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Old Posted Sep 17, 2020, 1:02 PM
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Well since this thread is now discussing Tim's...

I can get frozen packages St-Viateur bagels from Montreal at the Metro grocery store. The re are packs Sesame seed and All-Dressed bagels. They are SO much better than the "fresh" bagels at Tim Hortons. I wish there were more Montreal-style bagel businesses across Canada or regional bakeries that could make them.

Today for lunch I had a St-Viateur sesame seed bagel with Schwartz's Deli smoked meat on it which I bought at Foodland. Added a touch of mustard and put a big Kosher dill pickle on the side. Of course it wasn't as good as getting the real things in Montreal but it was WAY better than Tim's and any other sandwich place in town.

The smoked meat is not bad considering it's packaged but I still go to Schwartz's whenever I can.
Dammit they need to bring St Viateur bagels to London. I have to go to a german deli in dt Oakville to find frozen (Fairmount) bagels, which are at least 16 quintillion times better than Rim Whoreton's "Always Fresh" revolting Hockey Puck Bagels. Nothing like a good authentic Montreal smoked meat sandwich.
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They had smoked meat sandwiches in the work cafeteria recently as a special and had to include a poster explaining it’s not just roast beef. So I’m pretty confident you can’t get a good authentic Montreal smoked meat sandwich anywhere here.
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Dammit they need to bring St Viateur bagels to London. I have to go to a german deli in dt Oakville to find frozen (Fairmount) bagels, which are at least 16 quintillion times better than Rim Whoreton's "Always Fresh" revolting Hockey Puck Bagels. Nothing like a good authentic Montreal smoked meat sandwich.
You can buy St Viateur at Metro, I buy them all the time!
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Old Posted Sep 17, 2020, 1:22 PM
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You can buy St Viateur at Metro, I buy them all the time!
I haven't seen them at metro in London (there are only a handful of metros in London). I will make a point to check this out.
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I haven't seen them at metro in London (there are only a handful of metros in London). I will make a point to check this out.
I know that the ones in Toronto and the one at the Hope(less)dale Mall in Oakville carry them.
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The pictures people are posting of their half-assed smile cookies from Tim Horton’s with tags like #2020 crack me up. They all look like they’re screaming.

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For a Montreal-style gluten free bagel, Bracebridge's Beat the Wheat are the best and cheapest! https://beatthewheat.ca/shop/assorte...n-free-bagels/

In KW region I grew up eating Woodfire bagels.

In Toronto St Urbain's are the best although I did used to get St-Viateurs at the Annex Metro. I miss going to St Lawrence Market 6am Saturday mornings and getting fresh out of the fire bagels.
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I got a smile cookie this morning and one of the eyes was stuck to the bag.
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I got a smile cookie this morning and one of the eyes was stuck to the bag.
Someone brought in a whole box to the office and they were ALL like that. Such a pathetic company.

Unless the receptionist flipped the box in which case, I apologize to Tim Horton's
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I got a smile cookie this morning and one of the eyes was stuck to the bag.
Ok....lets be honest Vid.

You have an incredibly sensible opinion of Tims.......which is understandably harsh.........they hate you as a result...........it was personal.

Take it as a mark of pride!
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Another English mainstream housing development caught my eye
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“English mainstream housing”? As in something you’d see in England?
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Old Posted Sep 22, 2020, 2:23 AM
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English obviously is from England. That's why we say English Canadian, or American English. I always find it amusing when newish Canadians ask me where I'm from. Oh so where are your ancestors from they then ask? Ah duh that's what google is for ...
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Another English mainstream housing development caught my eye

Is this too much to ask for in this damn country?

Can you fucking IMAGINE... putting brick on the whole building! (and no eaves. but we absolutely need eaves on every house in the country)

Let the comments begin about how there's nothing special about them.
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Wood frame SF construction here is close to 3rd world in quality. Maybe not quite... but it still is way shittier than it should be.
Not quite? No, not even remotely an appropriate comment. If you're hiring the worst construction firm in Canada to purposely build the cheapest lean-to they can think up as they build it, well, that's your fault.
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English obviously is from England. That's why we say English Canadian, or American English. I always find it amusing when newish Canadians ask me where I'm from. Oh so where are your ancestors from they then ask? Ah duh that's what google is for ...
The Cambridge got me - I was assuming Cambridge ON. But the proposal looked so British that I was surprised, hence the question.
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Somebody should start a campaign to get these developers to Canada. They'd make a killing here.
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Is this too much to ask for in this damn country?
Which is, in itself, a shocking role reversal as British residential housing has historically been god awful compared to minimum Canadian standards for residential. When we moved from London (UK) to Halifax (NS) in the 1980s the discrepancy was vast. England felt like a 3rd world country by comparison. In the late 70s, a lot of people were still burning coal to heat their houses, kitchens consisted of furniture pushed up against a wall, and people lived in damp, draughty, rickety structures with creaking everything.

The UK has come a long long way the last 30+ years. They're still not up to Canadian standards in most areas but they've caught up to Canada in some.
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English obviously is from England. That's why we say English Canadian, or American English.
Not exactly. When Canadians say French we often mean French Canadian rather than from France. Conversely, English often means English Canadian rather than from England. We also say London. Sometimes we mean the one in Ontario and sometimes we mean the one on that island off the coast of France. It's not always obvious like you're contending.
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