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From: sean_q on 25 Jul 2010 00:11
don (Calgary) wrote:
> ...by noon I found myself
> 40 miles from home, sitting on a bench in front of an old fashioned
> ice cream shop, enjoying a double scoop of Tiger, in a waffle cone.
>
> Friggin motorcycles. :-)

Today I took the Dnepr up the Fraser Highway to see a show'n'shine
and by noon I found myself outside the Clayton General Store
enjoying a really excellent Bavarian smokie from a roadside
hot dog stand along with an ice-cold 7-Up. Oh, happy happy joy.

It was all the bike's fault, I tellya.

SQ
From: sean_q on 25 Jul 2010 00:36
don (Calgary) wrote:

> To make the location even better, there is a Saloon across the street
> that serves the best buffalo burgers in Alberta. We often go there
> for a burger and then walk across the street for an ice cream.

Where is this location, I wonder. Calgary has grown so much
since I lived there that places I remember being 40 miles
out town are now *in* town.

ps. Somewhere south of the city there is (or was)
this huge rock the size of house. Just sitting in
an open field.

Apparently a glacier pushed it there from wherever
big rocks come from (the "Rocky" Mountains?).
Anyway for all I know it's within the city limits
now too, probably in a MacDonald's parking lot.

Now that I remember it's actually two rocks;
split from one big one. There was a time when I was
thin enough to fit between them, but not any more
I suppose.

SQ
From: don (Calgary) on 25 Jul 2010 09:21
On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:36:24 -0700, sean_q <no.spam(a)no.spam> wrote:

>don (Calgary) wrote:
>
>> To make the location even better, there is a Saloon across the street
>> that serves the best buffalo burgers in Alberta. We often go there
>> for a burger and then walk across the street for an ice cream.
>
>Where is this location, I wonder. Calgary has grown so much
>since I lived there that places I remember being 40 miles
>out town are now *in* town.

MacKays Ice Cream in Cochrane.
http://www.mackaysicecream.com/

And yes Cochrane is still outside of Calgary, for now. ;-)

Actually our growth has slowed. In fact for the first time in decades
we had a negative net migration in 2009. Maybe Cochrane will annex
Calgary.

>
>ps. Somewhere south of the city there is (or was)
>this huge rock the size of house. Just sitting in
>an open field.

Yup it's still there. It's called an erratic.
http://culture.alberta.ca/museums/historicsiteslisting/okotokserratic/default.aspx

There are many erratics in Alberta, all carried to the area by the
glaciers thousands of years ago and left behind as the glaciers
melted.
>
>Apparently a glacier pushed it there from wherever
>big rocks come from (the "Rocky" Mountains?).
>Anyway for all I know it's within the city limits
>now too, probably in a MacDonald's parking lot.

I doubt there will ever be "development" around this one. We tend to
protect erratics wherever we find them.
>
>Now that I remember it's actually two rocks;
>split from one big one. There was a time when I was
>thin enough to fit between them, but not any more
>I suppose.
>
You have a good memory.
From: Bob Myers on 25 Jul 2010 16:12
don (Calgary) wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:14:59 -0600, "Bob Myers"
> <nospamplease(a)address.invalid> wrote:
>
>> don (Calgary) wrote:
>>> I left this morning to do a little shopping and by noon I found
>>> myself 40 miles from home, sitting on a bench in front of an old
>>> fashioned ice cream shop, enjoying a double scoop of Tiger, in a
>>> waffle cone.
>>>
>>> Friggin motorcycles. :-)
>>
>> "Tiger?" Assume it's a local thing. 'Splain, please.
>
> Tiger?
>
> Orange ice cream with a licorice swirl. I didn't know this was a
> unique Canadian flavour.

Dunno if it's uniquely Canadian, but I've never heard of it before;
grew up in the U.S. Midwest (Indiana), have been in the Rockies
for the last 30 years. Doesn't sound like something I'd look for,
though, not being a huge licorice fan.

When it comes to ice cream, I'm a pretty damned consistent
chocoholic. Once in a very great while, something else. Damn,
now I need to go looking for a cone...

Bob M.


From: Bob Mann on 25 Jul 2010 20:56
On Jul 24, 5:58 pm, "don (Calgary)" <hd.f...(a)telus.net> wrote:

>
> Tiger?
>
> Orange ice cream with a licorice swirl. I didn't know this was a
> unique Canadian flavour.
>
> Good for us!  It is delicious!
>



Funny how much further advanced we are than our southern neighbours
isn't it? ;-)

Bob
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