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Dec. 13th, 2006 12:46 pmYesterday I manged to track down ice cider. Whee! Note - picture on linked page is just a generic photo of wine and does not represent ice cider, which is like Eiswein, but made from apples, and therefore less syrupy. It's a pretty golden colour, has a mellow taste, good with cheese, and is nearly 10% alcohol. There seemed to be slightly more of it available in Toronto this year, but the LCBO site says the product is being discontinued, and though unsure if that means permanently going away or simply that they're not ordering any more till next December, I decided to put another bruise on my credit card and get three bottles of the Minot des Glaces and one of the Prince Edward County for comparison. One has been earmarked for Christmas dinner at my aunt's, at least one for the Diner's party on Saturday and one will be saved for later.
This was my second attempt this week to find a store carrying the stuff - Monday night I took a circuituous bus trip looking for an LCBO Vintages store alleged to be in Etobicoke. I never did find it, but at least now I've solved the mystery of those "CBS" signs I'd been seeing on bus shelters - it's not a conspiracy by an American TV network, it's the name of another company that manufactures bus shelters; I went by their factory.
I also, during the course of the trip, found myself thinking about chain-restaurant architecture: Taco Bells are obviously done in a sort of pseudo-Spanish Mission style meant to evoke Mexico, and I can only suppose KFC's steeple is supposed to represent some trait of Southern US architecture (though not the stereotypical antebellum "Tara"-style mansion - they probably wouldn't have been eating fried chicken in those places anyway); but just what are MacDonalds restaurants suppose to represent, with their raw brick walls, vaguely Asian tiled roofs and those white light-up braces on the outside of the roofline?
This was my second attempt this week to find a store carrying the stuff - Monday night I took a circuituous bus trip looking for an LCBO Vintages store alleged to be in Etobicoke. I never did find it, but at least now I've solved the mystery of those "CBS" signs I'd been seeing on bus shelters - it's not a conspiracy by an American TV network, it's the name of another company that manufactures bus shelters; I went by their factory.
I also, during the course of the trip, found myself thinking about chain-restaurant architecture: Taco Bells are obviously done in a sort of pseudo-Spanish Mission style meant to evoke Mexico, and I can only suppose KFC's steeple is supposed to represent some trait of Southern US architecture (though not the stereotypical antebellum "Tara"-style mansion - they probably wouldn't have been eating fried chicken in those places anyway); but just what are MacDonalds restaurants suppose to represent, with their raw brick walls, vaguely Asian tiled roofs and those white light-up braces on the outside of the roofline?
