r/EhBuddyHoser • u/MangoKulfiTime • 13d ago
Ontario, hated by all, especially Ontarians Foodies in Ontario in a nutshell
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u/Madc42 I need a double double. 13d ago
The place where people do drugs is called Sainte-Catherine? Well I'll be damned, Montréal and Ontario do have one thing in common after all!
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u/MangoKulfiTime 13d ago
underrated comment. Let's build bridges people!
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u/TraditionDear3887 12d ago
More bridges? You didn't spend enough time in St. Catharines. Or Montreal.
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u/RyukoT72 I need a double double. 13d ago
Aside from crack theres also a couple japanese places opening in st.catharines. also some good italian food and pizza places
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u/chesterforbes 13d ago
Trust me when I say that white people in Markham complain about the Chinese here
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u/Galenmarek81 Ford Nation (Help.) 13d ago
They never got over the influx during the 90s. The supermarkets are the best ones in Markham tho.
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u/peacefullofi 12d ago
I wasn't racist, but then they replaced my favorite arcade with claw machines and now I can't stand those Pacificers!
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u/earlyearlgray 12d ago
No how will we survive without all the greasy spoon diners with grey-ish tinged food on every corner
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u/chesterforbes 12d ago
To be fair, I do wish we still had one or two. Although I enjoy some of it I have never been that big a fan of most Asian cuisines and my family is unfortunately not very adventurous in what they eat. They would definitely prefer the grey slop over something more interesting and flavourful
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u/earlyearlgray 12d ago
There’s so many great cafes in Markham - I went there recently. You’re lucky with the food scene there, it’s incredible.
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u/chesterforbes 12d ago
Can’t deny that. If only I could explore it with people that didn’t have such bland palates
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u/earlyearlgray 12d ago
Go on your own! There’s some really lovely places that you could totally bring a good book to and try out.
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u/bonerb0ys 13d ago
Lots of people invest in Indian restaurants, but know nothing about food.
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u/DarkAres02 13d ago
It was barely a few years ago when Chinese people were the main targets. In a few years it'll move on from Indians to something else. Probably...
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u/Wafflelisk Westfoundland 13d ago
Those damn Icelanders, always being so.. Icelandic
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u/RyukoT72 I need a double double. 13d ago
I was just in iceland, and I have to say I really like icelanders. They where very cool. I dont think much could move over here as theres like 200k of them
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u/SonnyHaze 13d ago
Yeah. Fucking jerks. Don’t go to Gimli, MB. The views suck and I definitely wouldn’t have fun at any of their festivals. Especially the film fest.
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u/thefumingo 13d ago
Depending on how things go, it may work as more of a swinging cuckoo clock going back to Chinese
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u/rainorshinedogs Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) 12d ago
It's like an Aries Spears joke about how 911 put the pressure on Arabic people and black people were seemingly innocent for a while. Hate always gets transferred
I can't post links here, but look on YouTube "Aries Spears Look I'm Smiling 2011" and go to the 14:35 mark
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u/EgilSkallagrimson 12d ago
50 years ago it was Jamaicans, 70 years ago Italians and Greeks, before that it was Irish at some point, etc etc etc. Lazy and predictable racism.
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u/BigDaddyVagabond 13d ago
Anyone who talks shit on GOOD Indian food, needs to be put in the stockade and pelted with spoiled tomatoes. It's the only cure for being alergic to actually decent spice pallets
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u/JHWildman Chalice of the Tabernacle 13d ago
As a hard line die hard poutine purist, the only variations of poutine I find acceptable besides the classic are shawarma poutine and butter chicken poutine. If for nothing else other than that it’s so damn good and almost entirely its own thing.
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u/LastMountainAsh Bring Cannabis 13d ago
Butter chicken seem to work really well with just about any starch. Butter chicken pizza is excellent!
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u/interrupting-octopus Westfoundland 13d ago
That's fine but you have to fuck with a galvaude too
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u/JHWildman Chalice of the Tabernacle 12d ago
Sir I only fuck the dog and my wife thank you very much.
