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Age and size are said to be only numbers but numbers can tell you a bit about the city you live in.
Recently four organizations put together numbers about Winnipeg they received as a result of surveys or information through their businesses.
Thanks to SkipTheDishes, we now have an idea what Winnipeggers are eating — or at least what they want to eat when they don’t want to leave their residences.
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Winnipeggers love their honey dill. Turns out that Winnipeggers ordered 2,000 side orders of honey dill to dip their chicken fingers. In fact, that puts us way out front of the other cities that SkipTheDishes serves because they had — and we probably don’t need a recount — “zilch” orders elsewhere.
Manitoba is the land of wedding socials and the traditional ‘lunch’ of rye bread and luncheon meat served at socials is also seen when ordering delivery food. When given a choice of bread for their sandwiches, Winnipeggers ordered rye bread almost 16,000 times.
Other interesting statistics include:
Salisbury House is a popular spot to have food delivered from — 19,000 Nips were ordered from there.
And, we don’t know what the food was or where, but the highest dollar amount spent on a single order with the delivery service was more than $1,500.
But when you talk about high dollar amounts, it leads you to charitable giving. Winnipeggers and Manitobans are the most generous Canadians in the country — we regularly top the statistics for giving according to Statistics Canada.
So it should be no surprise that we’re also generous with crowd funding initiatives.
The folks at GoFundMe have looked at what Winnipeggers have been helping to support in the last year and the top ones support our community.
Last year, the organizers of the annual Christmas parade had a big problem. After a sponsor pulled out they needed to raise $68,000 to hold the 109th version of the parade.
Turns out a story written by my colleague Ashley Prest not only helped raise awareness of their plight, but also assisted it to blow past its goal to pull in more than $160,000 in donations.
Other top fundraisers include $60,000 raised to help create the at-risk centre for youth that Ricardo Hibi was spearheading before he was stabbed to death in the foster home he ran on McGee Street last December and more than $30,000 donated to help the Bear Clan stay in operation.
But there’s something else we should talk about, even if you don’t want to talk about it.
Credit Canada recently did a survey about what Canadians don’t like talking about — and it turns out that in Manitoba we just about would rather talk about anything other than money.
When it comes to talking about money, one in four Manitobans say that’s the most awkward subject to talk about.
In fact, Credit Canada’s Awkward Silences Survey found we’d rather talk about sex, religion or politics, embarrassing health issues, small talk and family and relationship issues before we’ll chat about money.
Credit Canada notes, in a recent news release, that even when talking about finances, the most ‘don’t-go-there’ area for Manitobans is debt and bankruptcy, with 35 per cent of Manitobans saying it’s a subject that is taboo to talk about. The company says it may be because these days the average Canadian has more than $22,000 in non-mortgage debt.
Meanwhile, another number shows that Winnipeg is still a pretty popular place for tossing your belongings into a rented trailer or truck and moving to.
U-Haul International found recently that while Winnipeg has slid down three spots from last year, we’re still the 25th Canadian Destination City when it comes to going one-way with all your stuff. To nobody’s surprise, topping the list for the third straight year as the No. 1 destination to move to is Toronto.
As U-Haul said in a recent release, Winnipeg saw an increase “in one-way U-Haul truck arrivals in 2018 to remain one of (the) busiest cities for incoming traffic among do-it-yourself movers.”
We’ll just have to hope they all get used to honey dill, giving generously, and not talking about money.
— Kevin Rollason
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