Chris Pirillo: If you were to ask me what is one of my favorite cities in the entire world, I would start out by saying Seattle certainly, but a close second would be Vancouver, British Columbia.
Pondie and I will sometimes trip up there, its just a few hours drive, and its kind of neat.
Now, if you are American and you have never been to Canada, there is really not that many differences. I am not going to make any gross generalizations about Canadians, I will leave the jokes to somebody else.
But generally speaking, we have had wonderful food in Vancouver; some of the best sushi I have ever had in Vancouver. Of course, I have not yet traveled to Japan. The people are generally friendly; I mean, I didn't find them any more or less friendly than many cities that I have been to, at least in the U.S. Relatively clean; well, I guess it depends on the side of town that you hang out on.
It's really like being in America, in Vancouver, and I realize that I am probably going to defend a lot of Vancouverites when I say that. But like I said, it's comfortable. If we were to live in Canada, and move to Canada, I would say Vancouver. I like the Pacific Northwest, I like it up here, I don't know.
I know we have Canadians in the chat room, and my system administrator, Allen, he is a Canadian, and keeping to the whole concept of talking about the food that we eat, we being geeks, who live here on this planet, I got a submission from Canada, of all places, very exotic, very exotic, and I hope you know where Canada is on the map. If you are American, you would be lucky to know where America is on the map.
Now, we are traveling quite far, at least talking about food. Well, we just did Saudi Arabia the other day, then before that we did -- where was it, Guatemala, and then we have done Mexico, we have done a few places.
I ask for your local flavor and you have delivered, Daniel, also known as Dan DB in chat, writes, often people tend to put down Canadian food, this is unfortunate, as here in Canada we have a great number of opportunities when it comes to culinary discoveries.
Hang on, hang on, I am getting the process down here. Number one, Nanaimo bars, Nanaimo? Allen, would you help me here. Nanaimo bars. If you happen to be in British Columbia, stop by the city of Nanaimo from -- oh, now it makes sense, where the dessert gets its name.
These are great, and are basically a crumb chocolate base with vanilla butter cream as a filling, and soft chocolate on top.
Allen: What do you want?
Chris Pirillo: Nanaimo bars.
Allen: Nanaimo, I don't know.
Chris Pirillo: Nanaimo, is that what it is? Well, I knew I could slaughter it, but I didn't realize it was that bad.
Number two, I could do this one, sugar pie or tart the souffle. If you are in Quebec, is Quebec still in Canada or they separated? Anyway, and it was topped by one of the many -- I know they haven't, it was topped by one of the many sugar shacks where maple syrup is made, is in order, be sure to try some tart oil, superb. Did I say do?
Allen: It is still there.
Chris Pirillo: Yeah, okay. So sweet tart I believe is how that translates. This is essentially a sugar pie with maple syrup, and will satisfy any sweet tooth. After consuming the pie, it is recommended to go for a walk in the forest, a lot of the sugar shack to avoid subsequent cardiovascular problems.
So apparently Canadians, some of them like to dope themselves up on sugar, and then walk around wooded areas. How does that sound for Friday night?
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