I liked it a whole lot. Halifax is a lovely city. A lot of hills and people were pretty nice all around. You Nova Scotians have funny accents that are like a hybrid of Irish and Canuck. The public gardens are nice.
I thought it was strange how many 19 year-olds were fucking panhandling (aggressively!). For the most part in the US our panhandlers are, like, washed-lout wrecks of humanity and mind-addled veterans and such.
Yarmouth was kind of a dump. It was really foggy when I was there and it reminded me of a Lovecraft story. Like all the Canadians were going to mill about my window after dark and murmur Dagon.
Canadian food is bland and has too much bacon, gravy and maple syrup on everything.
I stopped by some maritime town on the way back. The one that is famous for the Bluenose? It was cute and quaint but I cannot imagine living somewhere like that.
Yeah, it's sad to see. I wish I had an explanation as to why there are so many panhandlers around there. But yeah, we don't have armless guys with signs slung around their necks walking down the middle of the road or anything.
Oh...you tried the poutine I see. Did you try the donair though? You can't tell me you went to Halifax and didn't have the donair.
Ah, you stopped in Lunenburg. It's on the south shore of the province. I grew up in Annapolis Royal which is right by the Bay of Fundy and about 2 hours from Halifax. Yarmouth is a dump. Nobody really likes it there. I've only been there twice myself.
I didn't get donair because all the locals called them "Donor Kabob" and that sounded ominous. I did go to see the Donair restaurants and all four of them in city center are on opposite corners of the same intersection. It was fucking strange. Donair Crossing.
The poutine was underwhelming but I did get the "real stuff" with the curd cheese. Apparently poutine isn't really a big deal in Halifax and it's mostly considered a Montreal/ Quebec thing.
Your Nova Scotia beer is pretty good. Way better than, like, Bud or Miller. It's not so good that it really justifies all the smack that Canadians talk about how their beer is awesome and American beer is shit, unless you only consider "American Beer" to be, like PBR, Bud, Coors and Miller. LaBlatts is only marginally better than Bud
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So, a couple of days ago my steam account got hacked by some douche. All I had to do was e-mail Valve with my credit card number and they returned it two days later.
Well, today I signed on Steam and realized that my name was changed to "Craxy-". And what's more, I get a pm from some guy named _Nde.TheFridgeMaster saying "Oliver just told me about how he kissed a girl for the first time!"
I thought it was strange how many 19 year-olds were fucking panhandling (aggressively!). For the most part in the US our panhandlers are, like, washed-lout wrecks of humanity and mind-addled veterans and such.
You'll see plenty of washed-out wrecks in bigger cities like Toronto. There are a lot young people panhandling back home in St. John's too (well, not a lot, like a dozen maybe?). I figure they're mostly just stopping through, hitchhiking, being too cool for school, etc.
I stopped by some maritime town on the way back. The one that is famous for the Bluenose? It was cute and quaint but I cannot imagine living somewhere like that.
Lunenburg
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will, doner kebab is fan fucking tastic and i have half a mind to smack you
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For fun I found out how to pass through a CCTV surveilled parking house armed only with large stickers
it would be really cool especially since some of these swivel around, meaning we'd have to time it ocean's eleven style
I'm deeply curious as to what you did.
Walk through it and find that all of them, besides the swivelling ones, face tha same direction, so if you walk in through one of the places where cars come in (no CCTV) and walk out a certain way, you approach every camera from behind and you can slap a sticker on them and get out.
I think this is mostly due to the fact that it's to stop rapists, and not to prevent infiltration
Or the reason that I will often have cameras placed so that other cameras are in their field of view. And the cameras are still going to get height, weight and clothing you're wearing. It's a less then elegant solution.
I'm pretty confident I could time the swiveling ones to make it past them.
And none of the other cameras are covering each other. I could make it through that parking lot completely unseen
which noone needs to do really
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I didn't get donair because all the locals called them "Donor Kabob" and that sounded ominous. I did go to see the Donair restaurants and all four of them in city center are on opposite corners of the same intersection. It was fucking strange. Donair Crossing.
The poutine was underwhelming but I did get the "real stuff" with the curd cheese. Apparently poutine isn't really a big deal in Halifax and it's mostly considered a Montreal/ Quebec thing.
Your Nova Scotia beer is pretty good. Way better than, like, Bud or Miller. It's not so good that it really justifies all the smack that Canadians talk about how their beer is awesome and American beer is shit, unless you only consider "American Beer" to be, like PBR, Bud, Coors and Miller. LaBlatts is only marginally better than Bud
Kabob? Christ I know some of the folks in Halifax are dense but that's new to me. It's pretty much what you guys call a gyro if I recall correctly only it has a different sauce and you can get spicy pepperoni on it as well as onions, tomatoes and that sort of stuff. Yeah, poutine, while it is Canadian is only truly enjoyed in Quebec I guess.
