Third Food Blog - Exploring Snowdon

      My stomach was growling again as I left the Gamers Vault in Snowdon.  I hadn't had anything to eat for most of the day while I had been tramping around the city, taking the metro and generally burning energy.  As I had searched for the Gamers Vault I had passed this little place called Ella's Deli and thought it looked like a good place for a meal.  When I entered the deli was a grocer focused on sandwich makings, while I was disappointed that dinner had disappeared I took the opportunity to grab sandwich fixings.  With no plans I walked back in the direction of the metro, I saw nothing that I hadn't tried before so I journeyed another couple of blocks down the street.  When I finally decided to turn around my eye caught sight of a hole in the wall pizza joint named Pizza Rodi, hungry and not exited by my other options I thought I was ready for anything.
      I wasn't.
      I ordered a slice of chicken pizza and some poutine, both of which looked quite tasty.  The pizza was savory, the first meal I have had in a long time where I did not care if I was eating dark or white meat. The inclusion of tomato slices on the pizza also added another aspect to the slice, not simple dry chicken but chicken draped by tomato.
     There was no fork. 
     This conundrum reared its ugly head when the man at the counter handed me a medium size take out carton of poutine and no fork.  A quick inspection suggested that there were no forks to be had.  Talking with the man at the counter revealed that indeed there were no forks. Stymied I ate my pizza, drank my coke and nibbled at some fries that were not drenched in delectable, savory, non-finger-foody gravy or sweet melting cheese curds.
     Thankfully the Rodi's didn't manage to screw up the coke.
     The ride home my stomach growled at me. I did not end up eating the poutine because I discovered that it reheats very poorly.

Second Food Blog - My First Poutine

After coding until our brains were dribbling out of our mouths, Joylee and I decided to grab something to eat before another programming class. We walked down to Frite Alors! I decided to try out a pulled pork poutine, and did not regret it.

The pulled pork meshed very well with the cheese curds and fries. The textures, which are often a sticking point for me when I try new foods, blended together with a focus on the pulled pork. The taste however was almost too spicy for me, the combination of the BBQ sauce on the pulled pork and the spices in the gravy was exacerbated by the fries and almost was too much.  However, I loved the taste, I have found that if a food rides the line of being almost too spicy for me I highly enjoy that food.

I will probably go to Frite Alors! again in the future, no matter how bad for me poutine is I find it a highly enjoyable food.

First Food Blog - Adventures in Tim Hortons

I am going to start putting up Food Blogs about the food I find and eat in Montreal for my Food Writing Class.

When I first entered a Tim Hortons I had just had an exhaustive instruction in the details of the Du Parc Bus route. I was tired and ready to head back to the dorm, but I decided to try out the Tim Hortons that I saw down the road. Inside there were fewer pastries than I had hoped but more than I had feared there might be, I ordered two cheese croissants and one hot french vanilla and sat down for a breather.  That brief breather caused a revaluation of the value of food in Montreal, before hand I had been not sure if I was happy with the prices of food up here but afterwards, I decided that at the very least Tim Hortons was worth the cost.

The hot french vanilla is the primary attraction for me and though I cannot fully describe its taste from memory, it has a stronger bite to it than hot chocolate does.  If I find myself on a long walk I will often drop by a Tim Hortons to grab a hot french vanilla before I continue in order to warm myself on the walk (as well as having a tasty drink).

Thoughts on Montreal

I've been in Montreal, Canada for about a week now and it has been a lot of fun.  I am still waiting for the school work to start pouring in but I'm happy with how I'm spending what time I do have. The dorm is decent, a step up from Spinner Place in some ways and a step down in others. 

This is the first app I made for the Android, and it was/still is laced with bugs and issues, I am still developing the app though due to school work the progress is slow.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.halfbeard.androidbusfinder

The second app I made for Android and much more of a game. This is a simple time waster, you tap the smiley face and it bounces up and down. What makes it entertaining is that the smiley face hits the ceiling it speeds up.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.halfbeard.balljuggler