canadian egger!!

mikeb6109

newbie(2 months to be exact!!) beeing new to the egg familly is a great feeling but here in canada its not a cult like craze like in the u.s ! so we lack the popularity of the egg and am looking to get ideas and expand my cooking experiences!! so all thoughts and suggestions would greatly be appreciated and hoping that in the near future that here too we get the oh so popular eggfest![p]a solo egger her in the maritime,canada
mikeb6109

RRP

mikeb6109, excuse me as I don't know Canadian geography at all, but you're not by yourself up there, by a long shot!!! Give a holler to Mike Kerslake (BBQfan1) who is Nature Boy's partner. He lives in Ontario, but I bet he knows the whereabouts of many Canadian eggers!

mikeb6109

RRP,
located in the atlantic,new brunswick actually.

Unknown

mikeb6109,
The only difference between us and the americans is that they don't have to spend $1250 (including 15% tax) for their large big green eggs!!! We are victims of Green-Egg-Ripper-Offers!!! Still a mighty fine cooking device though... and we can get Maple Leaf Lump --- So there!!

Haggis

markymark,[p]I suspect that price is a function of your own guv'mint, its absurd tariff structure, and the policies that affect the exchange rate. Funny how my friends and relatives in the Maritimes regularly ask me to bring things up on my occasional trips! [p]Hey mikeb6109, where in NB are you located? I got family in the Saint John area . . .

Unknown

Haggis,
Actually, the FTA exempts products made in the USA and Mexico from all duties, so the only additional charge at the border is 7% (soon to be 6%) Goods and Services Tax. [p]I agree with Markymark on the cost of eggs here in the great white north - our dollar has appreciated as compared to the greenback by about 20% since Jan 2005 but the sticker price of an XL went UP! this year from $1499 to $1599. So that's 20% FX plus a 6% price jump as compared to buying in the US. Hard to imagine that this makes great marketing sense for BGE ... but someone is getting a nice premium! [p]That having been said, how can ya be bitter with a beer in hand, Maple Leaf lump lava stoking the XL, and a two-pound ribeye on the grill, eh? [p]Meat. Fire. Good! [p]Cheers - John[p]

mikeb6109

here in great town of grand falls.................and i paid 1579.95 total for my egg including nest,side shelves,grill gripper, ash tool and os course daisy top and termometer.!! i thought i did good but hell thats just me?! but i do agree with the dollar up it should reflect pricing!!stupid question here great canadian lump??? is the bge canadian coal different?

Unknown

mikeb6109,[p]You're not alone Mike, there's more eggers up here than ya know. Most of us just lurk on the site as it's difficult to type with a pulled pork sandwich in one hand and a homebrew in the other.[p]Wayne, Rothesay NB

mikeb6109

pulled pork!!!!gonna have to give that one a try seems like everybody out there is doing it seems to be very popular,but how hard is it to make???? guess i'll wait to see if i can get the right instructions and will give that one a try!! i know there is canadaian eggers out there......but here we just don't seem to be getting the cult like enthousiasm like our fellow americans!!! would love to be part of an eggefest here in new brunswick maybe?? i got the large buisness here with tons of parking and the town is good place to be very friendly people out here so maybe we canadian eggers should try to get together some day!!! hey who knows might just get the ball rolling here in canada for that ever so popular eggfest that we seem to here so much of!!
mike

Kelly Keefe

mikeb6109,
And then there are those of us who are Canadian at heart. My people hail from PEI. I proudly were the province flag on my lapel when forced into a suit! My great-grandfather's naturalization papers hang in my living room. The old ancestral home is now a B&B.[p]Kelly Keefe
Jefferson City, MO
[ul][li]Keefe Ancestral Home[/ul]

stormyddog

Hey Mike I am from London Ontario here, I was speaking to the local dealer and he said this year he has sold 40 eggs, I just haven't seen any of these people on the board. I just got my second an XL, Mollyshark here they are 1400.
Good Luck with the egging
Stormy

mikeb6109

1400 was that for your xl?? with all the little extras like side mates.nest.... or are we talking large then add taxes? cause i paid 1579.95 total including taxes for my large...just curious to see how much prices change from place to place.

WooDoggies

mikeb6109,[p]Welcome new egger! You're not alone... there are a few award winning Canadian eggers who post to this forum.
If you are really interested in starting an eggfest, contact your dealer and bounce the idea off him... that would be a good place to start. Good luck.[p]john

Unknown

Kelly Keefe,[p]Wow... a PEI flag on the lapel of your suit... pretty impressive... You must be the envy of the rest of the trailer park. [p]Dave Palma
Dartmouth, NS

mikeb6109

gasspasser,
come on now keefe that was not too nice LOL!! . he's a proud estern canadian thats living in the states got give him heads up for not losing his patronage for his native land!!!

Kelly Keefe

Wow again. You sure put me in my place. And with such rapier like wit, too.... :-p

Unknown

mikeb6109,
If he's such a patriotic canadian, he should be in canada and pay canada's absurd tax rates, etc... Not jump ship to the US.

Kelly Keefe

I didn't choose to be here in the States. My great grandfather did. I can see, now, he didn't chose wrong.

Haggis

Kelly Keefe,[p]Gosh, kelly . . . don't take it poisonally . . . you know he doesn't represent the whole of canada . . . in fact no one in canada represents canada because they can't figure out whether they're one country or two countries or ten countries. And that's not something I think, its what my canadian relatives tell me . . . [p]But you gotta give them one thing . . . they have some absolutely great scenery, eh?