The Maple Leaf Lounge

[Marynator]

I just returned today from spending a week in Ontario. My sister and her husband are obsessed with a local product, chocolate covered bacon. They insisted I try some (even though I don't handle chocolate well!) and after considerable pressure I agreed to try a bite. It was the most vile thing ever created! Euch that is just not an appetizing combination. They say that all their friends love it, but I just don't know.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Bacon's become like Pumpkin Spice, in the way that it's a trend that has gone way overboard and where people feel the need to pair it with everything imaginable even if it doesn't make outright sense.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

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[Owain Taggart]

Oh, you may be joking, but there's a hint of truth to it as there really was a bacon shortage in while ago.

 

[Timewalker]

Bacon's become like Pumpkin Spice, in the way that it's a trend that has gone way overboard and where people feel the need to pair it with everything imaginable even if it doesn't make outright sense.

Bacon is the reason one of my favorite pizza places dropped one of my favorite menu items. They substituted several varieties of bacon-flavored items in place of it.

 

[Avro Arrow]

I've never really understood the whole bacon cult. To me, bacon is just "meh", and I don't really get the widespread adoration of it... and I certainly don't want bacon-flavoured everything.

However, as a card-carrying member of the Cult of Pumpkin Spice, I realize I have *very* little room to talk...

 

[Timewalker]

I love bacon-flavored potato chips. But I don't eat bacon itself anymore (medical reasons). So I'm consuming BLTs vicariously through the protagonist in my current NaNoWriMo project.

 

[Owain Taggart]

I've never really understood the whole bacon cult. To me, bacon is just "meh", and I don't really get the widespread adoration of it... and I certainly don't want bacon-flavoured everything.

However, as a card-carrying member of the Cult of Pumpkin Spice, I realize I have *very* little room to talk...

Yeah, I mean I like bacon on its own, but other bacon products seem to be the effect of as if it were the best thing in the world. Luckily nobody has thought of combining pumpkin spice and bacon.

 

[Timewalker]

Yeah, I mean I like bacon on its own, but other bacon products seem to be the effect of as if it were the best thing in the world. Luckily nobody has thought of combining pumpkin spice and bacon.

You're aware that by posting that, the google-bot has already picked it up and sooner or later some entrepreneur will patent your idea (if someone hasn't already thought of it)?

 

[Avro Arrow]

Yeah, I mean I like bacon on its own, but other bacon products seem to be the effect of as if it were the best thing in the world. Luckily nobody has thought of combining pumpkin spice and bacon.

Now *there's* a quandary... to eat or not to eat??

Actually, someone did already think of it, but only as a joke product riffing on the whole pumpkin spice trend. It doesn't really exist. (At least I think not... )

Of course, now I can't find the photoshopped image to show you, but I know I had seen it before...

 

[Owain Taggart]

You're aware that by posting that, the google-bot has already picked it up and sooner or later some entrepreneur will patent your idea (if someone hasn't already thought of it)?

Uh oh?

At least I think not... )

One would hope against all hope that it doesn't. But come to think of it, I think I do remember seeing the joke.

 

[Timewalker]

They're so new they don't have a website yet. But as soon as I know something, I'll let you know

Thanks.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Now *there's* a quandary... to eat or not to eat??

That IS the question...whether 'tis nobler in the stomach to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous food combinations, or to take forks against a sea of condiments, and by opposing, end them.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Thoughts are with the players, staff and families affected by the horrific crash involving the Humboldt Broncos team bus in Saskatchewan.

 

[Timewalker]

I just got an alert from my CBC newsfeed that a 15th person has died.

 

[Refuge]

I've never really understood the whole bacon cult. To me, bacon is just "meh", and I don't really get the widespread adoration of it... and I certainly don't want bacon-flavoured everything.

However, as a card-carrying member of the Cult of Pumpkin Spice, I realize I have *very* little room to talk...

I choose not to eat bacon but I ordered an Angus burger the other day and asked them not to put the bacon in it but they did. So I figured I would just eat it anyway - it was paid for. After not eating bacon for so long it just dominated the whole burger. Think it's the smoke. When we travelled through the US I was enamoured by hickory the first couple of times I had its flavour. Then it was over. It's just too much.

 

[Avro Arrow]

For those of you who may watch it, just a heads-up that this Tuesday is apparently the final episode of the Rick Mercer Report.

https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/television/2018/04/07/rick-mercers-last-rant.html

 

[Owain Taggart]

I saw a news blip scroll across the screen about him, but I didn't realize it would be about his last show. He's been around for quite a while. I remember his days from CODCO, This Hour Has 22 Minutes (before he left to create Rick Mercer's Monday Report, and to be replaced by Colin Mochrie). He's essentially done the same show and personality for a long time now, but I'm sure he'll end up doing something new. He's our own Colbert, so how could he not.

 

[Timewalker]

For those of you who may watch it, just a heads-up that this Tuesday is apparently the final episode of the Rick Mercer Report.

https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/television/2018/04/07/rick-mercers-last-rant.html

There's an article on CBC.ca about this too, of course.

I'm definitely going to record this.

BTW, I hadn't known about the bhangra dance episode. What could be more Canadian than dancing with snow shovels?

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[Marc]

I just returned today from spending a week in Ontario. My sister and her husband are obsessed with a local product, chocolate covered bacon. They insisted I try some (even though I don't handle chocolate well!) and after considerable pressure I agreed to try a bite. It was the most vile thing ever created! Euch that is just not an appetizing combination. They say that all their friends love it, but I just don't know.

Was it bacon bacon or Canadian bacon aka Pemeal?

Pemeal is very common for breakfast when at my in-laws and I'll occasional roast one for an easy supper and it's better value than the bacon bacon.

Was also thinking the other day about how I've adapted to to living in Canada in relation to what I eat. Pemeal was almost unheard of in Australia, ribs were never that big, and pickles where on your Big Mac but again not that common at least in my family. But now I'll make a sandwich with Maple Leaf Wax Bologna and pickles.

Then there's Poutine which I've also introduced my mother to when she was here in 2016.

Still refuse to drink Dr Pepper though but in 2009 my father asked when I started drinking root beer - my response was when I moved to Canada.

And having just undergone my 3rd medical procedure in 5 years I'm glad that I'm in Canada and not the U.S