Government Weed Poutine Sauce

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Government Weed Poutine Sauce
"Quebec provincial weed store sells THC infused poutine sauce mix"

It's been a hot minute since I posted, and I mean that both figuratively and literally:

Is that good?

But let's start at the top. My partner is back finally from their long trip to Peru and that is among the reasons I haven't posted recently.

They arrived with various maladies, but the moment they felt even a little better we went out to the week-long music festival (one of many) in the Quartier des Spectacles. Place des Arts [[1]] is in this neighborhood, and the area always has something going on. This time it's Francos Montréal.

On approach - blocked streets and a million bikes parked in every conceivable location.
Quite the turnout. Helps it is almost 100% free.

As perhaps implied by the name, the festival is all francophone music. We know precious few bands [[2]]. Obviously a bunch of stuff has come out of Québec - Celine Dion, Arcade Fire, etc - but these are groups that play almost exclusively songs in French.

We ended up stumbling into the headliner for the evening: The Québec Redneck Bluegrass Project.

I didn't get a good picture of it, but to the right is the main place to buy alcohol, run by the Société des alcools du Québec - e.g., the provincial government monopoly on liquor sales. Prices are kept fairly reasonable, given you can just bring whatever you want and drink it in the streets.

It's not necessary to know French to enjoy this. At my current level of competency, I barely understand any of it.

The festival goes all week, but unfortunately happens to be coinciding with a fairly extreme heatwave. The place that sells ice cream just down the street is slammed.

Though in fairness they are all watching a soccer game. Yeah, they mostly call it soccer here.

It is supposed to cool off on Friday, which is good as the entire french language program I'm part of is doing a picnic (pique-nique, really) at the park.

I need to share one more thing - it is actually possible to find a mayor that doesn't suck shit (at least on one thing).

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This is the mayor of the City of Quebec but on this topic at least they seem to be on the same page as Valérie Plante, the current mayor of Montréal.

Anyway I'm at least going to see a couple more shows. In the meantime here is dog.

The eye is looking a bit better. I mean she can't see out of it but, I mean, aesthetically.

[[1]]: Expect to say these places incorrectly for several months. For reference, Place des Arts is something like "plas dess-arr" and Quartier des Spectacles is "carty-ay day spec-tac"

[[2]]: My main exposure has been professors showing us stuff like Jean-Pierre Ferland (who died quite recently so they are doing a big thing about it) and the sole Apple Music playlist dedicated to music of the region. I usually don't like too much pop music but for language learning you cannot beat earworms like this thing

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