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We need to drink fine Canadain beers, like Pilsner or Kokanee

All I need is the air that I breathe and to love you

Leo Kottke plays "Airproofing," 1997 .

We also need to spell "Canadian" properly.

I have to say that "O Canada" is my very favourite (have to spell it that way) national anthem. It's singable and pretty. It sounds more like a hymn than a drinking song, which the tune used for "The Star-Spangled Banner" was. This clip was used as a sign-off on the CBC when I lived in Detroit and used to watch the Windsor CBC station.

I LOVED Dalgoda!

Did you ever notice that his name backward was "A Dog Lad"?

I always wanted to pick up the man and/or woman of my dreams by saying, "Darling, come with me to The Float Room..." But I never had the guts...

(snip)

When I hear it, I close my eyes and visualize worldwide poutine...

Poutine. Hmm. For a minute there I thought you meant "pouting." Then I went to Dictionary.com and found:
Poutine is a fast food staple in Canada; it is sold by many fast food chains (such as New York Fries, Harvey's, Ed's Subs, and Deluxe French Fries ) in most provinces, in small diners and pubs, as well as by roadside "poutine trucks" and "fries stands," commonly known as "cantines" or "casse-croûtes" in Quebec. International chains like McDonald's, A&W, KFC and Burger King also sell mass-produced poutine across Canada, especially in Quebec and Atlantic Canada. Popular Quebec restaurants that serve poutine include Chez Ashton (Quebec City), La Banquise (Montreal), Lafleur Restaurants, Franx Supreme ,La Belle Province, Le Petit Québec and Dic Ann's Hamburgers. Along with fries and pizza, poutine is a very common dish sold and eaten in high school cafeterias in various parts of Canada. It is to be noted that many poutines can be very high in cholesterol and trans-fat, especially in restaurants that use frying oils over and over again.

That definition doesn't actually tell you what Poutine is.

Gawd, I thought she meant poon-tang!

No, but is an actual word, is what I was getting at.

And Titicaca is an actual lake name.

(Sigh.)

Note to self: Don't try and discuss smoked meat around here, either...

Mmmmmm.... I love me some smoked meat.

We also have a lot of places that serve poutine in northern NYState, but not the chain restaurants.

I always found the chain "New York Fries" to be rather amusing, and I've assumed it was meant to play better than "Montreal Fries" in areas where people are less than pleased with with Quebecois nationalism (of course that doesn't explain other Canadian chains with US-ish names like Boston Pizza, Baton Rouge, or Dakota's).

I'm only an hour from the smoked meat paradise of the universe.

I'm a big fan of hickory smoked bacon

I prefer vegetarian bacon to the real thing.

PETA needs to do a male version of their vegetarian ad.

Oh, they already had one. If you mean the one where the theme is "ZOMFG, Guys ! If you eat meat you'll get FAT and then everyone will HATE you FOREVER because FAT PEOPLE-- EWWWW ! ZOMFG !" It was a full-pager in our local GLBT rag a few years back.

Hurrah for PETA. I think everyone in America should be given serious body issues, not just hetero women.

[gets a giant Norwegian fish and slaps Ingrid Newkirk with it. Twice.]

OTOH, there's nothing wrong with veggie bacon. I always try to have a box in the freezer for when I want a BLT in a big hurry.

I don't need PETA. I have body issues all by myself, thank you very much.

I promise to use very little mayo on your "B"LT then.

Seriously, I hit the motherlode in fresh veggies this last Summer, despite not having much in the way of an edible garden. A neighbor brought me tons of baby lettuce, and I got a steep discount on fresh tomatoes for volunteering at the co-op in our neighborhood. (Good-quality wheat bread is usually free for co-op volunteers, too. The vendors set some aside for us each week as a "Thank You.") I was eating faux BLT's at least three times a week for ages.

Summer produce rules.