Happy Canada Day!

Happy Canada Day! 🍁

A photo posted by Saurob Ahmed (@sdotahmed) on Jul 1, 2015 at 8:51pm PDT

I'm feeling a little annoyed that I'm not in Mississauga celebrating Canada Day with the rest of you, but I'll get over it. What will I do instead? Sit and pine over these items below.

1. Salted Caramel Timbits. Have you tried these yet? They're relatively new and amazing.

2. The poutine at Royal Burger on Lakeshore.

3. All forms of Coffee Crisps (especially Coffee Crisp Latte, Coffee Crisp McFlurries, Coffee Crisp Hot Chocolate, Coffee Crisp cake, IT NEVER ENDS).

4. Any fish and chips that uses halibut and not cod.

5. Trinidadian doubles near any of the West Indian places near T.L. Kennedy.

6. The garlic cheese loaf at Swiss Chalet (it sucks if you get it for delivery or take out, but it’s amazing when you eat it at the restaurant).

7. The caesar salad at Canyon Creek is especially 'cause they use way too much garlic when they make the dressing and I cannot get enough of it.

8. Parmesan Chicken Bowties at Jack Astor’s.

9. Mind Over Matcha at Booster Juice - (I stand by this statement, Magowans!)

10. Pepperoni slice at San Francesco’s.

All right, I know I can sound dramatic sometimes. I need you to forget all those times, though, 'cause I need to tell you about THE BEST POUTINE I'VE EVER HAD IN THE HISTORY OF TIME.

I can't put into words what this did to my mouth. Every element was perfect if you're into the following:

Not skinny fries, but not bigass fries either - PERFECT FRIES
The darkest of dark gravy
SALTY gravy
QUEBECOIS CURDS, MOTHERFUCKER

I'm sorry. That was abrasive. But I'm serious here. This poutine shattered all past memories of every semi-good poutine I've ever had the pleasure of knowing.

Where can you get this goddess? All right, when you're driving from Mississauga to Toronto on the Gardner, get off on Lakeshore and it's at Royal Burger on the right hand side near the lake. If you see the Pizza Pizza, you've gone too far, sorry. There's a small-ish white and red sign that says "Poutine", but you see the sign after you pass the entrance so the sign should really say, "You Have Already Passed Amazing Poutine. That Sucks."

Place is called Royal Burger. Here's their menu.

Yeah, it encourages extra gravy and cheese. Do you understand how nice that is? Is $5.99 steep for the best poutine of your life? No. But also, you definitely should share this with someone. It's a lot to eat by yourself, and that's coming from someone who has a real case of BIG-EYE. (Is that a commonly known term: "bigeye"? We use it in my family all the time. It means someone who's eyes are bigger than his/her stomach. I got mad bigeye. Which doesn't make any sense on account of my deadeyes.)

Everyone should experience this poutine. I know the place is called Royal Burger, so maybe it should be about their burgers? I don't fucking know. I took a bite of one and couldn't really remember it so I guess that says something.

Okay, one last photo for the road. GO.

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Royal Burger in Toronto