That’s a fair assessment. Now that you mention it, we don’t actually have many frozen donuts at my location. I wonder what they do to freeze the tim horton donuts, or what could be done to make them just as good despite being frozen. Maybe thawing a “blank” and cremeing and icing it freshly? Almost makes me want to experiment at home for freezing methods.

Assuming these sites are canadian operated and funded, I fail to see how this be used against us. I fully agree that the Trump admin is posturing itself as a threat to Canadians right now, but this could be a powerful way to remind the world that Canada and US are North Americans in it together. While shit is getting rough, we are ultimately in NATO together.

We can defend our sovereignty and cooperate with Americans simultaneously. Realistically speaking, this will go nowhere most likely.

Ditto. If it is secure, independent, and operated and maintained by Canadians, it is simply in the best interest of both countries. Frankly, it might be something we want to explore on our own even without the US leading it. We are an awfully large country though, and it might not be practical. But maybe we can atleast protect major population centers? Who knows. I’m out of my depth here.

It is in both of our countries best interests, really. If we refused it would be a petty move and a point of contention between the countries that is not needed.

Besides, this is the third time such a “iron dome” strategy has been attempted by the US and each one ends up a massive money sink and waste of time. I doubt third time will be the charm here. Very high chance this leads to nothing, and if it doesn’t, whelp North America is more protected from missile strikes.

I just wonder if Mexico is invited to the iron dome…

I have to agree unfortunately. I’ve spent a lot of time in the states and have eaten my fair share of McDonalds while living here. I visited my home town in Canada a bit ago, and the Mcdonalds tastes so weird. It wasn’t bad perse, but it wasn’t exactly good either.

Frankly, probably for the best. Have Canadians save money cooking for themselves or going to places more deserving. Always explore your local non-chain options.

Like I said, if the bread/pastry tastes like shit it will taste just as shit fresh as it would frozen. Good bread/pastries frozen and dethawed properly lose an insignificant amount of quality.

Do an experiment. Take your fresh bread from a bakery, freeze it, thaw it out, and see how much the quality actually diminishes. I wager that it doesn’t by much in most use cases. For example, making toast? You could not tell me you can tell a difference between a slice that was frozen versus one that was never frozen.

And, ofc, some pastries are not as forgiving when being frozen as others. But regular sliced bread, absolutely.

Hot take, but the donuts being frozen is not a bad thing. I work in a grocer and people never know that our bread products are not fresh until they “catch” us putting the frozen products on the shelf. We don’t hide it, and nobody complains about the quality. In fact, they love it. If the donuts taste like shit, its because they were shit donuts, not because they were frozen. While seeing and knowing the donuts are being made fresh on site is a magical thing, you absolutely can retain 99% of the quality with frozen. Ideally, the savings would be passed on to the consumer though.

But pizza, sandwiches, and shit tasting coffee, I got nothing for that. It is meant to be a coffee shop at its core, so I don’t know why the fuck they’d ruin the coffee so much. It’s not like its hard either, you can make a machine do it for you. They’re trying too hard to be like Starbucks. I understand trying to appeal to a new generation of Canadians, but they really missed the mark. If they wanted to seriously compete with Starbucks, they are completely half-assing it.

I went ahead and made a Windsor community! Windsor is the city I was born in and I grew up in Essex County, so I felt a little left out not being on this list. While the community is named for Windsor, I figured it’d make sense to welcome content from all over Essex county instead of making community bloat for every town in the county.

/c/Windsor or !Windsor@lemmy.ca

I canceled my Amazon Prime subscription over this. I still am currently living in America but plan on moving back within the year. Might even try living in Quebec.

Anyone know of good alternatives to Amazon? I know Canadian alternatives don’t quite exist, but is there a more ethical version of Amazon anywhere?