BS: Hey canada

Subject: BS: Hey canada
From: olddude
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 12:36 PM

Do you have any room for a worn out retired Professor if trump wins

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: GUEST,#
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 12:55 PM

Trump isn't going to win. But you could come visit.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: olddude
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 12:58 PM

Ok :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 12:58 PM

Get there as fast as you can olddude, best place I have ever lived, by a very long way. Oh, I think Hilary Will win..in spite of all that nonsense you are going through.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: gnu
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 01:05 PM

Who is this "worn out retired Professor" you speak of, Dan?

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 01:31 PM

I'm coming anyway... Not that we have Trump of course, but we have Boris and Cam moron.

I'll land at Calgary in about a month's time, hire a SUV, staying with friends in Canmore a few days then hit the slopes at Sunshine, Lake Louise and Kicking Horse. Might even manage a few other small slopes we haven't tried yet.

I don't know about staying though. The coffee is debatable and the beer too fizzy but I've had some good cow and bambi. Northwood guitars aren't bad either...

Not too impressed with this "it isn't a visa but" that I had to buy online today. $7.00 plus about the same in real money my credit card will charge for the transaction. Lasts as long as my present passport though so hey ho.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 01:45 PM

The further east go the better it gets, including the coffee and never, never, drink beer West of Quebec. I find it odd Musket, that an English person would complain about coffee any where in the world.British coffee is pure rubbish . Anyway,, enjoy your holiday, Canmore is lovely.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 01:51 PM

Dan, "Hey Canada" is disrespectful. The proper form of address is "O Canada."
;-)

-Jose-

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: gillymor
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 02:00 PM

Dan, don't bother packing as there are too many decent people in the USA to allow Trump to become CiC, but just in case, I call dibs on #'s couch.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: GUEST,#
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 02:21 PM

Well said, gillymor. And btw, there are two couches. Your dib duly noted.

The media are playing for shock value. Fact is there ARE too many good people in the US to allow someone like Trump to achieve elected office. It ain't gonna happen.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 02:23 PM

"British coffee is pure rubbish"

Bollocks. Excellent variety of beans available here, straight into my bean to cup machine. The last Canadian who I heard bragging about his coffee, and dissing British coffee to boot, eventually admitted that he bought his as ready-ground powder out of open industrial-sized sacks in a warm shop and he bought enough of that to last him for days. Anyone here even thinking of crowing about coffee who doesn't start with beans kept in a refrigerated airtight container would be well advised to observe a period of silence!

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 02:27 PM

One of the things I admire about America is the fact that Trump will not succeed, but he can run. Democracy is a delicate thing, but I think America understands that and will survive this and learn from it.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: GUEST,#
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 03:01 PM

Canadian coffee is an acquired taste. Usually I just buy a pound and boil it in a few gallons of water until the water turns very dark brown. Stop cooking the beans and allow the water to cool. That lets the scum get reabsorbed into the beans. Allow it to 'rest' overnight then put it back on low heat and take a cupful as needed. If you leave it on a slow simmer, be sure to keep the water level in the pot above the coffee otherwise you'll end up straining it with your teeth.

PS That'll last about three weeks in summer and ten days in winter; of course that will also depend on whether people get carried away and have more than six or seven cups a day.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 03:05 PM

Jaysus, are you taking the piss or what? It's supposed to be coffee, not a bloody hair-shirt!

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 03:23 PM

We likes our coffee strong enough to dance on.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: GUEST,#
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 03:42 PM

Steve, you'd blanch if I told you about how we made tea north of 60. I'll digress for clarity. North of 60 is a Canadian expression for north of 60 in latitude. It includes the subarctic and arctic regions.

Start with a good-sized pot. Boil water (a good gallon or more) and then take the pot off the heat. Toss in three or four teabags. That's all the attention it needs. When it cools too much, reheat it. If many people are drinking from it, just keep adding water and tea bags. There will come a point at which one should remove the bags. A rule of thumb is ten. Good for a few days with that. Some carvers while they are working on walrus tusk will toss it into the pot to help 'colour' the ivory. But rest assured that that doesn't interfere with the taste of the tea.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: GUEST,Olddude
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 04:19 PM

In the mountains we make tea like this, we make a big pot of tea, get a jar of moonshine, dump the tea out and drink the shine

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: GUEST,#
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 04:37 PM

When we got the shine it just goes into the tea, Dan.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: GUEST,#
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 04:46 PM

"One of the things I admire about America is the fact that Trump will not succeed, but he can run. Democracy is a delicate thing, but I think America understands that and will survive this and learn from it."

