Maimmmmm.... A&W Teen Burger
States suck. Nationalism sucks. Scroll to the end for dog.
Despite massive labor actions and a sizable COVID wave (new variant just dropped - get your booster people!), Montreal is alight in holiday events.
While in the area I finally decided to take a stroll into the Gay Village of Montreal. The bars were crowded so I avoided them, they’ll still be there when the wave is over,
One slightly surprising sight in the village was a chain fast food place:
Strange because there is a relative dearth of chain stores in Montreal. Taco Bell for example exited to province some time ago. A quantity of hay has been made about this in relation to the French language legal requirements, to wit:
And to be sure, it can be a heavy lift to translate everything - particularly legal documents that are only enforceable in the French language - but I suspect something like Taco Bell could afford it. Another factor may just be that chains are simply less popular in the fairly dense, walkable cities of the province.
In other news, King County has graced me with a jury summons (“you have been summonsed”). To confirm you have moved away, you need to go to the Department of Licensing to update your address, which conveniently hard-codes your update with State: Washington, Country: United States.
I didn’t do this, and explained why, and they let me out of it.
Anyway, let’s see a dog.
Here is Bunny, rocking some post biopsy anesthesia for her many, many cancers. They did have to shave her belly to effect this which - incredibly - makes her even more pathetic.
As my partner was out of town, back in Seattle to sell their car, I took Bunny to the vet. I don’t know why, but I found all of the health-related posters in French genuinely hilarious.
