Dinner at C's - Burgers

Once we got to C's house, we were greeted not just by C, her husband and daughter, but also by C's college friend and his lovely wife, as well as a college student that was staying for the summer. Looks like this was going to be a full house.

Now this was really nice of C...she bought a cake from her friend's bakery, Ultimately Chocolate. This was the Raspberry Razzle Cake. It was really quite decadent - the chocolate ganache was so thick and the raspberry filling very rich.  Here is the description from the website: "Raspberry Razzle - Your choice of moist vanilla or chocolate cake layered with rich raspberry buttercream icing. Decorated with dark chocolate truffle icing and semi-sweet chocolate pieces."

Duh, I just realized there was a handwritten description of the cake as I scrolled down!  The cake below was another one from the bakery which C bought for her best friend from University. They've known each other since they were teenagers.

I learned that the term "College" in Canada is not interchangeable with "University". College is more like a two year vocational/career path while "University" is the 4-year course. So the College Student who was staying with C was only there for the summer while working at a local nature center (actually, a Fish Culture Station).

Knowing my love for interesting snacks, C bought these chips for us. They don't make Lay's Ketchup Flavored Chips here in the U.S., well at least in California. C's friend was astounded that I'd never tried them before. Apparently these are a fkg staple here in Canada. I had a few chips to see what I was missing out on...and the verdict?

They do taste like chips dipped in tangy ketchup. It shouldn't taste "foreign" since it's kind of like eating french fries with ketchup right? But it seemed "off" to me. What I did like was the extreme redness of the chips. Yeah! Tomato powder! I loved how "coated" the chips were but I didn't like how it stained my fingers.

Oh, and she also picked out some Dill Chips...these were kind of gross because I really don't like dill pickles at all. They were too sour and smelled like vinegar! Ugh! Bert on the other hand, loved these!

And the last bag o' chips to complete this mighty Canadian chips trifecta was the Smokey Bacon. Or, shall as they say in French, "Bacon Fume, Roh Roh Roh" (say that with a tacky Maurice Chevalier or the Chef from "Beauty in the Beast" accent). Everything sounds better in French. Even the phrase, "I need to violently expel my fecal matter while squatting over the shitter!" would probably sound really classy because it's French.

I just noticed that there was no French equivalent for "Ketchup" and the bag just said "Ketchup". WTF? There has to be a fancy French way to say Ketchup!  This last bag was my favorite flavor. In fact, I opened it up and had it on the side for dinner!

Here are some reviews of the Ketchup chips below:
The Great Reviewer
Taquitos.net
Reviews of the Dill chips:
Everything2.com
Taquitos.net
And lastly, a review for the Bacon chips:
Taquitos.net

Back to the cake!  Here's how it looked sliced up. Look at all those layers! I got cavities just by looking at this thing!

Our dinnerfor that evening, before heading out to Manitowaning was burgers made from their cattle! A cow or two died for our meal. Did I feel guilty? Hell to the no. I was hungry as fk and could have eaten ten of these. Okay, just one.

C's friend also bought some beer for tonight..here's one of the kinds that he got (that's my hand though).

Sliced fresh onions, tomatoes and lettuce leaves for the burgers...

Along with cheese and cucumber slices...  Ooh, you can see the Tim Horton's bag. We bought some Timbits in Toronto before driving out to Tobermory. Heh heh, Tim's Bits. Bits and Pieces.

After dinner, off we all went to Manitowaning to watch C in the Gilbert and Sullivan musical, "Iolanthe"...plus we got to meet C's parents that night as well!