That was very well said, HiLo. I think you and gillymor nailed it in one.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: Charmion
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 05:05 PM

After the American Revolution, one of my ancestors had to build barracks on his land on the Yamachiche River in southwestern Quebec to accommodate refugees hiking north out of what is now Vermont and New Hampshire. We call those folks Loyalists now.

We don't have much land here on Old St. Patrick Street, but our guest room could accommodate a couple who really, really like each other and aren't allergic to cats.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: Stanron
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 05:05 PM

GUEST,HiLo wrote: British coffee is pure rubbish

That's because we know how to make proper tea. And despite what the lefties say, proper tea is not theft

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: gnu
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 05:28 PM

Musket... "staying with friends in Canmore"

Say "Hi" to Mike for me. If you don't know who Mike from Canmore is, Google that.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: gnu
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 05:37 PM

Mike... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1lIhymngpI

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 05:38 PM

No wonder yanks and canuckistanis are so bloody miserable and distempered. They understand neither tea nor coffee. Their wine's shite too. Ribena not quite with balls. And the beer. That bloody frozen, tasteless gnat's piss. I hope your drinking water's OK. It's all you've got.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: GUEST,Ed T hi
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 05:45 PM

"There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that."
Bobby Orr

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 05:51 PM

Well, yes

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 05:57 PM

Canadian wine? Bugger off. Have you tried our Cornish avocados?

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 06:20 PM

Ok.. Let me clarify...

A few years ago in a Starbucks in Banff, I asked for a double espresso. The guy said he'll make it stronger than normal because we have our coffee stronger in The UK.

He shouted "real coffee for my English friend!" I thanked him profusely and took it to my table. It was, to misquote a relative, "water bewitched, coffee be buggered."

I never mentioned tea because we have excellent tea in each and every hotel room we use abroad. Mrs Musket takes "Yorkshire Tea" teabags in her luggage. I was raised on Glenghetti but it's difficult to come by, and only sold loose.

Not sure what Lilo means by British coffee. I didn't realise there was such a thing. Sure, instant coffee is awful but I doubt I've had any in thirty years. I stick to tea in homes where I don't see any coffee ironmongery. Sadly, being a caffeine freak, I have two bean to cup machines. One built into the kitchen and its predecessor in my study.

Funnily enough, despite all that, it was in Canada where I had possibly the best coffee outside of Europe. On Granville in Vancouver at a microbrewery. (Sobering up after a tasting session or seven.)

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 06:47 PM

Mrs Steve and I were total aliens to coffee until a trip to Venice in 2010. We would never touch instant (still won't), which is devil's vomit, or even that disgusting powdered muck in a vacuum brick that you put into a pretentious piece of nonsense known as a "cafetiere". What happened is that we stopped at a cafe in Burano for a cup of tea. Joke. Small cup of tepid water with a Lipton's tea bag. We stopped a few minutes later at another joint and ordered a cappuccino. Didn't even know what one was. Suffice to say we had a few more of those on our trip and never looked back. I still understand only cappuccinos and espressos. Don't have a clue as to what these bloody macchiatos, flat whites and Americanos are. With my bean to cup machine I can take thought and have a bloody good double espresso in front of me in sixty seconds. No sugar, thanks.

By the way, been through some magnificent beans from Whittards, but for bog-standard damn good beans try Waitrose Italian-style. Always beans, never that powdered shite.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 06:58 PM

When we go on our Med holidays we always take a little travel kettle and a big bag of PG Tips pyramids. Lack of decent char is what makes all these foreigners miserable. That much we understand.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 07:12 PM

Well, excuuuuse us, princess…

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: JennieG
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 07:21 PM

Well, how precious is that!

Part of the travel experience is trying new things, new tastes. You might not like what you try - but that doesn't make it better or worse to home, just different. If you take your own food and/or drink why bother to travel at all? (food allergies and medical problems are an exception) Why not just stay home and watch travel documentaries? It would be a darn sight cheaper.

