wabigoon;
Good day to you my friend, I hope that you and your fine family are well.
Since we've been discussing stuff to get in Canada - should the borders reopen and folks be able to travel freely again, here's a bit of a list.
As mentioned in a thread on the regular forum, if you're stopping into a Canadian Tire to pick up the two pack of Redbird Strike Anywhere matches for $5, look for the big rack of Franks Chips which is a house brand now.
They have flavors such as All Dressed, Ketchup, Korean BBQ and Turkey Stuffing that you'll not find south of the medicine line. While I'm a longtime fan of the All Dressed, I've got to admit that Turkey Stuffing is battling hard for first place in the "most favored" status in the back seat of the pickup for "firewood day road snacks"
As well, one should really search out some of these if you're a cheese puff or Cheetos fan at all. Be prepared for something wonderful here folks....
Should your taste buds be more to the sweet than the savory, then might I suggest any of the following which are at most gas stations, one way or the other from the Hawkins Cheezies...
In no particular order - well okay my favorites first...
- Coffee Crisp - coffee flavored biscuit center thing - always a fine choice.
- Crispy Crunch - watch these on hot days as the chocolate will melt on one's fingers pretty fast - this would be a 70°F day sort of confection.
- Mr. Big - a layered vanilla wafer coated in caramel, peanuts, and rice crisps and covered in a chocolate coating
- Wunderbar - peanut butter center, chocolate outside.
- Caramilk - caramel sauce inside - again not a hot weather confection
- Smarties - rather like M&M's but definitely not the same. Live it up - do a side by side taste test.
- Big Turk - Turkish delight sort of thing, quite sweet - might need black coffee to offset the sweetness
- Aero bars - these come in all sorts of centers now. It's a bubbled chocolate that really melts in your mouth. They make a "high end" dark chocolate one that's really, really, really - well I like it...
- Bounty - my late Mom's favorite because of the coconut center. If you don't like coconut, you will not prefer this.
That's about it for the Canada foods and matches report this morning I believe.
Not that it's any more or less Canadian than Timmy's coffee - which I do drink on occasion when we're on the road. As un-Canadian as this might sound, in a side by side taste test I tend to prefer McDonald's blend of coffee rather than what Tim's has been serving the last few years.
Funny how I used to really like it and they swear they've not changed the formula so it must be my changing taste buds perhaps?
We'll try their new Dark Roast next time I make a trip into town, which isn't that often anymore truly and that's okay with me too you know?
All the best to you all this week.
Dwayne