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Feb. 20th, 2012 05:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gala_applesI will not get a 22 dollar day pass for Festival du Voyageur just so I can get some tire d'erable. *repeats like a mantra*
While all the Americans celebrate President's Day tomorrow, for Manitoba it's Louis Riel day. He's this guy that ran the Meti nation (Meti occur when Aboriginals and Francophones fuck), and took on the Anglophone gov a bunch of times when they were fighting over who got Canada. He basically created Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
We celebrate this heritage by having a ten day outdoor festival, in which there are awesome things like beard growing contests and snow sculptures that are 50 feet long and 18 feet high. And concerts, in which everyone moshes in ski pants, because it's February. In Winnipeg. And informational cos-playing. Like for example, DID YOU KNOW that the beaver skin they used to make top hats out of, before they could use it, women had to wear it as underwear to soften it? THAT'S RIGHT, TOPHATS ARE MADE OUT OF FUR PANTIES.
BUT ALSO TRADITIONAL FOODS. Normal stuff, like pancakes and poutine (fries with cheese and gravy), and crepes, and maple sugar pie and tourtiere (meat pie). But most importantly: tire d'erable. You know what that is? That's where you take sap straight out of a maple tree, boil it, and pour it on snow, and quickly jam a stick in it, so when it cools you have hardcore fresh maple taffy on a popsicle stick.
I WANT IT SO FUCKING BAD. But 22 dollars for the entry fee, plus transportation costs, plus the actual tire d'erable cost- one hunk of candy for 35$ seems a bit much.
NEXT FEBRUARY, WHEN I HAVE A JOB YOU WILL BE MINE, TIRE D'ERABLE. I'M COMING FOR YOUUUU.
While all the Americans celebrate President's Day tomorrow, for Manitoba it's Louis Riel day. He's this guy that ran the Meti nation (Meti occur when Aboriginals and Francophones fuck), and took on the Anglophone gov a bunch of times when they were fighting over who got Canada. He basically created Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
We celebrate this heritage by having a ten day outdoor festival, in which there are awesome things like beard growing contests and snow sculptures that are 50 feet long and 18 feet high. And concerts, in which everyone moshes in ski pants, because it's February. In Winnipeg. And informational cos-playing. Like for example, DID YOU KNOW that the beaver skin they used to make top hats out of, before they could use it, women had to wear it as underwear to soften it? THAT'S RIGHT, TOPHATS ARE MADE OUT OF FUR PANTIES.
BUT ALSO TRADITIONAL FOODS. Normal stuff, like pancakes and poutine (fries with cheese and gravy), and crepes, and maple sugar pie and tourtiere (meat pie). But most importantly: tire d'erable. You know what that is? That's where you take sap straight out of a maple tree, boil it, and pour it on snow, and quickly jam a stick in it, so when it cools you have hardcore fresh maple taffy on a popsicle stick.
I WANT IT SO FUCKING BAD. But 22 dollars for the entry fee, plus transportation costs, plus the actual tire d'erable cost- one hunk of candy for 35$ seems a bit much.
NEXT FEBRUARY, WHEN I HAVE A JOB YOU WILL BE MINE, TIRE D'ERABLE. I'M COMING FOR YOUUUU.
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Date: 2012-02-20 05:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-02-20 11:10 pm (UTC)