1989-90 Kraft Dinner box, Jari Kurri card #29, Wendel Clark card #8

I hated Kraft Dinner as a kid. KD is Canadian code for what Americans call Kraft Macaroni & Cheese or Kraft Mac & Cheese. We Canadians sometimes think we’re clever and try to shorten things but don’t succeed as well as the Brits or Aussies. We try.

In Souvenir of Canada, Volume 1, Douglas Coupland wrote: “cheese plays a weirdly large dietary role in the lives of Canadians, who have a more intimate and intense relationship with Kraft food products than the citizens of any other country. This is not a shameless product plug — for some reason, Canadians and Kraft products have bonded the way Australians have bonded with Marmite [sic, recte:Vegemite], or the English with Heinz baked beans. In particular, Kraft macaroni and cheese, known simply as Kraft Dinner, is the biggie, probably because it so precisely laser-targets the favoured Canadian food groups: fat, sugar, starch and salt.” ¹

This Canadian alliance with and dietary reliance on KD and my dislike for it presented me with two harsh realities.

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This is Capitals defenseman Mike Green’s rookie card. Yup, it looks like he is about to have a certain kind of “movement” on the ice. Possibly on his way to the face off circle. Yes, we have the maturity if 12 year olds and poop jokes make us laugh.

You may not want to keep going if you aren’t laughing too.

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Grab your provisions, free agency officially begins at noon today, but the general managers are already getting to work. I’ll keep this post updated as the news rolls in, so make sure to stick with us.

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Olaf Kolzig’s Hot Dog Is Also Named Olaf

Hockey cards. As fans, we inevitably end up acquiring some of these beauties one way or another. It’s exciting when you get a new pack, opening them up to see what surprises are inside. Hockey cards, like life, aren’t always happy surprises.

It’s Wednesday, hockey is over until October or possibly longer. Let’s take a look at some of the best of the worst hockey cards and have a mid-week laugh.

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Though nothing has been officially announced yet, all signs are pointing to one of the game’s best blueliners announcing his retirement in Detroit. Nicklas Lidstrom has been a part of the Red Wings for all 20 years of his NHL career, it’s hard to imagine what the team will look like without him.

He is respected by players across the league, by teammates present and past, and remains an absolute physical specimen at the ripe old hockey age of 42.

This week’s Hawt Trophy goes to you, sir. Wishing you all the best if you are hanging them up.

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