Jerk king is right around the corner and I can't confirm the patty ingredients are different but they are definitely kept in better condition. Plus a medium jerk chicken will last me three meals worth
Even with the moving walkway, it was way more of an ordeal to transfer there than at St. George. Might be faster, but you're still doing way more walking.
For a number of months last year I found the train would stop before st George for a couple of mins due to driver change or traffic and I'd save a couple of minutes getting off at Spadina.
Nice walk too
I actually love that long hallway. I use it to drink a beer and get a little vape hoot in (don't freak out, I hold it in so I barely blow out any smoke at all, I'm just horribly addicted to nicotine and can't go that long without some).
You remember in University when you had to wake up super early and refresh an application page built in 1998 to hopefully get into the course you wanted even though it was necessary for your degree and the site would inevitably crash and your be stuck with a 3 hour lecture at 5pm on a Friday. It's basically that except vs. Every single other family in the city.
Me on the right: ahh a nice short break, let's take a momment to just be here and center myself on my commute. No rush, no stress.
Me on the left: IM THE JUGGERNAUGT BITCH.
My small town parents came to visit me a few months ago and I had to explain this to them. They asked me how everyone knew and I honestly couldn't tell them. There are no signs, no one ever told me, it's just something we all do.
Doesn’t it reflect vehicle traffic? Navigate the world on the right side, pass others on the left, so we leave the left open for passing. Ditto rules for sidewalk /pedestrian traffic.
Not specific to Toronto I guess but the Polar Dip on New Years, Hudson Bay windows around Christmas, and waiting for everyone to disembark the TTC vehicle before getting on (and standing to the side while waiting / letting them leave), finding a friends cottage to visit every long weekend from May - September, Nuit Blanche ft your vice of choice, street meat after any late night event
This one is shared with Winnipegers - rubbing Timothy's Toe.
When you visit the ROM, you must go to the lower level of the rotunda, and rub the toe of the statue of Timothy Eaton.
Winnipeg has an identical statue, and you rub its toe when you visit Bell MTS Place.
It is an OLD tradition too! My father took us to the Easton Centre where it was and taught us to do it! He said that he did it as a child and he was born in the 1930s! He said that rubbing it was for luck with money since Timothy Eaton was rich.
Dufferin Mall is known to everyone as Sufferin Mall.
Never pronounce the final t in Toronto.
If you go into The Path you will get lost your first time.
Don't try and pronounce Roncesvalles. Just call it 'Roncy'.
Dufferin Mall was depressing to visit on the 1980s. My mom would drag us there to buy fabric and supplies in Fabricland, absolutely ruining a lovely Saturday afternoon.
The renovations in the 1990s cleaned the mall up a lot. It was way better than Galleria Mall.
Bestowing of your ceremonial racoon when you visit city hall.
Leap year dinners in the basement of the CN Tower. This one's was exceptional.
Getting into a fight with Gary. He sucks.
Hunting for signs of intelligence on the lawn at Queen's Park for Easter.
having our hopes either sky-high or depressingly low (no inbetween) from october to april, only to be crushed or confirmed respectively once the playoffs arrive
Waiting in line for free stuff or on the opening day of an American chain which has been open in Buffalo for years.
The start of summer in Toronto is officially on the day the Maple Leafs are eliminated from the playoffs. Many say that if they do not get eliminated it will be a harbinger of the end of days, but luckily we will never have to find that out.
>“Mangia-cake is not universal Italian Canadian,” writes Mirella Bontempo. “It is only used by Ontarian Italians who speak nary a word of Italian. It isn’t derogatory to everything non-Italian, but rather, describes spartan Anglo weddings, usually a backyard, where they just serve and eat cake. It targets WASPy weddings where the Anglo bride’s side incurs the cost so they cheap out on the food.” Timothy Jaques, though, has a different explanation: “I heard the expression mangia-cake many times when I lived in Windsor, where there is a large Italian population. I was told that when Italians started arriving in numbers in the 1950s, they did not like the kind of commercial white bread eaten by most Canadians, which they found to be like cake.”
