Canadian politics thread

[ssjGoku69]

Surprisingly the $250 rebate is for individual incomes under $150k rather than household income. This means if you're making $140k per year, the Federal Government thinks you deserve a welfare cheque?

[unit]

if you're making under 140k per year they want your vote lol

[mikemhg]

Originally Posted by Hondaracer

I went to a 3 star in Paris one of the most expensive and classiest meals I’ve ever been to period where they literally waited on you hand and foot, would pull the chair out for you, refold your napkin, provide new glasses for every single glass of wine etc. completely over the top in every aspect

And the table next to us was a bunch of mainlanders with DSLR’s and street clothes

Why do people actually like this shit?

That's one thing I can't stand about Michelin restaurants. It's fucking awkward when the waiter/s are standing at the wall watching you, waiting to run over and "serve" me.

I don't want to be bugged every few minutes, and I don't need someone lauding over me while I have dinner. I never understood the appeal.

[Badhobz]

white guys love neo slavery. you wouldnt get it brack man

[Hondaracer]

Originally Posted by mikemhg

Why do people actually like this shit?

That's one thing I can't stand about Michelin restaurants. It's fucking awkward when the waiter/s are standing at the wall watching you, waiting to run over and "serve" me.

I don't want to be bugged every few minutes, and I don't need someone lauding over me while I have dinner. I never understood the appeal.

Went there mainly for a couple dishes, and also the wine cellar (not that I can ball so hard to take advantage of it but we got some value out of their suggestions)

It was an experience but it definitely wasn’t the best meal I’ve ever had, not even close. Have had far better at far more informal places locally.

I think that type of traditional ultra service dining in general is dieing though

[mikemhg]

Originally Posted by westopher

Well I mean, I am very fuckin glad we don't live in the US. I don't think the guys in this thread talking about restaurants are a bunch of gaudy mainlanders in gwagens but if that's civicblues he should really change his username to gucciwagenblues or something.
Again, I don't want the handout either, but things are a solid medium here, pretty objectively when you look at numbers around the world and don't get wound up about rage pieces from either side of the aisle.

Vancouver is such a weird city.

When you look at GDP per capita stats, a province like BC would rank 48th in GDP right behind shitholes like Kentucky and New Mexico, we barely beat Idaho of all places.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MURICA/comm...es_they_would/

People down here in San Antonio are either broke as fuck, or very wealthy, there's very little in-between.

Based on the above stats I'm always mystified how people in Vancouver seemingly have so much disposable income, in comparison to our American counterparts.

[EvoFire]

Originally Posted by mikemhg

Why do people actually like this shit?

That's one thing I can't stand about Michelin restaurants. It's fucking awkward when the waiter/s are standing at the wall watching you, waiting to run over and "serve" me.

I don't want to be bugged every few minutes, and I don't need someone lauding over me while I have dinner. I never understood the appeal.

Of the Michelin stars I've had, rarely do they have someone just standing there behind you and bugging you every few minutes without being asked.
Published on Main is probably one of the best meals I've had. I had quite a good time at St Lawrence as well, and there definitely wasn't someone standing behind us the whole time.

AnnaLena was good when we went before they got the star, though I would place that experience below Published and St Lawrence.

The other stars I've had were had always been a good experience. The sardine restaurant that we went to in Tokyo was interesting because they definitely got the star for serving something different.

[Hondaracer]

Generational wealth that isn’t accounted for in income, money laundering, illegal shit, etc.

[Great68]

It's kind of funny, I just went to my first michelin star restaurant (Hestia) in Austin on tuesday.

I can't really comment on the service levels since we were in the private room with our own dedicated servers, and the tab was effectively unlimited.

We had a family style 10 course menu and amongst those were definatly some star dishes, and some stinkers. There were few seafood dishes and at the beginning of the service they asked if anyone had allergies or "didn't want to eat something" and a few people said "seafood" so they actually made complete different dishes for those people (and I think what they got was actually better than the original dish)

One thing that kind of soured me was that the wine was flowing extremely freely, every time I looked at my glass it was refilled, even before it got below half way sometimes. I couldn't keep track of how many glasses I had overall (that was probably the point, I got a little drunk, I would wager I easily drank a full bottle) but near the end of the night I got sick of drinking wine so I asked if I could have a beer, hoping they had something from a local brewery. "Sorry Sir, we're out of beer" How the fuck does a restaurant run out of beer?

For pure taste, I had a better time at Victoria's Marilena where we had 6 or 7 courses and every single one of them was amazing and I would order again, and it's not michelin rated at all (part of the Toptable group of restaurants). Although, the server we had at Marilena was almost too over the top, almost fake "performative".

