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I have seen similar items sold as crap-catchers for the drain of your kitchen sink (ie keep it in the plug-hole when not using the plug), in order to prevent food debris (and presumably the odd piece of jewelry, etc) from getting caught in the pipes. That being said, the sink kind generally have a bigger lip. So the tea infuser guess is probably the correct one.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/09/engineers-figured-out-how-to-cook-3d-printed-chicken-with-lasers/

Yeah, my late wife and I were only 9 years apart, but her mother and my grandmother were both born in 1914. ...and of course there's the famous example of the 10th POTUS, John Tyler, who still has one living grandson.

LOL There was a much less dire example of similar advertising in my local Yellow Pages a few years ago. For those who don't know Saint John, NB (which I can safely assume to be all of you) there is a paper mill perched alongside the river just north and west of the downtown core (which here is called "uptown"), which lends that distinctive pulp-mill fragrance to a large swath of the surrounding area. A popular gastropub in the uptown area is the Saint John Alehouse, owned and operated by our local celebrity chef Jesse Vergen (Canadian eG'ers may remember him for his deep runs on two seasons of Top Chef Canada, or his judging stint on Wall of Chefs). A decade or so ago, the Alehouse's Yellow Pages ad featured the slogan "Uptown, Upscale, and Mostly Upwind"

Yeah, that part caught my eye as well.

I used to live in St. Andrews. It's a nice place, though it's getting priced out of reach now for many of us. There are two smoked-salmon places nearby, Wolf's Head and Oven Head, and they're both good. At Ozzie's I generally order the clams or the seafood platter, because I'm pretty indifferent to lobster (and therefore lobster rolls). I'm not sure how long lobster rolls have been a "thing" in the Maritimes. I never saw or heard of them until I moved back in 2007 to open my restaurant, and was immediately asked if I'd be making them (I had to Google it). That's not to say they weren't here, of course, just that I didn't encounter them. We were not an eating-out family, in the main, when I was growing up. My extended family is heavily divided between those who favor one or another fast-food chain, and those who pack sandwiches because "why would I pay someone else to make food for me when I can make my own for cheaper?"

That's pretty special. I like it.

I drive past Masstown Market on my way to and from NB, every trip. My mom's place in (nearby) Truro is my base when I'm in the province, but we've never driven out in that direction while I'm there. Mom's partial to the fish and chips at Murphy's, in Truro itself (and easy walking distance from her apartment). Like a lot of people I think of Ches' fish and chips in St. John's NL as my personal benchmark, though I haven't had theirs in 40 years so now (of course) it's a matter of rose-hued nostalgia. I don't know if they're even still in business.

I feel your pain. I've moved more times than any three normal people you know (I'm nearing 60, and my lifetime average per address is somewhere in the range of 14-16 months...I haven't recalculated lately). Sometime today or tomorrow I'll be driving to NS to help my daughter and her gormless husband move (ugh), and when I get back my GF and I are *finally* going to get around to pulling everything out of our kitchen cupboards and reorganizing/rationalizing it all. Right now everything is still in the same places I chose on the fly when we were moving in.

On a miserably hot and muggy summer day, when my kids were younger and everyone was cranky and prickly (no AC in our lives at that time) I decreed that dinner would be waffles and ice cream. That was a hit, and utterly changed the mood of the day (it didn't begin as celebratory, but ended that way). In that same house we had a functioning fireplace, so a periodic indulgence was an "indoor campfire" with our kids and their friends from the neighbourhood. They'd roast hot dogs and toast marshmallows over the fire, and tell ghost stories, and it was a grand time (before anyone asks, s'mores had not yet found their sticky way into Nova Scotia yet at that time...or at least I'd never seen or heard of them, which I guess is not necessarily the same thing).

Okay, this is an unusual one. The CFIA is warning that shredded pork skin sold to Asian (mostly Vietnamese) restaurants in the GTA has been identified as the source of an outbreak of salmonellosis. Details (such as they are) at the link. https://inspection.canada.ca/food-recall-warnings-and-allergy-alerts/2021-09-19/eng/1632105874340/1632105877230?utm_source=r_listserv

I stole a few minutes to get next year's garlic planted. As I've mentioned before, I grow a fairly common hardneck cultivar called "Music," much favored by commercial growers in this area for its hardiness, reliability and good yields. My father had selected for size for 12 or 15 years before he died, and I've kept up that tradition. The 48 cloves I selected for replanting weighed in at over 760g, which works out to an average of about 16g (1/2 oz, or thereabouts) per clove. Perfect for those recipes that call for only one or two cloves of garlic...

There are several threads on the forum where this one would fit, but after some thought I decided this one would be most appropriate. An article (with lots of images) from a book about bread, written by a commercial baker and for commercial bakers, and lavishly illustrated with photos. https://www.stainedpagenews.com/p/one-of-the-worlds-first-photobooks

Here's one for the Canadians in the group, or that portion of those elsewhere who can use a VPN well enough to view geo-blocked Canadian content (tip: the Opera web browser has a simple one built-in). Burger Baron is a low-budget Western Canadian chain, mostly operating out of run-down, decades-old premises. Yet it's a firm favorite on the Prairies, and has a dedicated following. I moved to Saskatchewan in my late teens, and it was a rare party that didn't feature a Burger Baron run at some point (I ate my first-ever Tater Tots at a BB in Regina...hadn't previously known they existed). The majority of Burger Barons are now owned by new Canadians from the Middle East, just as the Lebanese diaspora of the 70s came to dominate the pizza market here on the East Coast. It's a fascinating story, told here by the CBC. https://gem.cbc.ca/media/absolutely-canadian/s21e23?cmp=sch-the-last-baron

Silver Maple brand frozen, diced chicken is being recalled for listeria. https://inspection.canada.ca/food-recall-warnings-and-allergy-alerts/2021-09-17/eng/1631932682920/1631932689064?utm_source=r_listserv

What a shock, and what a blow to our community. Far too young...

Jongilpoom brand enoki mushrooms are being recalled for Listeria. Affects Alberta and BC, at this point. https://inspection.canada.ca/food-recall-warnings-and-allergy-alerts/2021-09-16/eng/1631848956953/1631848962398?utm_source=r_listserv

LOL That's why I had to look up the price of store-bought.

Since this discussion piqued my curiosity, I looked at my local supermarket (Sobeys) a couple of days ago. Regular price here is $1.50 a can (CDN), and Sobeys is seldom a price leader so they're likely cheaper elsewhere. IIRC they go on sale periodically for .99 or a bit less.

Cooked, diced chicken from Erie Meat Products is being recalled for listeria. National, or close enough as makes no never mind... https://inspection.canada.ca/food-recall-warnings-and-allergy-alerts/2021-09-10/eng/1631325597388/1631325651927?utm_source=r_listserv

LOL That sounds like deliberate trolling...

I've grown it successfully from seeds purchased at the bulk-food store, so it's not out of the question. I got about 50 percent germination, which isn't great but I considered it acceptable in the context.

LOL That's exactly why my Vitamix gathers dust most of the year; if I can plausibly use my Cuise instead I invariably will.