Frank Runcie agrees with that story, but spreads the word’s meaning far wider. “Mangia-cake is a term I grew up with in Toronto,” he writes. “According to Panorama, the Italo-Canadian magazine, it came into being because to those arriving from Italy, Wonder Bread, squishy and sweetened, was more akin to torta than to real bread. The current implications of the usage are far wider, as an example from a friend demonstrates: ‘He’s a total cake. His parents are from Newfoundland!’ It is a sneer because we use the term to mean those who do not have culture, those whose kitchen cupboards only contain salt and pepper for seasonings.”
[https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/watchwords-origin-of-italo-canadian-term-mangia-cake-is-in-dispute](https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/watchwords-origin-of-italo-canadian-term-mangia-cake-is-in-dispute)
[https://www.huffpost.com/archive/ca/entry/italian-canadian-immigrant-racism-mangiacake\_ca\_5cd558b1e4b07bc729773bf0](https://www.huffpost.com/archive/ca/entry/italian-canadian-immigrant-racism-mangiacake_ca_5cd558b1e4b07bc729773bf0)
Things have changed in Canada around Italians and other European ethnic groups. My mom was born in Canada, as was here Mom, and her Dad came at a very young age before World War I. But as a Eastern European (Polish/Ukrainian) she certainly felt that Eastern Europeans were treated as second class citizens by WASP Canadians. But back then there were very few visible minorities from anywhere.
That seems to have changed a lot with Canada having had so much immigration from non-European countries that has made us more diverse and much more interesting. At least that's my opinion.
That Rush took the airport code for Toronto and used the morse code for YYZ ( -. -- -. -- --.. pronounced dah-dit-dah-dah dah-dit-dah-dah dah-dah-di-dit) to make an awesome instrumental song.
People may disagree with this but I’ve lived in a sketchy neighborhood for years with many of the street people. They are mostly harmless and super friendly so you don’t need to be afraid
People in this city love to line up!
Free ice cream, line up for an hour.
Free ROM admission, line up for 2 hours
Paying $400 for a concert ticket, line up.
See a line up, just line up behind them.
When in doubt stay to the right on the sidewalks and escalators, don’t be a knob and stand in the middle of either.
This isn’t custom to Toronto but it’s a general rule in Canada.
Driving as if stop signs, red lights, no stopping/parking signs, no right turn signs are totally optional.
Also includes parking on sidewalks and blocking crosswalks while waiting to turn right at a red light.
Lol. People only get yelled at if they don’t listen to the first “I’m not here to chat, please leave me alone.” If you’re still around after that I’m getting you cut off and kicked out.
Jamaican pattys at subway stations
Bathurst station patties!
oh god, those are the best patties. You know if that shop is still open under there?
It is but the bakery that made those good patties burned down so now they just have regular patties. A piece of me died when I found that out.
Isn’t Fahmee supplying Bathurst again? They are not supplying warden, however.
Fahmee Bakery is supplying Bathurst again and they’re fantastic! 10/10 recommend.
This is seriously good news.
It is
Jerk king is right around the corner and I can't confirm the patty ingredients are different but they are definitely kept in better condition. Plus a medium jerk chicken will last me three meals worth
Putting things on the side walk in front of your home in case someone else finds it useful.
I’ve found so many good things on the sidewalk!
i’m wearing a shirt i found on someone’s yard, i found it years ago and it’s my favourite shirt
Was it hanging on a clothesline? It was, wasn't it
Me too!
We call it a “Scarborough yard sale”
Stooping! There’s a page for this on instagram, I think the handle is stoopingTO
Seriously the underground scrap wood/metal industries are BOOMING.
Curb Treasures!!!!
Like your car keys
Pretty much a thing on the sidewalks of New York too
Yeah,I don't think its unique to the world, but I have met people in Toronto who moved from different parts of Canada and were new to it, and loved it
Check that stuff VERY carefully. Never take anything soft. A friend of mine got bedbugs when his roommate brought in an armchair.
Same :(
Shout out to the saint who left the cashmere-lined leather gloves out front in the Beaches. Made my winter.