[sonick]

Originally Posted by mikemhg

Why do people actually like this shit?

That's one thing I can't stand about Michelin restaurants. It's fucking awkward when the waiter/s are standing at the wall watching you, waiting to run over and "serve" me.

I don't want to be bugged every few minutes, and I don't need someone lauding over me while I have dinner. I never understood the appeal.

The restaurants and hotels that have the absolute best service experience goes above and beyond that where they can do that same level of service but you don't notice it at all, you just feel extremely comfortable.

I find the really "good" ones they do all that shit but it's obvious and awkward. The exceptional ones have that but it feels unnoticeable.

[noclue]

I dont have the proper etiquette for fine dining, like knowing which fork to use, how to eat a dish properly etc. waiters probably look at me in disgust.

I however enjoy finding those street foods that won a michelin star.

[Manic!]

This guy owns a Michelin star restaurant and travels around the world eating at other Michelin star restaurants. It's really interesting. Some of these restaurants are so over the top.

https://www.youtube.com/@alexandertheguest

[CivicBlues]

Michelin Star criteria across countries are so inconsistent it's a joke.

How can a chicken rice stall run by a single person be in the same ranked category as a fine dining restaurant?

Remember the whole thing was created so people would drive around more to restaurants in far-flung places in France so that a tire company can drum up more sales for their tires.

[Badhobz]

aye so very true.

So in Hong Kong this year almost all the restaurants I went to were Michelin rated or Michelin starred. The food was really quite incredible but it’s incomparable.

Vancouver 1 star like published on main vs clay pot rice 1 star in Hong Kong in some back alley of sai ying pun is ridiculous. How can they both be 1 star ?!?!

The back alley place I’m sitting on a plastic stool getting yelled at by some old lady for being too fat for seating in their tiny tables. Where as published on mains tasting course was like a gastronomy experience par excellence.

[Traum]

Damn you, Badhobz! That claypot rice looks so good!

[Hondaracer]

Yea I think Japan largely ignored the Michelin guide for quite some time because they figured the critics wouldn’t understand the cuisine enough to properly rate it

I’m sure Chinese food etc. is similar in widely varied ratings due to localization and tastes

[sonick]

Outside of Europe and maybe NY and LA Michelin is a marketing scam targeted at foodies and social media influencers to flex about how many stars they've visited.

Michelin in Vancouver is a joke.

[Hondaracer]

For anyone thinking “hOW cOuLd yoU vOtE CoN?!?”

Read this article

https://vancouversun.com/news/repeat...-appeals-court

If everything else stayed the same or got worse, even the slight chance justice reform would happen it’s enough for me to vote con at this point.

The man had 118 convictions before this case. Among them were eight violent offences, 52 property offences, one drug offence, and 25 for breaching orders or obstructing justice, according to court documents.

120 previous convictions, he then goes on to carry on his domestic violence numerous times, including following and threating the woman in question at a fucking women’s shelter after she initially escaped him, then breached the conditions of that

And THEN gets his sentence cut if in half on appeal.

Honestly this guy could get out after and kill this woman and NOTHING WILL CHANGE

This is one of the most heinous examples of how disgustingly pathetic our system is.

[whitev70r]

Trump just said he is putting 25% tariffs on all things from Canada and Mexico. I thought it was 10% ... that liar. Apparently, the Can dollar dropped one cent in 45 minutes after he tweeted that.

[Manic!]

Originally Posted by whitev70r

Trump just said he is putting 25% tariffs on all things from Canada and Mexico. I thought it was 10% ... that liar. Apparently, the Can dollar dropped one cent in 45 minutes after he tweeted that.

You actually believe anything he says?

[Harvey Specter]

This sums up the average American voter...

[unit]

hey at least he says it like it is!!

[Harvey Specter]

No one knows if he's bluffing but Trump 2.0 could be bad for Canada. He’s likely to impose tariffs, how much and on which industries is anyone’s guess. He’s also expected to pressure OPEC+ to boost supply and push for more domestic drilling like he did back in 2016, which means lower oil prices. That would hit Canada hard since oil sands production is costly. We’re in for a rough ride.

[westopher]

The dudes that sucked him off in the trump thread will continue to even if they lose their jobs over it, that's the saddest part.
But they really "stuck it to the wokes"

[SkinnyPupp]

Originally Posted by Harvey Specter

This sums up the average American voter...

Ulic is right. Voters are idiots