Made fresh bagel dough last night and proofed it overnight in the fridge. Just boiled/baked them this morning.
A great start to a day!
I've never played a Stradivarius. Am I missing something?
I won't get into the merits of individual Canadians, but their society is far more functional than ours right now...were I a clever person (I can wish) living in a foreign land looking to emigrate someplace, I would definitely choose Canada right now over the U.S., and it makes me very sad to say that.
I will respectfully agree to disagree. It probably comes across that I have a beef against Canadians, I don't, but I do think Canada's reputation for many things far exceeds their reality. That said, I will grant that there are some areas where their way of doing things is more functional than our way of doing things.
(They are no better and perhaps worse than the US when it comes to addressing systemic racism, for example. Their vaunted healthcare system? Doesn't work the same way for people of color.)
Last edited by Bostondevil; 09-26-2021 at 04:25 PM.
I know. They will never, ever admit that one of the reasons their healthcare costs are kept low is because the US picks up a lot of the slack. We've had this discussion before so I know already that you don't agree with me and I am not trying to convince you otherwise. I will, however, mention again, that all the Canadians who qualify for proton beam radiation treatment are sent elsewhere to receive it, most of them to the US where the US system (and the US taxpayers) have built 13 such facilities. Canada has never built such a facility. They are very expensive to build. Their healthcare costs would be higher if they spent the money to build one. It is much cheaper to pay for the service built by another country. So, yeah, I agree, why would Canadians trade with us? I would however, be interested to know their answers if the US stopped accepting Canadian patients for treatments unavailable to them in Canada.
Don't get me wrong, there is a lot wrong with the US healthcare system. It desperately needs fixing and we don't have the political will to fix it properly but I would be terrified of adopting the Canadian way, terrified. So, yeah, I'd love to have everybody's preventative care covered in the US and no one should ever go bankrupt because of medical expenses, but adopt Canada's healthcare system in the US? No, thank you.
Well they are all better than me. Admittedly low bar, but Canadians are better than I am.