This is amazing. It is also true that CDNS order out the most pizza in the world, at 2.5 pies per capita, per diem. It is believed that most of them are used, once frozen, as makeshift snowshoes, others are used for improvised snowshovels, snow hats, bulletproof vests, sled dog food, frisbees,and in far northern communities where banking consolidation has left them cashless, as a medium of exchange. It is easy to make change with the pepperoni slices and mushroom bits. Right now men will work a full day for 6 rounds and 2 slices - in the land where the ground is white 10 months of the year. Sometimes this round frozen confection is eaten. This is not considered a faux-pas. It goes well with ovals one finds in depressions in the bush, that are called affectionately chocolate moose eggs.
The main foods here are tree bark, moss, and the odd flat animal pre-prepared by dog sled collision on the rivers of concrete built up here during the war. The method of freezing the pies is simple. One calls an outfit that makes them and awaits delivery. When it arrives, it is generally frozen. (15 minutes with the windchill) To facilitate this, they drag them behind the sled. In the summer, children use the pies left out in the sun, as polar bear bait.
It is heartening to hear that the Internut is becoming more popular where ice and snow dominate the landscape. The lineups to use the computer at the town hall are getting longer and longer. Very soon they will have raise sled dog taxes and buy another one.
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In a lot of rural communities in CDA, computers and internutia are a bit of a novelty. I see in some Northern Ontario swap mags where one can buy a Pentium II with a 14 inch screen, a 2 gigabyte disk, and *speakers* for only 500 dollars. If one moved a backwoods Canuck to China or Mexico, they would probably be too confused to exist in the more advanced culture.
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