Maybe 1 more mini-donut...just 1

I love it when Easterners try & get a handle on Stampede. For the most part, they just don't get it. 'You wear jeans to work?...for 10 days?!...doesn't your boss get upset?' The boss doesn't get upset, because he's in a coma after a mega-stampede party the night before. (And by the way, he wasn't partying/stampeding; he was networking).

It's all part of the Stampede culture. You gotta eat pancakes for breakfast, you gotta eat corn dogs for lunch, you gotta eat mini-donuts for a snack & you gotta wash it all down with either deep-fried coke or a beer. If you can't do that stuff, face it-you're just not really stampeding.

It's not like that's our diet all the time, 365 days of the year. It's just for 10...10 really wild & bizarre days. In today's National Post, an expose on all the Stampede food we consume(the article probably written by some guy sitting in an office in downtown Toronto). He must actually like Stampede food, but I'm not sure he gets it. He explains the humble corn dog for example & suggests that the recommended daily intake for corn dogs is 4 to 5 servings. Like Phoenix says 'Are you kidding me?!!'. 4-5 corn dogs in one day? I can feel the cholesterol congealing just thinking about it. As for the desserts, the deep-fried oreo cookies, the deep-fried cheesecake, the deep-fried coke, he says we're good for 3-4 servings in a day. Now it's my heart arteries that are screaming 'Are you kidding me?!' I think this is how the easterners get their hands on our oil. They won't have to tax us, they won't have to take over the oil companies, no new carbon tax...we all inhale 3 or 4 servings of deep-fried goo, we die of community heart failure & they take it all. Stampede....now I get it...it's an eastern conspiracy....well, I won't fall for it....well, maybe just 1 more mini-donut...just 1.