100!

[Zeke]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Well, it took a while, but the 5MV Forums are back up to 100 members! (101, in fact.) Last time, I invited Jim Wright to be our one hundredth member; this time he's on his honeymoon, so that couldn't be arranged, but it's cool to hit 100 again regardless. Thanks, everybody!

A celebration is in order. Pie for all.[/color:post_uid0]

[Pteryx]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I'll take blueberry, please. And please don't oversweeten the filling or sprinkle the top with sugar -- fruit is sweet enough on its own. -- Pteryx[/color:post_uid0]

[Celeste]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Dammit Zeke. Now you got me wanting Apple pie. I'm gonna have to freakin make it now.

Edit: Uh, is anyone else having a problem seeing my Avatar? ::sigh::[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Nope i can't see it either :(

Oh and i'll take a rubarb pie :D[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Apple for me, too. :)

I can't see your avatar either, Celeste. :suspicious:[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I can see your avatar now, Celeste, though I hadn't been able to for several days before now. :)

Any apple pie left? :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Standback]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Mmmmmm... Piiiiiiiiie...

Ummm... Who's Jim Wright?[/color:post_uid0]

[Marc]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Who's Jim Wright?[/quote:post_uid0]

Sort of 5MV's grandfather, in a way. Jim founded the Delta Blues review site not long after Voyager premiered. Delta Blues subsequently spun off a discussion board called DeltaChat. DeltaChat, in turn, is where Zeke first posted his very first fiver. A few fivers later, Zeke came up with the idea of founding the 5MV site. The rest, as Daniels would say on Enterprise, is history.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Ummm... Who's Jim Wright?[/quote:post_uid0]
I've learned not to ask this... The hard way. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Steak and kidney!

Hold the ice-cream.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]The English gave the world many things. Cuisine is not one of them. ;)

'Course Canada gave the world butter tarts and we're still the only ones who eat 'em.

To summarize: Mmm, pie.[/color:post_uid0]

[Standback]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]I've learned not to ask this... The hard way. [/quote:post_uid0]
Does this mean I don't get any pie? Or does it cancel out with my joining the ranks of the enlightend?

And thanks for the explanation, Marc. :)[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]You think the English are bad? You should see some of the things the Scots eat. Â 8|

EDIT: Hmm. Apparently the 8| smiley doesn't work properly.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]'Course Canada gave the world butter tarts and we're still the only ones who eat 'em.[/quote:post_uid0]
Just to prove your point: Butter tarts?[/color:post_uid0]

[Zeke]

[quote:post_uid0="Standback"][color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]I've learned not to ask this... The hard way. [/quote:post_uid0]
Does this mean I don't get any pie?[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Oh, you get pie.

Nanoprobe pie.[/color:post_uid0]

[Zeke]

[quote:post_uid0="catalina_marina"][color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]'Course Canada gave the world butter tarts and we're still the only ones who eat 'em.[/quote:post_uid0]
Just to prove your point: Butter tarts?[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Non-Canadians [i:post_uid0]don't have butter tarts[/i:post_uid0]? I'm never leaving this country again.[/color:post_uid0]

[Zeke]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="PointyHairedJedi"]EDIT: Hmm. Apparently the  8| smiley doesn't work properly.[/quote:post_uid0]
Let me try: Â 8|

Hmm. That's weird -- there's no difference between that one and the others in the emoticon settings. I'll see if I can fix it. Btw, while I was in there, I fixed that "two frowneys" problem.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="Zeke"]Non-Canadians [i:post_uid0]don't have butter tarts[/i:post_uid0]? Â I'm never leaving this country again.[/quote:post_uid0]
I was similarly surprised when I learned that. ;)

Mmmm, butter tarts....

Butter tarts, for the uninitiated, are a small pastry, like a mini-pie that fits easily in your palm. They have a sugary sweet "custard" filling, made of raisins, walnuts, brown sugar, corn syrup, softened butter and eggs.

Needless to say, they have, like, a million calories each. But they're [i:post_uid0]so good[/i:post_uid0].

Plate of tarts:

[img:post_uid0]http://www.cooksco.com/images/tart.jpg[/img:post_uid0]
Mmm, tarts. Canada's gift to the world that nobody but us knows about. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[Nic Corelli]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Canada gave the world fivers, didn`t it? :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Zekeybuns, at the very least. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Butter tarts, for the uninitiated, are a small pastry, like a mini-pie that fits easily in your palm. They have a sugary sweet "custard" filling, made of raisins, walnuts, brown sugar, corn syrup, softened butter and eggs.[/quote:post_uid0]
Must. Get.[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]They sounds a bit like treacle tarts. Um, but without the treacle.[/color:post_uid0]

[Kira]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][i:post_uid0]No butter tarts?[/i:post_uid0] Good God, what else is the rest of the world missing?[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Not a lot, by the sounds of things. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Any other Canadians who want to be amazed about the fact that non-Canadians don't have butter tarts? Sa'ar perhaps? :eyeroll:[/color:post_uid0]

[Derek]

[quote:post_uid0="Kira"][color=#000000:post_uid0]Good God, what else is the rest of the world missing?[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Igloos.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Any other Canadians who want to be amazed about the fact that non-Canadians don't have butter tarts? Sa'ar perhaps?[/quote:post_uid0]

Don't look at me. I live here, and I know nothing of butter tarts. I could say that it's a non-BC thing, but that doesn't explain Nan.

