Monday, June 20, 2005
So Soo Me!
While Monz lunches on a pedestr...er, sumptious turkey sandwich, the editors will report their culinary findings from last week's trip to Sault Ste. Marie. As per last year, the first stop was for dinner at Antlers for, what else?, beast! A steak smothered in onions and mushrooms, overlooking the St. Mary River and our overseas destination. It was stupendiously aged and broiled. The next morning we stopped for the first time at a Sault legend -- Ernie's Coffee House. Whenever the editors are in the Sault they receive a random act of kindness. In this case it was free hash browns, and they were yummy! We skipped lunch to head out into the Lake Superior / Algoma Canyon backwoods wilderness, later to return to the Soo for a showing of Batman Begins. We aren't going to comment except that we suspect that our reactions will be appearing on a related blog in the near future. Then we walked the mall and did some cunnuck book shopping. We were going to buy a copy of Sloan's A-Sides Win for Monz, but couldn't get in contact with him to see if he wanted the DVD-less copy we found. Then it was off to Docks for some maple roasted chicken. Every time we are in Canada we discover some new maple flavored foodstuff. Not the chicken -- we'd had that before -- but this (you have to hunt for it). We also had heard about Burger King's Canadian Whopper(tm) -- a whopper with Canadian (they say "peameal") bacon and "Canadian cheddar cheese" so we got one of those and encountered the first unpleasant person we'd ever met in the Soo. It was the manager, who was a bald, mustashed, thin, short, twitchy man who kept chastising the staff for too much friendy banter or not meeting the time-motion limits for getting the food to the editors (2 minutes). It got so annoying that one of the editors motioned the guy over and told him a sad story of getting sick at a Chicago fast food establishment for undercooked meat and warning him that if the same thing every happened here he would rue the day he put time ahead of fire broiling. We took a couple of bites but were too stuffed to finish, plus it was a step-down from the American whopper. Back to the brew: we combined a couple of bottles with some Canadian Whiskey (honestly), turned on the Canadian hotel tube and got sloshed. The next morning we did some grocery shopping and our usual breakfast routine: McDonald's for an American bacon Egg McMuffin (tm) and Canadian McDonald's coffee (eh) and Tim Hortons for some maple donuts, a walnut role (mmmmm) and coffee (eh). For the first time since 9/11 customs did not check our trunk -- two questions and a "see ya later."
For lunch the editors made a detour that brought back the Monzeries: Grand Rapids and the Gaia Cafe, a vegetarian resturant that Monz could not partake in because 1) he was Atkising and 2) he had other lunch plans. We ordered their famous vegtable hash and immediately wished Monz could be there to enjoy it. The garlic! The onions! The brocoli! The cauliflower! The cabage! The...you get the idea. We implore the Monz to take his family to see this wonder of the Midwest.
While Monz lunches on a pedestr...er, sumptious turkey sandwich, the editors will report their culinary findings from last week's trip to Sault Ste. Marie. As per last year, the first stop was for dinner at Antlers for, what else?, beast! A steak smothered in onions and mushrooms, overlooking the St. Mary River and our overseas destination. It was stupendiously aged and broiled. The next morning we stopped for the first time at a Sault legend -- Ernie's Coffee House. Whenever the editors are in the Sault they receive a random act of kindness. In this case it was free hash browns, and they were yummy! We skipped lunch to head out into the Lake Superior / Algoma Canyon backwoods wilderness, later to return to the Soo for a showing of Batman Begins. We aren't going to comment except that we suspect that our reactions will be appearing on a related blog in the near future. Then we walked the mall and did some cunnuck book shopping. We were going to buy a copy of Sloan's A-Sides Win for Monz, but couldn't get in contact with him to see if he wanted the DVD-less copy we found. Then it was off to Docks for some maple roasted chicken. Every time we are in Canada we discover some new maple flavored foodstuff. Not the chicken -- we'd had that before -- but this (you have to hunt for it). We also had heard about Burger King's Canadian Whopper(tm) -- a whopper with Canadian (they say "peameal") bacon and "Canadian cheddar cheese" so we got one of those and encountered the first unpleasant person we'd ever met in the Soo. It was the manager, who was a bald, mustashed, thin, short, twitchy man who kept chastising the staff for too much friendy banter or not meeting the time-motion limits for getting the food to the editors (2 minutes). It got so annoying that one of the editors motioned the guy over and told him a sad story of getting sick at a Chicago fast food establishment for undercooked meat and warning him that if the same thing every happened here he would rue the day he put time ahead of fire broiling. We took a couple of bites but were too stuffed to finish, plus it was a step-down from the American whopper. Back to the brew: we combined a couple of bottles with some Canadian Whiskey (honestly), turned on the Canadian hotel tube and got sloshed. The next morning we did some grocery shopping and our usual breakfast routine: McDonald's for an American bacon Egg McMuffin (tm) and Canadian McDonald's coffee (eh) and Tim Hortons for some maple donuts, a walnut role (mmmmm) and coffee (eh). For the first time since 9/11 customs did not check our trunk -- two questions and a "see ya later."
For lunch the editors made a detour that brought back the Monzeries: Grand Rapids and the Gaia Cafe, a vegetarian resturant that Monz could not partake in because 1) he was Atkising and 2) he had other lunch plans. We ordered their famous vegtable hash and immediately wished Monz could be there to enjoy it. The garlic! The onions! The brocoli! The cauliflower! The cabage! The...you get the idea. We implore the Monz to take his family to see this wonder of the Midwest.
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