Did you have Keith's or Moosehead at all? Both of those are made in Halifax, that and some of the pubs downtown have micro-breweries that aren't as well known but have some pretty awesome suds. Labatts is sort of our "cheap" brand around here.
Ah, you stopped in Lunenburg. It's on the south shore of the province. I grew up in Annapolis Royal which is right by the Bay of Fundy and about 2 hours from Halifax. Yarmouth is a dump. Nobody really likes it there. I've only been there twice myself.
I hear the Bay of Fundy was cool but we were too hung over most of the time to get our shit together enough to actually drive somewhere.
I walked around the boardwalk looking at the cruise ship and some townie kid was trying to pull some kind of strange scam on me and Frankie. I think he was just trying to sell a tour one of his buddies did, but he kept insisting that he was from New York even though he knew nothing about New York and talked like a fucking leprechaun.
For fun I found out how to pass through a CCTV surveilled parking house armed only with large stickers
it would be really cool especially since some of these swivel around, meaning we'd have to time it ocean's eleven style
I'm deeply curious as to what you did.
Walk through it and find that all of them, besides the swivelling ones, face tha same direction, so if you walk in through one of the places where cars come in (no CCTV) and walk out a certain way, you approach every camera from behind and you can slap a sticker on them and get out.
I think this is mostly due to the fact that it's to stop rapists, and not to prevent infiltration
Or the reason that I will often have cameras placed so that other cameras are in their field of view. And the cameras are still going to get height, weight and clothing you're wearing. It's a less then elegant solution.
I'm pretty confident I could time the swiveling ones to make it past them.
And none of the other cameras are covering each other. I could make it through that parking lot completely unseen
which noone needs to do really
It depends on what lenses they are using and what the field of view is.
Ah, you stopped in Lunenburg. It's on the south shore of the province. I grew up in Annapolis Royal which is right by the Bay of Fundy and about 2 hours from Halifax. Yarmouth is a dump. Nobody really likes it there. I've only been there twice myself.
I hear the Bay of Fundy was cool but we were too hung over most of the time to get our shit together enough to actually drive somewhere.
I walked around the boardwalk looking at the cruise ship and some townie kid was trying to pull some kind of strange scam on me and Frankie. I think he was just trying to sell a tour one of his buddies did, but he kept insisting that he was from New York even though he knew nothing about New York and talked like a fucking leprechaun.
It's a better drive on the New Brunswick side but if you drove down past Digby you could see it really well. They do whale watching there in the summer and it's quite a sight to behold.
Sadly Halifax has had a bit of a problem over the past couple of years with teens beating up folks in the downtown area. Swarming's become a concern and now they've got...fuck if I can remember the name of them. Some group that they have in Boston or something that wear red commando hats or something stupid like that.
Kabob? Christ I know some of the folks in Halifax are dense but that's new to me. It's pretty much what you guys call a gyro if I recall correctly only it has a different sauce and you can get spicy pepperoni on it as well as onions, tomatoes and that sort of stuff. Yeah, poutine, while it is Canadian is only truly enjoyed in Quebec I guess.
Did you have Keith's or Moosehead at all? Both of those are made in Halifax, that and some of the pubs downtown have micro-breweries that aren't as well known but have some pretty awesome suds. Labatts is sort of our "cheap" brand around here.
Keith's was all right. The whole Red beer thing was all right. I was not so wild about Moosehead - it reminds me of bland Heineken for some reason. I went to a few of the microbreweries. Rogues' Roost was good. There was a little upscale lounge called Minstrels that was nice as well. Also a hotel restaurant called Sage I think.
I did really like the local L'Acadie Blanc white wine. It was tart and dry and delicious. Perfect for warm weather.
Maybe I am wrong about the kabob part. I think I am confusing that iwth a friend in California who likes donair kabob. I like gyro and would probably like donair as well, though the Canadian fascination with pepperoni (including fried pepperoni!) is strange to me.
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A variation on the döner kebab known as donair was introduced in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in the early 1970s. A restaurant called King of Donair claims to have been the first to serve this version in 1973.[7]
The meat in this version of the döner kebab (sometimes called 'Halifax donair') is sliced from a loaf cooked on a vertical spit, made from a combination of ground beef, flour or bread crumbs, and various spices, while the sauce is made from evaporated milk, sugar, vinegar, and garlic. The meat and sauce are served rolled in a flat-bread pita with diced tomato and onion. This version is generally so packed with ingredients that the pita is almost there for ceremonial purposes; the pita of any true Haligonian donair will be so soaked in sauce that attempts to pick it up will be fruitless.
