They were served maple syrup, IIRC, in a separate bowl. Could pour as much as they wanted over the pancakes.
Butter also?
The thing is that the Canadian people are generally physically bigger and the calorie intake for maintaining body heat is more than in a tropical climate, part of it comes from alcohol also.
So you need to eat more per capita than a person in India.
The visitor to Canada is simply not used to such portions.
But if 12 pancakes causes surprise in a native, it may have been a supersize portion? Or what?
Anyway, leave it, obesity and related diseases due to excess consumption of the wrong kind of food have become common, and as the population ages, a health crisis looms.
Not the right place to discuss it further.
Butter also?
The thing is that the Canadian people are generally physically bigger and the calorie intake for maintaining body heat is more than in a tropical climate, part of it comes from alcohol also.
So you need to eat more per capita than a person in India.
The visitor to Canada is simply not used to such portions.
But if 12 pancakes causes surprise in a native, it may have been a supersize portion? Or what?
Anyway, leave it, obesity and related diseases due to excess consumption of the wrong kind of food have become common, and as the population ages, a health crisis looms.
Not the right place to discuss it further.
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Gasoline up 3.20 Rupees at some pumps here over 5 days, about 6.5 cents per liter.
The petrol importers have stopped sales at their pumps, as their landed price is higher than the selling price of domestic refiners.
They have less than 5% market share, so not a big deal.
The petrol importers have stopped sales at their pumps, as their landed price is higher than the selling price of domestic refiners.
They have less than 5% market share, so not a big deal.
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On Friday I was at a RV dealer and his best selling RV is built on a bus chassis. Cost is $500,000 and get 6 mpg (less if your towing BMW). To some people $7 a gallon gas doesn't matter.
Probably diesel powered, if bus chassis.
GMC , Volvo or Cummins engines are common in those.
How many units sold per year, and how many miles done, so we can work out the proportion of fuel used by this segment in the overall market.
Less than 1%, I think.
GMC , Volvo or Cummins engines are common in those.
How many units sold per year, and how many miles done, so we can work out the proportion of fuel used by this segment in the overall market.
Less than 1%, I think.
Good to hear. I would have been suspicious if a pancake place in Canada doesn't serve real maple syrup.
There are many Canadians with northern European background.
Eating a lot once in a while won't cause obesity. It's the regular habit that matters.
I own a big old brick house with 3 apartments with my sister, heated with oil burner/boiler. It burns roughly 6-8000 liters per year, while a normal family house goes with 2000L. Oil has been relatively cheap or the last 30 years, until this winter. Now price is 2€ per liter, same as traffic diesel and petrol.
Cost for changing to heat pump (soil/ground heat) is 20-30 000€, so now it seems good investment... since inflation gets higher, a loan gets paid pretty fast with savings from oil bills!
Cost for changing to heat pump (soil/ground heat) is 20-30 000€, so now it seems good investment... since inflation gets higher, a loan gets paid pretty fast with savings from oil bills!
I see the food advertisements in North America, so tempting...many people give in.
Take a look at the median Body Mass Index for Caucasian origin North Americans, also for African Americans.
See the proportions of animal protein and sugar in their diet.
As I said, a health crisis looms.
But as you said, it WAS an unusually large serving...as visitors, we would not know if it was a regular or party serving.
So I can't say much more than that.
Take a look at the median Body Mass Index for Caucasian origin North Americans, also for African Americans.
See the proportions of animal protein and sugar in their diet.
As I said, a health crisis looms.
But as you said, it WAS an unusually large serving...as visitors, we would not know if it was a regular or party serving.
So I can't say much more than that.
Speaking of firewood I just had another transaction yesterday in a carbon swap arrangement I have with a friend.
He loads a pickup truck full of wood and leaves a case and a half of beer.
His house is at about 8300 feet and will not be done with heating for another month.
I get the wood from a local tree cutter who would rather not send it to the dump.
He loads a pickup truck full of wood and leaves a case and a half of beer.
His house is at about 8300 feet and will not be done with heating for another month.
I get the wood from a local tree cutter who would rather not send it to the dump.
No firewood burning there - not any more since '60s. I still remember the oil crisis in early 70's - and now it returns!
Here in Finland nowdays every new private house must have a fireplace, but they are not measured to keep the whole house warm. We simply just can't handle the logistics to burn wood primarily in cities - and the smoke would be an environmental problem too. Some houses on the countryside and even some big complexes use chopped wood, but those systems need lots of work and space.
