Pint of Häagen-Dazs in USA: $3 (way more flavours available); Canada: $8+tax. Worth switching countries for? —Glum & Raisin
This article appears in Jun 2-8, 2011.
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Hmmm I wonder why America has such a fat problem. Enjoy your declining health which you’ll have to sell your limbs to pay for.
Isn’t that the ice cream that includes the instuctions: ‘Apply directly to ass and thighs’?
no op. plus i hate rum and raisin anything
Good milk with less pus, blood and antibiotics is more expensive. That is all there is to it.
I agree paingirl…yuck! I also dislike grapenuts and orange-pineapple flavours too…both are just wrong…blech.
Good call, Just Mel. You speaketh the truth-eth.
And OP, while I’m pretty sure you’re not serious about emigrating due to availability of ice cream flavours, if you are, GFY and leave already. Besides, we eat Cows and ColdStone ’round these parts anyways.
i like karamel, i still think of butterskoth dip kones when i smell khlorine…sorry about the sees it’s hard not using them when i’m babbling
When you smell chlorine, you think of butterscotch dipped cones??! …um…..”Dr. Penfield, did you just pour cold water on my hand?…..Burnt toast. I can smell burnt toast!”
You may wanna get that checked out PG. Just sayin’
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Orange pineapple rocks! (particularly from the local “scottish” dairy). Grapenut I agree kinda sucks, but don’t you dare say a word about that beautiful “scots” orange pineapple tasty yumminess!
Tiger-stripe is my shameful pleasure. So nasty, but so good!
Butterscotch dip cones associated with chlorine? Interesting. I’m trying to remember the smell but can’t quite. Doesn’t sound so outrageous to me though.
One, of many things, worth switching countries for!
we used to go swimming at the y, where i don’t know (too long ago) afterward we had kones from the diary queen. i assokiate that smell with khlorine…either/or i love swimming
“Orange pineapple rocks!”
Wrong! And do people actually still say “rocks”? LOL!
Ohhh… I see. Here I was thinking that maybe the butterscotch dip stuff had a kinda chloriney smell.
Sounds like Spring Garden – South Park, Y and DQ a stones throw apart.
Shame about the Spring Garden DQ closing. Only DQ still makes a milkshake with real milk products but boy do you pay through the nose for it!
Ever try a Burger King shake? Ewwww…. those things are pretty much inedible. I have no idea what is in them, but it certainly is not food.
I’ve been falling more and more in love with gelato….mmmmmmm DAMN GOOD STUFF! I can’t find it at sobeys/stupidstore anymore, at least, not the ones I frequent anyway. Anyone on here know where one could get a tub of it aside from some specialty shop that will charge a premium for it?
mmmmmm I looooooove lemon gelato….(drool)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DHdatQq6K0Y/SK-S…
If you happen to find yourself in Bedford, True North Diner makes kick-ass milkshakes…REAL milkshakes…the ones made in the stainless steel cups…they give you a large glass PLUS the extra in the cup (love when they do that) so it’s almost like you’re getting 2 shakes! Food is pretty decent too.
“Here I was thinking that maybe the butterscotch dip stuff had a kinda chloriney smell.”
Wrong again, Drew.
Oh I love the old diner-style milkshakes made in the stainless cup rigs. There are still a few around. (True North Diner, noted.)
Those stainless steel milkshake machines remind me of the old bus station on Agricola, back when they still had a 50’s style lunch counter. The food was pretty hurtin but the chocolate milkshakes were pretty darn good.
it’s always the extra in the kup that makes it great. i don’t find myself in bedford very often but i’ll file that info away…who is drew?
Definately worth a checking-out, Deeker/Paingirl. It’s located in the old Ponderosa location in Bedford Place Mall. Complete with a working vintage 1956 Wurlitzer juke box. Good spot.
are you fucking daft or what o.p? just for a few cents to move, yep, gonna pack up my shit to head for nutland and look under my bed for those pesky terrists as bush calls em.
Here’s a fun experiment: take a 2 liter container of cheap ice cream from the grocery store, let it melt completely. Observe the water content. Say eww.
While I understand the Canadian minimal pus content milk is more expensive by comparison to US dairies, the price of Cows is just ridiculous. Scotsburn is much more reasonable and a pretty good compromise being almost real ice cream.
The one that really gets me is Breyers. When it first came out it was real ice cream. I loved it, it had labout four ingredients, cream being #1. A few years later they caved to the market and started producing that watery crap with an ingredient list as long as your arm. Didn’t lower the price though. I wonder how that worked out at the bottom line for them?
Ben and Jerry’s was on sale this weekend for $3.99.
I love the half fat dulce de leche Häagen-Dazs. The caramel in there is omgheaven! 🙂
Same thing with chicken strips and the like. The water content and filler content is through the roof … all with very little chicken.
The best chicken fingers are homemade — just take chicken breasts (boneless/skinless) and dip them in either some egg or some canola oil and roll them in some crushed soda crackers that have a bit of salt and bbq spice (a bit of curry powder works too!).
