dbd

I've had products from M&Ms at low budget events for large numbers of people. I'm surprised to see "upscale" in the same paragraph as M&M as I'd rank their products as being a notch below President's Choice and one above Euality (sp?). If you need suddenly need a vast quantity of chicken fingers for the children of people you don't know well M&Ms is the place to go.

Judy in Calgary

Thanks for the clarification about M&M Meats, dbd.

Posidrive, I forgot to mention another supermarket that would be worth a try. It's Sunterra. You may be familiar with its food courts downtown, in Banker's Hall and the TransCanada PipeLines building. I'm not thinking of the food courts, but rather the supermarkets. They are located at:

1851 Sirocco Drive SW (just off 17th Avenue SW, at the first set of lights west of Sarcee Trail)

and

on Elbow Drive, just north of the intersection with 50th Avenue SW.

Sunterra sells organic, free-range meat. If you're going to find decent sausages, you have a better than average chance of finding them there.

Biiiiink

That's interesting, do I take it from that, that Canada used to use american gallons not imperial ones, etc?

dbd

I don't know. It could be that they were different and that the Americans didn't realize, that'd be another stereotype confirmed.

Souvenir

Just out of curiosity, how does one get on to a subject like that during a visit to a dental hygienist?

Gone in 30 days

[QUOTE=Atlantic Xpat]I find it all massively confusing.....



Construction & Furniture etc is in feet and inches. 2 x 4's, 2 x 6's etc.

Does anyone understand why 2x4 or 2x6 are not the stated sizes? In the U.K a 4x2 or a 6x2 are what they say they are not a half inch smaller . This 2x4 timber has been planed down to make it smooth and in the U.K would be called 89x38 millimetres or 3 1/2x 1 1/2 inches. This seems a most strange way of using imperial measurement .

Souvenir

[QUOTE=Gone in 30 days] You've answered your own question.

2x4 etc is a nominal measurement. It's the size before the wood is planed. Not that it looks like it has been planed much. Most of the lumber I buy is still as rough as a bear's arse.

Posidrive

Yes, I love it. Spent 15 months in Pretoria as a student many many years ago.

Thanks for the comprehensive reply. I've just worn out the scroll wheel on my mouse

Steve_P

I've been in Canada since 1963 and to my knowledge Canada has never used U.S. Gallons always imperial.

As for the "North American System" never heard of it. Perhaps it existed in the U.S. but not in Canada to my knowledge.

Steve_P

Another place worthy of a look is Bon Ton Meat Market in the Stadium Shopping Center just north of the Foothills hospital. I believe it can be extremely busy on Saturday mornings.

For Sausage and Deli meats try Spolumbo's 1308 - 9 Avenue SE.

I've also been told that the Sobey's in Royal Oak (way up in the northwest) sometimes get in black pudding.