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Cake day: August 17th, 2023

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  • About 5-6 places in my vicinity (within 10-15min driving distance) or along our commute/travel routes, any longer than that is a waste of time imo. Plus a fancy kebab in Nanaimo - though I don’t count that, it wasn’t a typical doner kebab, it was proper roasted lamb, which I personally hate in comparison, but my wife enjoyed it so I can’t call it bad objectively, and they didn’t have anything advertising what they actually sell as we went in seeing the stellar reviews (no pictures just people raving about it and the portion was decent for the meat quality)

    Since then I occasionally look at kebab places’ menus wherever we drive in lower mainland and majority don’t even have a typical lamb doner meat, its usually mostly beef and absolutely no lamb in it. Out of the few that do even list it as an option, there’s currently only one on my list of places to try, but the reviews seem to be a bit negative lately.

    By comparison, there were about 3-4 separate kebab vans near my commute routes or within 5-10min drive in UK that I’ve frequented over the years, plus tried another 4-5 shops and out of those only couple of shops that changed management had become shit. According my family members still there, one even managed to turn it back around.

    Funny story; when we visited NYC several years back, I decided to check whether the situation is any better. It surprisingly wasn’t, there was only one place that seemed to serve something I could compare to UK meat or portion wise according to reviews and it was completely out of our way (we only had a few days, all walking/public transport) so unfortunately didn’t get to try. Also apparently it was some guy who kept going out of business and having to start new restaurants again, so he was known to people who enjoy a good kebab, which is a bit of shame.



  • I haven’t seen a decent kebab shop in Metro Vancouver yet. I could count on my Turkish brothers in their van parked next to supermarket in UK to hook me up anytime after 5pm.
    Here they skimp on meat and you’re still hungry even if you order the largest portion. Also the meat is shit in comparison to even the worst kebab I had in UK


  • Had the same issue, tried cleaning them off the leaves (didn’t have insecticidal soap though) which helped a bit, but they eventually came back (Metro Van, so slightly different conditions).
    Kept killing them by hand regularly, which allowed the pepper to survive but no new leaves would make it as they were instantly attacked by the bugs and dried out.

    In the end, I just had to chuck the pepper after getting 1 little habanero off it 😑 I haven’t come across a silver bullet solution when searching, so hopefully someone with positive experience can chime in.











  • It’s been bad for me ever since they wanted to “use” more of my data including relating to keyboard (like the fucking don’t already) and if you “rejected” then it wouldn’t use your history LOL.
    Auto-complete keyboard suggestions pretend to no longer even know my name when I sign emails or complete some web forms…




  • Shit is getting overused and posted…

    I’m not a fan of OJs offspring either, but if you watched any of the major poker tournaments, more or less everyone wears “mirrored”/highly reflective shiny glasses, IF they are wearing any.
    Has anyone actually watched this and could clarify what dumb thing she did? Wearing those glasses isn’t anywhere near dumb enough on its own.
    Players usually don’t exactly hold up their cards to their face, some of them even bend and twist like crazy just to lift the card off the table as little as possible just to see what it is, hence why televised tables have cameras to show what the cards are.
    If you can see what their cards are mirrored in those sunglasses for that split second, you could be doing more important things with your super-sight, or at the very least winning way more hands.