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The Capital of Kitsch
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| The Canadian town of Niagra Falls has wayyy
more going on than the American town of Niagra Falls.
The American town has an aeronautical museum, a casino,
and some shops. The Canadian town has not an airplane
museum. But it too has shops and a casino. It also has
about a billion fun-zone type places, two space needle
things, about a gazillion restaraunts, and horse drawn
carriages which don't have enough horses. |
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| Niagra Falls in Ontario
Canada is where halloween is a way of life. There
are more dracula, frankenstein, werewolf, etc. theme
shops than at a Harry Potter convention. It's all
a bit much really. There are about a gajillion wax
museums too. So if kitsch is your thing, this is
your place. |
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| Normally Hooliator gives
you sound advice about where to eat. Today you get a
two for one, because
today I'll also tell you where NOT to eat. At the end
of the main drag, on the right side (headed
away from the falls), you will find what is quite
possibly the
worst restaurant in North America. Shane and
I were trying to find someplace cheap, because as you
will find on
another page, we had only $5 Canadian between us. So
we stopped at the Golden Steer because it looked okay
on the inside and they took Visa. |
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| The Golden
Steer in Niagra Falls is basically
a toilet and they expect you to be the flush.
Avoid Avoid Avoid! |
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We started out with a couple of pints of beer
and for lunch I ordered a fish sandwich and Shane
ordered the chicken sandwich. The $8 fish looked
like it came out of the plain wrap box at the grocery
store. It was a little square thing covered with
cheap bread crumbs. Shane's chicken looked like
it was left over from the previous night. It was
soaked with grease, and hard. Each sandwich came
with a tiny little slice of tomatoe and a single,
itsy bitsy piece of iceberg lettuce. The fries
appeared to have been (at
least) double dipped
in the frier. They were translucent from grease
and tasted awful.
We sent it back and asked for
it to be taken off our check. The owner didn't
offer to remake the food. He didn't apologize.
He just scowled and took the food off our bill.
We paid for the beer and I tipped the waitress
$4 cash because it wasn't her fault (she
was actually cool).
Then
we left.
Afterwards it occurred to Shane that I should have
photographed the food. He was right, but it was
too late. Besides I wouldn't want to give you nightmares.
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| It wasn't hard to
find someplace better than the Golden Steer. In fact
we found a place where
we could both eat for less than the price of Shane's
leftover chicken sandwich. And you know what? It
wasn't bad! |
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I know I keep harping
on this but Coffee Crisp rocks! Be sure to pick up as
many as you can carry
home when you go to Canada. Then send them to me.
To learn
more about the world's most addictive candy click on
me.
To see a video of the falls click on Wendy (the
little red haired girl). |
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| See the RASCISTS at the
edge of America by clicking HERE!!! |
| Jump over the falls (not
really)
by clicking HERE!!! |
| Find a fun and cheap hotel
in nearby Buffalo by clicking HERE!!! |
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