# 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:** 98
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2013, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1941 "2013-08-17T23:25:17Z")
Ah yes, Ben’s. I’d never been there, but I’d often pass it on my way to McGill. ---
**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 18, 2013, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1942 "2013-08-18T05:27:23Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Mother’s is back. Hooray! I did like Mother’s. It may have been a chain, but my memories of Mother’s are that it was far better than, say, the Boston Pizza chain. I’ll look forward to Mother’s expansion. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1943 "2013-08-18T16:01:06Z")
I didn’t really like Mother’s and here’s why. In Sarnia, where I grew up, there’s a family-run pizzeria with the matriarch doing all of the cooking. If you want pizza on a Saturday night, you better order at least two hours in advance. The pizza at this place was not your typically saucy, cheesy pizza; it was thin crust and had minimal sauce and cheese, but my God was it good. It’s hard to describe how minimalist pizza can be delicious, but it was. (Still is actually, and as far as I know the same granny is still making the pizzas.) So, Mother’s was probably good, but not compared to this little family-run place. My mouth waters just thinking about their pizza. ---
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1944 "2013-08-18T20:25:37Z")
Is Gabriel’s pizza a national chain, or just Ottawa? I suppose I could google it, but…well…😃 The Toronto kids at my school tend to poo poo the pizza selection around here. But then again, they’re all ivory tower elitists in my book, so what the hell do I care? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1945 "2013-08-18T22:17:45Z")
> [@antonio107](#): > > Is Gabriel’s pizza a national chain, or just Ottawa? I suppose I could google it, but…well…😃 > > The Toronto kids at my school tend to poo poo the pizza selection around here. But then again, they’re all ivory tower elitists in my book, so what the hell do I care? 😛 Carp pizza antonio. Carp pizza. ---
**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 19, 2013, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1946 "2013-08-19T03:36:17Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > In Sarnia, where I grew up, there’s a family-run pizzeria with the matriarch doing all of the cooking… The little, family-run places could be amazing. I well remember Bitondo’s in Toronto (Clinton Street, just south of College, if memory serves), where the pizza must have been four inches high with cheese and toppings before going in the oven, and where the panzerottos were deep-fried. I don’t know if it is still there, but it beat anything a chain could do. ---
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1947 "2013-08-19T04:49:48Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Carp pizza antonio. Carp pizza. Nearly an hour drive from my place. Pass. 😛 ---
**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 19, 2013, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1948 "2013-08-19T12:29:08Z")
**Mother’s Pizza**! I remember it well. The 2 locations in my area both seemed to be huge old houses, remodeled into restaurants; dimly lit, close-quartered, and all dark wood interior. I also remember quite well that pretty much every time I went there, as a young boy, I ate far too much, far too quickly, and ended up feeling sick and hoping to not vomit. I wrote a poem about it around 6 years ago: **i was still i ate** when i was eight i was still my mothers son i was at mothers i was still my mothers son at mothers restaurant when i ate when i was eight i ate at my mothers side and was still inside mothers when i ate too much i was still i ate too much pizza and i had to lie still and lie to my stomach when i ate i wasnt full yet still i ate and went still and i had to lie and lay down i had to lay still the law of nature laid down the law beside me on the bench on mothers bench inside mothers restaurant the awful feeling of my stomach turning to my brain saying i ate too much saying too late ten minutes ago i was full but i was still eight and i still ate too much pizza and now i hate when i am still i am still my mothers son but mothers gone still ---
**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 19, 2013, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1949 "2013-08-19T12:39:24Z")
When you are in grade ten, don’t suggest going to Mother’s to your school mates without also reminding them to bring money to pay for their meal. Just saying. ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1950 "2013-08-19T20:29:02Z")
Dr Doom, I don’t know exactly what to say, but I’ll remember your poem. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1951 "2013-08-20T03:05:12Z")
Hanging out with lawyers from all over Canada at the CBA in Saskatoon; just came from a back alley speakeasy, and waiting for the Sheepdogs to start. ---
**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 20, 2013, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1952 "2013-08-20T03:40:11Z")
We saw this on 10th Street NW yesterday to warn us of a hump on the road - [Watch Out For My Hump!](http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s142/featherlou/Miscellaneous/IMG_00000083_zps8006a63b.jpg) Then we saw [this further down the road](http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s142/featherlou/Miscellaneous/IMG_00000085_zps572a8de9.jpg). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1953 "2013-08-20T03:42:33Z")
Drinking beer with the President of the Irish Bar and the Irish Law Society - good blokes! ---
**Author:** ![Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dread_pirate_jimbo/32/3897_2.png) [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dread_Pirate_Jimbo)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1954 "2013-08-20T05:24:54Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > We saw this on 10th Street NW yesterday to warn us of a hump on the road - [Watch Out For My Hump!](http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s142/featherlou/Miscellaneous/IMG_00000083_zps8006a63b.jpg) > > Then we saw [this further down the road](http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s142/featherlou/Miscellaneous/IMG_00000085_zps572a8de9.jpg). 😃 Unquestionably the best graffiti I’ve ever seen! 🙂 ---
**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 20, 2013, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1955 "2013-08-20T06:51:25Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Hanging out with lawyers from all over Canada at the CBA in Saskatoon; just came from a back alley speakeasy, and waiting for the Sheepdogs to start. > [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Drinking beer with the President of the Irish Bar and the Irish Law Society - good blokes! I should join the CBA. I was a member, but I let my membership lapse when I went independent. It sounds like I should rejoin. ---
**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 20, 2013, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1956 "2013-08-20T16:26:14Z")
[Seven Things You Can’t Say In Canada.](http://www.readersdigest.ca/magazine/7-things-you-can-t-say-canada-0) An interesting read - I think I need to look up why recycling doesn’t do anything effective. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1957 "2013-08-20T16:34:59Z")
> [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](#): > > Unquestionably the best graffiti I’ve ever seen! 🙂 Are these signs some kind of song lyric reference or something? ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1958 "2013-08-20T16:40:05Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > [Seven Things You Can’t Say In Canada.](http://www.readersdigest.ca/magazine/7-things-you-can-t-say-canada-0) An interesting read - I think I need to look up why recycling doesn’t do anything effective. I am Canadian, I am a Margaret also, and I have yet to read an Atwood book that I don’t loathe. /thread drift ---
**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 20, 2013, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1959 "2013-08-20T16:41:20Z")
Meh. Sounds like some grumpy woman decided it was time to get bitchy and share her less-than-stellar opinions on some facets of Canadiana. Reeks of attention-seeking IMO. Her views on **the arts** can be discounted out of hand, for lack of substance. Perhaps were she to give some kind of detail to flesh out the whys and wherefores of her analyses one could begin to evaluate their relative merits. I like our **recycling** programs, or, at least, that we have them, admittedly knowing nothing of the ins and outs of their (in)effects, one way or the other. I also, to a point, think some form of **2-tier health care** is sensible, were it possible to implement it fairly. **David Suzuki** is a TV personality. Why expend energy hating on him? At the end of the day, he’s an entertainer. **Daycare** I literally have no opinion about, and so didn’t even scan the writer’s thoughts, limited as they were presented. **"Force for Good"**? Laughably sensationalistic. What the hell does that even mean? ---
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1960 "2013-08-20T21:23:24Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > I should join the CBA. I was a member, but I let my membership lapse when I went independent. It sounds like I should rejoin. I’m a student member, and have yet to have been called to the bar. Or the pub, speakeasy, etc. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736.md?page=97) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736.md?page=99)