They are beautiful!
If you lived in Ontario, you would enjoy Kawartha's ice cream much more. We can get Chapman's but ours is mostly ice and not much cream. The only really good ice cream I ever had in the west was home made.
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They are beautiful!
If you lived in Ontario, you would enjoy Kawartha's ice cream much more. We can get Chapman's but ours is mostly ice and not much cream. The only really good ice cream I ever had in the west was home made.
Interesting. I researched Chapman's just now and discovered that they make several different quality tiers of icecream. So what you get depends on where you get it and which sub brand they stock. Sobies here carries their lower quality tier, while Kawartha is the high quality offering.
I guess I'm an ice cream snob and didn't even know it!
Ice-cream 😎
I CAN’T go past Hewitts Dairy Bar without getting a chocolate milkshake. Even better with burger and fries. They are a small one store only highlight of Hyw 6 near Hagersville.
True story-
I saw a pair of robins basking in the summer sun - then a cat jumped out and ate them. It seems cats like Baskin Robins too.
Yep i couldn’t resist that ice-cream joke. But as good as their ice-cream is, I wouldn’t be sampling it again since it is a US chain.
I CAN’T go past Hewitts Dairy Bar without getting a chocolate milkshake. Even better with burger and fries. They are a small one store only highlight of Hyw 6 near Hagersville.
True story-
I saw a pair of robins basking in the summer sun - then a cat jumped out and ate them. It seems cats like Baskin Robins too.
Yep i couldn’t resist that ice-cream joke. But as good as their ice-cream is, I wouldn’t be sampling it again since it is a US chain.
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So is Walls still around ?
All those American brands are like invasive species, they come in and choke out all the native species.
BaronJ
Ultra Member
Yes, but nowhere as prominent as they once were.
Not going to reread nine pages to see if this is already here and I'd still post up for this anyway.
Stopped by a couple of weeks back and ordered a carbide end mill from Rob at Skookum Tools. It's nice being close by, that way he can deal with the puter bit. Received the bit in a couple of days. Finally put it into service today and the finish is spectacular. Pretty sure this is my new go to.
Stopped by a couple of weeks back and ordered a carbide end mill from Rob at Skookum Tools. It's nice being close by, that way he can deal with the puter bit. Received the bit in a couple of days. Finally put it into service today and the finish is spectacular. Pretty sure this is my new go to.
You're talking to the personification of a luddite.
someidiot
Well-Known Dismemberer
Nonsense. If you can use the word "personification", you can follow simple instructions in English.
A Luddite is someone who destroys machines that they believe put people out of work.
I'd like me one of them machines.
I recall WALLS ice cream to be more like frozen margarine with an eerie yellow hue and a disgusting artificial fat like "taste". Something invented during the war to re-use some sort of process waste as calories for the masses? Has it improved? last time I had it was last millennium... talk about off topic in this thread...I'm guilty.
