# The CanaDoper Café, 2013 edition. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 1, 2013, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736 "2013-01-01T03:29:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 96
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2013, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1901 "2013-08-12T19:19:57Z")
And now you greedy bastards are hoarding that ill gotten name like a Mafia Don’s virgin daughter! 😉 I kid. I kid because I love. I already have a down payment on Red Black tickets. I have a “F\*\*\* the Green Whites!” sign already planned out. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1902 "2013-08-13T12:04:01Z")
Well, if Ottawa had supported their team the way Riders fans support theirs, you’d never have lost the name in the first place. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1903 "2013-08-13T17:28:32Z")
> [@antonio107](#): > > And now you greedy bastards are hoarding that ill gotten name like a Mafia Don’s virgin daughter! 😉 > > I kid. I kid because I love. > > I already have a down payment on Red Black tickets. I have a “F\*\*\* the Green Whites!” sign already planned out. 😛 Excuse me, I believe their name is REDBLACKS. I wish I was kidding. ---
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1904 "2013-08-13T18:20:49Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > Well, if Ottawa had supported their team the way Riders fans support theirs, you’d never have lost the name in the first place. 🙂 And Montreal fans hate baseball, and there are more hockey fans in Dallas than in Minnesota, right? Bad ownership ruined the team, not the fan base. ---
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1905 "2013-08-13T18:21:52Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Excuse me, I believe their name is REDBLACKS. I wish I was kidding. I like saying “Les Rouges et noirs,” personally. Sounds better in my pigeon French! ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Doom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Dr\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Doom)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1906 "2013-08-13T20:03:29Z")
Apparently they’ve been available for years, down east, but now the Holy Grail of fast food is available in Ontario (for a limited time): [The McLobster](http://www.thegridto.com/blog-post/office-taste-test-mcdonalds-mclobster/)!!! Suck it, western provinces! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![trupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@trupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trupa)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1907 "2013-08-13T20:49:38Z")
> [@Dr\_Doom](#): > > Apparently they’ve been available for years, down east, but now the Holy Grail of fast food is available in Ontario (for a limited time): > > [The McLobster](http://www.thegridto.com/blog-post/office-taste-test-mcdonalds-mclobster/)!!! > > Suck it, western provinces! 🙂 OMG! That’s actually true. I was expecting an Onion link. What’s next, SNL’s McSushi? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Lurker\_Above](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@The\_Lurker\_Above](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Lurker_Above)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1908 "2013-08-13T21:12:12Z")
> [@Dr\_Doom](#): > > [The McLobster](http://www.thegridto.com/blog-post/office-taste-test-mcdonalds-mclobster/)!!! > > Suck it, western provinces! 🙂 Intellectually I know that McDonald’s wouldn’t come out with a food product that they couldn’t serve safely (the lawyers would kill em otherwise). But there’s a little voice in my head screaming ‘Are you seriously going to trust the guys working at MickyD’s to handle shellfish?!’ ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1909 "2013-08-14T00:24:37Z")
> [@Dr\_Doom](#): > > Apparently they’ve been available for years, down east, but now the Holy Grail of fast food is available in Ontario (for a limited time): > > [The McLobster](http://www.thegridto.com/blog-post/office-taste-test-mcdonalds-mclobster/)!!! > > Suck it, western provinces! 🙂 Eh, I’m not a fan of the seabugs. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1910 "2013-08-14T02:02:07Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Excuse me, I believe their name is REDBLACKS. I wish I was kidding. Isn’t red and black how you look if you have been beaten up? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1911 "2013-08-14T03:35:51Z")
> [@trupa](#): > > OMG! That’s actually true. I was expecting an Onion link. What’s next, SNL’s McSushi? No, we’d need a Canadian connection: McPoutine, McButtertart, McNanaimo Bar. Those might be interesting. But I’d hate to see what McD’s produces if it ever introduces the McMontreal Smoked Meat Sandwich. ---
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1912 "2013-08-14T04:15:51Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > No, we’d need a Canadian connection: McPoutine, McButtertart, McNanaimo Bar. Those might be interesting. > > But I’d hate to see what McD’s produces if it ever introduces the McMontreal Smoked Meat Sandwich. You can already by Dunn’s smoked meat in a bag at the Costco. It’s edible. I cast imagine McDonald’s would be too far off the mark. I remember years ago when they made their “Deli style sandwiches,” I used to always get their Reuben before they stopped making it. That was a great sandwich, by McDonald’s standards. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1913 "2013-08-14T06:24:34Z")
