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I think Sunday breakfast/brunch happens all over North America. It's at least as popular in St. John's as it is here in Victoria. Great hangover cure.
Breakfast out - a big part of Victoria's culture
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, May 30 2012 09:21 AM
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Posted 30 May 2012 - 08:35 PM
How many breakfast places are there downtown that are packed on a Sunday at 11:00? Shine, Mole, Rebar, Floyd's, Zambri's, Blue Fox, Lady Marmalade, Bubby Rose's, The Superior, Cup o Joe, John's Place (packed since the 80's) and then there are the one's that are just busy...
Might not be downtown, but come see the mess we create in Oak Bay on Sundays, I swear people don't eat for 2 days before coming out. There will likely be ~200 people eating breakfast at 11:00 am. Breakfast foods are incredibly popular, but maybe it's just an Oak Bay thing ...
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Posted 30 May 2012 - 09:15 PM
^ Trust me Matt, the foodies that trample their way to your doorstep don't eat for two days before and two days after. 
Which reminds me that Fathers Day is coming up. (away from keyboard to make a phone call) I just called your office and booked for noon for 6. That way Gabe can join us.
Priceless.
Which reminds me that Fathers Day is coming up. (away from keyboard to make a phone call) I just called your office and booked for noon for 6. That way Gabe can join us.
Priceless.
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Posted 31 May 2012 - 08:52 AM
Pag's should be on the list too. If anything for their bread and the fact that it's Pag's. Interesting on the abbreviation thing. I'm going to watch for that.
Certainly we like our coffee shop sitting here so I'll through that out even thought that's not unique. That said having four or five coffee shops all busy on the same block or two might be somewhat of a cultural indicator.
Certainly we like our coffee shop sitting here so I'll through that out even thought that's not unique. That said having four or five coffee shops all busy on the same block or two might be somewhat of a cultural indicator.
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Posted 31 May 2012 - 09:44 AM
:confused:People from Ottawa do know what these things mean.I asked my visiting friends from Ottawa and they said we abbreviate things. They'd never heard 'Benny's' or 'appies' before eating out here.
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Posted 31 May 2012 - 06:01 PM
We tend to attibute qualities of an individual that comes from somewhere else with the place they come from. "My Chinese friend HATES buses, I guess the Chinese just hate buses." "My German friend didn't know how to use chop-sticks, must be a german thing" and so on.
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Posted 31 May 2012 - 07:19 PM
Breakfast foods are incredibly popular, but maybe it's just an Oak Bay thing ...
Matt.
Blimey!
Go to the Tea Party pancake breakfast this weekend for two burnt sausages, a soggy pancake and some weak coffee in a styrofoam cup.
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Posted 31 May 2012 - 10:02 PM
I'll be there!! Best breakfast location in town.
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Matt.
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Posted 04 June 2012 - 06:33 AM
I have been mulling this thread over in my head the last couple of days and it would seem that people are looking for anthropological behaviours that are unique to Victoria. This seems unlikely to occur, I think it more likely that we would see unique behaviours when one looks at Vancouver Island or British Columbia as a whole. That said even this has its issues as there is so much in-migration to the province that the behaviours are being diluted on a constant basis.
All of this does not mean Victoria is not unique there is so much that in combination that is unique here but this is activity based rather than behaviour. For example where else can you go down to feed seals, eat fish and chips (or mexican food) on a dock. Hop on a harbour ferry to a brew pub and have a beer then walk 100m to Chinatown to do some grocery shopping. Walk another 100m and hop on a transit bus that happens to be a Double Decker bus home. Where else can you do that? Sounds like culture to me,
All of this does not mean Victoria is not unique there is so much that in combination that is unique here but this is activity based rather than behaviour. For example where else can you go down to feed seals, eat fish and chips (or mexican food) on a dock. Hop on a harbour ferry to a brew pub and have a beer then walk 100m to Chinatown to do some grocery shopping. Walk another 100m and hop on a transit bus that happens to be a Double Decker bus home. Where else can you do that? Sounds like culture to me,
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Posted 05 June 2012 - 11:09 AM
Not so much unique anthropological behaviours than the combination of anthropological behaviours that might be uniqueish to Victoria. The brunch thing is what made me think of it since it's come up a few times. I have a chef pal in Van who has started a few successful restaurants (none of them brunch places) and he noted the difference. He attributed it to the spread out nature of Van. It's not to say brunch is unique to Victoria rather that the activity of lining up for brunch is...
