Kia Nurse is helping her Tempo teammates learn Toronto
Starting with the most important lesson: Canadian potato chip flavours
Hamilton legend and, as of two weeks ago, official Toronto Tempo guard is filling her teammates in on essential civic knowledge as they prepare to play their first regular-season game next month.
Asked at a news conference what kind of Toronto-related inquiries she’s been fielding from her fellow Tempo players, Nurse laid out the priorities.
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“What is CVS? Shoppers Drug Mart, obviously,” she directed teammates looking for the Canadian version of the US pharmacy retailer.
Nurse then broke down all-dressed chips, crucially explaining a key distinction: “Whether they need to be ruffled or not ruffled? Obviously ruffled.”
Ketchup chips, she said, require consistent effort if they don’t quite hit the first time.
“You have to keep going. They will enhance your life if you continue to give them the opportunity to do so,” she said.
Loblaw Companies Limited, if you’re reading this, please urgently ensure the right potato chip options are stocked. And while you’re at it, let’s remove the counterfeit Dior perfume. Don’t embarrass us!
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Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
