Who knew Kevin Smith would be such a prolific teller of Vancouver鈥檚 stories? Armed with just his smartphone and Twitter account, the director has already brought 麻豆传媒映画and the interwebs together through his harrowing one-photo tale of waking up to a massive garbage pile outside his luxury hotel room window.
Now here we are on Smith鈥檚 second day in Vancouver, and we鈥檝e arrived at another key visual storytelling moment, this time involving the crossroads of Canadian culinary history, pop culture, cinema and fast food.
Aiming his lens on a McDonald鈥檚 at 891 Granville St. at Smithe, Smith takes us on this profound journey into the past:
At this in 1992, director Scott Mosier and I had our first and last taste of the ill-fated Hawaiian style McPizza. (History should be written by EVERYONE - so this was just a banal piece of mine.)
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McPizza, one might argue, was ill-fated on its own, though it has remained a powerful touchstone for those who encountered the fast food item in its tenure on the McDonald鈥檚 menu. You can, if you are so moved, add your name to on Change.org.
Canadians got to enjoy McPizza more than Americans; the Canadian-born menu item remained on more menus north of the border after it was largely discontinued in the States in 2000, after first making its debut in the 1980s, and seeing widespread testing in the early 1990s 鈥� right when Smith and Mosier encountered the Hawaiian rendition here in Vancouver, on our very own Granville Street.
, that divisive combo of pineapple and ham, is credited as being a Canadian invention, thanks to the late Sam Panopoulos of Ontario.
The McPizza is serious business for many, including Smith, who acknowledges his small, but valuable, role in preserving its memory:
鈥淗istory should be written by EVERYONE 鈥� so this was just a banal piece of mine,鈥� he adds.
Thank you, sir.
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