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They seldom go below $13.99 or $14.99/lb where I live, so usually I only buy them when they're approaching their "sell by" date and are marked down 50%...and yours are still cheaper! (Well...depending on the exchange rate I suppose...)

Yup. When my ex and I first got together, I lived in a run-down house not far from the Vancouver pier where many of the fruit boats docked. We got to see some pretty spectacular spiders.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/man-finds-live-scorpion-in-bag-of-bananas-from-costco-1.4246595?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar

For me, it's mustard (grainy or Dijon), plus kraut if I've got it. Sometimes coleslaw, in the absence of kraut. Fried onions if I have them to hand, or if I'm doing dogs for a group (won't bother, for just me). Split-top bun, buttered and grilled. Usually I only have them when I've opened a pack during a grandkid visit, and then have a few left over to use up.

Nuts & More branded peanut spread, recalled nationally for listeria. https://www.inspection.gc.ca/food-recall-warnings-and-allergy-alerts/2020-02-10/eng/1581381640531/1581381646484?utm_source=r_listserv

I'm not surprised. I hadn't seen it before, but I assumed it was something they'd gleaned from the internet. I ate there once, and have no reason to expect originality from them.

Seen outside a local eatery on my way into Truro, NS: "What's missing from this resta ant? U R"

LOL I eat 4 for breakfast in a year, if that. I have nothing against the ol' bacon (/ham/sausage) & egg breakfast, just to be clear...I just don't care for it in the morning. More usually lunch or "breakfast for dinner."

KC has so much speed on offense. It's like chasing toddler grandkids around...you can keep it up for a while, but eventually you're just gassed.

It's not a combination that really speaks to me, but I can certainly see mixologists having fun with cocktails that riff on the PBJ or Reese's.

Yup. Over the last couple of decades Quebec has become a serious football hotbed. Mostly we see those players in the CFL, but a few have made it south of the border.

Until this thread, I'd only ever seen/heard of it as a short-lived Kraft bottled dressing back in the 70s. I guess I'd just assumed it was a period piece, like the green appliances.

Many years ago I ran a retail store in a senior-heavy neighbourhood of a senior-heavy small town. We all learned to dread the words "Now I know I've got the right change in here somewhere...." as one of the old dears began scouring the nether regions of her purse with shaky hands. I was pretty patient about it overall, though less so in mid-December with a long lineup waiting to be served. Now of course my own mother is battling Parkinson's, so I'm on the other side of that equation when I take her shopping. It took me two solid years of lobbying to get her to just use the tap instead of trying to insert her debit card, and no sooner I had her trained than one of her friends scared her into having the tap disabled, lest someone make away with her card and drain her account in $100 increments. She mostly uses cash anyway, so I just keep my mouth shut and let her do as she wants. She's my mother, not my child, and gets to make her own decisions.

I actually consider that to be the best method when the intent is to have crumbled bacon. The unnaturally crisp texture of microwaved bacon is perfect for that specific purpose.

You're welcome. I really enjoyed the book as well...it's a fascinating period, just at the cusp of New World foods beginning to arrive.

...another cookbook drawing from the Converso experience. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/12/22/789864201/trove-of-recipes-dating-back-to-inquisition-reveals-a-familys-secret-jewish-root

Really? Middle school always has that "Lord of the Flies" vibe to it...

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/01/the-math-of-brewing-a-better-espresso/

My sister's hubby is a trucker, hauling seafood from Yarmouth NS to distributors in New England. Amusing to speculate if your salt cod had left the country on his truck. When I was a kid we would get "CARE packages" a couple of times a year from Newfoundland, which always included a few big, shingle-like whole salted cod from my grandparents. I always looked forward to those arriving, because it meant homemade fishcakes (not that those really belong on this thread, but...).

My mom's a big fan of their chocolate, and stocks up on it after the major holidays when it gets marked down.

Has it improved? I tried it 5 or 6 years ago, and found it crazy-making. Ordinarily I make my list on a whiteboard over the course of the week, and it takes me maybe a total of 5 minutes. OOM "simplified" that to about 45 minutes, and using it in-store was a trial as well.

A followup to this cropped up in my news this week: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/tareq-hadhad-canadian-citizen-1.5427390?cmp=FB_Feed_CBCMain