Ya it get's pretty hot in some places in Canada. Southern Ontario can get up to around 40C max, but that's super rare. Around 35C is usually where it maxes out. Today I saw the gauge read 34C, but the humidity here is the real problem. Today, just standing outside in a light pair of shorts and sandals in the sun, only took a minute and I was already sweating, and I'm in shape and quite healthy. The Lake Erie beaches around here have been jam packed since lock down has lifted.

It's weird because in the late fall to early spring it's typically quite windy, but in summer here it get's quite calm. This works against us in the winter though, because the windchill is always brutal, and worse yet because the humidity makes you feel damp and even colder on top of it.

It's a bit weird.

Vancouver has a high of 21c tomorrow, Toronto a low of 24c tonight and high of 31c but feels like 40c with the humidity. 3 degrees less than today, I'll take it! Oh nvm for my town it's 32c feels like 42c tomorrow. It's still less ha.

And now we're at risk for local flooding. Severe thunderstorms dropping 65mm of rain in half an hour in a small area.
https://www.cp24.com/weather/flash-flooding-hydro-outages-reported-as-severe-weather-hits-toronto-1.5016093
One of our friends in Toronto said they didn't get a single drop. Storm only dumped on some parts. Also here, no rain yet, desperately needed.

There's a thunderstorm going over the Nanticoke possibly Dunnville area right now. I can see it. One heck of a lightning storm. One bolt after another non stop. Here the sky is crystal clear though. We could really, really use the rain for the crops.

Chayote is used through out all of Latin America thought it may be called different names in some places. It is eaten raw on salads or cooked. They always have it in supermarkets here in Florida too. It is a fruit but there might be a few people who think of it as a veggie.

Never seen them in Europe.

According to Wikipedia it's indeed a vegetable and related to pumpkins.

A chayote is a fruit, Pumpkins are also fruits not vegetables.

I want to talk about the mask controversy in USA. Let me go back a few months. This is what US Surgeon General was telling us.

"They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can't get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!" he continued.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/29/health/face-masks-coronavirus-surgeon-general-trnd/index.html

So they wanted to stop the run on masks but should have been telling people to make their own cloth masks or something.

Then finally around early April suggests
"Use a scarf if you want,"

He said the CDC is still taking new mask-wearing recommendations into consideration. For now, the advice posted on its website: "If you are NOT sick: You do not need to wear a face mask unless you are caring for someone who is sick (and they are not able to wear a face mask)."

https://abc7.com/face-masks-coronavirus-n95-mask-how-to-make/6067977/

US Surgeon General Jerome Adams said Monday, March 2 that wearing face masks could actually increase a person's risk of contracting COVID-19, echoing remarks he made on Saturday that called for people to "stop buying masks."

In a similar stance, Vice President Mike Pence, the head of the US coronavirus task force, said on Saturday, February 29 that the "average American" does not need to "go out and buy" a mask to protect themselves from coronavirus.

https://www.businessinsider.com/americans-dont-need-masks-pence-says-as-demand-increases-2020-2



So now do you people in other countries realize what a cluster fuck this has become here. We've been given conflicting information since the damn start.  The CDC and US Surgeon General royally fucked it all up.

Most of europe has this system.
In denmark its a 10/20 dkkr coin, you put it into the cart, and the locking mechanism unlocks it from the rest of the carts.
Then when you leave the shop, you yourself, take the cart back to the line, push it into the line, and lock it again (with the chain) and the coin drops back out.

Its a small incentive, to have people do the right thing, and its highly effective.
Its like this is the rest of europe too (just with say a euro coin).

You'll probably be shocked to hear that we dont have someone to pack our bought foods either, or carry them for us, to the cars.
Its expected you do that yourself. To me, it would be odd, if I suddenly found someone packing my bought items into a bag and offering to carry them out for me.

We have the same thing with bottles of vine, and soda cans.
"pant" is like this small extra cost put on these items, to encurage people to do the right thing. 
Instead of throwing them around, or into crash bins, you can return them at supermarkets, and get money back from returning them.

Why does this matter? well they can then recyle them, and as a upside we pollute abit less with such items.
(seriously broken bottles and soda cans, dont need to be laying around anywhere. Return them and recycle them.)

Its also becomeing more and more common, that you dont use a plastic bag when you go shopping.
You bring your own bag, thats a reuseable and durable type.

Im not sure if its like that in the USA is it? I have this idea from TV shows that tons and tons of plastic bags are used.

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About the fruit, I honestly dont reconise it.
However Im not surprised its from Aldi. 
Aldi sometimes do these things like "mexico week" and you ll find a section of the store dedicated to say "mexican food items" and fruits ect.
You might even find some recipes nearby that encurage you to try eating something mexican.

SvennoJ move to europe, and you can still use the "old ways" without getting funny looks.
Like why wouldn't you use the cart to take things to your own car? obviously if you buy alot, its sensible to do so (or if your older or weaker).


Why would you just leave the cart there next to the car? its selfish and bound to annouy the next person that goes shopping, and wants to park around there? Or do the expect someone at the shop to go around rounding up carts constantly? and makeing sure they arn't a danger? Honestly its not like people cant take 1 minuet to bring back a cart, every other day or so when they go shopping. The stealing of carts.... is that common? what the hell does the avg person want with a shopping cart? Like.... I dont see the point.

Seriously move to denmark :) We are like one of the biggest cycling nations in the world.
Its quite common in bigger cities, you dont even own a car, you just cycle where you need, or walk if not to far (or use public transportation).
Simply because parking is such a issue, its often faster on a bike. If you live outsides the cities, almost everyone cycles (atleast the kids to school and such).

I've done a little more research on it and there is no definite answer to that question.

Pumpkins (and tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, peppers etc.) are pretty much fruit-vegetable hybrids.