Source: munchies.vice.com --- Monday, October 10, 2016
Photo: CSA Images/Snapstock. Canadians invented insulin and Scotch tape and Hawaiian pizza. We also invented Basketball, ice hockey, the goalie mask, the jockstrap’s hard cup, and table hockey. We invented the Wonderbra, the pacemaker, the garbage bag, and Trivial Pursuit . Also the Jolly Jumper, sonar, the snow blower, the caulking gun, and Easy-Off oven cleaner. And we invented Thanksgiving. That last one I never would have known had it not been for America’s greatest living food critic turning away from his regular gig that has seen him slice Per Se off at the knees and brilliantly and mercilessly skewer Guy Fieri (in what was probably the most read and shared restaurant review in the history of restaurant reviews). Last week, the New York Times’ Pete Wells turned his gimlet eye on our harvest holiday and in doing so woke up a normally quiet population. And they were not pleased. “I feel sorry sometimes for the Americans and their insular view that the end all and be all is America,” Dave McMillan tells me. The co-owner of Joe Beef in Montreal is one of Canada’s most beloved restaurateurs and a man devoted to the history of this country and his home province of Quebec. His Instagram feed is pretty much devoid of selfies and is a must-follow for anyone looking to bone up on native art and black and white shots of Canadian pioneers. “Never forget that nobody but the native tribes were living on the island of Manhattan while we w ...
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