We have had good coffee in Canada, and also had some which was fairly indifferent. We've had excellent wines, and some we didn't like as much. Himself has enjoyed most Canadian beers he has tried although there were one or two he didn't care for, he's also a fan of Canadian whiskies......and we both like Sortilege Maple Whisky, we haven't quite finished the bottle we brought home late last year. We've had some great meals, a few (fortunately very few) where we wondered why we bothered, and one which was probably the best meal, accompanied by some of the best wines, we have ever had in our lives.

We have loved our Canadian visits and hope, provided we aren't too old, too poor and too crook to travel, to fit in at least another trip before we both depart this mortal coil.

So, Dan - if you go into exile in the Great White North can you please keep a spare room for a couple of occasionally visiting Aussies? Many thanks!

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 07:21 PM

Sounds a bit corny to me.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: GUEST,Ed T
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 07:28 PM

"How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information."
Criss Jami

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: gnu
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 07:28 PM

And there it is. Can't, nay, don't have enough brains to start your own threads so you, instead, take over someone else's thread and completely fuck it up. What a bunch of ignorant and rude twits.

Do you guys get together and circle jerk while you figure out how to fuck up threads or are you broke-dick mamaluccas just frustrated that you can't get it up any more or actually come up with an idea for a thread on your own? Youse are fuckin pathetic.

Dan... if it's you that needs refuge, I'll sleep in the bedroom in the basement and you can have my bedroom.

You asshole trolls can sleep in the back yard in the fuckin snow. I hope you freeze you fuckin freaks.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 07:33 PM

Yes! rye Whisky is a right treat and if it isn,t Canadian , don't bother. seafood, best anywhere is in Nova Scotia, worstI ever ate was in Maine but you can!t beat England for Fish and chips but don!t eat the burgers... Pure poison...odd, because the beef is very good.
As for travelling with food, I always take proper tea ....a la Steve !

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 07:44 PM

"Some people have such good taste that they can enjoy just about anything"
Marty Rubin

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: GUEST,#
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 07:45 PM

Och, Steve, say what you really mean. Canadian cuisine is also a matter of taste, and on occasion, lack thereof. My preferred meal is filet mignon, but then there are cod cheeks (a hundred times better than scallops), and moose nose. Allow me to put forth a Canadian delicacy: Muskrat au Coin.

1) Get a muskrat and kill it.
2) Skin it 'teeth back'. That's a method of taking the pelt off the dead animal and wasting as little as possible. (Mink farms will purchase the flesh to feed their denizens.)
3) Subtly, immerse the warm dead carcass in water eminently and impenitently approaching the boil.
4) Let it cook on a furious boil for ten minutes. (I'll explain that. It doesn't mean a boil like a cyst; rather, it means real hot water.)
5) Then bring it to a simmer for six hours.
6) Order a pizza while you're waiting.
7) When the muskrat is tender, dine.

Voila: Haut cuisine.

Serve with a strong coffee or tea. I avoid milk in the recipe because it curdles. But done with a Devonshire cream it is little short of ambrosia. "The musk-bag is put between the cloaths in order to preserve them against worms." ('Wild Plums in Brandy' by Boorman and published by McGraw-Hill in 1962.)

That's part of the reason we drink bad beer. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: GUEST,#
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 07:52 PM

Damn. I posted that to the wrong thread. SORRY.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 07:53 PM

Jesus Christ on a bloody bike, all I said was I take a supply of tea bags. I went to Sicily last year and ate bloody whole octopodes and weird little shrimps and loved every mouthful. I went to Spain and ate raw fish and a seafood paella that even the locals wouldn't eat. Don't give me that patronising you're-an-English-tourist bollocks. Overseas, I go out of my way to eat whatever local stuff is on offer and I'll eat stuff that you lot would turn your noses up at. I'll eat pork of dodgy provenance and slices of cured meat in my salmorejo that look like they're ten years old. I use only local butchers and fishmongers and will not buy frozen or processed food. I'll eat anything and I insist on doing so. All I want is a bleedin' cup of tea fer chrissake. Go and shit on your stereotypes. I ain't one, not by a country mile. Jesus, all I said was that I want a cup of tea. Twats.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: GUEST,#
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 08:02 PM

Steve, I was kidding. I think you are one of the better people who posts here and I do follow your posts. Relax, and if you promise to do so I'll get a recipe for porcupine. Even poorly cooked it's good :-)

Canucks don't take themselves all that seriously. And stop whinging. I gave you a recipe for tea :-)

BTW, I did post the muskrat recipe to the right thread. It's that six dollar wine. Fucks me up every time.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 08:09 PM

It wasn't you, old chap, it was JennieG and ignuramus. You're right, I am indeed one of the better people. I know this because my mum told me. Six dollar wine? Too cheap, even for you. And, given the time difference, I respectfully advise you that you've started too bloody early. I know it's Friday, etc., but really...

