Conspiracy at the Abernethy Nature Heritage Museum---forgotten food---100th Post

this is the one hundredth post on the breakfast meat blog. whoopty doo. nothing seems to be grabbing my attention in the news these days and nothing exciting has happened to me lately, not that i can talk about on here anyways because people i know read this.

for some reason today i got to thinking, what the hell ever happened to beep, vico, and cuban lunch. beep was one of my favourite drinks growing up, for some reason it blew my mind when i was little that juice could come in a milk carton, it boggled my mind. vico is obviously still around just as chocolate milk, but what was with that name, was it french for something or what? and the cuban lunch, my grandpa always ate these and always had a stash of them in the butter tray of his old fridge in the back porch. i had completely forgot about them until this past winter my roomate jeff brought home some home made versions his girlfriend had made. they tasted almost identical to the real thing. if anyone knows if you can still buy any of these brands anywhere please let me know, i don't know if they were uniquely saskatchewan or not, but im pretty sure they were uniquely canadian.

on may long weekend i was visiting the abernethy nature heritage museum in abernethy. if anyone is familiar with abernethy, or this little museum, you have more than likely heard of jonathon the talking goose. the museum was originally started by ralph stueck who kept a collection of antiques, and stuffed wildlife. ralph is also responsible for the large numbers of canadian geese that now deface wascana lake and park, and for introducing the beaver to the qu'appelle valley and its network of coulees and the subsequent destruction of trees the beaver brought with it. but back to jonathon the talking goose, jonathon was apparently a tamed canadian goose that returned every spring to abernethy. obviously jonathon couldn't talk and im not sure why he was called a talking goose but he is kind of an abernethy legend. the stuffed corpse of jonathon has been on display in the abernethy museum ever since the museum was first opened. i was shocked to learn from the museums current guide that the stuffed goose being displayed as jonathon is in fact not the goose of legend, but a fraud. join with me in condemning this blatant forgery by calling ashley bazin at the abernethy nature heritage museum at (306)-333-2202 and making your displeasure known.