Foto Tunes

 Tom the backroads traveller hosts this weekly meme. 

Photo taken June 2026 - Harbourfront Toronto

In 2019 Toronto hosted the Museum of Broken Relationships at Harbourfront.

Heartbroken Diplo ft. Jessie Murph & Polo G (Lyric Video)

[Verse 1: Jessie Murph]

Used to pray for rain just to stay inside

You wouldn't believe it, every move I made, I was terrified

Thought that every road I took had a bitter end

I just couldn't see it, I convinced myself tryna trust again

Would be like tryna make a river run upstream

Tryna make a mountain into a valley

That's what your love does to me

You make me feel

[Chorus: Jessie Murph]

Like I never had my heart broken

Like I never saw a door closin'

Like I never watched love run away on fire

In the night like a pack of wild horses

Like I never felt the tears rollin'

Like I never said, "Here's hopin'"

I could find me someone who's good at bein' real

Who could make me feel wide open

Like I never had my heart

[Post-Chorus: Jessie Murph & Polo G]

Broken

Broken ('Cause you make me, you make me)

Broken (Uh)

Broken

[Verse 2: Polo G]

'Cause you make me, you make me feel

Like I never been too much to handle

Roll the dice, you know love is a gamble

Feel like I always had the poorest example

Lost fire in your heart, I'm tryna relight that candle

My Cinderella, no questionin', this shit forever

Pain in written letters, sheddin' tears while we sit together

Forget the pressure, know I love hard, I'm sick of lectures

Stuck in rainstorms, I could get used to this different weather

Broken pieces, that was all I had

Girl, I promise, now you all I got

[Chorus: Jessie Murph]

Like I never had my heart broken

Like I never saw a door closin'

Like I never watched love run away on fire

In the night like a pack of wild horses

Like I never felt the tears rollin'

Like I never said, "Here's hopin'"

I could find me someone who's good at bein' real

Who could make me feel wide open

Like I never had my heart

[Post-Chorus: Jessie Murph & Polo G]

Broken

Broken ('Cause you make me, you make me)

Broken

Broken

[Chorus: Jessie Murph]

Like I never had my heart broken

Like I never saw a door closin'

Like I never watched love run away on fire

In the night like a pack of wild horses

Like I never felt the tears rollin'

Like I never said, "Here's hopin'"

I could find me someone who's good at bein' real

Who could make me feel wide open

Like I never had my heart

[Post-Chorus: Jessie Murph]

Broken

Broken

Broken

Broken

Weekend Roundup

 Welcome to The Weekend Roundup...hosted by Tom The Back Roads Traveler

1. Starts with "E"
2. A Favorite
3.  EVERYTHING- Chosen by Tom

REFLECTIONS

Starts with E

EDUCATION Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village in Warrnambool, Australia, historic maritime museum.

FAVOURITE

Las Vegas - we now have out own.

EVERYTHING but the kitchen sink! Palm Springs CA

WEEKEND REFLECTIONS

Seville Spain - Plaza de ESPANA

Frida Kahlo

December 2025 - Phuket Thailand

June 2025 - I found Frida Kahlo socks in Reykjavik Iceland!

April 2025 - Lisbon Portugal

April 2025 - A present!

February 2025 - Cathedral City CA

July 2023 - Frida Recap

July 6 is Frida Kahlo's birthday!

I am a huge Frida Kahlo fan. Love her art and her story. Click here for a short biography.

March 2022 - Immersive Frida Toronto ON

Click here for the Immersive Frida Exhibit we saw in Toronto.

In 2015 I went to an exhibit featuring her at the Textile Museum in Toronto. It also includes a link to an exhibit also in Toronto at the ROM.

Click here for an exhibit of Frida's work we attended in San Diego in 2014.

I found a mural in Toronto with Frida on it.

Another Toronto mural.

I am posting a recap of the various items we spotted on our 2016 Mexican trip.

Artist Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907, in Coyocoán, Mexico City, Mexico. Considered one of Mexico's greatest artists, Frida Kahlo began painting after she was severely injured in a bus accident. Kahlo later became politically active and married fellow communist artist Diego Rivera in 1929. She exhibited her paintings in Paris and Mexico before her death in 1954.
You will find renderings of Frida and her works on everything, everywhere in Mexico.
She is often depicted with her trademark "unibrow" and faint mustache.

