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John FitzGerald

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Posted: 01 Mar 2017

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Mackie's

Mackie's
There are three places I know of where you can get excellent chips. The first place is the UK, the second is Belgium, and the third is Southwestern Ontario. The best chips in Southwestern Ontario are sold from chip wagons. They are fried in beef fat, and every chip wagon sports the sign of quality -- the 2-litre spray bottle of malt vinegar. They're also great unseasoned.

Mackie's is an institution in Port Stanley (its blue building in the back has since been significantly extended). I'm so old I used to go with the family to Port Stanley before Mackie's was using the fancy shmancy tubs shown here for its chips. Back then (the 50s) they came in a heavy cardboard boat with a stick to eat the chips. Afterward you could make a toy boat out of them. A plate of chips and a cup of Mackie's orange was an outstanding culinary treat.

And it has a Gault-Millau rating of...30! Well, it should have.

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 John FitzGerald
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Free Lipitor with each order, Bob.
8 years ago.
 John FitzGerald
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Thanks, William.
8 years ago.
 John FitzGerald
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Too bad you don't eat fish, Keith -- you won't be sampling Mackie's lake perch. That is one excellent species of fish.

Gandhi? Everybody likes them chips.
8 years ago.
 John FitzGerald
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Thanks, Jose. Luckily, Mackie's is still around. The other tradition I associate with Port Stanley -- scooping smelt out of the water during their annual run -- is long gone. My chief memories of that, though, are of gutting smelt, so I don't really miss it. And the decline in smelt numbers may be due to an increase in lake trout. If true, that's all to the good. The lake was stocked with salmon, too, which may have contributed.
8 years ago.

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