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Every Canadian knows of a wonderful, magical place that can cure all your ills, and fill you in a way no other fast food restaurant can or wants to. It is a place worthy of an epic journey, a la Harold & Kumar.

“It” is White Castle.

Last month, I had the good fortune of spending a few days in beautiful Northern Kentucky, famously (mis)marketed as the South Side of Cincinnati (The mis-marketing is a topic for another time and place. Let’s leave it at: I’d never be happy living someplace that built its identity in relation to a bigger, better place. I know, I know, Canada… but here we are). It is also home to a vast array of liquor and tobacco shops, a “main strasse” (I don’t know why they pulled out the German there) and a White Castle. Read more

New on Tuna Cupcake:
As of yesterday, fishermen off the southwest coast of Nova Scotia (where lobster is currently in season) were getting $2.25 CAN per pound. That’s insanely cheap… and worrisome to many a fisher out there. Know who it doesn’t really worry? Me. For me, it just means lots of potential for delicious lobster.

Now, it’s not as cheap in Toronto (note: speculation. I’m too lazy to go to a grocery store with a lobster tank.), but that doesn’t mean we can’t benefit from the cheaper-than-chicken status of lobster (note #2: the weight of lobster includes like… the whole thing, not just the meat you’re going to eat. So you have to factor in all the other junk… but again, too lazy to know what kind of ratio we’re talking there.) So what should you do with this delicious lobster? Read more on tunacupcake.com.

To start, the actual title of this series “The Best of: Thanksgiving when you’re a single 20-something whose parents are an 18 hour drive away and whose roommate really hates Thanksgiving.” But that would eaten up a lot of screen space, so I decided to trim it a bit. Also, too, however, and as well (Palin-ism), my Thanksgivings have not always been unfortunate affairs. I used to have great, delicious, possibly nutritious, family gatherings that left everyone sleepy and a bit testy, and I’ve even had some good Thanksgivings in Toronto. But they’ve been a slippery slope heading toward a downward spiral. And they are documented… HERE. Also click here for the brand new, just launched surprise.