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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

I always used to raid my son's Halloween cache for the little Crispy Crunch bars. Big Turk are good, too. I've never found them too sweet, but I am a fan of chewy candy (which I why I don't keep it in the house).

To me, coffee is like pizza and free beer. Even if it's bad it's good. I've rarely found a coffee I couldn't drink and 99% of the time it's because they screwed up my order (black) by adding sugar and/or cream.

Love a box of Timbits.

As a kid growing up, and for most of my adult life, I lived on the border, right within sight of southern Ontario. Many of my friends' parents had immigrated from Canada, and in fact, some of my contemporaries had been born there. My wife's grandparents are Canadian. We had no cable tv in that area then, and two of the three broadcast stations we could get were Canadian. I always liked stopping at Timmy's for the sour cream donuts and the coffee was okay, probably my favorite fast food joint coffee.

When I go into town, I always stop at Jim Hortons. My favourite breakfast is a JimBits Sammich and a coffee.

I like Tim Hortons chili more than anything else they sell. Coffee is acceptable.
My daughter lives in Florida and there are some things she likes us to bring down when we visit. Ketchup flavoured potato chips are one, Aero bars, Smarties. Stuff that I like from the other side include Squirt, Almond Joy bars, and Lava hand soap.
We moved to Taylor BC in 1957 and, at that time, there was very little crossover. I said goodbye to Kool Aid and all of my favourite breakfast cereals. As a kid, it was OK though and all a great adventure. Interestingly enough, the first Kentucky Fried Chicken I ever had was in Calgary, Alberta on one of our trips from Taylor B.C. to Potlatch, Idaho. There was no KFC in North Idaho or northern Wyoming, where we had lived prior to moving north. GD

Good evening Dwayne,
I hope all is well with you folks on the West side of the Rockies. Strange Winter weather, if can call temps as high as 10C on a regular basis Winter, we are having on the East side of the Rockies.
Great comprehensive list but you forgot one Winter staple: Habitant Pea Soup! Love the stuff, a couple of slices of cheese in the bottom of the bowl with
a ladle or 3 of soup on it. Add a handful of crushed crackers and there is supper!
My 2 cents anyway,
Jeff

Did startups at two plants in Ontario. Used to know every Tim Horton's on 401 and 402 between Windsor/Sarnia and Elmira... Always first stop after we crossed the border. Medium double-double and two or three old fashioned donuts. Last stop in the morning before we went into the plant.

Consider a Hudson's Bay blanket?

The hockey stick, it could be added to our flag.

That as well.

Hey, and for those that don't know...Tim was a Allstar NHL defenseman....I gotta say though, if I stop for a coffee at Tim's in town I must add a shot of espresso to give it some actual coffeeness.....but I am Italian.
If I don't , I cannot tell their coffee from their tea.

Had a couple espressos at Cafe Tortoni at the insistance of my (Italian) host when I visited Buenos Aires... Laid awake looking at the ceiling of my hotel room until well past 3:00am....

Depends, I am more of a Tims chocolate dip donuts type than the Starbucks carrot cake type.