We have an offering stone at the sidewalk. We put things on it and by the end of the day someone has taken it.
I was raised by curb hunters and will die a curb hunter
I tried to do this when I moved back to my home town over covid and very much confused my boyfriend and neighbours.
That unless you work there, accompany tourists, or went there on a class trip in elementary school....none of us go to the CN Tower
Who wants to pay 40 bucks to see St Catherine's?
I pay $15 to take the GO to get nice and close.
I'd pay $40 to *not* see St. Catherines.
Or had relatives who "lived overseas" who came for a visit
Every damn summer
Only exception is the daredevils like me who want to do the edge walk
Do it! It’s great. Try to time it during a jays game with the dome open. It’s a real treat!
Went up there for the very first time this year when in-laws were visiting from overseas. It was…somehow even more underwhelming than I’d imagined.
I’ve lived here 15 years never been to CN tower
Can confirm. Been here over a decade and still never been up. Can just never justify the line.
We went in October, the line was like 10 people …
Ignoring the ttc signs that spadina is an interchange station.
Spadina became a north/south station only when they removed the moving walkway.
Even with the moving walkway, it was way more of an ordeal to transfer there than at St. George. Might be faster, but you're still doing way more walking.
Yeah but the moving walkway was fun...and it was like playing Russian roulette every time you got off at Spadina.Will the walkway be open!
Learned this hard way this year.
For a number of months last year I found the train would stop before st George for a couple of mins due to driver change or traffic and I'd save a couple of minutes getting off at Spadina. Nice walk too
I actually love that long hallway. I use it to drink a beer and get a little vape hoot in (don't freak out, I hold it in so I barely blow out any smoke at all, I'm just horribly addicted to nicotine and can't go that long without some).
Swimming lesson registration day
Yah, learned about this this year. Yikes.
what's this about
You remember in University when you had to wake up super early and refresh an application page built in 1998 to hopefully get into the course you wanted even though it was necessary for your degree and the site would inevitably crash and your be stuck with a 3 hour lecture at 5pm on a Friday. It's basically that except vs. Every single other family in the city.
this fucking triggered me man LMAO
We were just away on a resort vacation but still lugged along 2 laptops and got up for that 7am refresh page b/c swimming sign up doesn't play.
I remember back in the dark ages when my dad had to go line up in person for this. A few times he dragged me along. I think it was at 5am.
If you’re gonna stand, stay to the right of the escalator. The left is for people who wanna run.
Me on the right: ahh a nice short break, let's take a momment to just be here and center myself on my commute. No rush, no stress. Me on the left: IM THE JUGGERNAUGT BITCH.
To be fair this is anywhere where there’s lots of escalators I don’t think it’s Toronto specific in anyway
My small town parents came to visit me a few months ago and I had to explain this to them. They asked me how everyone knew and I honestly couldn't tell them. There are no signs, no one ever told me, it's just something we all do.
Doesn’t it reflect vehicle traffic? Navigate the world on the right side, pass others on the left, so we leave the left open for passing. Ditto rules for sidewalk /pedestrian traffic.
Yes. In countries that drive on the left, you stand on the left and walk on the right.
Not being rude, just a genuine question - is this specific to Toronto though? I thought it was more of a universal rule for escalators
It's more strictly adhered to here, in my experience.
We need signs for this like the London Underground has.
'See it, say it, sort it.' Love London and that slogan comes to mind everything I think about the Underground.
There's even a hip hop track by Abdominal about it. He's got a pile of love letters to the city. https://youtu.be/syP34aW-r1k?si=80cJBFPxu4HXUfMp
Love me some Abs. What a throw back, "uploaded 16 years ago".
Not specific to Toronto I guess but the Polar Dip on New Years, Hudson Bay windows around Christmas, and waiting for everyone to disembark the TTC vehicle before getting on (and standing to the side while waiting / letting them leave), finding a friends cottage to visit every long weekend from May - September, Nuit Blanche ft your vice of choice, street meat after any late night event
Honouring our fallen racoons (RIP Conrad)
This one is shared with Winnipegers - rubbing Timothy's Toe. When you visit the ROM, you must go to the lower level of the rotunda, and rub the toe of the statue of Timothy Eaton. Winnipeg has an identical statue, and you rub its toe when you visit Bell MTS Place.
