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Around the world: Canada
Join me on a trip Around the world and explore the great assets of different countries.
First stop is Canada:
So why should one go to Canada? I have four categories so hopefully something is to your liking.
1. The girls
Cobie Smulders
Love How I Met Your Mother and Cobie Smulder playing Robin Scherbatsky is one hot Canadian.
Grace Park
This Vancouver native first caught our eye as Lt. Sharon Lt. Sharon “Boomer” Valerii “Boomer” Valerii in the cult sensation, in the cult sensation, Battlestar Battlestar Gallactica. Gallactica. She currently stars in CBS’s revival of She currently stars in CBS’s revival of Hawaii Hawaii Five-0 Five-0 .
Laura Vandervoort
She is supergirl, need I say more..
And from Toronto. Go Maple Leaf.
2. Food:
A small sampling of Canadian foods. Top to bottom, left to right: Montreal-style smoked meat, Maple syrup, Peameal bacon, Butter tart, Poutine, Nanaimo bar
“Canada has a cuisine of cuisines. Not a stew pot, but a smorgasbord.” Former Canadian prime minister Joe Clark
Had to Wikipedia this since I only know Canadian food from Bob in Winnipeg and I think he eats everything 😀 . But he had a blog post about the hot dogs there that looked insanely good. When I finally will make it to Winnipeg he has promised me hockey and dogs. Yeah!
3. Music
Some really good artists and bands from Canada includes for instance Leonard Cohen, Nickelback, Guess Who, Bachman Turner Overdrive etc. Unfortunately they also gave us Justin Bieber which is hard to forgive.
Let’s finish off the Canadian music experience with Bryan Adams.
4. Sports
Ice hockey! The best game in the world and of course the greatest player of them all is Wayne Gretzky. No one can tell me otherwise.
Off course there is more to Canada than this but I would leave now to Canada for my 4 reasons alone.
Fun facts:
+ If you want to make an American smile, ask a Canadian to say out and about. It works every time.
+ Canadians call the one dollar coin the loonie. When in full production, 15 million loonies can be produced per day.
+ The Canadian motto is A Mari Usque ad Mare. It means from sea to sea.
+ Canada has the world’s smallest jail – in Rodney, Ontario; it’s only 24.3 square meters (270 square feet).
+ 32% of Canadians are very happy, 55% are quite happy.
Rosie Jones in beans
I know that english people love their baked beans but this might be just going to far… 
Heart attack Grill
At least this restaurant are honest about their food, it’s certainly not for the fainthearted. Just seeing the waitresses might kill you off 
Heartattackgrill in Las Vegas is for you if you like your food greasy, big and well, quantity of food…
Gluttony day
So today we are going to be all gluttonous and enjoy food (well, at least if that involves a sexy girl in the picture). Hope you haven’t had anything to eat.
Food play can have sexual or non-sexual connotations. It often refers to sitophilia, a form of sexual fetishism in which participants are aroused by erotic situations involving food. The phrase is also used to refer to non-sexual play with food, such as playful and decorative food displays, enjoyment of preparing food, or even a play about food.
Some foods and herbs themselves are purported to cause sexual arousal in and of themselves. Chocolate is a well known aphrodisiac.
Surströmming – fermented herring
Food wise, well… where I come from we have this delicatessen
Surströmming, Swedish “soured (Baltic) herring”) is a northern Swedish dish consisting of fermented Baltic herring. Surströmming is sold in cans, which often bulge during shipping and storage, due to the continued fermentation. When opened, the contents release a strong and sometimes overwhelming odor, which explains why the dish is often eaten outdoors. A Japanese study has shown that the smell of a newly opened can of surströmming is the most putrid smell of food in the world, beating similar fermented fish dishes such as the Korean Hongeohoe or Japanese Kusaya. But I love it, but you do need a lot of schnaps though for this dish, but that goes for a lot of Swedish food.
I took this to my Norwegian uncle and we actually managed to get the fire department called out to his place because they actually thought it was a gas leak somewhere after complaints from the neighbours.
Le Cafe
This is me in a nutshell, have 2 cups of coffee before really waking up… then usually 4 or 5 during the day and then when I get home I take one cuppa. And to cap it off, I have one before going to bed. Amazingly enough, I actually sleep better with coffee than without it before bedtime…
For some excellent history and recipes with coffee, check this link out. Amazing site.
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