oh hey hey you don't hey it's Bruce here with traveling with Bruce welcome to my
daily today's date is November 23rd 2017 it is Thanksgiving in the United States
happy Thanksgiving to all of my American viewers you know who you are and all my
friends in the United States here in Canada we've already had our
Thanksgiving we have ours usually the both the 10th of October every year and
it's just a long weekend for us we just get the Monday off we love the way you
guys do it with Thursday's fantastic first of all I want to just welcome you
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November 23rd or 2017 so I'll see you know I'll see you in just a sec okay
take care hey everybody how you doing it's Bruce here welcome to my daily it's
my second daily today is November the 23rd 2017 and the first things first
happy Thanksgiving to all the United States viewers of my channel and all my
friends at the USA it's a big deal down there I know here in Canada it's a lot
different for us than for you guys so we first of all we've already had our
Thanksgiving usually though about the 10th by the 10th of October we usually
have our Thanksgiving and it's not as a big not as a big deal as it is for you
guys I think the big difference is the fact that you celebrate Thanksgiving one
on Thursday which automatically makes Wednesday kind of a travel day Thursday
Thanksgiving Friday you know a day off Saturday and Sunday a day off go home on
Sunday or go home on Monday so you kind of take this five six day four day break
in Canada Thanksgiving is on a Monday it's just a long weekend for us and so
we were going to surprise anyone with a trip
you know we'll travel along the Friday if we take Friday off work or after work
Friday or we travel on the Saturday and get to where we're going and hang out
Saturday Sunday celebrated on Monday and then come home Monday night or Tuesday
but we a kind of envy you in the u.s. because you take this Thursday routine
and turn it into an extra-long weekend we think that's pretty cool
Canadians love watching NFL football let me tell you
Canadians today will be watching NFL football at work at the local sports bar
near work corner they'll find a way to be sick today just not feel too well and
maybe work from home today so we'll be watching our share of NFL football a
couple of differences other differences between Thanksgiving between Canada u.s.
little things and this is more personal to me
number one Costco in Canada we know Thanksgiving is just around the corner
for us in Canada when Costco starts offering pumpkin pie in the
and that's usually around the 15th to 20th of September but the pumpkin pie
starts coming up and we love it as a matter of fact when we buy our
first pumpkin pie of the season we head to the cashier at the Costco in Canada
and if it's early days the cashiers who go oh oh the pumpkin pies are out they
know this is a big deal thousands of them will be sold every day
leading up to Thanksgiving because we just eat pumpkin pie anytime we can get
it we we don't eat pumpkin pie just Thanksgiving we love pumpkin pie almost
year-round the difference though is the pumpkin pie in Canada is different than
the Costco pumpkin pie in the States I swear by it I've purchased pie pumpkin
pie in a Costco in Coeur d'Alene Idaho which by the way in case you some of you
folks are new to my channel I live in Crescent British Columbia Canada that's
3 miles north of the US border it's just just over there Idaho is just over there
my closest Costco to my house is in Coeur d'Alene Idaho 2 hours 20 minutes
by car I met the Coeur d'Alene in Idaho and you
buy a pumpkin pie there it's sweeter and creamier we're in Canada the texture is
not as creamy and it's certainly not as sweet it's a little more spicy that's
just the way pumpkin pie is up here versus down there I can't guarantee it
that if you ever interviewed a baker who's who makes the pies for Costco that
they'll claim all no they're exactly the same this is not true we just don't we
just don't think so we think there's a definite difference the American pumpkin
pie as a sweeter creamier tasting pie hey to each his own you know another big
difference between castelo United States and Canada by the way from a guy who
loves both is in Canada we can't buy decent ice cream at a Costco
we are only able to buy these big giant one gallon plastic pails of ice cream
that is ice milk it's if you got a kid's birthday party with
20 kids coming over you know they're eight ten years old and you want to give
them an ice cream treat with some sprinkles on top yeah that's perfect by
the bucket piano and bone of a slab of this stuff they'll only need half of it
anyway it's crap but for a connoisseur like myself the Costco you buy is that
the ice cream you buy excuse me is that Costco in the United States of America
up until a year ago you would buy the Kirkland brand extra premium vanilla ice
cream Costco changed it and they now call it
Humboldt Farms I believe it is Humboldt Farms ice cream it's the same stuff as
far as I can tell beautiful top-notch premium vanilla ice
cream you get to half gallon gallon containers of it and it's rich in its
creamy and it's delicious and the secret to success with that ice cream is you
buy the Hershey's chocolate sauce at Costco and then you buy a big bag of
walnuts from Costco so you got a volume price on this stuff and when you are
getting a bowl and putting the ice cream in there you then grab a handful of
those almonds of those walnuts I should say and you take a knife or over one of
