Curious Americans take quick look
Oct 14th, 2004, 03:44 PM
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Yesterday on the Toronto subway I met Don and Ray, business execs from small town Minnesota.
Not content to sit at the airport until their flight home, they found the Toronto Transit bus aty the airport, and then the subway, and were on their way downtown to walk for two hours, learn what they could, and head back to their flight.
They wanted to know who peason was (the airport is named after Lester Pearson a prime Minister in the 1960s, and a noted diplomat and peacemaker) They wanted to know what peameal was, as in peameal bacon sandwiches. I don't know, other than it seems to be grain based and yellow.
They were curious about all the various colors of people -- more than central Minn. Toronto's probably the most multicultural city in the world.
Inquired about Canadian beer; I sent them to Steamwhistle's brewery, in a converted railroad roundhouse near SkyDome and the CN Tower.
Airport to Queen and University, by TTC, took then 53 minutes and cost each of them $2.25. This is the subway station closest to the Hilton and the Sheraton Centre, and one stop away from the stations closest to Metropolitan, Eaton Centre Marriott, Holiday Inn on King, and Intercontinental on Front Street.
Later tonight I'll send then a picture of a peameal bacon sandwich from the St. Lawrence market.
BAK
Not content to sit at the airport until their flight home, they found the Toronto Transit bus aty the airport, and then the subway, and were on their way downtown to walk for two hours, learn what they could, and head back to their flight.
They wanted to know who peason was (the airport is named after Lester Pearson a prime Minister in the 1960s, and a noted diplomat and peacemaker) They wanted to know what peameal was, as in peameal bacon sandwiches. I don't know, other than it seems to be grain based and yellow.
They were curious about all the various colors of people -- more than central Minn. Toronto's probably the most multicultural city in the world.
Inquired about Canadian beer; I sent them to Steamwhistle's brewery, in a converted railroad roundhouse near SkyDome and the CN Tower.
Airport to Queen and University, by TTC, took then 53 minutes and cost each of them $2.25. This is the subway station closest to the Hilton and the Sheraton Centre, and one stop away from the stations closest to Metropolitan, Eaton Centre Marriott, Holiday Inn on King, and Intercontinental on Front Street.
Later tonight I'll send then a picture of a peameal bacon sandwich from the St. Lawrence market.
BAK
Oct 15th, 2004, 02:12 PM
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BAK, Some more info to accompany your sandwich photo...!!
Today, peameal bacon, also known as back bacon, is covered in yellow corn meal. Dried yellow peas ground into meal were originally packed around the pork to help preserve it. When corn became more plentiful meat processors switched grains but retained the peameal name.
Today, peameal bacon, also known as back bacon, is covered in yellow corn meal. Dried yellow peas ground into meal were originally packed around the pork to help preserve it. When corn became more plentiful meat processors switched grains but retained the peameal name.
Oct 16th, 2004, 06:45 PM
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I was going to ask a (not so) stupid question. -I was worried that when I went to order the peameal sandwich I would mispronounce it.
Now since I know now that it was originally made from ground peas ... pea-meal ... the pronounciation seems easy! (Thats how I would have pronounced it anyway)
I have learned that not all words in Canada (or Europe) are pronounced the way they look.
Now since I know now that it was originally made from ground peas ... pea-meal ... the pronounciation seems easy! (Thats how I would have pronounced it anyway)
I have learned that not all words in Canada (or Europe) are pronounced the way they look.
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