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FLASHBACK FRIDAYS!
Jun. 20th, 2008 04:46 pmSo, the Jays hired Cito Gaston back. Okay, so this is work related, but what the heck?! Everybody party like it's 1992!
Also, I had the displeasure of looking for Batter Blaster in Canada yesterday, venturing up to Whole Foods. I do not understand the appeal of this chain in the US or anywhere for that matter. There are two Whole Foods in all of Ontario.
One of these is in Oakville. Oakville is a bedroom community at best, king of the suburbs, with most people having to commute to work. To reach this store, you need a car. You can see where this is going.
The other is in the Yorkville community in Toronto. What's the location like? Well, it shares the mall with a Rolls Royce dealership.
I know it's not my job to judge, but this seems quite silly for a store that preaches being green and everything, while at the same time the locations seem to declare that this way of living is can only be sustainable by the upper class. Oakville is not the land of poor people. Yorkville, depending on how you look at it, could be, but for the most part it's full of people who wank about things that aren't shiney and new, which I'll get to in a moment.
It gets even sillier when I go down the aisle and see many of the exact same products that I buy over at Valumart and Dominion, but at Whole Foods there's about a 25%-50% markup on the product. So, if I buy them from my usual stores, does this make me somehow less green? You know, despite that I use cloth bags and try to buy locally?
Speaking of buying locally, isn't that the whole point of living a sustainable lifestyle? I saw some really nice bottles of iced herbal tea at the store, all labeled "Product of Thailand". How much money and effort was spent shipping that tea across the globe?
Of course, after all this I learned that I probably can't get Batter Blaster in Canada. After I dealt with the pain of going into that so-called grocery store. It should also be noted that I saw some university students being tossed from the store for shoplifting. Make of that what you will.
Now, onto the brief topic of why Yorkville sucks somewhat, I present the Cumberland Terrace. I've heard stories about it and decided to check it out.
A search online reveals some people complaining about how it has no spot in Yorkville. I'm a freak for old malls, though. These sight has examples of the outside:
http://illegalsigns.ca/2007/11/27/roof-sign-structure-removed-at-cumberland-terrace/
The insides are better, with the top floors having good examples of how malls looked in the 1980s. I felt like I was 5 again. The basement, on the other hand, is the greatest secret ever. It has perfectly preserved mall design in the style of the 1970s. It's completely mindblowing. I can't find any pics online, so I'm probably going to have to visit with a camera at some point.
Also, I had the displeasure of looking for Batter Blaster in Canada yesterday, venturing up to Whole Foods. I do not understand the appeal of this chain in the US or anywhere for that matter. There are two Whole Foods in all of Ontario.
One of these is in Oakville. Oakville is a bedroom community at best, king of the suburbs, with most people having to commute to work. To reach this store, you need a car. You can see where this is going.
The other is in the Yorkville community in Toronto. What's the location like? Well, it shares the mall with a Rolls Royce dealership.
I know it's not my job to judge, but this seems quite silly for a store that preaches being green and everything, while at the same time the locations seem to declare that this way of living is can only be sustainable by the upper class. Oakville is not the land of poor people. Yorkville, depending on how you look at it, could be, but for the most part it's full of people who wank about things that aren't shiney and new, which I'll get to in a moment.
It gets even sillier when I go down the aisle and see many of the exact same products that I buy over at Valumart and Dominion, but at Whole Foods there's about a 25%-50% markup on the product. So, if I buy them from my usual stores, does this make me somehow less green? You know, despite that I use cloth bags and try to buy locally?
Speaking of buying locally, isn't that the whole point of living a sustainable lifestyle? I saw some really nice bottles of iced herbal tea at the store, all labeled "Product of Thailand". How much money and effort was spent shipping that tea across the globe?
Of course, after all this I learned that I probably can't get Batter Blaster in Canada. After I dealt with the pain of going into that so-called grocery store. It should also be noted that I saw some university students being tossed from the store for shoplifting. Make of that what you will.
Now, onto the brief topic of why Yorkville sucks somewhat, I present the Cumberland Terrace. I've heard stories about it and decided to check it out.
A search online reveals some people complaining about how it has no spot in Yorkville. I'm a freak for old malls, though. These sight has examples of the outside:
http://illegalsigns.ca/2007/11/27/roof-sign-structure-removed-at-cumberland-terrace/
The insides are better, with the top floors having good examples of how malls looked in the 1980s. I felt like I was 5 again. The basement, on the other hand, is the greatest secret ever. It has perfectly preserved mall design in the style of the 1970s. It's completely mindblowing. I can't find any pics online, so I'm probably going to have to visit with a camera at some point.