Mazatlan

Painted on the wall of an art gallery "Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?"

Guadalajara

Mural on El Andador Coronilla

Tlaquepaque

San Miguel de Allende

Guanajuato

This town is the birthplace of Frida's husband Diego Rivera.

A nude painting of Frida done by Diego, it is in Diego's museum.

Frida and Diego in papier mache.

Puerto Vallarta

Foto Tunes

Tom the backroads traveller hosts this weekly meme

October 2015 - Palm Springs CA

I'll admit, being of a certain age, the first song that popped into my head was "Chapel of Love". 

But I decided to go for something different.

This was taken at The Living Desert. I posted more photos from their miniature train display here.

Click here for more photos from The Living Desert.

Christina Aguilera - The Right Man

Well, I'm standing in the chapel wearing my white dress
I have waited for this moment with tears of happiness
Here I leave behind my past by taking the chance
I've finally found the right man

The Right Man

Weekend Roundup

  Welcome to The Weekend Roundup...hosted by Tom The Back Roads Traveler

1. Starts with "S"
2. A Favorite
3. SMOOTH - Chosen by Tom

"The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is widely considered one of the most challenging tongue twisters in the English language.

Starts with S

SHIELDS Date Farm Indio CA

FAVOURITE

SEASHELLS SANIBEL Island Florida

SMOOTH

SEATS Guanajuato Mexico 

A Chip Off the Old Block WIP

This is an ongoing work in progress, as I add to my potato chip photo collection!!!

Have a chip on one's shoulder.

Let the chips fall where they may.

Chip away at something.

Chipping in with my opinion.

This glass has a chip in it.

Cheap as chips.

I cashed in my chips.

We all chipped in for the gift.

Blue chip investment.

A potato chip (NAmE and AuE; often just chip) or crisp (BrE and IrE) is a thin slice of potato (or a thin deposit of potato paste) that has been deep fried, baked, or air fried until crunchy.
The earliest known recipe for something similar to today's potato chips is in William Kitchiner's book The Cook's Oracle published in 1817, which was a bestseller in the United Kingdom and the United States.

September 2026 - Toronto ON

St. Lawrence Market

T&T

May 2026 - Toronto ON

Korean grocery store - Yonge St.

Italian Red Meat Flavour    Texas Grilled BBQ Flavour

December 2025 - Toronto ON

                       Red potato black truffle flavour           Blue potato chicken flavour

                         

November 2025 - Vietnam

Hanoi Vietnam

Hotel

Brazil BBQ Pork Rib        Texas Tenderloin Steak    Natural Classic

Nori Seaweed

Halong Bay Vietnam

November 2025 - Toronto ON

Dinner is served, with no fuss or pots and pans to clean up!

August 2025 - Toronto ON

West Indies Hot 'n Sweet Chilli

Numb and Spicy Hot Pot          Hanoi Beef Pho               Fried Crab

Creamy lobster potato                        Kelp salt                          Wasabi octopus

                                                            Korean spicy ramen

Spicy braised duck tongue

  June 2025 - Toronto ON

I found these in T&T, a local Asian grocery chain.

April 2025 - Toronto ON

Nashville Hot and Taco

November 2024

I also came across this BBC article about a man that collects crisps (chips) packages.

Found at the $ store in September.

In September the iconic Munchies returned! The Canadian brand marks the occasion with the return of its three instantly recognizable Munchies - Red, Yellow and Orange. The beloved trio are back to give Canadians a taste of the past with a whole new twist including new flavours and formats for all to enjoy. To mark the launch of their return, the Munchies have made their debut appearance at Toronto's landmark Red Canoe (art piece by Douglas Coupland - Tom Thomson (Group of Seven) red canoe). 

Did they need the artist's permission??

More finds.

All-dressed (French: assaisonnées or French: toute garnie) is a potato chip flavour popular in Canada. It is described as the flavour as a mix of ketchup, barbecue sauce, sour cream and onion, and salt & vinegar.

The term 'all-dressed' and its French equivalent "toute garnie" originally applied to pizza, meaning roughly 'everything-on-it', deluxe, or 'the works'.

Dunn's Famous Deli and Steakhouse is a chain of Jewish delis serving Montreal-style smoked meat, pastrami and cheesecake founded in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, by Myer Dunn in 1927.