I was curious if others had observations of other such uniqueish anthropological behaviours of Victorians like the "thank you" to bus drivers. I've only lived in Alberta and Ottawa and don't remember it going on there. Is this a Canada thing, a BC thing? or a Victoria thing? I surely have not witnessed this on any tram or bus in all my travels.
I was curious if others had observations of other such uniqueish anthropological behaviours of Victorians like the "thank you" to bus drivers. I've only lived in Alberta and Ottawa and don't remember it going on there. Is this a Canada thing, a BC thing? or a Victoria thing? I surely have not witnessed this on any tram or bus in all my travels.
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Posted 05 June 2012 - 02:53 PM
^good catch. The "thank you" shouted at the driver as you leave the bus is uniquely Victorian in my experience.
The urban hippy thing is pretty unique to Victoria as well. I know way more raw food/organic/alternative medicine "white collar" people here than I knew in other Canadian cities.
The urban hippy thing is pretty unique to Victoria as well. I know way more raw food/organic/alternative medicine "white collar" people here than I knew in other Canadian cities.
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Posted 05 June 2012 - 03:16 PM
^ That is just island life man. Spend a week on Hornby and Victorians would look like Torontonians
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Posted 05 June 2012 - 06:13 PM
Not so much unique anthropological behaviours than the combination of anthropological behaviours that might be uniqueish to Victoria. The brunch thing is what made me think of it since it's come up a few times. I have a chef pal in Van who has started a few successful restaurants (none of them brunch places) and he noted the difference. He attributed it to the spread out nature of Van. It's not to say brunch is unique to Victoria rather that the activity of lining up for brunch is...
I was struck by that also. Not long after moving here, I was recommended the Blue Fox for breakfast, but was taken aback by the sight of people lined up out the door.
I went home and never tried going there again.
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Posted 05 June 2012 - 06:54 PM
^Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded.
Life's a journey......so roll down the window and enjoy the breeze.
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Posted 05 June 2012 - 07:06 PM
lol, I don't go there anymore. I hate waiting in lines. It was our spot for a number of years and then it started getting too darn busy...
Now I'm super curious about the "thank you"...I think I'll poke around on that one.
Now I'm super curious about the "thank you"...I think I'll poke around on that one.
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Posted 05 June 2012 - 07:14 PM
I believe the bus "thank you" just spontaneously or organically started here some time in the early 80's, and now it's the norm. I don't recall it being common when I was growing up in the 70's.
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Posted 05 June 2012 - 08:01 PM
That's kind of funny. I washed up on these shores in the mid-90s, and by the time my kids were old enough to be riding the bus, I'd internalized the ritual enough to teach it to them without a second thought.
I like a place that is nice to bus drivers.
I like a place that is nice to bus drivers.
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Posted 05 June 2012 - 09:09 PM
^ I moved away in the early 90s, and no one ever did this. Came back 13 years later, and everyone was thanking the driver.
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Posted 05 June 2012 - 09:17 PM
I'm wondering if there was a labour strike or other newsworthy event in the 80s that garnered sympathy and spawned the "thank you" trend to bus drivers. If it's a relatively recent trend it can't be said that it was a holdover from our polite grandparents.
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Posted 05 June 2012 - 09:21 PM
We always thanked the driver of # 23 Tattersall Beckwith that took us to town on Saturday Morning......and brought us home after the movie.
That was 50 years ago.
He was as much a part of our life as the milk man.
They looked out for us.
That was 50 years ago.
He was as much a part of our life as the milk man.
They looked out for us.
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