For the record, I've also never had back bacon, been in an igloo, drunk Molson, or had real Quebec maple syrup.[/color:post_uid0]

[Kira]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Same to all of the above, except of course the butter tart thing. Â Obviously, Sa'ar's grandmother was a cruel, cruel person and never fed him delicious homemade butter tarts.

I'm only surprised about the butter tarts because it never occured to me that it was a strictly Canadian thing. Most stuff we eat originated somewhere else, probably due to the fact that -- especially in Saskatchewan -- the majority of our grandparents or great-grandparents were born on another continent and brought their delicious recipes with them.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Same to all of the above, except of course the butter tart thing. Â Obviously, Sa'ar's grandmother was a cruel, cruel person and never fed him delicious homemade butter tarts.[/quote:post_uid0]
Stop making me want to try them even more than I already do! :bawling:[/color:post_uid0]

[Celeste]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Everyone knows that Vermont Maple Syrup is the best you can buy. ;) And anyways, I'll bet the lot of you have never heard of Coffee Milk. And no, it's not coffee with milk in it -_-[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]And anyways, I'll bet the lot of you have never heard of Coffee Milk.[/quote:post_uid0]
What makes you say that? :S[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Obviously, Sa'ar's grandmother was a cruel, cruel person and never fed him delicious homemade butter tarts.[/quote:post_uid0]

She was English, and made me delicious apple pies. The recipe is a family heirloom now.

My other English grandma (who lived in Australia) died about 25 years before I was born.

[quote:post_uid0]the majority of our grandparents or great-grandparents were born on another continent and brought their delicious recipes with them.[/quote:post_uid0]

Half my parents weren't even born on this continent. My only Canadian-born ancestors are my mum and her dad.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Back bacon: Check.
Been in an igloo: sorta check (I made a couple stabs at building ones myself out of snow, one of which was fairly functional)
Drunk Molson: nope, I prefer Isenbeck
Had real Quebec maple syrup: yep, and it's gooood

Also had tortiere (gleh). Picture a meat pie with, like, seven meats in it, one of which may have been Bambi's mother.

Never had poutine, though. Also known as Your Francophone Friend on the Merry Way to Heart Disease. *shudder*

Good times.

Anyone had a jambuster? ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[Hotaru]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I'm Canadian, and I hate butter tarts. I've had bacon, spent a weekend in an igloo, Had Quebec maple syrup, and am too young to drink. The maple syrup was really sweet, I didn't like it much. I guess I'm not an ordinary Canadian.
Although, I find poutine very good, I eat it all the time. The cheese to gravy to french fries ratio has to be just right though. too much of any one isn't good. Yeah, I'm actually part french, so maybe that's why I like it? Eh, I don't care, it's good.[/color:post_uid0]

[Celeste]

[quote:post_uid0="catalina_marina"][color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]And anyways, I'll bet the lot of you have never heard of Coffee Milk.[/quote:post_uid0]
What makes you say that? :S[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]It's a Rhode Island thing, and anytime you go twenty feet out of the state people have no idea what you're talking about.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Weird, we have it. I don't drink coffee, though, so I've never actually had it, but everywhere you go in the Netherlands, you get asked whether you want sugar and/or milk in your coffee.

I [i:post_uid0]do[/i:post_uid0] hope we're talking about the same thing here. :eyeroll:[/color:post_uid0]

[Gatac]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Hm, it seems to be pretty widespread in Western Europe. I've certainly never met a German who didn't know of the practice of using milk in your coffee. (Though, as catalina can testify, the term threw me off for a minute before I understood what was meant.)

Gatac[/color:post_uid0]

[Celeste]

[quote:post_uid0="catalina_marina"][color=#000000:post_uid0]I [i:post_uid0]do[/i:post_uid0] hope we're talking about the same thing here. :eyeroll:[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]lol We're not. Coffee milk is like Chocolate milk. only you add coffee syrup instead of chocolate syrup. Let's see if I can find a link or something...There you go. :) (http://flakmag.com/misc/autocrat.html) Enlighten yourselves! :D[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Ahh. That explains why you think no-one has heard of it.

