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Good Wednesday morning! Monthly brunches, a fondness for butter tarts, a bit of rain, cooler weather in this area, and lots more to discuss at the Coffee Cart over coffee, tea, and eclairs. The tea water is near to a boil, and the coffee just finished brewing. The eclairs are nice and warm and fresh. All is ready, all are welcome. Come in and have some refreshments, and share your thoughts!

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For those who love butter tarts...
The Caledon Butter Tart Festival is Saturday August 16th/ 25 in Ontario. Time: 10-4
Location: 150 Queen St. S. Bolton
at the Bolton Community Centre.
 
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paradox3 said:
Now this is a shocking statement :D
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Might even be ... HERESY!! :eek::LOL: (can an unchurched atheist even be a heretic? :unsure:)

JayneWonders said:
Huge rain last night.
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Yeah, we got at least an hour's worth in the middle of the night. Some lightning, too.

Heat warning is ended here but forecast has us heading into the 30s again Friday-Saturday so might be going back up soon.
 
Poutine? You mean soggy french fries and immature cheese?

Edit: I never even played ice hockey growing up. Never held a hockey stick on ice. Where I'm from, that's unimaginable.
 
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chansen said:
I never even played ice hockey growing up. Never held a hockey stick on ice.
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Let's face it, though, most Canadians watch hockey and maybe hold a hockey stick playing on the street or driveway. Actually playing on ice isn't that common, esp. given the cost of equipment and the weird hours involved in getting ice time. That said, I've had two hockey parents work for me in the 18 years I've been managing staff. I learned to skate but was never good enough to consider playing.

chansen said:
Poutine? You mean soggy french fries and immature cheese?
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Quite fond of the stuff myself but has to be done right. If it sits in the gravy for too long then, yeah, soggy fries. Smokes (specialty poutine fast food place) does some interesting combos, putting things like butter chicken and pulled pork on poutine. And Osmow's does chicken shawarma on poutine (though I'm not crazy about their fries and prefer other dishes from their menu).

I think the most Canadian things might be complaining about the weather (ranging from "too hot" in July to "too cold" in January) and government (just in general, any level). I can't think of too many Canadians who don't gripe about those.
 
In my case it wasn't economics - my parents just thought it was too violent. So they took me skiing, where I became a ski racer and threw myself down icy slopes. Not sure what they were expecting.
 
My mother had very traditional cooking back in the 60's.

I grew up with roast beef on Sundays, then Monday night was my favourite.
Home made french fries .
The chip pan would come out of the fridge with the lard solid in it from the previous week
The potatoes would be cut wide, long and thin.
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They would come out gorgeous.
Then we would put our gravy left from the roast beef dinner.

We were huge cheese eaters, often going to Stirling for cheese.
I'm sure if Dad had known about poutine, he would have put curds on it.

So good.

No fries compare to fries made in quality fat .

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Ps. chip butty was a common way to eat them. I was the oddball in the family that added ketchup & gravy to the chip butty. so good. (yes, my maternal grandparents were from yorkshire)
 
Sounds a lot like my childhood chips, except that Mom had a crinkle cutter, for even more crispy ridges.

And yes to chip butties made with these wonderful chips. White bread, salt and pepper and malt vinegar only. To this day, I don't like gravy or ketchup on chips, although I do occasionally enjoy a good poutine. There's a chip truck somewhere in back of nowhere northern Ontario that makes the best poutine that I've ever had - squeaky fresh curds is one vital ingredient.
 
@BetteTheRed wasn't it great when the lard got to that perfect age.
New lard -- chips never turned golden
Old lard -- started to get dark too quick
But, that medium point, when the lard was suitably aged, oh, the chips would be crispy on the outside, soft on the inside, and so tasty.
 
Never had homecooked chips (well, maybe in some small mom and pop restaurants that did their own but I don't recall for sure). Mom didn't deep fry much. Sounds delish.

Wife and I have been having gravy with chips since well before the current popularity of poutine. I remember Mrs. M always ordering gravy with her KFC. So poutine, when it started catching on outside Quebec, was kind of a natural for us.
 
I like a number of things and dislike a few ... I cannot bring myself to say I hate a food item as it bothers people that like them.

Now I can say I hate someone to say they hate something that that favors my taste buds ... I just isn't nice (kind) of them ... but such affiliation is just mental thing and I know people that despise thinkers ... a psyche evil?
 
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