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Ceciltron posted:A Smoke's opened up here across from Concordia's dowtown campus and lasted a little under two years. It's gone now. The poutines were fine, but $10+ is too much for fries, gravy and cheese. Move to Tokyo. You can get a huge bowl of ramen, or udon noodles or curry for half that price. It tastes better, is cheaper and doesn't make you hate yourself after eating it. At this point real estate is probably cheaper than quite a few cities in Canada as well.
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Canada Debt Bubble: Don't Buy Poutine- Rent It
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If you say the best poutine comes from anywhere except Au Pied du Cochon in Montreal, you are bad and wrong.
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OhYeah posted:Move to Tokyo. You can get a huge bowl of ramen, or udon noodles or curry for half that price. It tastes better, is cheaper and doesn't make you hate yourself after eating it. At this point real estate is probably cheaper than quite a few cities in Canada as well. Tokyo is comparable (maybe cheaper) to Vancouver certainly, which makes sense when you realize that close to population of Canada lives in metro Tokyo. E: I also understand that Tokyo employers pay for their Tokyo employees accommodation as well. ocrumsprug fucked around with this message at 17:20 on Feb 25, 2015 |
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PT6A posted:If you say the best poutine comes from anywhere except Au Pied du Cochon in Montreal, you are bad and wrong. Christ, if this ain't the pure truth I don't know what is.
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PT6A posted:If you say the best poutine comes from anywhere except Au Pied du Cochon in Montreal, you are bad and wrong. Although this is a technically correct statement, it's sort of an unhelpful response given that APDC is close to the preeminent restaurant in Montreal, occasionally hard to get reservations, and not exactly a place you just stop for a quick drunken poutine 
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gently caress y'all Costco poutine 4 lyfe
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The best poutine comes from using Heston Blumenthal's triple cooked chip recipe with Alton Brown's gravy recipe with farmer's market squeaky cheese. And maybe some Iberico bacon, I dunno. But this is definitively the best poutine.
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^^^ Unless whats-his-face's "chip" recipe involves duck fat, you're definitely mistaken, and if it does, I'd say it could go either way. I've never had iberico bacon, just the ham, but it sounds like something I need to eat right away.Lexicon posted:Although this is a technically correct statement, it's sort of an unhelpful response given that APDC is close to the preeminent restaurant in Montreal, occasionally hard to get reservations, and not exactly a place you just stop for a quick drunken poutine For me it also involves a five-hour plane flight each way now, so I completely see your point. But it is the best. I once, in fact, did stop in there for a drunken poutine after a fun afternoon at Dieu du Ciel! That was a hell of a day, I'll tell you what. PT6A fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Feb 25, 2015 |
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Kafka Esq. posted:The best poutine comes from using Heston Blumenthal's triple cooked chip recipe with Alton Brown's gravy recipe with farmer's market squeaky cheese. And maybe some Iberico bacon, I dunno. But this is definitively the best poutine. God way to ruin poutine with your foodie bourgeois bullshit 
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Ceciltron posted:God way to ruin poutine with your foodie bourgeois bullshit Just think, he didnt even get into the craft beer he drinks with it and the great condo he bought that still wont be built for 3 more years!
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Smokes is good and shows that Toronto is not entirely worthless as a concept, but they need an interim size. The larges is way too big and the small is paltry.
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Ceciltron posted:God way to ruin poutine with your foodie bourgeois bullshit
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PT6A posted:If you say the best poutine comes from anywhere except Au Pied du Cochon in Montreal, you are bad and wrong. Maamm Bolduc without contest.
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peter banana posted:Smokes is good and shows that Toronto is not entirely worthless as a concept, but they need an interim size. The larges is way too big and the small is paltry. Just get two smalls
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For so long this thread avoided the irrelevancies of loving poutine. A bastion of realtalk and hard data insulated from the relentless shitposting of CanPol general. 
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PT6A posted:If you say the best poutine comes from anywhere except Au Pied du Cochon in Montreal, you are bad and wrong. Banger's in Austin, TX. That is right, the best poutine comes from America, Texas no less. Wrap it up Canadailures.
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Rime posted:For so long this thread avoided the irrelevancies of loving poutine. A bastion of realtalk and hard data insulated from the relentless shitposting of CanPol general. Western Alienation at work once again.
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Furnaceface posted:Just think, he didnt even get into the craft beer he drinks with it and the great condo he bought that still wont be built for 3 more years! edit: let me tell you about the horrors of renting - my landlord has disappeared for a week and a half after water destroyed my ceiling and now my door has wedged itself shut and I ripped off the handle trying to get it open. So now my apartment is a trap for the unwary. Kafka Esq. fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Feb 25, 2015 |
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Feb 25, 2015 18:18
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Kafka Esq. posted:I think you missed the Iberico bacon joke, friend. 
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Rime posted:For so long this thread avoided the irrelevancies of loving poutine. A bastion of realtalk and hard data insulated from the relentless shitposting of CanPol general. Beer chat next! 
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PT6A posted:I once, in fact, did stop in there for a drunken poutine after a fun afternoon at Dieu du Ciel! That was a hell of a day, I'll tell you what. 
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Came home yesterday to a note under my door about a routine inspection, exactly 24 hour notice. It sent my wife into a cleaning tizzy as if the queen was coming over. THIS WOULD NEVER HAPPEN IF WE OWNED!!!
