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Toronto non-mall retail (Odds & Ends)

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One Plant Cannabis will be opening at the former HMV store at 333 Yonge Street, which was most recently a Tokyo Smoke:

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The former landmark HMV store on Yonge St. is getting a new tenant

The former site of Toronto's most iconic HMV location is about to get taken over by a new tenant who won't be selling CDs, but rather something else …
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Towered said:
Overpriced gourmet cookies are a thing in this town - why don't I open up a shop? I'm so bored of the corporate bullshit job I have...
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Are you implying that $4.50 for one cookie might be overpriced?
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"gourmet"?
 
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AlbertC said:
Lots of folks lining up for the new Crumbl cookies at the Well. A true Torontonian experience!

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I don't get it either.

But I'm a bit of an outlier, I won't line up (in a line of any significance) for much of anything. Not for a concert, a new store or restaurant or to get into Wonderland........shrug. There will be a time I can go when I don't have to wait, and I can wait for that.

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On the subject of cookies specifically......... in just pure 'basic' cookies, no one has had it right in this town since Felix and Norton whose cookies were 50% butter, and 40% sugar (not an exact recipe quote, LOL). They were insanely rich, decadent and made with good ingredients, not generic chocolate chip cookie dough mixed with M&Ms .....

Also, if you want to charge me anything like $3 a cookie, never mind over $4......you better make me something that takes as least as much effort as a Macaron........I expect feathery honeycomb wafers, with brilliant icing/cream/filing and a coating of the finest Callebaut chocolate ganache..........or go away and come back when you know what you're doing.
 
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Northern Light said:
I don't get it either.

But I'm a bit of an outlier, I won't line up (in a line of any significance) for much of anything. Not for a concert, a new store or restaurant or to get into Wonderland........shrug. There will be a time I can go when I don't have to wait, and I can wait for that.

****

On the subject of cookies specifically......... in just pure 'basic' cookies, no one has had it right in this town since Felix and Norton whose cookies were 50% butter, and 40% sugar (not an exact recipe quote, LOL). They were insanely rich, decadent and made with good ingredients, not generic chocolate chip cookie dough mixed with M&Ms .....

Also, if you want to charge me anything like $3 a cookie, never mind over $4......you better make me something that takes as least as much effort as a Macaron........I expect feathery honeycomb wafers, with brilliant icing/cream/filing and a coating of the finest Callebaut chocolate ganache..........or go away and come back when you know what you're doing.
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I so miss Felix & Norton cookies. So soft and melty, the white chocolate macadamia was my favourite. There's apparently still a store somewhere in Markham? I'm not sure if it's still the same, has anyone tried them?
 
soundmuseum said:
I so miss Felix & Norton cookies. So soft and melty, the white chocolate macadamia was my favourite. There's apparently still a store somewhere in Markham? I'm not sure if it's still the same, has anyone tried them?
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I have fond memories of them dating back to the late 1980s, but that's all in my wheat-filled past. It is still possible to order them online, including the white chocolate macadamia ones, at felixandnorton.com.
 
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