To me, Canadian food is all the wonderful things I can get in Canada that I used to eat when I lived in England ,that are not available in the USA. Luckily , there are many English people in the parts of Canada that is closest to us. Their influence is seen in the bakeries and shops. Traditional pasties and sausage rolls in the markets and things like Marmite and Salad Cream in the grocers. I love Canada.

Bacon?

LaBatt's blue, french fries with gravy...

We did get some wonderful real maple syrup from Canada once. That and Canadian bacon are all the Canadian foods I can think of.

Beer. Oh, and Canadian bacon. OK, so you don't have a national cuisine, but count your blessings. At least the world doesn't blame haggis on you.

Pretty much the same as American food, as far as I know, with some British stuff in some areas. (Victoria comes to mind.) Maybe it's different in French Canada.

What are pasties and salad cream?

mmmm haggis......

Pasties are a meat pie usually in a crescent shape with potato and carrot and onion and spices inside*drools*
Salad cream is a salad dressing thick and yellow made from egg yolks and vinegar and it is the yummiest thing in the world....

It depends what province you're in.

(Salad cream is British mayonaise.)

Pemmican! Fiddleheads! Poutine! Tortiere! Nanaimo bars! Maple syrup on _everything_! :)

Back bacon and Molson.

Baby seal bacon and LaBatt's?

Canadian bacon. Maple products. Sounds like good breakfast material.

Tenderly clubbed baby seal?

doughnuts are not a national cuisine?

crepes? croissants?

Waffles & mapple syrip! :)

beer and back bacon, eh?
seriously, i can imagine quebecois specialities not being viewed as 'french' cuisine but rather, 'canadian'.

bacon, beer and spray cheese. it's even worse than "american" food, if possible.

I was told "Canadian food" is basically the same as "American food"... french fries, hamburgers, etc. I was always disappointed with the lack of maple products that I was able to get in Michigan. My friend in Windsor has never even eaten maple sugar and I grew up on it.

cpierson - *a la Homer Simpson* Mmmm... Nanaimo bars!

Canadian bacon and beer

mmm.. Canadian bacon beer!

Somewhere, I have a recipe for meat beer...

My favourite is roast penguin on a bed of maple leaves, wash it all down with a big glass of rye whisky! yummy!

Zang plese don't make fun of my Home Country.

I think the only time I've ever seen the term " Canadian food" is on Chinese restaurants that serve other food as well. But it's usually burgers, fries, sandwiches etc.. Like that's just served in Canada or something??

Strider: Me too! I wasn't making fun of us. I was making fun of them.

I had a pretty good cheese burger in Egypt.

okay zang. It's good to know there is a fellow Canadian around. What part of Canada are you from?

He's from British Columbia - land of Marijuana!

Yes, it is true. Downtown Vancouver to be specific. I just turned around and looked out the window. I can see Harbour Centre, the Dominion Building, and the big W on top of the old Woodwards building.

Does maple syrup count? But seriously, Canada is so diverse, it's hard to name a single food. There are definitely a few that are very Quebecois, but they're gross!

Oh yeah, I guess it's relevant to mention I live in Quebec. My vote would go to bacon and beer, although not necessarily together.

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just thought I'd share

I like a lot of Quebecois foods, I dont find them gross.

And that's your right. I just have an aversion to grease. Have you ever been to a cabane a sucre (sugar shack)? Tourtiere, tarte a sucre, oreilles de crisse, baked beans... it's a wonder anyone can get up and walk out after eating that meal! I do like the maple syrup on snow, though! I'm also one of the very few people in Quebec who doesn't like poutine or dipping their fries in mayonnaise. Ew.

What Quebecois foods do you like?

I thought Vancouver was nice. We drove through it on the way to Whistler (another reason it's a great place is that it's near Whistler!)

And its your right to find them gross ;)
Yes, I've been to the cabane à sucre before (twice).
(by the way, I'm also from Qc)
They didnt have any tourtière though, they had the baked beans, les oreilles de crisse, the ham, sausages, potatoes all covered in maple syrup. Those donuts you get at the end are great and so are the pancakes! :) Poutine, for me, really depends on the fries they use, I also like Italian poutine too. Hmmmmm mayo on fries... The one they have at "Frite Alors" is amazing, and plus they serve the fries in a cone too! Tourtière is pretty good when there isnt too much pepper in it. There are a lot of things I like too, like sucre à creme, creton, ....

