Lillyhamster

Don't you peeps miss the tv - any great series?

iaink

Too busy enjoying life to worry about TV , its all crap anyway isnt it, a nation that inflicted simon callow and all those other "reality" shows on the world. Lifes to short. That goes for this place too come to think of it.

Biiiiink

You mean Cowell, don't you? Simon Callow's completely inoffensive!

Lillyhamster

Guess you're right , and frankly who needs LITTLE BRITAIN, mh? LOL
I'm slightly green with envy ....

iaink

D'oh, yep, hes the one. Wasnt Simon Callow the marvelous jolly scottish bugger in four weddings

Hipster Contrarian

Wow, I found the opposite when I went to Vancouver, in fact I was so impressed at the amount of choice veggies have in the restaurants there, for example, as opposed to the one "option" you're usually offered in Britain.

That's the same here in the UK, though. I don't eat soup in restaurants here because half the time they'll just tell you it was made with veggie stock when it's quite clearly chicken or even fish.

Could you not just read it online?

I'm expecting to miss (as already mentioned) proper old buildings, but I hope I won't miss too much food-wise, as I cook everything from scratch anyway and hardly eat chocolate any more. Oh, and I like those Lays crisps way too much (I must be weird, judging by what everybody else thinks of them!)

Oh, oh- Twinings teabags. Maybe I'll miss those. Tea's quite comforting! And affordable wine. That WILL be a blow, but my liver will thank me for it once the tremors have died down.

dbd33

I'm struggling to imagine where you might be that there isn't curry. I'm guessing you're either in a northern suburb, somewhere like Newmarket or Stouffville, or you're in Little Italy in a mains powered electric wheelchair with only a twenty foot extension cord. Trapped amid the pasta and unable to reach the phone.

Brampton has dozens or curry houses. Scarborough has a broad selection of curry houses. Little India largely consists of curry houses and sari shops. The Bombay Palace on Jarvis is quite good if a little pricey. There's an Indian buffet opposite the bottom of McCaul that's quite good. If you're prepared to experiment West Indian restaurants have curry, the Real Jerk at Queen and Broadview is something of an institution but I like the Dutchpot over by the Tulip. Thai restaurants have curry (there's one on most street corners). Chinese, Malaysian, and the very dodgy looking generic "Asian" restaurants have curry. Mock English pubs have curry. Hospital cafeterias have curry, the one at Mount Sinai offers a very good curry and chips. Faux Oirish pubs have curry, Paddy O'Farrell's offers a huge bowl of curry and chips for $7.
We get our curry delivered from the BBQ Hut, we do so often enough that one time the owner stopped me on the street to ask if something was wrong because we hadn't ordered or been in for a while. That's unadventurous of us, we have flyers for, perhaps, twenty other curry delivery services but we never get around to trying them.

Really, finding curry in Toronto wouldn't challenge Sherlock Holmes.

Mctree

No problem finding curry.....duh!

Finding a good one is the problem.

Thanks for the recommendations.

dbd33

I do read it online. In fact most of the people I know in Toronto I know from the Gruaniad talkboard, I was at a gallery opening with a couple of them last night. I still have a subscription though as a real paper is easier on the tram.

I meant more broadly that journalism is missing, the quality of the newspapers here is very poor indeed and the television news reporting is dreadful. If I see Lloyd Robertson reading the news I always find my self thinking "that can't be right, that's got to be twisted" and checking with a more reputable source, such as <sob> CNN. Radio news is ghastly, I had to stop listening to the CBC as I found screaming "Lies! Lies! Look around you know that aint so" at the radio imparied my driving.

dbd33

Vindaloo at the BBQ Hut, south side of Gerrard just east of Coxwell. If you don't like it there are plenty of other options on the block. Madras Durbar is good for South Indian. Only the Udapi Palace (India's McDonalds) is to be avoided.

I think it's cute that the Kingfisher beer at the BBQ Hut is imported. From the UK.

MikeUK

highly likely.. I think its made by Charles Wells in Bedford

Londonuck

london drugs in north van used to stock british cadburys chocolate. it was just about the only thing i missed.

Biiiiink

They have random UK-made Cadbury's items in Superstore here - if you can't tell by the high price tag that it's imported, the union flag sticker on the back confirms it

Susie Derkins

Hi! Been lurking for a few weeks now. Just wanted to pop in to say that for all you Brits wanting some good English chocolate in Vancouver, head to West 4th to the Candy Shop (or something like that). They carry the full-fat cream chocolate you've grown to love, imported from the UK. They also have Irn Bru.

And I can't imagine where in Vancouver the other poster is that she can't find good vegetarian food. BC was, and still is, hippy haven. There are loads of vegetarian places around, very high quality, and much cheaper than London. Well, everything's cheaper than London.