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: GUEST,#
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 08:33 PM

Listen my friend: Muscatel is the coming thing. Don't forget that. And thank you. I haven't been the same ever since I started drinking Muscatel. But really, pasties? Good lord, they're pipe liners at the best of times. Good though :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 08:43 PM

Do you speak of that extremely sweet muscat that we pour on ice cream this end, or do you speak of the worthy grape that makes half-decent Muskat whites? The latter, one hopes...

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: GUEST,#
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 09:11 PM

I think you may have mentioned that once before, the muscat on ice cream thing. Except for your mention, I'd never heard of it. We had/have a phenomenon here called Dairy Queen. I don't know if you have them there, but suffice it to say. . . Best ice cream I ever had was home-made in California. Fresh cream, fresh peaches and about 45 minutes of elbow grease.

https://img1.etsystatic.com/008/0/6655032/il_570xN.378516725_azbb.jpg

I cranked that sonamabitch for about twenty minutes. The muscat would have been an excellent addition.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 09:19 PM

Well I wouldn't usually drink that sweet stuff as a drink. In passing, I find that a big glug of Baileys gives almost any ice cream a bloody good lift. Not those excellent Italian ones, though, that we seek out on our holidays. Don't tell JennieG that though. She probably thinks that I burst into tears in Italy if I can't get a Cornetto...

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: JennieG
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 09:42 PM

Ha bloody ha, Steve!

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: GUEST,#
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 09:52 PM

Watch out how you pronounce that in Italy.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: gnu
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 09:55 PM

"Do you have any room for a worn out retired Professor if trump wins"

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: olddude
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 10:13 PM

Bang head here X

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: GUEST,Ed T
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 10:17 PM

"" Refugees don't exist.
Only blown away people exist,
people blown by the wind
all over the world.""
Ad De Bont

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 12 Mar 16 - 02:46 AM

Yeah but seriously Gnu? Surely the only way to make a Canada thread interesting is to hijack the bugger? The minute I injected coffee into the thread, Lilo chipped in and as ever, it drifted into cuisine.

But would I move there if Boris became PM? Our friends in Canmore moved out about four years ago. Alberta rolled the red carpet out for UK doctors and they never looked back. Mrs Musket meanwhile gets lots of agents contacting her about moving there, Aussieland, Kiwicountry etc in a similar way.

Naw. We visit for the skiing, as we visit Aussieland to see relatives and get bitten / stung and to be honest, we did start entertaining the idea when we were in Kiwiland last, (even viewed a couple of properties.) As I said in another thread, I have right of residency in The USA but I doubt I'll be buying Dan's pad off him as he moves into Gnu's spare room.

But civilisation starts in Geordieland and ends somewhere near Nottingham. Sure, you can pop down Steve's way for overpriced gourmet fish or London for just about any and every cuisine known but beer n pork scratchings need the terroir of God's own county.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: gillymor
Date: 12 Mar 16 - 01:34 PM

If Trump wins I propose all sane USAians move to Canada, build a wall and make the Donald pay for it.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 12 Mar 16 - 01:47 PM

But I don't 'think Canadians would want a wall, unless it was to keep Bud Lite out....

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: gnu
Date: 12 Mar 16 - 04:33 PM

From: olddude - PM
Date: 11 Mar 16 - 10:13 PM

Bang head here X
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I feel your pains in the ass. But such is Mudcat and such are trolls. Sigh. Unless I misinterpreted your post. At least *I* addressed it instead of high-jacking it.

I'll leave now. I said my piece(s).

gnightgnu

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: Mr Red
Date: 13 Mar 16 - 03:40 AM

Devil's Vomit, or Trump.

Cast you vote now........................

Subject: RE: BS: Hey canada
From: GUEST,#
Date: 13 Mar 16 - 08:06 AM

Devil's Vomit: Sounds like a great name for a heavy metal group. Good of you to bring it up.