Month: March 2009

Restaurant Mar 8, 2009 The Waffle 1 Comment Everyone who knows me knows that I am a very patient man. So I can be very understanding when a place is very crowded and, therefore, the service is a bit slow. However, there are times when it becomes completely ridiculous. Let’s say you are the owner of a Sports Bar in downtown Toronto, and you are located between the Rogers Centre and the Air Canada Centre. Let’s say Saturday nights are usually fairly busy because people do tend to go out on Saturday nights; you know, with the not working tomorrow and all. Let’s say that on one Saturday in particular, Canada would meet USA at 2 pm for their first game of the World Baseball Classic and 40 000 tickets were sold the eve of the game. Let’s say that on the same Saturday, the Oilers are visiting the Maple Leafs,…

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General Mar 8, 2009 The Waffle No Comments On the way back from our World Baseball Classic road trip, we stopped at the A&W in Kingston for lunch.  I love A & W.  Frosty Mugs of Root Beer. Onions rings.  Quality Burgers.  Old-fashioned orange and brown look. During our stop, I learned four things: They sometimes run out of Frosty Mugs. (Or forget they have them.) Their current promotion is 2 Mozza Burgers for 6$. (I happily enjoyed saving $2.40)   If you have an Ultimate Uncle, like the made-of-sirloin Uncle Burger, then you can win a trip to the Fairmont Banff Springs.  (You can also download a coupon!) Either the economic crisis is affecting the quality of service in every restaurant, or I am really unlucky. (It was so slow, the first of our party of four was done by the time the fourth one sat down to eat.)   . 

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General Mar 5, 2009 The Waffle 3 Comments I just went to McDonald’s to pick up an All-Party Party dayafter cure.  Nothing like a Sausage McMuffin to get back on track. Sausage McMuffin Ingredients: English Muffin: Enriched wheat flour, water, yeast, glucose-fructose, corn flour, salt, vegetable oil (canola and/or soybean), cornmeal, calcium sulfate, soy flour, monocalcium phosphate, calcium propionate, artificial flavour, diacetyl tartaric acid esters of mono and diglycerides, soy lecithin, citric acid, enzymes AND MAY CONTAIN ANY OR ALL OF THE FOLLOWING IN VARYING PROPORTIONS: calcium carbonate, ammonium sulphate, potassium sorbate, wheat gluten, calcium silicate, malted barley flour, calicum citrate. Processed Cheese Slice: Cheese (milk, modified milk ingredients, bacterial culture, salt, calcium chloride, microbial enzyme, lipase), modified milk ingredients, water, sodium citrate and/or sodium phosphate, salt, potassium sorbate, citric acid, colour, soy lecithin. Sausage Patty:  Pork, water, salt, dextrose, sugar, glucose solids, spices. Trans Fat Free Liquid Margarine: Canola…

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Politics Mar 4, 2009 The Waffle No Comments NDP MP Peter Stoffer hosted his 12th All-Party Party last night.  The Sackville–Eastern-Shore MP was first elected in 1997 as part of the NDP wave led by Alexa McDonough. As the story goes, or at least as he tells it, Stoffer was surprised to find out that Christmas parties on the Hill were held by each party, as opposed to a joint Parliament Christmas party for all Hillites.   Peter therefore decided to hold a party for everyone – he bought booze, some snacks, and invited people over and held the First All-Party Party on December 12, 1997, in the rotunda outside his office, on the 3rd floor of the Confederation building. To his surprise, hundreds came. The party grew over the years, with Stoffer doing a better marketing job to invite people and moved it to 200 WB.  It is now the most attended Party on the Hill, and the declared…

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