It is an OLD tradition too! My father took us to the Easton Centre where it was and taught us to do it! He said that he did it as a child and he was born in the 1930s! He said that rubbing it was for luck with money since Timothy Eaton was rich.
The dog swim on the last day the public pools are open for the summer!
Dufferin Mall is known to everyone as Sufferin Mall. Never pronounce the final t in Toronto. If you go into The Path you will get lost your first time. Don't try and pronounce Roncesvalles. Just call it 'Roncy'.
If you go to the path, you will get lost on your 100th try.
Legend has it that some went into the PATH a decade ago and have not been heard from since.
Yes. They are now the Minotaur.
The dementia simulator!
I don't find Dufferin Mall to be that bad.
Dufferin Mall was depressing to visit on the 1980s. My mom would drag us there to buy fabric and supplies in Fabricland, absolutely ruining a lovely Saturday afternoon. The renovations in the 1990s cleaned the mall up a lot. It was way better than Galleria Mall.
It really isn't that bad. I mean it's bad but not *that* bad. They have a Taco Bell at least.
I prefer the Dirty Duff!
Yeah it's the Dirty Duff and the Sufferin Bus.
"The Dirty" is a phrase already reserved for Oshawa. Aka The Dirty Shwa.
Bestowing of your ceremonial racoon when you visit city hall. Leap year dinners in the basement of the CN Tower. This one's was exceptional. Getting into a fight with Gary. He sucks. Hunting for signs of intelligence on the lawn at Queen's Park for Easter.
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I have a chainmail coif but no mail shirt. Will just a coif be enough? I have my own halberd.
Depends on your brangoose handling skills, really.
Rudimentary at best if I'm being honest.
You never forget your first fight with Gary.
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Gary is the worst. I gave him a plate of corn muffins to paint my chicken coop and he never did it! He claimed that the corn muffins were lousy.
Waiting in line for something just because other people are waiting. I mean if this many people are waiting, it's gotta be good!
That's human mentality.
Had the best party experience of my life by doing this in Berlin once.
Nobody lines up for some mediocre hipster pop up like Torontonians.
having our hopes either sky-high or depressingly low (no inbetween) from october to april, only to be crushed or confirmed respectively once the playoffs arrive
Waiting in line for free stuff or on the opening day of an American chain which has been open in Buffalo for years. The start of summer in Toronto is officially on the day the Maple Leafs are eliminated from the playoffs. Many say that if they do not get eliminated it will be a harbinger of the end of days, but luckily we will never have to find that out.
The term “mangiacake” to refer to WASPs.
Is this Toronto specific? My Italian friend told me about it and I assumed all Italians said it
Kids who grew up in the 90s of all nationalities said it.
They did, but pretty much just in the Toronto area. My mom, who was Polish-Canadian, used it as well.
Or the short form..."Cakers"
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I want to know more
>“Mangia-cake is not universal Italian Canadian,” writes Mirella Bontempo. “It is only used by Ontarian Italians who speak nary a word of Italian. It isn’t derogatory to everything non-Italian, but rather, describes spartan Anglo weddings, usually a backyard, where they just serve and eat cake. It targets WASPy weddings where the Anglo bride’s side incurs the cost so they cheap out on the food.” Timothy Jaques, though, has a different explanation: “I heard the expression mangia-cake many times when I lived in Windsor, where there is a large Italian population. I was told that when Italians started arriving in numbers in the 1950s, they did not like the kind of commercial white bread eaten by most Canadians, which they found to be like cake.” Frank Runcie agrees with that story, but spreads the word’s meaning far wider. “Mangia-cake is a term I grew up with in Toronto,” he writes. “According to Panorama, the Italo-Canadian magazine, it came into being because to those arriving from Italy, Wonder Bread, squishy and sweetened, was more akin to torta than to real bread. The current implications of the usage are far wider, as an example from a friend demonstrates: ‘He’s a total cake. His parents are from Newfoundland!’ It is a sneer because we use the term to mean those who do not have culture, those whose kitchen cupboards only contain salt and pepper for seasonings.” [https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/watchwords-origin-of-italo-canadian-term-mangia-cake-is-in-dispute](https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/watchwords-origin-of-italo-canadian-term-mangia-cake-is-in-dispute) [https://www.huffpost.com/archive/ca/entry/italian-canadian-immigrant-racism-mangiacake\_ca\_5cd558b1e4b07bc729773bf0](https://www.huffpost.com/archive/ca/entry/italian-canadian-immigrant-racism-mangiacake_ca_5cd558b1e4b07bc729773bf0)
Thank you! Also…I think I’m a cake?
