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On my way to Rochester last Sunday for a brief road trip, I spotted this rather strange banner sign near The Queensway and Islington in Etobicoke. A new organic food store/bakery has opened up, proudly proclaiming its address as 20 Plastics Avenue. Hardly the place you’d expect to see natural “gourmet” foods.
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It’s not the store’s fault, it just happens to be the name of the street it’s on which is in an industrial area. Perhaps it should try to get the name changed?
If you’re turned off by the address, too bad! That means more ginger snaps for me!! 😀
Alas, they switched the bags they use for their bread a year or so ago and now their bread kinda tastes like plastic.
Why did you erase my comment?
This reminds me of a place in Halifax called “The Donut Machine”. Sounds industrial, but their donuts were all organic. Branding snafu?
Technically correct for the science-minded. Plastic is an organic molecule: lots of long carbon chains.
Anyone with any degree of science education abhors ‘organic’ food marketing.
Mmm. Toluene. So organic.
They should have sited themselves on Atomic Ave., a bit further west.
*Everything’s* made of atoms. And the store would be closer to me.
Keep an eye on that part of the west end. Between all the European butchers and delis buried in the industrial area bounded by Bloor/Kipling/Queensway/Islingtpm amd birgeoning small food manufacturing/baking operations, this is going to end up as a destination food market in another 10 years.
…which in its way is poetic justice, given how the Queensway’s environs was market-gardening heartland well over half a century ago.
Oh, that address. Did anyone realize a certain line in “The Graduate” would be such a cultural meme…
uh, that has been there for years now, not just opened up.