There is nothing worse about living in Ontario than its severe lack of donair. God what I'd give for a teleporter to Tony's.
this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2023
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Drive to Windsor you can get them everywhere.
There’s a few places around southwestern Ontario that ain’t too bad. Sammy’s Donair I. Burlington is a decent one. There used to be a place in the Danforth called the Fuzz Box that was run by a guy from Berwick, but that place closed down a while ago now. There used to be a place called Halifax Original Donair that had locations in Burlington and Milton but I see that they retired literally two weeks ago and closed down. If you’re in the Burlington area, I guess Sammy’s is your best bet.
Walter, is this you? I was at Tony's when I visited Halifax and I was shocked at the amount of sugar in that thing.
Gotta get to the King, Mr. Lahey
I had a craving for a donair pizza the other day but couldn't find any place that would deliver one in Toronto. Maybe that is a Calgary specific thing.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The strangeness of the listing - and the fact it depicts a beloved Canadian street food - captured hearts when it was posted online on an Alberta government surplus auction site.
The restaurateur had ambitions of bringing the gyro to Atlantic Canada, but discovered that the savoury of flavours of garlic, yogurt and lamb didn't align with local tastes at the time.
A donair has spiced ground beef shaved into a grilled Lebanese pita and covered in a sauce of evaporated or condensed milk, and vinegar and sugar.
Under a wave of interest earlier the summer, Alberta revealed the origins of the donair costume, which comes with a "silver-coloured body suit for that authentic tinfoil look!
But the costume features lettuce, fuelling a long-standing regional dispute between Halifax and Edmonton on what constitutes a true, authentic donair.
For Canadian YouTuber Steve Wallis, a life-time of eating donairs inspired him to join the bidding war for the man-sized outfit.
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It's not Canadian, it's ~~Newfie~~.
Edit: It's actually from ~~New Brunswick~~ Nova Scotia. Learn your geography, kids.
Thanks for pointing it out /u/cryptowillem
Edit 2: I need sleep. Holy....
I can't agree with you there. The Donair was introduced in the 70s in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Not Newfoundland. It even says that in the article.
Oh shit you're right!!!
I completely got my provinces mixed up.
Oh man. This is so embarrassing.
Halifax is in Nova Scotia. Donair is a Halifax dish.
Please. Forgive me. I feel so dumb right now. It's so embarrassing I should just close my lemmy.ca account and go somewhere else.
I don't deserve to be on a Canadian instance. This is pathetic. LoL
Forgiven. Not an offence that will get you deported.
Kinda splitting hairs, especially in an article from an international news company. Like if this had happened in Australia, you couldn't say "it's not Australian, it's from Queensland!"
LoL I know I know.
But it's just that it's not really a Canada wide thing. It's really specific to ~~Newfoundland~~ ~~New Brunswick~~ Nova Scotia, and they're really proud of it. So I thought I'd highlight it.
Edit: Holy shit I'm so sorry.
New Bruswick is the next province over from Nova Scotia.
God dammit 🤦
I didn't have enough sleep last night.