Bake until cooked through, but still moist and mmmmmmm!
Glum & Raisin – “Worth switching countries for?” – Most definately YES, see you later, bye-bye 🙂
Grapenut – Never, ever, make Moose Milk with grapenut icecream (lesson learned).
Gelato – Italian Market at Young & Kempt. Can’t vouch for the quality though.
Deeker – Only way I’d let my Dark Chocolate Velvet melt, is by accident.
Although I don’t give a friggit about iced creams, it’s true that Canadian businesses love to gouge us, and then they cry like bitches when people drive over the border to do their shopping.
Is the Haagen Das sold here made with Canadian Milk or does it all come from the same place in the US? I would think it would all come from the same place, so the prices shouldn’t be that different.
avast0 – You can get delicious gelato from the Foxhill Cheese House. They have a store-front shop at the seaport farmers market….it’s very good quality.
They use their own non-homogenized milk to make it, from grass-fed cows! They have several flavours too! You can buy small tubs or just get a scoop. I believe the tubs cost around $6.75.
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Ice creams good any time. Here’s some new flavors.
The cheddar cheese one is deeelish.
http://foodnetworkhumor.com/2009/07/18-unu…
grace, they are to puke for, blechhhhhhhh.
LOL- LS, most assuredly they are. Yet they seem to have some kind of market? Go figure. I like the Viagra one. I bet you that stuff would sell like hot cakes in honeymoon capitals of the world. No doubt it comes in pink and blue. 🙂
Thanks for the gelato info, Granolabear. Much appreciated. I have had Foxhill gelato before during a visit to the valley and loved it. Regretted not getting a tub of it at that time, but I had no idea they had a shop at the farmer’s market. I will DEFINATELY be picking some up. Cheers.:)
Hugo: Moose milk with grapenut ice cream?? What the hell were you thinking, man? Sacrilege to say the least, not to mention a huge waste of otherwise perfectly good liquor. tsk tsk
Grace: I guess there is no accounting for some tastes, eh? I would probably try the cheese and spaghetti one just to say I did and I don’t suspect the squid ink variety would be too bad either. (I’ve had squid ink before in a paella dish in Barcelona…it’s basically just a food colourant…there was no flavour to it) but…um…raw horse flesh?….I’ll (gag) pass (gag) ty
Apparently the Humani-T Cafe on Young and Agricola has wonderful gelato. I just bought the Team Buy for there – 2 med gelato and a pint of take home for $7. I’m looking forward to using it this weekend!
Granolabear – Foxhill Cheese House, I didn’t know that they had Hfx shop, or made gelato (til now). If their gelato is as good is their cheese, it’s a must have 😉
lol – as a side note, in Italy, never buy gelato from a street vendor, it’s crap, always buy from a shop.
http://palousetoport.files.wordpress.com/2…
http://wateroffaducksback.files.wordpress.…
http://www.lolcatpics.com/images/icecreamz…
OP, you’re going to get the fat people all in an uproar. Next thing they’ll be rolling and ground pounding their way downtown to protest ice cream prices.
I would not be surprised if they were vitamin infused….
http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/09…
Ivan, is this your shop? =)
http://www.joe-ks.com/archives_jun2011/Str…
avast0 – The ship ran out of vanilla, so the cooks used what they had. It was rather ironically funny how everybody (Data & myself included), complained about the texture, but kept going back for refils.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGJzvYskQmg
LOLz Hugo – looks verrrrrrry familiar. Load bearing stacks are everywhere.
We’ve also got one of these:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/159/3519330…
It’s where we keep this guy:
http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-sn…
Well, I suppose bad moosemilk is better than no moosemilk at all. Any port in a storm. 😉
lol Ivan…”Bring out….the GIMP!”
That line tends to get a lot of play on Saturdays…>; )
A couple of Xmases ago I gave SOBova one of these:
http://www.fanboy.com/archive-images/pulp-…
Zed and Marcellus are VERY poseable. Nudge, Nudge. Wink, Wink.
Pete’s has gelato. Seems half decent.
Enjoy your widespread racial tensions, culture wars and enormous gap between rich and poor, OP. That’s definitely worth the couple of bucks of ice cream savings.
Best Gelato/Ice Cream in the city by far is at Humani-T Cafe on Young ST. I’m surprised only one person has mentioned them so far especially when talking about Halifax and Gelato in one sentence.
BTW.. They also have 200 flavors they make and make their own waffle cones: http://humanitcafe.com/gelato/gelatosorbet…
that’s the word in my hood dartman
ANYTHING in America that is fattening and unhealthy is cheaper and at greater variety. That’s why they look the way they do.
…and canadians are catching up. I regularly travel through various parts of ‘Merica and the percentage of obese people I see there doesn’t strike me as being dramatically higher than what I see here. I’ve witnessed some weird and disgusting eating habits, though (such as drinking pop with breakfast at 8 am).