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Apparently it exists, but there's minimal resemblance between the US and Canadian iterations of the brand. https://thetakeout.com/canadian-a-w-burger-fast-food-worth-crossing-border-1832757524

Realistically they're probably nearing "peak IP" in the US/Canadian markets, so international expansion is an obvious next step. One or another of their new/upcoming products may yet be a solid hit, if not at the level of the IP itself, which in turn could be rolled out through the international channels once they're established. As far as that goes, if the marriage proves disappointing, it's not at all unknown for acquisitions to be spun off again into standalone companies.

My current one is a Swing-A-Way handheld, which worked beautifully for about six months but is now barely functional. I've used the OXO and found it adequate. I'll have to see if I can find the EZ-Duz-It in Canada, and give that a shot. It's strange to me that something so basic should prove to be so difficult to execute well. If I get the opportunity to build my own house/kitchen at some point, I'll just put a commercial Swing-A-Way at the end of a counter and be done with it.

Does yours actually let go of the lid reliably? My former SIL had one that was similar, and I cut myself many times trying to wrestle can lids away from the damned thing.

My daughter sent me this, and it seemed apropos for this thread: https://notalwaysright.com/theyve-scrambled-a-few-too-many-eggs/139998/

That's weird. It's not like Fast Company is a dodgy site, or anything. And I use Adblock Plus, Ghostery and Firefox's own anti-tracking functions, so usually if the browser is going to break anything it'll break for me.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90313508/why-top-restaurants-are-getting-rid-of-stoves-and-why-you-might-too

Salmonella in Sobeys' Compliments brand chicken nuggets: http://inspection.gc.ca/about-the-cfia/newsroom/food-recall-warnings/complete-listing/2019-02-27/eng/1551284021762/1551284022043 C. botulinum in Boffo's smoked trout (Ontario only) http://www.inspection.gc.ca/about-the-cfia/newsroom/food-recall-warnings/complete-listing/2019-02-27/eng/1551329123161/1551329125331

That's the little Chinese buffet place a couple of blocks away from me. When I started going there a decade or so ago, the kids were preschoolers. They proudly helped clear the dirty dishes, and galloped messages from the buffet to the kitchen to let them know what was getting low. A couple of years later they would sit in a back corner with others of the extended family, painstakingly assembling wontons. Now they're in middle school and I seldom see them actually in the restaurant, but feel a twinge when I occasionally pass the whole family in a supermarket. It's almost like watching one's own kids/grandkids grow up.

Apparently the CIA is switching its focus to subscription-based services and ebooks, so a number of boring ol' dead-tree books and DVDs are marked down to $10/ea from their original prices. https://shop.ciaprochef.com/collections/all

Yeah, that part fractured me as well.

Just at cross purposes, I suspect. We got off on that tangent because you'd spoken of having a box of tissues on the table in lieu of napkins, so mentally I extrapolated that to paper napkins specifically (since tissues would be a more intuitive replacement for the paper kind than the linen kind). It was a flippant throw-away remark in the first place, which I perhaps might not have made if the blood level had been a bit lower in my caffeine system.

https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/02/gordon-ramsay-autism-food-sensory-processing.html

Yeah, I know. It felt weird at the time, is all. This sort of thing is fading, along with many other regional distinctions in vocabulary and usage, but it was still common when I was growing up. Now it's mostly something one brings up in fun (that was the original intent of this little digression), usually in conversation with Americans like my late wife. She was amused by "serviette" and "settee" and various other anachronisms I don't recall off the top of my head.

When I was a kid I only saw the word "napkin" in conjunction with the word "sanitary," so that was a bit of an adjustment for me when I got older and moved away from Atlantic Canada.

LOL Don't you mean "serviettes"?

https://www.bonappetit.com/story/david-mcmillan-sober

Pro tip: Go to the store and buy more Gruyere. When you open the fridge to put in the new one, the old one will leap out at you and shout "Surprise!" ...or at least, that's how it works at my place.

If you live in Ontario, and have bought Vietnamese "fish mint" from Canada Herb: http://www.inspection.gc.ca/about-the-cfia/newsroom/food-recall-warnings/complete-listing/2019-02-19/eng/1550634791027/1550634793145

When I was a youngster, working out in Saskatchewan as a security guard, I wandered into the truckstop one night to refill my thermos with coffee (it was -42 C, IIRC, and hot coffee was a must for outdoor patrolling). While I was wandering the aisles, I was startled to see - in among the Playboy-logo air fresheners and mirrored stick-ons of unclad/shapely females - boxes of nylons boldly labeled as "Man-T-Hose." Apparently truckers wore them in the seriously cold weather as an under-layer beneath their more conventional winter warms. I was both amazed and amused.

Note (before trying this at home) that the researchers accumulated quite a "microwave graveyard" in the process.

The meal sounds delightful, as does your attitude. My parents were still very cuddly and smooch-y right up to the end (my dad passed away of cancer in the middle of their 55th year together), and they still spent most of their time alone together very happily in their little country retreat. Their reasoning, as explained by my mom, was "we didn't get married to spend time apart" so once my father left the navy they seldom did.

I'm attempting to, with the caveats that a) I may not always remember; b) I'm sometimes traveling between provinces and won't always do so in a timely fashion; and c) I'll probably post only the pathogen-related ones rather than the allergy-related ones. Anyone wanting to be added the CFIA's email notifications system can do so at this link: http://inspection.gc.ca/about-the-cfia/newsroom/email-notification/eng/1481653931267/1481654078038

This one actually stood a chance of affecting me, because I buy this particular sweet kale salad occasionally. Listeria monocytogenes is the culprit, and it's possibly national (Canada). http://inspection.gc.ca/about-the-cfia/newsroom/food-recall-warnings/complete-listing/2019-02-17/eng/1550451685800/1550451687861

I've heard that from other competitive growers as well, and apparently milk does work reasonably well as a liquid fertilizer. Injecting it is probably not that great an idea (why damage your vines and give opportunity for pests/illness), though I'm sure some do it anyway. Serious competitors from what I've read use chelated calcium instead.