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Baronjutter posted:Came home yesterday to a note under my door about a routine inspection, exactly 24 hour notice. It sent my wife into a cleaning tizzy as if the queen was coming over. THIS WOULD NEVER HAPPEN IF WE OWNED!!! What is this 'routine inspection' you speak of? I've rented my whole adult life and I've never heard of this.
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please stop all the poutine chat, I had to move back to Saskatchewan years ago and I still miss loving smokes.
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Lexicon posted:What is this 'routine inspection' you speak of? I've rented my whole adult life and I've never heard of this. Really? We have inspections every now and then in our building, they say it's to check fire alarms. Maybe they just want an excuse to nose around a bit and make sure people aren't doing anything to break their lease.
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I think it's too check that the tenant isn't trashing the place.
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triplexpac posted:Really? We have inspections every now and then in our building, they say it's to check fire alarms. Yeah, genuinely I've never heard of it being done.
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triplexpac posted:Really? We have inspections every now and then in our building, they say it's to check fire alarms. Even condo owners have those, although we're allowed to make "alternate arrangements" -- test the alarms ourselves and report back. I discovered that after I realized I'd be out of town for the inspection day, and was warned it would have to be done "at my own expense!". Turns out, my own expense was $0 and all I had to do was sign a form and email it to someone.
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Lexicon posted:Yeah, genuinely I've never heard of it being done. What ever the maximum number of inspections the landlord is legally allowed to make, he makes in our building. If I was a landlord I'd probably do the same, if I cared about keeping the building in top shape. People do some hosed up and stupid poo poo in their units and it's good to detect it early.
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This is why I rent a dive. Sure, the house may collapse or burn down with me inside it, but at least the landlord doesn't really care that I put 1" lag bolts in the ceiling so I could hang my hammock. 
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Baronjutter posted:What ever the maximum number of inspections the landlord is legally allowed to make, he makes in our building. If I was a landlord I'd probably do the same, if I cared about keeping the building in top shape. People do some hosed up and stupid poo poo in their units and it's good to detect it early. No wonder [especially Western] Canadians think renting is for losers. This is some bullshit boarding school dormitory poo poo, and shouldn't be tolerated.
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PT6A posted:If you say the best poutine comes from anywhere except Au Pied du Cochon in Montreal, you are bad and wrong. Someone has fancy boy tastes. The best poutine comes from a horrible little chip stand south of the Holiday Inn just off the 40 that hasn't cleaned their fryer since Trudeau was PM
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Lexicon posted:No wonder [especially Western] Canadians think renting is for losers. This is some bullshit boarding school dormitory poo poo, and shouldn't be tolerated. Yeah, if your landlord comes by more than once a year to read the gas/water meter and ask if you're still alive, you better move.
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Lexicon posted:No wonder [especially Western] Canadians think renting is for losers. This is some bullshit boarding school dormitory poo poo, and shouldn't be tolerated. You may live some place where the chance of having your rental turned into a grow op isn't 100%. Buddy of my that has a rental tells his tenants when they move in there will be an inspection every three months and if they aren't ok with it, he is ok with them not renting from him.
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Lexicon posted:No wonder [especially Western] Canadians think renting is for losers. This is some bullshit boarding school dormitory poo poo, and shouldn't be tolerated. It is a fire inspection. For safety and insurance purposes. The fire inspector guy came and checked the smoke alarm and left. The building manager wasn't even with him. It's fine. They did give a full weeks notice though.
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Lexicon posted:No wonder [especially Western] Canadians think renting is for losers. This is some bullshit boarding school dormitory poo poo, and shouldn't be tolerated. People who are normal, reasonable tenants have no idea the depths that others can and will sink to relatively quietly. I think it's ok to have an inspection every three months to ensure the place isn't a firetrap, leaking water all over the floor, or a hive for all diseases.
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Yeah, he comes in and checks the smoke detector and just sort of quick glances at the unit to make sure it's not a meth lab or you haven't destroyed the floors or anything. I'm pretty sure in an unsprinklered wood frame building this is required for insurance. I'm quite happy with it because it means if anyone else in the building is doing something stupid that's going to burn the building down or present a hazard it's going to be caught sooner than later. It's by far the best apartment building I've ever been in, and it's because the landlord is super super into maintaining the building and enforcing the rules, plus actually screening tenants properly. My friends first loved their apartment because the landlord was so chill and never bothered anyone and they allowed pets and smoking, then like a year later it was all them complaining that he doesn't address any noise complaints and then the police found 2 meth labs in their building, the place is a dump but the landlord is "chill". Give me a fussy landlord and an amazing building over a lax dump any day, but different strokes for different folks. He also does same-day repairs. Toilet paper holder fell off your wall? Fixed same-day. Washing machine not working? There he is halfway inside its guts pulling out lint and fixing it within hours. Light switch sticky? Fixed the next morning. Random bulb on a decorative lighting fixture in the lobby burnt out on your way to work? Fixed by the time you're home. When my garage door got destroyed by a hit and run and stuck shut he had emergency carpenters there fixing it within hours and those guys don't work cheap. Any stain on the common area carpets or scuff on the wall vanishes within a day or two as well. He'll often "help" people move in and out to make sure the walls don't get scraped or mud isn't tracked in. Dude loves his building so much.
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