Edible Matters
We are a Nova Scotia based café, catering and retail company offering an approachable, honest food experience using high standards in product, training and service.
Vernon's Thunderbird Diner
VERNON'S STORY
The owner of the Thunderbird Diner, Vernon Kynock, was born in Hammonds Plains in 1945 and has lived and worked here his entire life. In the 1950s, Vernon began his career working alongside his father, Wylie Kynock, in the family’s three grocery stores. Vernon’s father was also a butcher and a cook and his grandfather a farmer who raised chickens, pigs and cattle, and always had bountiful vegetable gardens – hence Vernon’s lifelong interest in food.
Alongside the grocery business and farming, Vernon also operated the Hammonds Plains Irving Station, and the Hammonds P...