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Vancouver Would Be Cooler If It Had Someone Selling Churro Ice Cream Bowls

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(via) Holy good goddam do we every want to dig into a churro ice cream bowl! The heavenly treat has been breaking the internet for a couple of weeks now after news came of their beautiful existence via an Australian establishment called Milky Lane which – incidentally – isn’t even open yet (launches May 6th). So with nothing to go on but a few teasing photographs, Buzzfeed’s Tasty channel on Youtube showed us how to make ’em last week in the video below. As far as we’re aware churro bowls have yet to make landfall in Vancouver (not even at Hugo’s, home of the churro ice cream sandwich), but we trust they’re just around the corner. Get on it, somebody, and tag us using #ScoutYVR when you’re done.

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Vancouver Would Be Cooler If It was Included on ‘The Wasted “World” Tour’

Copenhagen-based food waste initiative, Eat Wasted, is currently on the road, working with a bunch of cool chefs to feed folks their up-cycled “Bread Waste Pasta” at pop-ups and food festivals in cities around Europe and North America (but not Vancouver?!)

Vancouver (and the World) Would be Cooler If Our Housing Crisis Was Solved Via Video Games

There is nothing special about Vancouver's lack of affordable housing...but what is special about Dublin, Ireland’s housing crisis, is that it's the catalyst and subject matter of a new 16-bit "anti-landlordist" video game, called Mega Dreoilín.

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If We Had More Safe Indoor Spaces for Skateboarding

Its vaulted ceilings may have once carried the tenors and altos of Catholic choirboys, but nowadays the acoustics of the abandoned St. Liborius Church have been repurposed to carry the screeches and echoes characteristic of a DIY Skatepark. We think Vancouver would be cooler if we had an all-inclusive indoor community skatepark of our own...

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If It Had a Massive Floating Housing Project at the Port

Imagine a colourful, mixed-used, housing complex like Amsterdam's Silodam floating at the foot of Victoria Drive.