In 1955 he opened his flagship restaurant at 892 Saint Catherine Street West. The storefront windows were famous for the top-to-bottom stacks of large jars full of hot banana peppers. The deli was open 24 hours a day, unusual for restaurant in the downtown core. Beginning in the 1970s Dunn's Famous began to focus more on Montreal-style smoked meat, eventually stopping its promotion of Pastrami.

When the controversial Charter of the French Language (Bill 101) became law in 1977, the Office québécois de la langue française (OQLF) took action against Dunn's and other stores retailing imported kosher goods that did not meet its labelling requirements, an action perceived in the Jewish community as an unfair targeting and antisemitism. This coincided with a high-profile case brought by the OQLF against Dunn's due to the apostrophe in the establishment's sign, which remains.

Dunn's also got in trouble with the OQLF for having the English word, "Smoked Meat" on the sign out front. Dunn's, along with other well-known delicatessen establishments, also fought a ruling to change the name of "Smoked Meat" to "Boeuf Mariné" in order to conform to Quebec Language Law. They won the ruling by appeal by proving that if they didn't advertise "Smoked Meat" they would confuse and anger customers. A good example of this was Parti Québécois MNA Gérald Godin who himself ordered the sandwich by its English name. Due to the work of Myer Dunn, under the new ruling, enacted in 1987, Smoked meat became a word in both Official languages of Canada.

March 2024 - Las Vegas NV

April 2024 - Cracker Barrel Ohio

February 2024 - Toronto ON

July 2023 - Toronto ON

It's been a while since I found new chips to add to my collection. 

Sep 2022 - New Brunswick

Covered Bridge Potato Chips factory, our photo taken in 2022. 

However in March 2024 the plant just off the Trans-Canada Highway went up in flames, and by the next day, all that was left were the charred metal remains of the building and equipment.

No one was injured, but the plant alone employed about 120 people, and benefited local truckers and farmers in western New Brunswick. There are plans to rebuild.

They are well known for storm chips!

Prepare yourself for those snowy winter days with Creamy Dill, Homestyle Ketchup, Smokin' BBQ and Salt & Vinegar all in one bag.

Storm chips!

Sep 2022 - Newfoundland and Labrador

All-dressed (French: assaisonnées or French: toute garnie is a potato chip flavour popular in Canada. It is described as the flavour as a mix of ketchup, barbecue sauce, sour cream and onion, and salt & vinegar.

The term 'all-dressed' and its French equivalent "toute garnie" originally applied to pizza, meaning roughly 'everything-on-it', deluxe, or 'the works'.

May 2022 - Toronto ON

These were found last week on a trip to T and T, an Asian supermarket.

These are labeled Gluten Strips.

Yam with cucumber or tomato

Grilled pork or roasted chicken wing

I do love a potato chip sandwich!

2022

2021

2020

2019

Barcelona Spain

Lourdes France

Toronto

2018

Madrid Spain

A close up of the chips 

Toronto

2017

Ontario 

Victoria BC

Solvang California

Toronto

2016 Mexico

2015

Alice Springs Australia

Toronto

2014 Cavendish PEI

I found an unlabeled potato chip flavour languishing in my files! It was at the Canadian Potato Museum! Click here for more of my potato chip collection.

Here you’ll find the world’s largest exhibit of potato-related farm machinery, agricultural and community artifacts.

World's largest potato sculpture!

We came for the food! Click here.

2011 Toronto

And for dessert!

2019 Toronto

2014 Arizona

Lay's (known as Walkers in the United Kingdom and Ireland, Chipsy in Egypt, Poca in Vietnam, Tapuchips in Israel and Sabritas in Mexico) is the brand name for a number of potato chip varieties as well as the name of the company that founded the chip brand in 1932. Lay's chips has been marketed as a division of Frito-Lay, a company owned by PepsiCo since 1965.

You can find more useless fun information here.

March 2013 - Sedona Az

My favourite in the UK, cheese and onion taste a lot like these cheesy garlic bread. And as an aside, the cheesy garlic bread won the contest Lays were running for new flavours.

August 2012 - Normandy France

May 2012 - Czech Republic - potato sticks!

May 2011 - Russia

May 2010 - Nottingham England