The true Torontonian will enjoy breakfast at the market – the famous peameal bacon on a bun. Peameal bacon is a Canadian favourite – salt- and sugar-cured extra lean ham, rolled in cornmeal. It’s a signature snack of Toronto, and well worth trying out.
One of the first true "Toronto" moments when I moved here 10 years ago was 6am peameal bacon on a bun at St. Lawrence Market. Damn it was good. And I'd never seen it before in the West.
The second thing I noticed was the much higher ratio of donut shops per square mile than in the west. That I won't miss that much.
The thing that I'll not miss the most is the Ontarian's slavish devotion to the purveyors of mediocre chicken, the unimpressive Swiss Chalet, whose advertising slogan reads thus:
Life should taste as good as Swiss Chalet
which, if true, would have me ending said life with a large mallet to the skull. Our neighbours in la belle province do it much better.
But I suppose I won't know what I miss most until we actually leave Ontario...
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Well, it's official. Toronto is now officially smoke-free.
But while the city vowed a no tolerance beginning to the bylaw, sending out eight officers to patrol the downtown bars and watch for early violators, there's no immediate word that any charges were laid.
Well it's better than the half-assed bar vs restaurant legislation that's kept me and my kids out of some of the finer pubs that have declared themselves bars to avoid the smoking ban until now.
Some tavern and diner owners fear they'll lose business as a result of the ban, but Toronto Health officials predict they'll more than make up for it by attracting new patrons who were turned off by all the smoke.
Well, they've got me and my kids back, but I seriously doubt that I'll pay more in the long run than a clientele of dedicated puffers.
I have some other thoughts about freedom and liberty and all the rest of that nice flowery stuff, but the alcohol consumed earlier in the evening with dinner has, alas, deserted me.
I feel like a smoke. Damned I am that I didn't get Marlboros when I was in the States a week or two ago...
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