Our Rich History & Backstory

National Love Your Pet Day is celebrated each year on February 20^th and this is the day that you get to shower your furry companion with the utmost attention and affection they deserve.

After all, your buddy is a true source of joy and unconditional love, which is still very much needed on a daily basis as we navigate through these hard times. No matter what type of pet you own, there are several ways you can celebrate this special occasion with them:

• Let Your Pet Sleep with You
• Bake a Pet-Friendly Dessert
• Buy a New Bed for Your Pet
• Make More Time to Snuggle
• Purchase a New Toy for Them
• Treat Them to a Spa Day

Eat Sum More is proud to celebrate Black History Month, as we honour the contributions that Black people have made, and continue to make, in all sectors of our society, and all around our country.

This month is about celebrating resilience, innovation, and determination to work towards a more equitable, inclusive and diverse Canada – a Canada in which everyone has every opportunity to flourish.

It’s a celebration of those who’ve impacted our lives with their activism and achievements, and an opportunity for people to engage with Black histories, go beyond discussions of racism, and highlight Black leaders and their accomplishments.

Our story begins with my late oupa and ouma George and Leah Slimowitz in Vanderbijlpark. They owned and operated a butchery called The Golden Highway Butchery – people used to come from miles away to stock-up on their meat for the month and in particular the Biltong, Droewors and Boerewors.

Going to the slaughterhouse early in the morning with my oupa, watching him select his choice of meat for the store, unbeknown to me at the time, would come in good standing in years to come. Back at the butchery my oupa used to mumble in Yiddish “It’s all in de spices” whilst making Biltong.

My late father, Louis Slimowitz had a number of butcheries in Klerksdorp and Stillfontein, and he also used to mutter, “It’s all in the spices”. Growing up in a farm environment in Ficksburg, I was always given the task of spicing the meats (which I hated) and I was the mutterer of “It’s all in the spices”.

Now at our 3rd generation Slimowitz family store in Thornhill, Ontario (headed up by the family matriarch, our mother Rita) we still mutter, “It’s all in the spices”.

We import all of our spices from South Africa and blend them in the store to produce the finest Biltong, Drywors, Chili Bites, Shavings and Boerewors, which people still travel for miles to acquire.