Montreal observations

[mindstalk]

* The weekly metro pass runs Monday-Sunday, not 7 days from purchase. Oops.
* The subway is every 5-10 minutes from like 5am to 1am. Beats Boston or even some NYC lines. The buses, though... I was deceived by staying near the 24, which does run every 10 minutes until 9pm, but most other lines seem more like 20-30 minutes.
* Supermarkets seem scarce, though I did find one today. (A proper one. Google Maps calls various things "supermarkets" that are lame corner/convenience stores.) It has many varieties of brie and Camembert for sale. Lots of smaller stores, quality ranging from "seriously meh" to "ooh, nice produce!"
* Apparently no whole milk, just 0, 1, 2, and 3.25% fat.
* Yogurt without gelatin! ...not as good as TJ/Strauss "European style". I may try "Balkan style" after I finish this one.
* Montreal has Uber and no Lyft, and no UberPool. I'm told Toronto has Lyft, I forget if it has Pool.
* My front door is literally flanked by maple trees.

Comments

[notasupervillain]

I thought 3.25 was whole milk?

[mtbc]

I don't recall the exact percentages (or indeed countries) but at least in some cases it's kind of minimum whole in that they still skim about as much of the fat off as they think they can get away with while selling it as whole.

[notasupervillain]

Wow. I drank it for years and I did not know that. No wonder I prefer milk in the UK

[mindstalk]

See other comment.

[mindstalk]

I thought whole milk was around 4%, but a couple pages say 3.5%, and a couple more say 3.25% even in the US. Modern processing involves removing all the fat, then adding some back in. So I guess the Canadians are being more honest... oh wait, Wikipedia says the UK uses 'whole' for 3.6%. A chart says raw milk is 3.25-5%.

Half-and-half (half milk, half cream) is 10.5-18% but Wiki says US products are pretty much always at the minimum.

[notasupervillain]

Can I just have whatever comes out of the cow, please?

[mtbc]

Especially from its udders.

[notasupervillain]

Point to you.

[mtbc]

Monday-Sunday: This kind of thing really irks me. It would be so easy to make it far more convenient and sensible but possibly less profitable. It's like various tax-like things in the UK being tied to calendar month boundaries when it's not like they couldn't just have the software pro-rate to the day (even if it then rounds in their favor).