Here in Finland nowdays every new private house must have a fireplace, but they are not measured to keep the whole house warm. We simply just can't handle the logistics to burn wood primarily in cities - and the smoke would be an environmental problem too. Some houses on the countryside and even some big complexes use chopped wood, but those systems need lots of work and space.
Interesting house facade. Looks kind of like a face. 🤖
I know about those huge servings from restaurants, be it breakfast, lunch or dinner. It's a way to advertise but typically they are for sharing with 2 - 3 people. Not many people can finish it all.
That sounds like utter BS. Syrup would never be served in a bowl, especially Maple, which isn't cheap. And the pancake serving size is ridiculous. Obviously, someone made up a story.
jeff
This was 8 years back, she got me a tiny bottle of syrup from there to taste...
Maybe it was a jug or something you could pour out of, like a kettle.
I agree they found the serving very large.
But it was something she told me back then, her son is now 26, must have finished college 4 years back, and it was a four year course. So we are talking about 2014.
Memories do play tricks at times, but the serving size I can remember.
I have a college friend near Toronto, he is a vegetarian, and he has difficulty getting anything but salad and bread with butter to eat on a trip. He is careful not to eat sweets, so things like jelly are not for him.
He tries to stick to restaurants which use fresh vegetable oils in the cooking, it seems those are rare as well.
Leave it, a 200 pound body will need more energy to stay warm at 40F than a 150 pound body at 90F.
The bigger person needs more food, add to that the the energy to stay warm.
So he will eat more, and since fresh vegetables don't grow in winter, preserved food or animal origin food is needed.
Maybe it was a jug or something you could pour out of, like a kettle.
I agree they found the serving very large.
But it was something she told me back then, her son is now 26, must have finished college 4 years back, and it was a four year course. So we are talking about 2014.
Memories do play tricks at times, but the serving size I can remember.
I have a college friend near Toronto, he is a vegetarian, and he has difficulty getting anything but salad and bread with butter to eat on a trip. He is careful not to eat sweets, so things like jelly are not for him.
He tries to stick to restaurants which use fresh vegetable oils in the cooking, it seems those are rare as well.
Leave it, a 200 pound body will need more energy to stay warm at 40F than a 150 pound body at 90F.
The bigger person needs more food, add to that the the energy to stay warm.
So he will eat more, and since fresh vegetables don't grow in winter, preserved food or animal origin food is needed.
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Well, maybe Toronto isn't the culinary capital of Canada that everyone thinks it is. 🙂 When my wife was there a few years ago, she had to work hard to find a decent cafe. Every corner had a stinkin' Starbucks on it.
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Syrup would never be served in a bowl, You have to have someway to keep it covered to keep the insects out!
https://www.walmart.com/c/kp/syrup-dispensers
https://www.walmart.com/c/kp/syrup-dispensers
I did say:
"Maybe it was a jug or something you could pour out of, like a kettle."
He lives in Mississauga, and has a very developed sense of taste, I am used to stronger flavors.
He was like that in college too, so at least I was not surprised when he told me that.
It seems a lot of restaurants use the same oil in their fryers for a long time, and in our cooking the oil is used up in the dish itself, and not more than 3 days if used for frying at home.
Temperature of the oil and so on also play a role.
The taste of the oil changes, so does the taste of the food cooked in that oil.
And my friend can tell.
So the bio diesel reactions done to used fryer oil are not possible here.
Not many big fryers in use here, to be drained of many gallons of rancid cooking oil, which gets reacted to become diesel.
"Maybe it was a jug or something you could pour out of, like a kettle."
He lives in Mississauga, and has a very developed sense of taste, I am used to stronger flavors.
He was like that in college too, so at least I was not surprised when he told me that.
It seems a lot of restaurants use the same oil in their fryers for a long time, and in our cooking the oil is used up in the dish itself, and not more than 3 days if used for frying at home.
Temperature of the oil and so on also play a role.
The taste of the oil changes, so does the taste of the food cooked in that oil.
And my friend can tell.
So the bio diesel reactions done to used fryer oil are not possible here.
Not many big fryers in use here, to be drained of many gallons of rancid cooking oil, which gets reacted to become diesel.
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Maybe a serving of "silver dollar" sized pancakes from the kids menu. Foreigners might not know the difference.
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