Sasratchewan
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They got milk duds in BC dollar stores at least.
I grew up in rural Saskatchewan. I don't remember having Milk Duds though.
The rainbow used to have milk duds, but that isn't exactly rural.
I'm still poutine-curious.
It is one of the eight wonders of the world.
I'm sure this has been said, but I love that Marten is being so respectful of Emmet's input. That's a good big brother and a good big friend, there.
Don't worry Sam. Rats and mice can *absolutely* find their way to the candy counter and tunnel their way into all those packages on their own.
Tweak that slightly and it could have been my home province. Nailed it.
Emmett is Mae Borowski, confirmed.
"I just want to de any where else!"
Tomorrow, Emmett lore continues with the story of how their rat-feeding caused a runout of the Alberta Anti-Rat Patrol just across the border.
I was like “It Sucks There” is the name of the town?
honestly seems tame as an Emmett aneqdote. I'm sure there's a part where they got trapped in the basement with the rats for a night or something
The Pied Piper had names & locations changed to protect their identity.
I've heard that since Tim Hortons went corporate they became terrible and the Canadians now consider everything from them to be absolutely terrible.
its nto that they went corporate, they went american (was bought by BK i think) and switched to everything being shipped in frozen & finished in store instead of baked fresh from scratch, still one of the better places for a quick lunch whilst traveling but not much else
I feel like Emmett's response is rather skewed to their perspective. For example, I'd think there are some who think it's great, because there's this one movie theater where you don't get bothered much, and sometimes if you're lucky, a friendly giant comes in and feeds you. It hasn't happened for a while, but it's only a matter of time... Right?
So The Friendly Giant was a show produced by rats, and was about Emmett?
I have a pretty bad phobia of rats and mice, especially dead ones. I accidentally stepped on one in the dark as a child and it freaked me the heck out!
OMG. Piecing together from an earlier Emmitt Lore™ that their hometown had an AI Zamboni… Emmitt could literally had driven a Zamboni all over Saskatchewan.
look out, rats!
Michigan has Tim Hortons. I always thought they were great. Thought I remembered that Saskatoon was half an hour off in its time zone, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Don't recall ever shipping to New Foundland.
New York has Tim Hortons. The one I can think of is in the Air Train terminal at Jamaica Station, Queens.
Rats are cute
I grew up in the Prairies and I don't remember us having Milk Duds -- have they made their way there yet?
SasRATchewan? I see what you did there, Jeph.
Timbits rule.
I don't see what's wrong with trying them EVEN IF they're "just donut holes"
I mean Moose Jaw and Estevan both have fiber-to-the-home internet these days thanks to SaskTel so SaskTel is a good thing in Saskatchewan, probably
im a sad canadian rat squeeeeek
I thought you were a spooky penguin.
Alas, there's no apostrophe in "Tim Hortons" despite the fact that it was indeed founded by hockey great Tim Horton. It's shortened to "Tim's" or "Timmie's" with the apostrophe. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
My understanding is that the apostrophe was removed from "Tim Hortons" so they could use the same branding in Quebec as the rest of the country. (The 's possessive is an English thing, so they would have needed a French translation)
The rats certainly ain't in Alberta!
The legislature is not included in that, however.
I been to one Tim Horton's and it f@cking sucked.
One does need to watch out for the roving packs of Melonheads, but their hibernation period usually starts around now, with the end of the football season.
(Sask is the setting for one of my favorite folk-style songs.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBcKWHYhjTY
Aww for a moment I was thinking you were gonna share The Last Saskatchewan Pirate (ah folk songs)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Saskatoon the only thing of any size in Saskatchewan?
Saskatoon and also the rats and the moose. Everything else is small.
As someone who grew up in extremely rural Saskatchewan, this comic has me Feeling Things and I love Emmett so much
Saskatchewan represent!
Next eighteen weeks of comics will consist entirely of Emmett lore
There will probably end up being more lore than Tolkien's works...
Currently live in Saskatchewan. Can confirm most of it does in fact suck. Xenophobia growing like a bacterial infection but it's always been just under the surface. "Saskatchewan: Set Your Clock Back... 60 Years" is a trueism; we don't do Daylight Savings here, but not because it made sense to change, only because they couldn't figure out how to actually do it when it was originally introduced. The rats do seem nice, however.
So, OK, about two seconds after posting the above, I thought, "hmm, should check that out just to be sure", and I found this: https://www.eater.com/21551096/halloween-candy-shelf-life-expiration-date
My mom used to work at a vending machine company and she has some stomach-turning stories of candy that was stored incorrectly and got wormy...
As a resident of Saskatchewan, I can confirm that if you're driving in Saskatchewan, it's because you're driving to someplace better.
Fun fact: most candy doesn't really expire, because sugar is a great preservative (which is why we have jelly and jam).
Less fun fact: milk duds do expire, because milk. Yeah, I know, it doesn't *seem* like milk, but, um, I know a bunch of vegans who are pretty clear on this bit. To be clear, my realization that milk duds expire happened long before I knew what 'vegan' meant. I had parents who restricted how much Halloween candy I could consume in a day, and I'd been lucky enough one year to be the first kid to ring the doorbell of a particular house in an affluent neighborhood in which a senior had been tasked with giving out the Halloween candy until it was gone. There were consequences. (I did share the wealth a bit, but that was the jackpot and nobody wanted that much of it.)
"Feed the rats, tuppence a box..."
Speaking as a Canadian, we are way less defensive about Tim Horton's than we used to be. It kind of sucks now.
I was going to mention that, too. The consensus seems to be that it's been crap after it was bought out by Burger King.
Awww~!
So, Saskatchewan is the Canadian equivalent of the Dakotas? Good to know. Also, Emmet, that is cute and horrifying.
Simply based on proximity, I'd guess Manitoba is the closest thing to North North Dakota. I grew up in ND, and we'd occasionally drive to Winnipeg for events. It was the closest big city (at least for a certain definition of "big"), but, superficially at least, it seemed pretty much the same as North Dakota except that the speed limit was 100, which was doubly weird since that's actually slightly lower than the 65 we were used to.
Loving this CanCon, bud! Lives in Saskatoon for 5 years and visited several small towns in Saskatchewan. They had their charm, but the local kids all talked about moving away.
As a Québécois, I am bound by law to answer "The whole province".
Does the law require you say that about any province that doesn't start with a 'Q'?
I feel so seen by this specific comic
Now I am curious, my dad’s family is from a small town in Sask with an abandoned movie theatre hehe.
Sam's got her priorities straight.
So will we have the rat version of "The Incredible Journey" as a subplot soon?
"Martens rough guide to Saskatchewan."
Emmett's "Rough Guide to Saskatchewan"
And you know they're telling the truth about it being saskatchewan because there ain't no rats in our neighbours in Alberta
Accurate description of Saskatchewan. I fly over there all the time and it’s just beamng.drive grid map but in yellow
rat friends, aww ♥