I used to drink Jamesons - still do on occasion - but I tend to go for the single malts these days. I've a bottle of 25 year old Glen that I shall indulge in around Christmas (it was a gift) and I will only drink it straight up, no ice, no water, no mixers.

The whisky mac will be made with some generic blend or other.

On a speed read I saw garlic

Well, once you've accepted the ginger....

This caught my eye:
Quebec lawmakers pass motion calling on store clerks to use 'bonjour' greeting | CTV News
and it seemed a bit dictatorial, so I wondered if 'allo would be acceptable;
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=allo

But why is this necessary (it passed unanimously)? Everyone is going to understand bonjour, hi, bonjour/hi, or allo and probably greetings in a host of other languages. Legislating against advertising to preserve language and cultural identity is one thing, but a long as it's true and civil, how is anything you say a crime?

That's the bit that caught my eye. I mean, maybe a committee of 5 or something but 111 to zero!! Not one person thinking attendez une minute (is that right for hold on a minute)

What's particularly strange and something I notice from living in bilingual NB is that whenever the anglo nutters (there are a few on the other side too) complain, use of both languages is put across as a positive whereas in Quebec apparently there are "too many speaking both"

Language politics have been quiet for a while from Quebec but this one really takes the cake. I'm sure many shopkeepers in Montreal and even Gatineau will continue to say both. Most shopkeepers in those areas if they hear the customer speaking first with one another in english will greet the customer(s) in english as it is the natural thing to do in order to get a sale.

Really, it seems like a solution looking for a problem...that really isn't there.

Not to mention polite, friendly and helpful.

The staff in my local Couche Tard only address me in English, even if I talk to them in French. They seem to like the practice and, of course, the accent.

It would probably a bit different in Trois Rivieres or Chicoutimi.

I was alerted to this nonsense by Son who made a rather pithy (bilingual to boot) comment on social media about it, which has stirred up a hornets’ nest.

We’re all a bit abasourdi on the one hand, shrugging and rolling our eyes on the other. And are thinking about incorporating “bonjour-hi” into our regular vocabulary...

If I see my friend Reggie I hope I can remember to say bonjour-hi, he will piss himself.

Should it not be more like “Bonjour-hi comment are you?”

Oink. For a min there I thought you were going on your holidays.

Negroni should be drunk on a sunny afternoon in Milan at about 4.30 pm with a selection of nibbles- salami, proscuitto, parmigiano etc 😋 But rules are meant to be broken 😻

No. It's too filling

He could be smashed by noon, who are we kidding? It probably depends how hot it is.

At my daughter's wedding there was a Negroni stand with these snacks. Is it a particularly Milanese thing?