One of the first signs of spring, and a fall-time herald of coming winter in the small Lake of the Woods city of Kenora, is the respective appearance and disappearance of the Olde Chip Truck. The chip truck used to be a truck when I first bought fries here as a college student, and it used to be situated in the parking lot of a downtown grocery store.
When I visited Kenora last summer I found it had been replaced by a trailer and which had moved to the outskirts of town at the new Lake of the Woods Visitor Center. The fries are still superb and, as usual, a line of people waited for them. They were well worth waiting for. It is recommended you eat them with vinegar, salt and a little pepper.
It’s great to see real chips and vinegar making a comeback !
I often get folks in the US teasing me over the way we used to say Ye old shop.
Just to put the record straight – and I’m sorry to disappoint so many – we never did. When the Guttenberg Printing Press arrived in England from Germany in 1440 there was no Greek letter “THETA” pronounced “th”, so the nearest Look-alike letter was a Gothic “Y”. So that soon replaced Theta in the printed word. But always pronounced The.