Best Sandwich? (By Vancouver Dan)

With this week’s speedlink, we tackle the hard questions. In the case of Dan Vancouver, he has taken it upon himself to discover the best sandwich in the Lower Mainland. This is indeed serious business and he believes he has found the answer in the suburban oasis of Port Moody. Pictured above is some delicious goodness from Mulino Italian Deli. Buon appetito!

And continuing on the topic of the food that we eat, Stacey Robinsmith was faced with a challenging question as a parent when his kids starting asking about the relationship between animals and meat. They see the fuzzy bunny in the pet store at the mall and then they see a big delicious pot of rabbit stew. While this may all seem natural to people who grew up on a farm, the revelation can be shocking for city mice to understand.

Of course, the lives of our children will be decidedly different from when we were little. Clayton Imoo shares a fun story from his childhood wherein he proudly boasts about his ability to do long division with fraction s by the time he was in kindergarten. However, he was also “the only kid in the class still wearing diapers.” We can’t all be geniuses in everything we do!

When it comes to questions related to business success, Dr. Patricia Thompson looks to some key lessons from comedy as inspiration. In particularly, there is a lot to be learned from improv comedy, like the importance of observation, adapting to the perspective of other people, and why you want to be as specific as possible. Folks like Conan O’Brien and Ellen Degeneres may be seen as “funny,” but they’ve got great business-oriented fundamentals too.

Yes, the new ABC sitcom Fresh Off the Boat is offensive and ignorant, it represents something far greater than itself. Lesley Goldberg had the opportunity to interview Eddie Huang about the show and we learn that while the program is based on his book, he actually has very little creative input into the stories that are told or how the script is written.