Yes, Vancouver is very nice. I used to find it amusing, years ago, (when we actually had a tourist season) to see winners on American game shows, jumping up and down, getting all excited when they won a trip to Vancouver. We haven't had a tourist season for nearly 15 years, now there are tons of them here year round.

Yeah, between the ski resort in Whistler, and the Alaska cruise ships, tourism in Vancouver is way up. We also have a lot of ESL* schools here, so we get an enormous amount of young Japanese people coming here year round.

*English as a Second Language

Fried Cheese?

anything that has Canadian Bacon on it, yummy

I've been to Vancouver a couple of times to visit family friends and family. I think Canada's Third largest city is very nice, but it's miles from Canada's Largest city.

Yes, it is a big country. I've circled the globe, but all my travels on this continent have been up and down the west coast. (San Diego to Anchorage)

Hey you wacky Canadians: So... when you order "bacon" in a Canadian restaurant, do you get ham (Canadian bacon)? ...or do you get those crispy strips of yumminess that people in the U.S. call bacon?
Why do we call it "Canadian Bacon" and not just ham?

We call "Canadian bacon" back bacon, and although it sort of looks like little round slices of ham, it is in fact different in some way...more bacon like...I guess. I suspect it is an eastern thing, because you don't really see it that much out west. If I go to a cafe, the breakfast menu usually has:

bacon (strips)
ham
sausage (links)
steak (often)
hamburger patty (occasionally)
pork chops (occasionally)
corned beef (rarely)
chicken breast (rarely)

I didn't mean distance.

molson and labatt's blue?

seriously, my experiences with canada are all either victoria (which is trying to be more british than britain) or vancouver (which is fairly ethnically diverse as far as food goes). i'm not sure what would be "canadian" cuisine.

Oh, miles from TO! I was confused the the lower case "m"... I forgot he was spelling his name that way now. Good old miles. How's he been doing lately? I haven't seen him for years.

I mean as in Toronto is a better city then Vancouver Zang.

just kidding zang!

Geez, I'm Canadian and I don't know! All I know is I don't like our "Canadian bacon" at all!!
Hmmm...kay, my girlfriend is American so I'll name some things that we have that they don't...Ketchup chips, Mr.Big, Smarties (the chocolate) plum sauce, poutine!

There are a LOT of candy/chocolate bars in Canada that you can't get in the states.

like coffee crisp!

I know...I could only think of a few of them when I was answerin though.

What is this "poutine" of which you Canadien(ne)s parlez?

Its fries covered in sauce with cheese curds on top :)

What kinda sauce?

depends on the place you go, some use BBQ sauce, others use a thicker kind of sauce, kind of like gravy. There's also the Italian poutine where they put spaghetti sauce.

cheese curds as in cottage cheese?


oh and BTW


I love you!

Not that anyone cares, but I miss Canada sooo badly. ::sighs deeply::

no, not cottage cheese hmmm maybe I'm using the wrong word for it...
its not cottage cheese, its pieces of I'll bring you one next time ;) hehe
The french fries page shows kind of what it is...
http://www.tx7.com/fries/docs/experiment/x002.html
and by the way,
I love you too! :)

I see!
I really don't think you need to bring us any though...just bring your tasty little self and We'll be happy
*cheesy grin*

Curds are actually what are in cottage cheese, although regular cheese curds are usually bigger (and squeakier). They're really popular in Wisconsin--are you sure poutine isn't an imported food?!

Well, the cheese is pretty squeaky, so its probably the same thing.... maybe it was exported to Wisconsin! ;)

"COLD"CUTS?

Canadian food ? , all I know is that I would do just about anything to be able to taste the seafood that my homeland , Australia, offers, just once more . Canadian bacon , okay , but whoever could resist a dozen (or more)of the fine Sydney rock oysters. hmmmmm homesick ? who me ?

Canada Dry and should I say cold! Just kidding!

Moose stew??

Ask a Canadian.