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Yep, that's the Maria Christina ad I remember, Nat. Thanks for finding it.
Netwit mentioned cigarettes. I remember Wayne and Schuster doing a hilarious routine about how Export A, DuMaurier, Matinee, and Craven A had to be Canadian: Export, eh; DuMauri-eh; Matin-eh; Craven-eh.
Somewhere in the junk I've collected over the years, I've got an Export A ad that was, shall we say, "liberated" from the Toronto subway, in the wake of a rock concert. I should dig it out and put it up on the wall of the rec room, just for fun.
Yep, that's the Maria Christina ad I remember, Nat. Thanks for finding it.
Netwit mentioned cigarettes. I remember Wayne and Schuster doing a hilarious routine about how Export A, DuMaurier, Matinee, and Craven A had to be Canadian: Export, eh; DuMauri-eh; Matin-eh; Craven-eh.
Somewhere in the junk I've collected over the years, I've got an Export A ad that was, shall we say, "liberated" from the Toronto subway, in the wake of a rock concert. I should dig it out and put it up on the wall of the rec room, just for fun.
My dad smoked Export A. My mum smoked Number 7. Both quit when in their mid-forties. Doing it together no doubt helped.
Maybe because they couldn't pronounce it, or they are part the secret cartel to keep all things Canadian out of sight and mind for the rest of the world, but Nanaimo Bar in New York are called New York Slice. Ya, ya I know the article has errors such as "What I know about Nanaimo Bars is that usually they contain mint. Mine do not." Wrong. The CAN contain mint, but the original recipe never did.
You should have tasted Baby Duck, Baby Bear, Carlo Rossi or Black Tower 30+ years ago. That was pretty much it unless you ponied up a ton for foreign. I never developed a wine palate until I left Canada...
Today’s wine industry has Free Trade to thank. Once the US tariffs were dropped it was clear that the Gallo brothers produced more wine in a day than Canada produced in a year and a different approach was needed.
My dad smoked Export A. My mum smoked Number 7....
Certainly, Export A got me through my undergrad years, and Number 7 became a mainstay some years after that.
But those days are gone, and today, I still enjoy tobacco, though it's a tossup between my pipe and cigars. Each goes well with a glass of whisky by the fireside in winter, or a cold beer on the back deck in summer. Thankfully, my Dad (a pipe and cigar smoker) taught me not to buy "drugstore smokes," so I buy, at great expense, imported English, Irish, or Danish pipe tobacco; and Havana cigars, from a proper tobacconist. An expensive, if rare treat; but they're all worth the cost. Much nicer than those Export A and Number 7 cigarettes, which were (comparatively speaking) rather bland, flavour-wise.
Certainly, Export A got me through my undergrad years, and Number 7 became a mainstay some years after that.
But those days are gone, and today, I still enjoy tobacco, though it's a tossup between my pipe and cigars. Each goes well with a glass of whisky by the fireside in winter, or a cold beer on the back deck in summer. Thankfully, my Dad (a pipe and cigar smoker) taught me not to buy "drugstore smokes," so I buy, at great expense, imported English, Irish, or Danish pipe tobacco; and Havana cigars, from a proper tobacconist. An expensive, if rare treat; but they're all worth the cost. Much nicer than those Export A and Number 7 cigarettes, which were (comparatively speaking) rather bland, flavour-wise.
My maternal grandfather smoked a pipe and cigars. I can still smell the pipe tobacco. He started smoking as a child. His parents ran a small hotel and businessman staying there thought it was cute to see a kid smoking. He apparently took his first puff at 5. This would be around 1908. It unfortunately was the cause of his demise at 64.
Not sure i'd drive 100 miles to Arundel to buy an expensive specialized melon no matter how good its supposed to taste.
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