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[teddog]

Old news being passed off as new news.

To toss another log on the fire, local rumour has it that GO Transit has been discussing building a station on the north end of the Centre Mall property.

However, the Centre Mall renewal is deadlocked because of a disagreement between the new buyer and Sears Canada. Sears will give up its share of the land if the new owners build a new store at the corner of Barton and Kenilworth, the location of the old Burger King.

But Go Transit, to Niagara Region? That's a freaking DREAM!


I'm going to be cutting through Niagara soon, anyway. The Extended Family roadtrip to Upstate New York is in less than two weeks. It's been a long wait, as Lisa was mentioning on Canada Day that she wanted to go sooner than later. Thus remarks on salt potatoes, protesters and road flares that were sorely missed.

HERE'S WHERE I NEED YOUR HELP! You know, beyond the mental help that doctors offer me. One of big events in our yearly trip is WEGMANS! Wegmans is the Christmas of food - All the products you saw on Saturday morning cartoon broadcasts from the US suddenly exist. It's so important to the extended family that most of us are card carrying members of Wegmans Shoppers Club and we don't even live in the same country!

So, what really kooky American food products came out in the past year? Are there any good prizes in cereal boxes? Anything else worth buying? I'm trying to write a hitlist of things to buy and look for.

Right now my list reads "Salt Potatoes. Many, many salt potatoes. Bagged. Cooked. It Lion's isn't at the hill, I'm going to cry and murder all the protesters because that will make it all better."

::coughs:: Yeah, salt potatoes are a small obsession. They're like the world's incorrect food. You make them with small white potatoes in a pot of water. You then add salt until you can't dissolve anymore salt in the water. After you cook them, you dunk them in melted butter. And then Mike, Lisa, Katie and I buy them all off of you and run off into the sunset.

So, fire your non-salt-potato suggestions. I'm a big fan of crap food, since I rarely get to eat it. Cereal is a MASSIVE deal for us. Suggestions on Pop Tart flavours would be loved very much too. Snack cakes as well. At the moment, I don't think I can do anything frozen, unless we eat it RIGHT then. Usually we pick up a ton of cheap American dairy and keep it in our cooler, since $4 for a gallon of milk at home blows. Even then... our breakfast is ice cream at Chill N' Grill, land of "That's a SMALL?!". We'll be ice creamed out. But any really questionable frozen items, like tv dinners of death, I could probably find room for.

So... yeah. Suggestions! Suggestions! Suggestions!

Comments

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

Sadly the only awsome food that I've seen was the dark chocolate M&Ms, and those haven't been in the store since they stopped running the Revenge of the Sith promotion.

As for pop tart flavors: the only new one I can recall is smore and chocolate chip flavored but those have been out for awhile too.

But speaking of smores, Hershey Smore candy bars rock. As long as you microwaved them first.

Mom also swears by Nature's Valley Sweet & Salty Nut bars.

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

Mom also swears by Nature's Valley Sweet & Salty Nut bars.
Best. Product. Name. Ever. That's going on the list.

Darn on the M&Ms! I had heard about them, but all I could find both down there and up here were the milk chocolate ones.

We've had S'more and Chocolate Chip pop tarts for a while; the s'more ones came out when I was a kid. Last year, though, I found some wacky kinds in the states that I had never seen before, such as Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough and Hot Fudge Sundae. Maybe they gave up on Extreme Globs of Sugar flavors.

So that's how you're supposed to eat s'mores bars? I used to see them up in Thunder Bay. T Bay used to get mostly American versions of Hershey bars because of the shipping costs; it cost less to ship up from Minnesota than southern Ontario. That being said, Hershey chocolate is a lot less popular here, so the products that we get in southern Ontario are really limited. This product list is more or less what we have:
http://www.hersheycanada.com/productpage1.asp
Eat-more and Skor are probably the hardest to find. The others are common enough, but note the lack of Hershey bars, Mr Goodbars, etc. I haven't seen a S'more bar in ages.

[krwalker.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of a Chipit, or Glossete before, but they both seem similar to the candies that adults like more than kids. However, chocolate covered nuts rule. Oh! And the Max5 is called the Take5 here.

So, suggestion:

FatBoy Nut Sundae on a Stick (http://www.fatboyicecream.com/product_nutsundae.html)

I know it's frozen, but the name says it all, right?

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

Chipits are chocolate chips for baking. Although they claim otherwise, I wouldn't dare eat them right out of the bag. They taste like crap that way, unless it's the milk chocolate kind. Even that kind has a funky aftertaste.

Glossetes are in those packs-o-mini-bars they hand out at Halloween (although because of allergies it's rare to see any but the raisins), so some kids somewhere must be eating them. My sister Jen loves the raisin kind, so I tended to dump them on her. The almond is the best, but is really pesky to find.

::stares at the ice cream:: HOLY CRAP! And these (http://www.fatboyicecream.com/product_fatboyjr.html)? Adorable.