asia) and can confirm that the sauce is bad in a very weird way. It’s very fragrant in a way a savoury sauce should never be.

I have been a reader of The Takeout almost since it’s inception and this is my first post ever... It’s just that important.

Your dislike is okay, it just leaves more for the rest of us.

As a fan of food-adjacent products, I just ordered some so I can experience this wonderfully divisive sauce :-)

Sadly no. (I say sadly because it would be cool to meet someone on here that I somehow knew way back when).

I needed this content back in my life.

I was not aware it was a Canadian thing! That’s awesome. I just assumed every AYCE sushi place had it.

Tim’s is one of the lifelong constants for my family, and a host of others I know. My grandfather would come for a visit every Sunday morning. He’d leave before the football games started if they were in season. And every single Sunday morning, without fail, he showed up with his coffee (large, double double), a…

People noted a decline in TH soon after the acquisition by BK’s parent company. What you have now is what you get when you take a decent coffee house and run it lie a cheap fast food business. Cheaper ingredients, fewer high paid employees, less need for expensive equipment onsite. Lower quality product for customers,…

It’s sad because Tim Horton’s used to be good. When I was a kid they still baked everything in store and the coffee was actually pretty decent, but in the last 20 or so years they have cheaped out on absolutely everything. Now they simply reheat their donuts and snacks from frozen (cheaper than employing a baker),…

Tim Horton’s used to be good, way back in the 1990's when they still baked everything in store. Fuck, back then you’d go in and the place smelled like fresh baked goods and their coffee was actually good, but around a decade or so (maybe longer), they switched to a cheaper coffee supplier and it was noticeably worse.…

The Halifax Donair is something very special. Look into it!

Loved this piece — went to college in Buffalo and quite literally survived on their “soup + bagel + coffee” combo for like $3 for several years.

We spent many summers in Ontario to visit relatives, but the best story is my sister in Montreal.

My mom is Canadian and I grew up a few minutes from the border in Upstate NY. There is a truly underrated series of cookbooks from Jean Pare, my mom and grandmother used them extensively when I was growing up and everyone should know about them. Apparently they were sold in gas stations in Canada in the 80's? 150…

Toledoan, so I’ve spent plenty of time in Windsor, at least.

One trip to Toronto about 25 years ago, and I could not get over how many very attractive women there were there. Not like raving super-model hot, but like a 6 or 7 on every block. I’ve never experienced that in any other city I’ve been to.

Also went to an…