> [@antonio107](#): > > You can already by Dunn’s smoked meat in a bag at the Costco. It’s edible. I cast imagine McDonald’s would be too far off the mark. But no matter how hard McD’s tried, I doubt that it would approach Schwartz’s or Ben’s. (I know Ben’s has closed, but I loved their smoked meat sandwiches.) > [@](#): > > I remember years ago when they made their “Deli style sandwiches,” I used to always get their Reuben before they stopped making it. That was a great sandwich, by McDonald’s standards. I appreciated their effort, but their Reuben was a pale comparison to what I could get at the Pickle Barrel in Toronto. Never mind the proper delis. Toronto Dopers: is Shopsy’s still in business? How about Switzer’s on Spadina? And Yitz’s, on Eglinton at Avenue Road? ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1914 "2013-08-14T13:24:41Z")
The main location of Shopsy’s at Yonge and Front closed years ago. They’re still around but it’s just not the same anywhere else. I don’t know the other two you mentioned but there’s still a Katz’s on Dufferin. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1915 "2013-08-14T13:45:53Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > But no matter how hard McD’s tried, I doubt that it would approach Schwartz’s or Ben’s. (I know Ben’s has closed, but I loved their smoked meat sandwiches.) > > I appreciated their effort, but their Reuben was a pale comparison to what I could get at the Pickle Barrel in Toronto. Never mind the proper delis. > > Toronto Dopers: is Shopsy’s still in business? How about Switzer’s on Spadina? And Yitz’s, on Eglinton at Avenue Road? Yitz’s is still around. As was mentioned above, the main Shopsy’s location closed, and the franchised version that is still around isn’t the same. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1916 "2013-08-14T19:49:12Z")
Don’t try to buy pot on Twitter. The York Regional Police are on there too: > **[Twitter user fired from job after pot plea tweet | Globalnews.ca](https://globalnews.ca/news/779932/twitter-user-fired-from-job-after-pot-plea-tweet/)** > > A GTA-based Twitter user, whose public request for a drug dealer to deliver some good to his workplace went viral Tuesday after York Regional Police (YRP) retweeted the request, has been fired from his job. ---
**Author:** ![trupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@trupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trupa)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1917 "2013-08-14T21:49:28Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > Don’t try to buy pot on Twitter. The York Regional Police are on there too: > > [Twitter user fired from job after pot plea tweet | Globalnews.ca](http://globalnews.ca/news/779932/twitter-user-fired-from-job-after-pot-plea-tweet/) That’s right up there in the _Brilliant Moves_ category, along with putting an add in Craigslist to hire a hitman to “take care” of your husband. ---
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1918 "2013-08-14T22:27:04Z")
Oh, and FYI McSpoons, they do sell poutine at some McDonald’s locations. There’s about three in Ottawa that do. But those thin fries suck for holding curds and gravy. Burger King’s poutine is way better. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1919 "2013-08-14T22:58:08Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > Don’t try to buy pot on Twitter. The York Regional Police are on there too: > > [Twitter user fired from job after pot plea tweet | Globalnews.ca](http://globalnews.ca/news/779932/twitter-user-fired-from-job-after-pot-plea-tweet/) Deliver the pot right to his work, eh? I’ve got to give him credit for big brass balls, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1920 "2013-08-15T00:17:15Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > But no matter how hard McD’s tried, I doubt that it would approach Schwartz’s or Ben’s. (I know Ben’s has closed, but I loved their smoked meat sandwiches.) > > I appreciated their effort, but their Reuben was a pale comparison to what I could get at the Pickle Barrel in Toronto. Never mind the proper delis. > > Toronto Dopers: is Shopsy’s still in business? How about Switzer’s on Spadina? And Yitz’s, on Eglinton at Avenue Road? President’s Choice single serving heat in a bag Montreal Smoked Meat is tolerable (a lot better than Shopsy’s), provided it is slowly and gently warmed. [PC Optimum](http://www.presidentschoice.ca/en_CA/products/productlisting/pc_montreal_smoked_meatprod910013.html) Moe Pancer’s deli on Bathurst north of the highway is still making the world a better place. [http://www.moepancersdeli.ca/pdf/PancersMN\_2012.pdf](http://www.moepancersdeli.ca/pdf/PancersMN_2012.pdf) I once spent the summer driving about North America in a quest for the best smoked meat sandwich (ostensibly the funding was to moderate and speak at an STC conference, but hey, we all have priorities). Quite simply, all others paled in comparison to Schwartz’s. [http://schwartzsdeli.com/ca/en/](http://schwartzsdeli.com/ca/en/) I would never have been born were it not for Ben’s. My folks worked in the Forum and eventually stared courting over lunch; they would pick up smoked meat sandwiches at Ben’s and eat them while sitting in the stands watching the Rocket and the Pocket practice. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736.md?page=95) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736.md?page=97)