This version of the donair is very popular throughout the Atlantic provinces of Canada and Alberta, and is also available in some other areas of the country, with many fast food pizza restaurants also featuring donairs on the menu. Many of them also offer a donair pizza featuring all of the donair ingredients served on a pizza crust. Donair subs are also not uncommon. This is especially true in the Alberta cities of Edmonton,Calgary and Fort McMurray.
In Atlantic Canada you can also find donair meat used in offerings such as donair egg rolls (an egg roll casing stuffed with donair meat), donair calzones/panzerottis, and in donair poutine (french fries topped with cheese curds, donair meat and donair sauce or gravy or a combination).
Halifax, Nova Scotia's Ed Daniel is widely know as the "God Father of Donair", his tasty sauce recipe is the hallmark of what a Halifax donair is all about. The creamy sauce is usually poured all over the donair meat until there is 100 per cent sauce penetration, thus creating the "Eddy D Donair".
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I didn't get donair because all the locals called them "Donor Kabob" and that sounded ominous. I did go to see the Donair restaurants and all four of them in city center are on opposite corners of the same intersection. It was fucking strange. Donair Crossing.
The poutine was underwhelming but I did get the "real stuff" with the curd cheese. Apparently poutine isn't really a big deal in Halifax and it's mostly considered a Montreal/ Quebec thing.
Your Nova Scotia beer is pretty good. Way better than, like, Bud or Miller. It's not so good that it really justifies all the smack that Canadians talk about how their beer is awesome and American beer is shit, unless you only consider "American Beer" to be, like PBR, Bud, Coors and Miller. LaBlatts is only marginally better than Bud
a butter knife is good enough
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_J_ is a robot.
Hell, the things you can do with just a spoon...
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I'm pretty confident I could time the swiveling ones to make it past them.
And none of the other cameras are covering each other. I could make it through that parking lot completely unseen
which noone needs to do really
In the words of Hank Hill "That boy ain't right."
Or he has some serious trust issues.
Either way I can see why that one girl wouldn't have sex with him.
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But _J_bot, how do you..?
"IMPERATIVE: DO NOT DOUBT. DO NOT QUESTION."
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who wants to bet it will be more than what it is supposed to be able to find out?
I like Jay-Z but fuck is that an awful piece of shit.
Kabob? Christ I know some of the folks in Halifax are dense but that's new to me. It's pretty much what you guys call a gyro if I recall correctly only it has a different sauce and you can get spicy pepperoni on it as well as onions, tomatoes and that sort of stuff. Yeah, poutine, while it is Canadian is only truly enjoyed in Quebec I guess.
Did you have Keith's or Moosehead at all? Both of those are made in Halifax, that and some of the pubs downtown have micro-breweries that aren't as well known but have some pretty awesome suds. Labatts is sort of our "cheap" brand around here.
Bitches don't know about my failure to properly repeat popular phrases.
I hear the Bay of Fundy was cool but we were too hung over most of the time to get our shit together enough to actually drive somewhere.
I walked around the boardwalk looking at the cruise ship and some townie kid was trying to pull some kind of strange scam on me and Frankie. I think he was just trying to sell a tour one of his buddies did, but he kept insisting that he was from New York even though he knew nothing about New York and talked like a fucking leprechaun.
Because they're delicious.
Bonus points if you can obtain his fingerprints and a DNA sample.
This is bugging the crap out of me.
Pss, whatever. I could walk into the Prime Minister's home if I had my ninja gear with me.
It depends on what lenses they are using and what the field of view is.
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Cannibalism... finds a way.
It's a better drive on the New Brunswick side but if you drove down past Digby you could see it really well. They do whale watching there in the summer and it's quite a sight to behold.
Sadly Halifax has had a bit of a problem over the past couple of years with teens beating up folks in the downtown area. Swarming's become a concern and now they've got...fuck if I can remember the name of them. Some group that they have in Boston or something that wear red commando hats or something stupid like that.
Hellsing?
No.
So little to choose from, though.
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You should fix that.
Schindler's List?
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Keith's was all right. The whole Red beer thing was all right. I was not so wild about Moosehead - it reminds me of bland Heineken for some reason. I went to a few of the microbreweries. Rogues' Roost was good. There was a little upscale lounge called Minstrels that was nice as well. Also a hotel restaurant called Sage I think.
I did really like the local L'Acadie Blanc white wine. It was tart and dry and delicious. Perfect for warm weather.
Maybe I am wrong about the kabob part. I think I am confusing that iwth a friend in California who likes donair kabob. I like gyro and would probably like donair as well, though the Canadian fascination with pepperoni (including fried pepperoni!) is strange to me.
I'm trying to decide whether or not to go to the dining hall after i finish outlining this chapter
on the one hand, i'm hungry
on the other, i may over eat
on the other other hand, holy shit i have 3 hands
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Is it made with real donor?