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Food Only in Montréal

Why Did The Chicken Car Cross The Road?

To get to the parking spot on the other side!

This is a delivery vehicle for St. Hubert, a massive restaurant chain and frozen/ready-to-eat food enterprise here in Québec (not unlike Marie Callender’s in the States, with less emphasis on dessert pies).… [Read More]

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History, Culture, and Politics Only in Montréal Pictures

DissentyLand

It’s election campaign season (about which I’ll write more later) and the whole town is covered in pictures of politicians’ faces. It’s against the law to deface political posters here–one person has been arrested already–but even so.… [Read More]

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Food History, Culture, and Politics

Uh Oh

I thought I was hallucinating, but it's true: they sell Cadbury Mini-Eggs year-round here.
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Experiences Musings and Observations

Cells Receipt

I brought an old disused cell phone up here from L.A. because I found out that to get a Canadian credit card and build Canadian credit, you have to show a utility bill with your Canadian residence address as well as your ID.… [Read More]

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Places

View From Our Balcony

I call this photo, ”Pick Yer Poison.”