Morning Brew: August 25th, 2008

I'll give Maple Leaf Foods credit for getting out in front of this Listeria tragedy. No doubt they will and should be sued but at least the CEO has owned up to the company's responsibilty - unlike the Sunrise Propane cronies.

At St. Michael's Hospital Gift Shop you can get 1 piece of Double Bubble for 5 cents.

I can dry my clothes for 24 minutes with a loonie.

I didn't think you could even buy a clothesline for a loonie these days.

All the lame easy-to-ignore "Click it or ticket" campaigns should be replaced with more brutal and violent campaigns that show/tell what actually happens to you without a seat belt.

My 'favourite' is when you don't bounce around inside the car or get ejected through windows to meet pavement, but when you go -down- towards the floor. The bones in your legs are shattered at high speed and the bone fragments actually go up into your torso shredding your internal organs. Good times.

I guess it's just natural selection.

This past Sunday, some friends and I were inching out of the crammed parking lot at IKEA. A couple of police officers were directing traffic (nice gig) and as we passed by, one of them, clearly feeling the duress of a boring, hot day, screamed to the other, "One day, I'm going to stop every car for seatbelt infractions!"

He threw a murderous glare at our car, but we were all buckled up.

(The idea that people buckle up because they're afraid of fines, and not, uh, death, is so alien to me.)

I had no idea you could buy broken cookies for cheap at the mr christie factory...anyone done this? are they still yum?

I think wearing seatbelts is pretty common here in Ontario. For me, its an automatic motion when entering a vehicle (as it should be). We should consider ourselves lucky. I had friends from Michigan and the first time I found myself in the back seat of their car, I buckled up and was immediately chastised for it.

"You're in the back seat, why are you putting on your seatbelt? Do you think I'm a shitty driver or something?"

I later got a similiar reaction from my friend's parents and cab drivers. When I asked my friend about it they told me that unless you're a child, or in the front seat, its just not common for people around there to wear seat belts.

I won't comment on the average intelligence of people from Michigan, but I believe it has less to do with smarts and more to do with culture.

You can inform people all you want, but when you're going against culture, you're in for a tough fight.

"(The idea that people buckle up because they're afraid of fines, and not, uh, death, is so alien to me.)"

Sadly, I think this is the main reason why people in Michigan regularly wear belts in the front seat.

I used to buy broken cookies from the Mr. Christie factory fairly often -- they're not all broken either, so you can actually use them for get-togethers and afternoon teas (do people still do afternoon tea, or am I just weird?) as well.

Broken cookies are perfectly fine--at least in my
experiences. It's simply that their appearance
comes below the acceptable threshold for packaging
the product.

and where is this magical broken cookie place?!

If I'm not horribly mistaken, I'd say the magical broken cookie place is right here: http://is.gd/1Ubn

Weston Bakery has a facility at Logan and Eastern Ave. It has more than cookies.

I bought cookies there 10 years ago and it's apparently
still in operation. 416 465 1161

Unrelated: Mix99.9 is now Virgin Radio 99.9

Sean, that's seriously unrelated.

I had no idea you could buy broken cookies for cheap at the mr christie factory...anyone done this? are they still yum?

Ask Jerrold, he can tell you!!