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CTV News
07-07-2025
- Entertainment
- CTV News
Pickle-dusted doughnuts, ramen burrito among new KDays food creations
Tin Lizzy Old Fashioned Hot Dog Ltd. is serving up hot mini doughnuts dusted with dill and pickle-infused sugar. (Photo: KDays) Sweet and savoury combos are headlining this year's KDays food menu. On Monday, the popular summer festival released some of the new treats making their debut July 18 at the Edmonton Expo Centre. Cowboy Candy Mango Soft Serve Cowboy Candy Mango Soft Serve tops mango soft serve with chili-lime Tajín seasoning. (Photo: KDays) The midway munchies include sweet offerings like ice cream nachos, sweet and spicy mango soft serve and pickle-dusted mini doughnuts. Visitors seeking something more savoury can satisfy their pallets with pickled cheese curds, a ramen burrito, peanut-butter and jelly fried chicken or a Japanese waffle burger. Peanut butter and jelly chicken KDays A peanut butter and jelly fried chicken waffle cone is one of the 2025 KDays menu items combing sweet and savoury. (Photo: KDays) And you don't have to wait to enjoy some festival eats. More than 20 local eateries are offering carnival-themed products at 40 locations around the city until July 27 – with each eligible purchase coming with two free tickets to KDays. The 10-day Edmonton carnival features rides, games, music, competitions and exhibitions. It will run from July 18 to 27. More information on the full menu will be posted here.
CTV News
14-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CTV News
Canada's largest gaming expo in Edmonton for the weekend
Canada's largest gaming expo is expected to bring upwards of 40,000 visitors to the Edmonton Expo Centre over the weekend. Game Con Canada kicked off Friday and runs until Sunday, bringing together online and tabletop gamers of all ages together for three days. 'This is a weekend all about gaming, everything to do with gaming, video games, board games, Hollywood celebrities, movies and all of the above,' said Chris Meilleur, CEO of Meibell Consulting and Game Con Canada. 'This is just a fun-filled weekend for people to come out and have a good time.' The convention featured a Warhammer world championship, a live Dungeons and Dragons comedy experience, escape rooms and celebrity guests including Matthew Lillard, Steven Ogg and Aleks Paunovic. Meilleur said guests can expect to see a lot of cosplay, too, with a Sunday cosplay competition handing out $10,000 in cash prizes. 'Matter of fact, we're the largest cosplay cash prize in Canada,' he added. Cosplay Ian McDonald (left) and John Moffatt donned Halo marine cosplay for Game Con Canada in Edmonton on June 13, 2025. (Galen McDougall/CTV News Edmonton) John Moffatt and Ian McDonald attended the event Friday in their best Halo marine attire. They said it's great to have a space to share their love of the game and the getups with other people. 'You got Halo 3 in 2007 and it was like, damn, that was the moment,' McDonald said. 'You want to be a part of that. And being able to make costumes and do it where you could feel like you were really in the game, was what we wanted to do.' '(Cosplay is) a really great outlet for people,' added Moffatt. 'It's working on art that's not your most conventional form.' The convention will run until 7 p.m. Saturday night and will return from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. on Sunday
