On Jun 4, 12:53*am, Lynn from Fargo > wrote:
> North Dakota is "muy circa de Canada". *Minot, where I was born, is
> about 100 miles from the Canadian border. *Now you have to have a
> passport to cross the border. *Not the border INTO Canada, but the
> border to get back into the United States.
>
> We used to go to Lake Metigoshe and cross into Canada on the lake. *We
> could buy candy and sweets at a teeny little store. *Best was
> MacIntosh Toffee. It came in a flat red cardboard box and it was a
> slab of real toffee - not breakable (unless it was cold) you had to
> bite it off. *It was really hard on your teeth - removed fillings.
> Eating it took patience. *We also bought Humbugs. *They were a hard
> brown peppermint dusted with castor sugar. *I think they may have had
> horehound in them. *They were wonderful on a sore throat.
>
> When my dad would go fishing in Canada or cross the border for work
> (he was a Law Enforcement Officer) he would bring bak great big cans
> of Empress jams and preserves. *Raspberry was my favorite, but
> Strawberry was his. Once we got blueberry, but mostly it was
> strawberry preserves with whole strawberries in the jam. He made bread
> almost every weekend that he was home. *Always white bread, his
> mother's recipe. Still warm and sliced an inch thick with real butter
> it was heaven with that jam!
>
> After I was married and could go to Winnipeg, we would bring back a
> dozen or so fat round unsliced loaves of "City Rye Bread" - some with
> caraway, some without. *It was dark brown, slightly sweet and chewy
> with a wonderful shiny crust. I think it was something about the
> water. *They used to sell it at the airport.
>
> Canadian cheddar cheese - extra extra sharp in big wedges. *And Keen's
> dry English Mustard and huge sweet *Australian raisins . . .
>
> Canada - Our Good Neighbor to the North. *Responsible for my diabetes,
> cholesterol level and dental problems. *Gotta love 'em!
> Lynn in Fargo

Amazing, I hadn't realised that one couldn't get MacIntosh Toffee or
humbugs in the States. Did you ever try the 'black balls" (3 for a
penny when I was a kid) that variety stores used to sell. Black outer
coating with a hard white interior.

"After I was married and could go to Winnipeg" Is this some even
stranger border control thing that I have not heard about? Something
like not going to Cuba?

John Kane Kingston ON Canada