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Looks good. I'll have to see if I still have some in the freezer.

Made me think of the old Bobby Bare song: "I've been lost in Austin, juiced in Houston/don't remember Dallas But Dallas won't be soon forgetting me..."

Nope, just the local dairies. In some places you'll see Baxter's or Farmer's or Scotsburn, with Scotsburn being the most common alternative to Chapman's in my part of the province.

With electronics, you just never know. I used to work for Radio Shack Canada for a lot of years, back in the day, and - because we repaired what we sold, in-house - we had a better read than most store staff on what was reliable and what wasn't. There are some major brands that I still won't buy, to this day, as a result (though realistically that was a LONG time ago...). But it was pretty random. You'd get one person who's had nothing but grief with major, well-respected brands (in my case anything Sony I ever touched turned to crap) while other people might have nothing but rock-solid reliability from a make and model that had a hideous return rate. After a while you just shrug and fill out the repair ticket, and stop trying to figure it out.

The corresponding place here in New Brunswick is Ossie's Lunch, also founded in 1957 and also unprepossessing. Ossie's is purely takeout, though, so you eat in your car or at picnic tables outside (depending on the mosquito population at a given moment). Unfortunately the new highway barges along parallel to the old road, so you have to know it's there or you'll miss it. If any eGers' plans for the summer include crossing the border at Calais, PM me and I'll let you know which turnoff to watch for.

I remember it being around for a year or two in my childhood. Frozen concentrated orange juice hadn't quite made it to my neck of the woods yet, so the options were either canned or fresh-squeezed, and the latter was only an occasional extravagance (served in very small glasses which, IIRC, were the deliberately-reusable jars from a brand of mustard or something). I didn't mind it, as a kid, but once the frozen stuff arrived it was all over for Tang.

In my neck of the woods, alas, Chapman's is the better option. A lot of local venues have switched to Nestle, which is just awful.

Today's Facebook facepalm, spotted by my daughter: "If you boil a funnybone, it becomes a laughing stock."

They're hardy and very low-maintenance once established, so you could certainly have some of your own with minimal effort.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/07/21/743549993/50-years-after-apollo-11-heres-what-and-how-astronauts-are-eating

I use two less-stylish containers, both aluminum from the dollar store. One has the serving spoons, flipper-type spatulas, a ladle and a masher. The other (smaller) one contains whisks, silicon spatulas and kitchen shears.

As a rule, if it's gluten-free you can probably get it from Bob's. They were heavily entrenched in that market before it even was a cohesive market.

Welcome, SD. I venture to guess that you'll fit right in...

Metal particles in some Agropur ice cream sandwiches, recall is national. https://inspection.gc.ca/about-the-cfia/newsroom/food-recall-warnings/complete-listing/2019-07-20/eng/1563664949779/1563664951536

Same here. Even at my broke-est, when my kids were growing up, we always had butter for table use no matter how we scrimped on everything else. It was that one little luxury that made everything else bearable.

Some Pacific oysters, paralytic shellfish poisoning. Currently, the recall affects BC, Alberta and Ontario. https://inspection.gc.ca/about-the-cfia/newsroom/food-recall-warnings/complete-listing/2019-07-19/eng/1563582779479/1563582781500

As I see it, the differences between Honeycrisp and Cosmic Crisp are mostly logistical. CC will be easier/lower cost to grow, and will store for longer without losing quality. Both excellent things, as far as that goes, but so far I've been underwhelmed by most of this new generation of branded apples (Pazzazz, Juici, and even Honeycrisp). I do like Ambrosia, and have lucked into bags of them among the "Naturally Imperfect" produce at Superstore and No Frills. No Frills puts the 6-lb bag on for $4.97 pretty regularly, which is a smokin' deal for apples.

I'll be very interested to see everyone's input. My GF and I are in the very early stages of planning for what we sincerely hope will be our "forever" home (ie, live there until we die or no longer know/care where we *are* living) so I'm keen to see what everyone likes/dislikes about the main countertop options. My personal preferences run to end-grain butcher block and commercial stainless steel. I abominate tile in the kitchen, having spent far too many hours of my life scrubbing grout. I'm all about seamless surfaces...

It's a Honeycrisp hybrid, and will be marketed as the "Cosmic Crisp."

That would be the one, all right. They definitely played fast and loose with the liquor licensing laws...as long as you had one order of fries on the table, they considered that you'd met the requirement to order food. As I recall, they eventually got into trouble that way and ultimately had to re-license as a pub. Didn't they change their name eventually to The Brit, as well? (An aside: During my time there, some local wag wrote a Letter to the Editor in one of the local papers, which ran something like: "I'm sick and tired of immigrants coming here and not adapting to Canadian life. They band together in their own little cliques, refusing to take up a place in Canadian society and culture, and always going on and on about how things were so much better at home. I refer, of course, to the British.")

I add it by the handful even to regular green salads, just because I like to have it in my garden and it's a heavy producer. It's not overpowering. Over the years, whenever I've been in the type of restaurant that adds a sprig as the default garnish, I've always eaten the sprig: partly for its purported virtues as a breath freshener, and partly because (as my father liked to joke) "it's often the most nutritious thing on the plate."

Yup. The other expat hangout then was, IIRC, the Horse and Carriage. Lots of good memories, there. I even got to see Long John Baldry do a few songs, on his birthday (the party was in the upstairs, but he and Sybil Thrasher did a few numbers on the main stage by popular demand).

Ugh. Yeah, my new Panasonic microwave has one of those for setting time. I've gotten used to it, but use the "quick minute" button a lot instead. A classic example of design over function, to my mind.

Ol' Bill had, of all things, an English fish & chips place in Vancouver when I lived there in the 80s. It was called the Dover Arms, I think. I saw him there a couple of times, and was quite amused at how well the caricature on the perogie-maker label captured his features and personality. I remember the fish as being pretty good, and it was certainly a hangout for the expat Brit crowd at the time (my then-GF was part of that crew...she was South American mestizo by blood, and very exotic looking, but a cockney by upbringing).

I don't think a century or more is out of the question. My father and I dug up and relocated my grandmother's rhubarb patch after it had been in place for 60 years or so, and it was going STRONG despite an absolute lack of maintenance. There were roots in there that looked like tree stumps, about half the size of a grown man. The rhubarb continued to flourish in its new location for the next few years, and presumably still does. The house was sold after my grandmother died in 2008, and is no longer in the family. As/when my GF and I buy/build our place in the country, a rhubarb patch and a couple beds of asparagus will be among the first things to go in.