I still can't see your avatar, btw.[/color:post_uid0]

[Celeste]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Sigh. I don't know what's up with it. :\ If I right click and go to view picture it works, but it doesn't show up. I just don't understand it.[/color:post_uid0]

[Zeke]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I'll upload it to the forum server. That'll solve your problem.[/color:post_uid0]

[MaverickZer0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Hmm, maple syrup? Check.
Butter tarts? You mean, there are people who don't know what they are? So much for moving somewhere else...
Jambuster...mmm, stoppit. Now I want to walk over to Tim Hortons.
As far as igloos go, I've been in one...but I've never even tried building one. I'd probably fall over like I do when I go skiing.[/color:post_uid0]

[Zeke]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Cel, your avatar is now working. Though perhaps this is a sign that you shouldn't have changed in the first place... :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Celeste]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]lol. but isn't it so cute? :P Thanks Zeke ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]You wacky Canadians and your wacky food. :lol:

Right, I'm off to have some haggis.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]::seconds PHJ's opinion, then wanders off to have some durian.::[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Durian? Isn't it really smelly?[/color:post_uid0]

[Marc]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]A Quebec relative of butter tarts is "tarte au sucre", a full-sized "sugar pie" whose filling is made from maple syrup, butter and cream. To die for! (And I'm not just talking about arteriosclerosis.)

Also in the yummy category, for anyone visiting Montreal, is the apple crumble pie made by Rockaberry, a pie-and-coffee shop that has two or three locations in town. It was voted the best apple pie in the city a few years ago. Each slice is one-quarter of a pie in size and is about six inches high in thickness. Yum.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[quote:post_uid0="Nan"][color=#000000:post_uid0]Durian? Isn't it really smelly?[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]To most people, yes.

But we here in Singapore [i:post_uid0]love[/i:post_uid0] it. Especially the smell! Even my dog loves it. He's an addict![/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[quote:post_uid0="Marc"][color=#000000:post_uid0]... apple crumble pie ...[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Allow me to go on record as being in favor of apple crumble pie.
[quote:post_uid0]Each slice is one-quarter of a pie in size and is about six inches high in thickness.
[/quote:post_uid0]
*prepares document selling soul*
Where do I sign? :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Mmmmm.... pie....[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[quote:post_uid0="MaverickZer0"][color=#000000:post_uid0]Jambuster...mmm, stoppit. Now I want to walk over to Tim Hortons.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Hah!

So that expanse you refer to on your profile is the prairie expanse, eh? :D[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]But we here in Singapore [i:post_uid0]love[/i:post_uid0] it. Especially the smell! Even my dog loves it. He's an addict![/quote:post_uid0]
My dog loves everything, as long as it's food. Well, except his own food.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Still better than my dog. I think my dog will eat most anything we feed him...[/color:post_uid0]

[Gatac]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Sheesh, you people and your cultural diversity - why can't you be a good US sheep and thrive on a steady diet of hot dogs and cheeseburgers? :)

Gatac[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Who are you calling an American? :eyeroll:[/color:post_uid0]

[Derek]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]On a completely unrelated note, I cannot stop myself from reading this thread title as "one hundred factorial".

You may now continue your cultural diversity discussion.[/color:post_uid0]

[Gatac]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]What scares me is that I knew at once what you were talking about, Derek.

Also, anybody can be American at heart. Whether anyone would want to be remains to be seen, however. :)

Gatac[/color:post_uid0]

[Marc]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]
Each slice is one-quarter of a pie in size and is about six inches high in thickness.
*prepares document selling soul*
Where do I sign? [/quote:post_uid0]

Here:

http://www.restaurant.ca/mtl/restos/1296rstmtl/main_frm_en.shtml[/color:post_uid0]

[Nate the Great]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]On a totally irrelevant side note, the only place I'd ever heard of butter tarts before is the comic strip For Better or For Worse.

You'd think that I'd know a little about Canadian lifestyle, being from Minnesota, but even that one caught me off guard.[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[quote:post_uid0="Gatac"][color=#000000:post_uid0]What scares me is that I knew at once what you were talking about, Derek.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]You should have been around when NAH was playing number games with the 5MV member count, as it increased over time. I think he would [i:post_uid0]start[/i:post_uid0] with factorials, and from there things would get [i:post_uid0]really[/i:post_uid0] silly. 8| :D

[quote:post_uid0]
Here:

http://www.restaurant.ca/mtl/restos/1296rstmtl/main_frm_en.shtml
[/quote:post_uid0]
*begins plotting trip logistics*[/color:post_uid0]

[Alexia]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="Nan"]Butter tarts, for the uninitiated, are a small pastry, like a mini-pie that fits easily in your palm. They have a sugary sweet "custard" filling, made of raisins, walnuts, brown sugar, corn syrup, softened butter and eggs.[/quote:post_uid0]
Sounds suspiciously like our custard tarts (The English are not too imaginative with names! )[/color:post_uid0]

[admiral sab]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Ok first of all here's a link: reviewboy.com check into it! lol
while your there click on the DC Forum link and say hello! LOL I can't believe there are actual people out there who don't know who Fatherly Uncle Jim is. Pity. lol

Good explanation, Marc. I've never thought of it that way. Hmmm in a way Jim Wright allowed me to meet Zekey buns and you and Nanners and a whole bunch of peeps. Wait this thread is about 5MV not Jim, so YAY for 100 members! Glad I'm one of 'em.

The Pie thing: It's a total coincidence, but I just made a Chocolate silk torte and wow it was good. MMmmmm....pie.[/color:post_uid0]