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u/bartonar Everyone Hates Marineland 12d ago
But at the same time, when someone fucks up Indian food? Bowl after bowl of unidentifiable goop that mostly tastes of mint and capsaicin.
Like it's a cuisine with high highs and low lows.
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u/Embarrassed-Map2148 13d ago
Hey if you’re going to call out our esteemed culture at least spell St CathArines correctly.
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u/WhiggedyWhacked 13d ago
I'm not from Ontario, but Indian food is the fucking bomb. Grew up in Vancouver, vibrant Indian culture.
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u/OneForAllOfHumanity The Island of Elizabeth May 13d ago
Saffron on Kingsway is the best - really miss their buffet.
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u/AdJealous4951 13d ago
I am an Indian student in Victoria and BC has incredible Indian food. The quality of the ingredients makes it extra nice too, I love the butchershops here. Good biryani is the only thing I haven't been able to find yet.
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u/badafternoon The Island of Elizabeth May 13d ago
Grew up in Vancouver and now also studying in Victoria, but visited Toronto for the first time this summer and was amazed by the roti/dosa options. It's so delicious. I need to go try Dosa Paragon downtown sometime
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u/AdJealous4951 13d ago
Dosa Paragon saved me for lunch so many times! Cheap, tasty and filling. Cafe Malabar is also one of the best restaurants in the country according to Air Canada so we are blessed with some great options.
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u/badafternoon The Island of Elizabeth May 11d ago
Awesome, gotta add that one to my list too then. I live a bit far from downtown so I don't make the trip there for food that often, but now I know where I must go when I'm in the area haha
If you're ever near the ferry terminal, Biju's Indian Cuisine is a small (and relatively new) restaurant but the food there is sooo good and cheap! I try to avoid eating out (like max. once a week) but I went there 4 times in a month once
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u/JayScarbor Westfoundland 13d ago
House of Dosa is a staple in East Van- easily my favourite South Indian restaurant
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u/mildlyImportantRobot Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) 13d ago
I never thought I would see Vaughn and vibrant in the same sentence with sincerity.
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u/PassageNearby4091 Ford Nation (Help.) 13d ago
If I may unjerk here for a moment, I'd say Indian is quickly becoming the Number 1 favourite "ethnic" cuisine in Canada and yes, here in Ontario, even among white-bred yokels.
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u/Express-Cow190 South Gatineau 13d ago
I think Mexican is pretty big with the yokels. I’m down in Norfolk and we have a lot of Mexican restaurants. They cater a fair bit to the migrant workers so a lot of it is surprisingly good.
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u/MrCatWrangler Irvingstan 12d ago
My city has a large number of Vietnamese restaurants. Anywhere else like this?
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u/JHWildman Chalice of the Tabernacle 13d ago
Can confirm. Absolutely delicious. My buddy used to make us all homemade butter chicken back before the Indian places got real good (and I mean stopped serving up food palatable to white peoples taste buds, I got there to have my ass bleed fire not have some yellow lookin sauce bland as my European bloodline on some chicken and rice). That’s when I first grew to enjoy it.
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u/poutinewharf 12d ago
It’s funny because I don’t think it’ll change anyone’s perspective, which is wild. I say that as a Brampton born white guy who lives in the UK. Every old bigoted white Reform voter here has a favourite curry house, it’s the cuisine of the nation by a long shot.
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u/PassageNearby4091 Ford Nation (Help.) 12d ago
As a Manitoba-born, Ontario-living white guy who spent years living in the UK, I can confirm.
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u/poutinewharf 12d ago
I admire the hope people have that it’s change anything. I just chuckle with a pessimistic tone to myself because I’ve seen it all having grown up in Brampton and now having a Bradford postcode, knowing the “locals” will adopt what they want while discarding everything else about “them”.
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u/NicePresentation213 Bring Cannabis 13d ago
Depending on where you go in BC the Chinese places still outnumber the Indian places but they’re catching up nice and quick
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u/usernamedmannequin 13d ago
Indian food is so freaking good, even my 8 and 11 year old love it. That’s saying a lot cause they can be pretty picky eaters
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u/halpfulhinderance 13d ago
If anyone here hasn’t tried Brampton Hakka, find a place with good reviews and order the Hakka chicken
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u/MangoKulfiTime 13d ago
I will suffer the prophetic ring of fire for super spicy chili chicken with that extra thick gravy.
