Name of Food: Red Velvet Funnel Cake
Where to Buy: Next to the Coke stage and super close to the main entrance. The place also sells Elephant Ears!
Cost: $6
What makes it worthwhile: The icing on the deep fried velvet cake.
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Name of Food: Loukoumathes – Greek Honey Puffs
Where to Buy: On the Midway, in front of the BMO centre (it’s a small white truck)
Cost: $5 for a small container (imagine the Strofoam ones), $9 for a large one
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Name of Food: Saltspring Island Noodle Stir Frys Where to Buy: On the Midway, near the front of the food area closest to the main entrance. It’s next to the BMO Centre! Cost: $8 for a small box, $10 for the large (which is the better deal) What makes it worthwhile: YUM! These noodles are probably the best…
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Name of Food: Pulled Pork Poutine
Where to Buy: Big T’s BBQ (Between the Grandstand Entrance and Nashville North
Cost: $10
What makes it worthwhile: Everybody loves poutine and everybody loves pulled pork.
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Name of Food: Cotton Candy Cupcakes Where to Buy: Food Fair, next to the Rotary Dream House (previous location was a Bubble Tea stand) Cost: $5.50 What makes it worthwhile: There’s cotton candy on a cupcake! That’s about as good as it gets. I was thoroughly disappointed, as the cupcake that I got did not look similar…
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Did you know the first Stampede breakfast was served from a chuck-wagon in downtown Calgary in 1925? Whether you like pancakes or not, it is inevitable that you will encounter a Stampede breakfast during the Stampede week. That irresistible fresh smell of pancakes urges you to join the long line-up. While pouring some golden brown syrup to…
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Ever wonder how “hackers” in Hollywood movies can type so quickly? Behold, the Hacker Typer website! Essentially you can type anything and a bunch of code pops up. Neat, eh? According to their website, “Hacker Typer was developed as a small joke by Duiker101, but soon reached millions of views.” A post from TechWorld created…
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So I know you all enjoy reading about anything related to Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling or the non-muggle world. So here is a list of my favourite quotes by my favourite author. Some are from the Harry Potter series, while others are from her Harvard Commencement Speech or other interviews. “It is impossible to…
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBI68Il4Zsc Canada is a truly awesome nation – the land of hockey, universal health care, polar bears, and a multitude of other things. As we recently celebrated our nation’s 145th birthday, I figured I would share an… interesting, shall we say, rendition of our national anthem. Enjoy!
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It was a drizzly, morose, spring afternoon. Fresh out the exam room, I hobbled along the quescient streets of downtown Calgary. Staring at the pale concrete sidewalk, something orange caught my eye. I looked under the rim of my umbrella, and to my utter astonishment, there, parked across the street, was the illustrious Cheezy Bizness…
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So in my last post, I talked about the resort we stayed at — Las Morlas, and visiting the tallest bridge in Cuba (I won’t repeat the name just because I can’t spell it). But now, I’m gonna talk about touring Havana; the capital of Cuba. The drive from Las Morlas to Havana was around…
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I love Wongfu Productions. I love all their sketches, shorts, series, every Wongfu Weekend, every music video. Everything. (Okay probably not everything, but close enough). In fact, if the three guys from Wongfu – Wes Chan, Ted Fu and Phil Wang – morphed into one amalgamation of a human being, I would probably marry that person. I’m…
DetailsWhat do you get when you mix Carly Rae Jepsen’s Call Me Maybe with the afro short from Madagascar 3? The best remix ever! Listen to the following video and notice how scarily well they mix.
Take the quiz. Please be honest with yourself! If you see a police car hooting behind you, what would you do? a.) Race ahead until I run outta gas, of course! b.) Pull into a back alley, leave the car there, and I’m off to break into another garage. c.) Slow down. Pull to the…
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