those hammers and you you hammer it down and crush the the walnut into smaller
pieces pour that on top of your ice cream and
then add the chocolate sauce on top of that Primo desserts not for kids
absolutely wonderful it's fantastic the only better quality ice cream you can
get in Canada and not even at Costco is haagen-dazs and you know haagen-dazs I
hate those guys they have little puny one pint containers for five bucks a pop
six bucks a pop ridiculous multiply uh you know six bucks times 8 bites we're
talking forty eight dollars a gallon for for ice cream that's ridiculous you know
they make the product in massive of batches but then they package them in
these little puny little one one point package
to maximize their profits we're at the Costco you can buy a gallon for 13 bucks
for a premium premium ice cream to half gallon containers $13 what do you want
to pay 13 or 48 not hard to decide that from my house to the Costco in Coeur
d'Alene Idaho two hours 20 minutes as I said earlier gasoline for the car
unbelievably cheaper here in Canada we are paying the equivalent of about $4 to
425 us a gallon for gas up here at the crib Lane Costco $2 35 to 40 cents a
gallon so 15 gallons later you're talking about saving $25 for a tank of
gas that's a lot of money and that pays for the ice-cream paste for my wife to
have a hotdog buck-50 at Costco pays for my chicken bake at the Costco and we
pick up some other products down there and it's an outing for two hours 20
minutes we head down spend two or three hours in the Coeur d'Alene area do some
shopping come back two hours 20 minutes later it's a six seven-hour and a
wonderful day and we come home with the good stuff so that's how we do it from
here in Creston down to the US of A we don't have Americans coming up the
Creston to buy gas we don't have Americans coming to Creston to buy goods
oh no even with your strong American dollar no deals for Americans up here
it's far more expensive for our stuff but it makes sense because we just don't
have the population base in this country to compete with the size and the volume
of scale that you have in the US and so we take advantage of the of the sales
and head down south anyway Thanksgiving here we are I can say we celebrated a
little bit different in Canada it's just a three-day deal it's a long weekend I
have lived in Palm Desert California and I've seen the US Thanksgiving happened
and it is really something in Palm Desert from was seven years off
and on and boy let me tell you it was the busiest weekend for for visiting of
the year Canadians find it hard to believe that that it isn't between
Christmas and New Year's the busiest period in Palm Desert and Palm Springs
and Rancho Mirage a whole area down there and probably across most of the US
when Americans come to see Americans its Thanksgiving weekend it's that one time
of year where you get together it's fantastic here in Canada like I say it's
a long weekend for us so there's a bit of traveling going on but nowhere near
the the the percentage of population movement that you have in the United
States I will say though that one year when I was 21 years old 40 years ago I'm
an old man my wife and I had just moved to Calgary Alberta and from Ontario we
used to live I used to live in Kitchener Waterloo Ontario home of the Oktoberfest
in Canada and I was homesick I had moved to Calgary in the summertime in July and
October was coming up and I was gonna miss my first Oktoberfest with my family
and it really got to me I was 21 it was 2,000 miles away from home and from all
my pals and my friends and I convinced my wife that we should do a surprise
trip to Kitchener and catch my mom and dad totally off-guard and just visit
them for for the long weekend and in those days back in the 70s you could buy
a standby ticket across Canada with Air Canada for example or see Pierre I could
buy a ticket for my wife and I round-trip for three hundred dollars to
fly to Toronto and back from calories 2,000 miles there 2,000 miles back and I
convinced her we could afford it because I had four hundred dollars of change
saved up over all the years that I've been saving my quarters my dimes my
nickels and my pennies now I rolled up all the change that I had at $400 cashed
in at the bank four bills took it to the trance to the travel
agent and bought a round-trip ticket from my wife and I to
with Toronto from Calgary and we didn't tell anybody we were coming we we packed
just a little suitcase each gone up to the airport gone on board the plane
landed in Toronto quick bus connection to Kitchener butter now and a half away
and walked in on my mom and dad totally unannounced and surprised the kid Jesus
out of them and for years and years and years that was talked about every
Thanksgiving that was the story about how we showed up unannounced and it
cured my homesickness I'll tell you that thereafter I was never home sick again
because I knew three hours and 15 minutes by air I could be anywhere even
in Kitchener Ontario what's the be homesick about it's not
like in Siberia or anything like that anyway that's a little Thanksgiving
story from from me I want to wish all of you a Happy Thanksgiving I I hope it's
comfortable and fun and relaxing and you get some shopping done on Black Friday
and all that good stuff you find some deals hope your weather is good and hope
your travels are safe and I'll talk to you get tomorrow on my next daily
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have no idea what the topic will be maybe I'll talk about Black Friday food
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