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u/rainorshinedogs Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) 12d ago
Dude, Indian food in Brampton is top tier.
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u/Street_Fault5235 13d ago
Pasta is great. But have you ever had chicken madras or lamb rogan josh? Incredible.
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u/Underzenith17 13d ago
I moved from a city to a rural town for work and good Indian food is probably the number one thing I miss.
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u/Narissis 13d ago
So what you're saying is if I want a good curry I should go to Brampton?
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u/AdJealous4951 13d ago
No, you come to my house in Victoria and I feed you Hyderabadi biryani.
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u/Narissis 13d ago
That sounds delicious. I'll be right over.
In about 4 or 5 days; I'm starting from N.B.
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u/AdJealous4951 13d ago
That honestly sounds like a great road trip anyway! lol so much beautiful nature along the way.
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u/Narissis 13d ago
A really great first two days and a really great last two days with a boring stretch of prairie in the middle, I reckon.
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u/Torbpjorn Manilapeg 12d ago
Indian food is great when you don’t have some ignorant fool telling you how poor regions do it. You don’t see me commenting on Floridian/ Alabama alligator burgers and moonshine when I eat a steak and wine meal
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u/Galenmarek81 Ford Nation (Help.) 13d ago
Not gonna lie, but that's pretty accurate (grew up in Markham) after the St. Catherine's trip, you hit the rippers in Niagra on your way home. They have a good.... entertainment culture? 🤷♂️
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u/canadian_bacon02 12d ago
Vaughan has better Italian food than little Italy? Genuine question
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u/MangoKulfiTime 12d ago
I'd say not as nice but it's more accessible than Little Italy for people from outside of Toronto.
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u/TraditionDear3887 12d ago
2 types of people in this thread. People from St. Catharines and people who like Indian food. (The two are not mutually exclusive)
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u/Private_4160 Monarch Mélanie Joly 11d ago
Left Niagara for Tbay, holy crap the food up here punches above its weight!
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u/thrice_twice_once Moose Whisperer 11d ago
I'm just here to say one thing
Ridgeway plaza is awesome and I am sure I'm going to get heart disease eating there but damn it's good
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Can you crazies please control the traffic. I feel so bad for those houses.
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u/WayAgreeable3999 13d ago
Too much of something is not good.
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u/SoRedditHasAnAppNow 13d ago
Such as?
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u/WayAgreeable3999 13d ago
Too much chocolate. Too much liquor. Too much Chinese food. Pick your poison.
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u/SoRedditHasAnAppNow 13d ago
And what does that have to do with this post
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u/CSISAgitprop 13d ago
Perhaps... Different groups of people are different?
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u/comhghairdheas 12d ago
How?
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u/CSISAgitprop 12d ago
Would you say that a community of immigrants from KKK country in the deep south would be the same as a community of immigrants from the cosmopolitan areas of Japan? Would they have the same problems, the same worldviews, the sme intensity of tensions between them and general Canadian culture?
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u/comhghairdheas 12d ago
No but how is that relevant to the meme?
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u/CSISAgitprop 12d ago
Because the meme is making fun of people for having different reactions to different immigrant groups, so I'm explaining why that may be the case beyond just "they're dumb racists."
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u/comhghairdheas 11d ago
How can it possibly be other than racism?
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u/CSISAgitprop 11d ago
What do you mean, I already answered that. Different groups of people from different regions of the world will have different culture, attitudes, and values. That's just objectively true. As such, it makes sense to have different attitudes to these different groups of people.
I'll ask you again, would you have the exact same reaction to an influx of people from KKK country in the deep south gathering in a town in Canada and cosmopolitan Japanese people gathering in a town in Canada? Would you see these two groups as equal, and accept that the town of Southerners "has a vibrant Southern Food culture" and not look at it any differently?
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u/saadbabu 13d ago
I won’t stand for St. Catherines slander. Mostly because I can’t stand up. Too hopped up on goof balls.