Canadian Tire is best known to university students of my advanced age as the source of Canadian Tire money, which could be used to buy beer on campus back in the day, or maybe that was just meal cards, or maybe both.

I’m getting too old to remember.

As Canada’s largest retailer, it is said that 90 per cent of all Canadians live within a 15-minute drive of a Canadian Tire store; that nine-out-of-10 adult Canadians shop at one at least twice a year; and that 40 per cent of Canadians shop at Canadian Tire every week

There are 490 stores across Canada, the majority of which operate in distinct categories of automotive parts, automotive service, tools and hardware, sporting goods, housewares, and seasonal.

They also sell a lot of barbecues; not a lot of thermometers.

New levels of doneness demand a new simple hand test. Check out the changes we’re proposing to see if your steak’s Mauve, Routine or Swell.

It’s probably all a witty play on the finger test to determine if meat is cooked, but it would be better if a thermometer was involved. Chapman jail broke his and made a UK version.