is welbog dead yet?

Not quite.

I went outside today!

Oh, that means something for where you're located

-7° -11° -5° .....

Argh, that's cold.

I'm thinking maybe you need to start a restaurant with Jeff instead.

That's not cold.

Anything above -20 is warm.

theweathernetwork.com/weather/caon0230

Right

It's been thawing here, we're at +5°

Too hot

And the sidewalk (which it would have been my turn to keep ice-free this week at 7 fucking 30 in the morning) is squeaky clean without any action on my part. Hooray!

I tend to like it at 10-12°

A mellow breeze and a bit of sun

Like in Spain in the winter

But well... snow is nice too

SNOW IS AWESOME LIKE MAPLE SYRUP AND ALSO YOU CAN COMBINE SNOW AND MAPLE SYRUP

AND DONUTS

Fair point

Do they serve those in Canadian restaurants?

I've never seen one before in Europe

What is the cuisine like?

Uhhhh

No restaurants don't typically sell maple-based things because it's pretty expensive.

As for Canadian cusine in general, I guess it's pretty American.

Except we have poutine as well, which is gross.

But we'll typically have hamburgers, pizza, lasagna, sandwiches, fries. Fries everywhere.

We have a lot of other stuff, too, like Americanized Chinese food and Indian food and all other kinds of national foods.

Right! That's about how I imagined it.

Off to look up poutine

Looks cholesterolicious!

Poutine is gross.

Yeah, I can imagine

It sure looks gross.

There are all kinds of things that can be done with maple syrup that are awesome.

For example, we have maple syrup, maple toffee, maple butter, maple candy, maple lollipops, maple cookies, maple fudge, maple icing.

The best maple toffee is made by putting hot maple syrup directly onto fresh snow.

Yeah, maple syrup is great

We cure our bacon in maple syrup.

It's just really expensive... Obviously, as the production process probably can't be sped up or optimized much

But it's always a treat to buy a small bottle from time to time

It's not that expensive here in Canada.

Something like $40 a gallon.

And yes, we buy it by the gallon.

Heh

Yeah, it's many times that over here

Especially if it's organic

You buy a couple gallons of it in the spring and it lasts all year since you can freeze it.

And it's even better frozen!

Interesting, didn't know that

Well, frozen maple syrup is neat.

I'll try that some time

You need to put it on something really really hot so that it stays hot even with the frozen syrup on it.

Maple syrup doesn't actually completely freeze in normal freezers.

Right

So what you end up with is a slow-moving syrup that moves faster as you eat it.

Heat and cold affect the way things taste. I'm not entirely sure how.

But sweet things taste different depending on the temperature.

They definitely do. Don't know how either

So you should eat sweet things at every temperature.

But with respect to Canadian cuisine, it turns out I haven't had exposure to a whole lot of it because in Toronto everything is new to me.

I have decided that when I go to a new restaurant, I will order something I haven't had before.

I have eaten so many new and exciting things whose names I can't remember.

Some of it turns out bad but some of it is amazing.

Yeah. I've wanted to do the same thing at home (try a different recipe every day), but it's hard to actually do consequently

So many unusual ingredients to buy that you won't be able to use up if you don't have a huge family to feed

Or neighbours to share stuff with