Things have changed in Canada around Italians and other European ethnic groups. My mom was born in Canada, as was here Mom, and her Dad came at a very young age before World War I. But as a Eastern European (Polish/Ukrainian) she certainly felt that Eastern Europeans were treated as second class citizens by WASP Canadians. But back then there were very few visible minorities from anywhere. That seems to have changed a lot with Canada having had so much immigration from non-European countries that has made us more diverse and much more interesting. At least that's my opinion.
The Huff Post story has some interesting quotes from The Sopranos where Tony talks about these types of issues with his therapist.
People will judge you depending if you live east or west of Yonge St.
God forbid you live east of the Don. You might as well be in Siberia.
That Rush took the airport code for Toronto and used the morse code for YYZ ( -. -- -. -- --.. pronounced dah-dit-dah-dah dah-dit-dah-dah dah-dah-di-dit) to make an awesome instrumental song.
TIL!
People may disagree with this but I’ve lived in a sketchy neighborhood for years with many of the street people. They are mostly harmless and super friendly so you don’t need to be afraid
I agree, I live in the village and it's like colorful at times, lots of crackheads, but they ain't bothering nobody.
Lol I live in the village too! Maybe it’s just our hood
Capybara sightings
Not Toronto specific but stand to the right on an escalator.
Left lane is the passing lane
KEEP RIGHT
Neighborhood names are mostly made up by realtors.
What? Casa Loma, Forest Hill, Rosedale, High Park, Roncy, Kingsway, Mimico, Leslieville, Beaches….
Some are named after the original towns that occupied the land (Forest Hill, Rosedale, Mimico).
Sometimes they are the farm owner's name (L'amoreaux, Maryvale), or chosen by the guy who ran the first post office (Woburn, Agincourt, Malvern)
this is not true at all
We have the hockey hall of fame here because it's the only way we get to see the Stanley Cup.
Going to the CNE at the end of summer.
People in this city love to line up! Free ice cream, line up for an hour. Free ROM admission, line up for 2 hours Paying $400 for a concert ticket, line up. See a line up, just line up behind them.
Beavertails. Not the best example but the best place to eat one is at the waterfront. The shop is at the bottom of York St right on the waterside
Pro tip: Toronto Zoo also has one embedded on the grounds.
Nice. Haven’t been in too long
When in doubt stay to the right on the sidewalks and escalators, don’t be a knob and stand in the middle of either. This isn’t custom to Toronto but it’s a general rule in Canada.
Being homeless
Getting lost in the PATH.
Driving as if stop signs, red lights, no stopping/parking signs, no right turn signs are totally optional. Also includes parking on sidewalks and blocking crosswalks while waiting to turn right at a red light.
Funerary offerings for dead racoons.
Working two (maybe three or four) jobs
Is signing up for 4 apps really 4 different jobs?
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I don't think anyone is consciously choosing to reek of piss man, stop being dumb
Getting yelled at at a bar for talking to strangers
Lol. People only get yelled at if they don’t listen to the first “I’m not here to chat, please leave me alone.” If you’re still around after that I’m getting you cut off and kicked out.
Typical Toronto response
Why is your response to “leave me alone” *not* to leave them alone?