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Things like this are the reason I go on here.

ROFL! @ Stratusgd's comment. Me too! Kenji you have a way with words...

I'm going to make this one day soon, I already have your turkey-stuffed-turkey planned for NYE, and my mom won't let me touch her freezer-to-oven Christmas butterball (I didn't know such...things... existed), but luckily I'm Orthodox and get to celebrate TWO Christmases! Lol :P I'll just have to get someone to drive me & my cooler to my parents place and then help me stay up all night watching the temperature on it. My sister's crazy enough, she can help me :)

THANK YOU!

I've only ever had frozen pizza with BBQ sauce and didn't like it, so I'll suspend judgement till I've had it in the BBQ capital of the world :D

I'm patiently waiting for the day that Serious Eats Montreal will open :) If ever there were a place to start in Canada it would be here!

I've been making this ever since a coworker brought some to work and I wheedled the recipe out of him. I never knew what it was called though, this is a great name for it, thanks! I'm gonna make some this afternoon now...

I'm really lucky we have a cafeteria downstairs from the calling center where I work so all the smells are trapped there if there are any, but I've never noticed anything objectionable. Personally I like the smell of fish and popcorn (unless it's burnt!) but I wouldn't bring them in cause it'll annoy others.

Something that does annoy me though is for some reason every morning while sitting at my desk there's an overwhelming smell of lemon for about half an hour, I dislike lemon smell or flavor so it gets annoying and I have no idea where it comes from, it seems like someone is putting essential oils somewhere or something... But this is nothing compared to the stories you guys here so I really have nothing to complain about lol.

I love the cat food and hellgrammite stories!

I agree that caviar doesn't go in the "nasty bits" category, even if some people might consider it nasty. I love it! I have to go buy myself some now... Thanks for the scrambled eggs idea!

There's one downtown here in Montreal. I've been meaning to go there, but now that I've heard all the comments about the weird texture I think I'll pass, I'm not big on candy any ways and they don't seem to have many nuts... I could probably make something that I'd like more anyways. There was a comedian that had a great sketch about that place, it wasn't the Aziz guy though... oh well.

I'm with amandarama on the sardinian maggot cheese, balut and intestines filled with poop. Also natto, but would have to see how bad it smells. Anything else goes!

Personally I like the smell of food on the subway, it beats a lot of other smells! I'll gladly eat food on the subway if it's my only option of where to eat at the moment. If I have enough time and a choice of where to eat it though I'll eat somewhere else.

Oh no! I'm so sad for you... I'm getting all teary-eyed here... I've lost pets too and definitely feel your pain. My condolences and huge hugs and love to you and your family!!!

This weekend wasn't a long weekend for us in Canada, for us the long weekend was Victoria day the weekend before. I still got the first grilling of the year done yesterday though!

I had some burgers and blood sausage. First time firing up a second-hand grill given to us by MIL, my first full sized-grill! I'm so happy :D

I had two kinds of burgers: one was a weird meatloaf-like experiment of beef, grated onion, cumin and maybe a few other spices and breadcrumbs all thrown into the blender. It was a staff meal that my boyfriend brought home from the restaurant he works at, I don't think anyone would call them hamburgers but it was delicious with cheese anyways.

The other kind of burger was a mix of 50/50 ground pork and beef, with some spicy mesquite seasoning (which really isn't spicy at all) http://www.clubhouse.ca/en/products/detail.aspx?Spicy_Mesquite_Seasoning&id=118f8bb4-c6bc-4794-a791-fac86f3adc6e&category_id=408e8c81-10ef-450e-8bc3-5371fc36c631 mixed into it and formed into what I think was probably 1/4lb patties flattened out reasonably thin so that when they shrunk they would somewhat fit the cheap white buns I bought. That was also delicious with cheese, to be honest I think I preferred that to the meatloaf-burgers.

The blood sausage I bought at a fancy food place at the Jean-Talon Market. The only other blood-related food I've tried is Swedish blood pudding, which I liked, but has (from what I remember, it's been 15 years) seemingly no extra seasonings added in. So I don't have a lot of experience to compare with but I loved those blood sausages, they had onion and herbs and chunks of fat inside, and they're so tasty!

I bought some applewood chips to try smoking a bit, but when I got home I discovered that I had no tin foil to make a packet with them, so I just threw them straight under the grill. They flamed up a bit but I think they still gave some good flavor to the food. I'm going to buy tin foil tonight to make sure I can smoke properly next time!

I have some chinese bacon http://www.seriouseats.com/2011/04/how-to-use-chinese-bacon.html that I bought yesterday and soaked overnight that I'm gonna throw on the grill after work tonight too :) I can't wait!

So did you buy the sous-vide machine or not?