Calgary Openings, Closings, and Developments

[btimbit]

It gets mega hyped online, so I made sure to try it the last time I was in the States.

Meh.

I imagine most people in line who fell for the hype won't be back, a lot of people just see a trend and want to jump on. Popeyes was like that when it opened here too

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by getbak

I wouldn't say it's uniquely Canadian either. I've seen news stories of places with lines going around the block when a big well-known brand opens its first location in a new city/state in the US and in Europe.

I think the uniquely Canadian part is specific to the obsession over extremely mediocre American chains.

Lineups around the block for the first Apple store or whatever, sure.

Lineups around the block for kind of OK chicken sandwiches and Whiteclaw? Weird.

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by getbak

I wouldn't say it's uniquely Canadian either. I've seen news stories of places with lines going around the block when a big well-known brand opens its first location in a new city/state in the US and in Europe.

Yeah, wanting to be seen to among the first to try the new thing has more to do with social media than any national inferiority complex.

[Party Elephant]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

I think the uniquely Canadian part is specific to the obsession over extremely mediocre American chains.

Lineups around the block for the first Apple store or whatever, sure.

Lineups around the block for kind of OK chicken sandwiches and Whiteclaw? Weird.

In my time in New Zealand I saw the same kind of hype for the first Carl's Jr, Taco Bell, and Popeye's on the fast food. And the hype for major retailers such as Costco and K Mart opening their first outlets was insane.

[Jiri Hrdina]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

Yeah, wanting to be seen to among the first to try the new thing has more to do with social media than any national inferiority complex.

Except that these type of things happened well before social media.
Line-ups for a big blockbuster, new video game/album being dropped, new fast food chain opening. None of these things are new.

I wouldn't line-up that long for fast food, but sometimes it's fun to get caught in the hype of a big even type of thing.

[getbak]

Originally Posted by Locke

They know that they're delicious and that their time on this earth is limited.

It's funny when you think about how a lot of religions have rules that forbid their people from eating the meat from certain animals, I don't know of any that forbid eating chickens.

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

I think the uniquely Canadian part is specific to the obsession over extremely mediocre American chains.

Lineups around the block for the first Apple store or whatever, sure.

Lineups around the block for kind of OK chicken sandwiches and Whiteclaw? Weird.

I was talking about fast food places. I've seen news stories of lineups for the opening of places like Krispy Kreme, In-n-Out, Chick-Fil-A, etc. in various locations in the States. For example...

12+ hour line for first In-N-Out in Colorado: https://www.today.com/food/there-s-1...burger-t200244

Chick-Fil-A around what appears to be Albany, NY: https://www.reddit.com/r/Anticonsump...ing/?rdt=53263

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by getbak

It's funny when you think about how a lot of religions have rules that forbid their people from eating the meat from certain animals, I don't know of any that forbid eating chickens.



I was talking about fast food places. I've seen news stories of lineups for the opening of places like Krispy Kreme, In-n-Out, Chick-Fil-A, etc. in various locations in the States. For example...

12+ hour line for first In-N-Out in Colorado: https://www.today.com/food/there-s-1...burger-t200244

Chick-Fil-A around what appears to be Albany, NY: https://www.reddit.com/r/Anticonsump...ing/?rdt=53263

Stop trying to disprove my theory. Let me have this.

[fotze2]

Did chicken even exist when religions started? Isn't pretty much all of our food a genetic manipulation from many years of improving/breeding?

Also, pork is the best meat of the big three. Not debateable.

[Fuzz]

Exactly when and where the chicken was domesticated remains controversial. Genomic studies estimate that the chicken was domesticated 8,000 years ago[45] in Southeast Asia and spread to China and India 2,000 to 3,000 years later. Archaeological evidence supports domestic chickens in Southeast Asia well before 6000 BC, China by 6000 BC and India by 2000 BC.[45][52][53]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken#Origin


Holy crap, chickens are older than the earth. Neat trick.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken#Origin


Holy crap, chickens are older than the earth. Neat trick.

Dino-licious!

[btimbit]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken#Origin


Holy crap, chickens are older than the earth. Neat trick.

Well the egg is maybe

[bob-loblaw]

I just want Jack in the Box to come here.

[cam_wmh]

Originally Posted by fotze2

Did chicken even exist when religions started? Isn't pretty much all of our food a genetic manipulation from many years of improving/breeding?

Also, pork is the best meat of the big three. Not debateable.

I'm ####ing certain Hippo will top em all. It's too bad they're apparently hard to farm. ###### Escobar was amazing, from 4 of em in the 70's to about 200 today. It'd be so awesome to dump a bunch into Glenmore reservoir, or Lake Bonaventure. The carnage, and the most epic bacon ever.

[SeeGeeWhy]

Searching up Hippo Bacon led me to this cool article!

Bacon of the Lake

[cam_wmh]

Share it with everyone, we need it here.

[Bill Bumface]

Originally Posted by SeeGeeWhy

Searching up Hippo Bacon led me to this cool article!

Bacon of the Lake

Spoiler!

[HHW]

I was walking on the Bow River pathway last weekend passed by Eau Claire it looks like they've pretty much completely gutted the inside now, sad to see, That location still has so much potential.

On a related thought I remembered there used to be a sign somewhere along the walk that explained how back in the 1960s there were plans to build a major highway in that area. Believe it or not the highway was meant to be called the Penetrator.

I couldn't find the sign but I did find this podcast

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...ysis-1.7234411

[TheScorpion]

There were maybe 30 cars in the drive-thru line for Chick-fil-A when I was driving down Macleod about 15 minutes ago. I laughed all the way to Wendy's.

You can get better chicken at f'n Burger King.

[Jiri Hrdina]

I'm looking forward to trying Rosie's Burgers when it opens. Not sure on a date.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by TheScorpion

There were maybe 30 cars in the drive-thru line for Chick-fil-A when I was driving down Macleod about 15 minutes ago. I laughed all the way to Wendy's.

You can get better chicken at f'n Burger King.

Plus a fancy hat!