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And yeah, sure, Burgers Priest is opening a 3rd location. And there are a few other decent burger places that have opened over the last few years. But the "gourmet" burger chain seeing the most growth lately is Hero, and aside from the fact that they use hormone & antibiotic free beef, their product is garbage. Pre-fab burgers that are just one step up from Harvey's. And they're selling like crazy.
Licks has gone in the past 15 years from good, honest food to dogshit. They sold out the 'real fresh-made' ethic so that they could sell frozen hockey pucks at Sobeys. Screw Licks.
Hero are utterly disgusting, overpriced garbage consumed by retarded apes. Screw Hero Burger.
And it makes a good point that people aren't more aware, they don't know real food and real beer - in fact our mentally-delayed simian friends are happy to pay $15 for a Hero Burger Combo. I guess we still have long way to go.
And yeah, sure, Burgers Priest is opening a 3rd location. And there are a few other decent burger places that have opened over the last few years. But the "gourmet" burger chain seeing the most growth lately is Hero, and aside from the fact that they use hormone & antibiotic free beef, their product is garbage. Pre-fab burgers that are just one step up from Harvey's. And they're selling like crazy.
Licks has gone in the past 15 years from good, honest food to dogshit. They sold out the 'real fresh-made' ethic so that they could sell frozen hockey pucks at Sobeys. Screw Licks.
Hero are utterly disgusting, overpriced garbage consumed by retarded apes. Screw Hero Burger.
And it makes a good point that people aren't more aware, they don't know real food and real beer - in fact our mentally-delayed simian friends are happy to pay $15 for a Hero Burger Combo. I guess we still have long way to go.
Hahaha. Awesome rant. Seriously though, people can like whatever they like as long as it's relatively ethical to produce, and I use "ethically" loosely. I've stopped loosing sleep over people eating McD's and drinking CLIT. All you can ever do is gently educate open minds and lead by example.....and in the case of liquour privatization, keep fightling the good flight.
Progressive Conservatives say it’s time Ontario considered selling beer and wine around the clock in convenience stores.
The Tories oppose plans by the Liquor Control Board to spend $100-million over two years to build about 70 new stores, and say it’s time to review the government’s role in the alcohol business.
Convenience stores recently submitted a petition with over 112,000 signatures calling on the government to allow them to sell beer and wine.
Conservative Peter Shurman believes it’s time to let the private sector play a larger role in selling liquor, and says his party would consider making beer and wine available 24-7.
as an aside,
i met someone whose family owns rice fields in the US. their 2 largest purchasers? Purina (for dog food) and Anheiser Busch for beer. and this is sub-grade rice. yum.
atomeyes wrote:as an aside,
i met someone whose family owns rice fields in the US. their 2 largest purchasers? Purina (for dog food) and Anheiser Busch for beer. and this is sub-grade rice. yum.
I love rice n corn. It is why I shop at Wal Mart exclusively. High Fructose Corn Syrup in products is what I look for. Corn corn corn.
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atomeyes wrote:as an aside,
i met someone whose family owns rice fields in the US. their 2 largest purchasers? Purina (for dog food) and Anheiser Busch for beer. and this is sub-grade rice. yum.
I believe that A-B is a pretty major player in the American rice market.
Guys if Quebec, other provinces and every state in the US can have vibrant private beer retail, catering to every taste, so can Ontario. I just don't get all the scaremongering in this thread. Unless you're a current LCBO employee, you have nothing to fear.
Lukie wrote:Guys if Quebec, other provinces and every state in the US can have vibrant private beer retail, catering to every taste, so can Ontario. I just don't get all the scaremongering in this thread. Unless you're a current LCBO employee, you have nothing to fear.
Is the Quebec retail scene vibrant? I would say that is debatable. I mean yes the actual brewing scene is way more vibrant than Ontario, but on the retail side I am not so sure. I mean yes the best beer stores in some cities are amazing, but I would rather go to an LCBO or possibly a beer store than the average dépanneur. Plus other than maybe a handful of items the SAQ kind of sucks (Rochefort and Bernardus come to mind) and the selection at the LCBO blows it away.
As far as the US goes, there economy is like an order of magnitude bigger than ours, so yes they have vibrant retail compared to us for pretty much every consumer product. I mean walk into the freezer section of any grocery store and the selection for things like frozen pizza or ice cream is on a whole different level compared to what we have in Canada. So with that in mind why would beer be any different? Yes it would be nice to copy some of their laws, but easing laws doesn't automatically mean there is going to be more variety of beer everywhere.
