And this one.
Hi Ginger!
I’ve only ever met one person in my life who actually enjoyed rye and ginger. Caesars, now, those are a Canadian staple.
Well, yeah, it’s not called soap gum for nothing. 
Speaking of Canadian snacks, on our recent trip to the U.S., I realized that snacking is much, much better in Canada. See, we have almost all of the stuff you guys have, plus we have all the good Canadian snacks, too. Old Dutch All-Dressed potato chips…mmmm. Cadbury and Nielsen chocolate bars. Mmmm.
Bloody Caesars - you guys should all try one and demand that your local bars start stocking Motts Clamato and making them. The Bloody Mary doesn’t even begin to compare with the salty, savoury goodness that is the Caesar.
Hi honey! I miss you!
I think it may be an older person’s drink. My dad serves it regularly. I like it occasionally, and keep the fixings for when he comes over.
Various points:
(1) in London, England, you can find the Maple Leaf Pub in Covent Garden, complete with Molson in bottles and hockey sweaters on the walls. I didn’t go in so I don’t know what food they serve.
(2) also in England I saw “Canadian Muffins,” which are what we call “muffins” - to be distinguished, I suppose, from what we call “English Muffins,” which are kind of but not really like crumpets. I never saw an “English Muffin” in England.
(3) Poutine - it’s available at fast food places (KFC, Harvey’s, etc) in TO and probably across the country, so in that sense it is “national.”
(4) I also hate Thrills, but I have a friend who is 30 who loves a good rye and ginger.
I love malt vinegar on my fries and it seems fairly common in British pub and seafood type places.
Salt & vinegar flavored potato chips seem to have become pretty popular too.
Poutine is basically french fries in gravy? I’ve had that in Europe. Is what makes it Canadian the cheese curds?
You can say that again. They don’t have Caramilks! :eek: I couldn’t believe it. I’m now tasked with importing Caramilks and Smarties when I visit an American pal in Florida. We have way, way better chocolate bars - more variety by far. Oh and our Kraft cream cheeses are way better than theirs. No idea why but I bought some there and it was just terrible.
Isn’t that crazy? When I asked my husband if he’d ever solved the mystery of how they get the caramel into a Caramilk bar, he asked me, “What’s a Caramilk bar?” :eek:
And Smarties here in the US are what I always called Rockets growing up - those little tart candies that look like concave aspirins that I used to sneak into my brother’s pillowcase at Halloween. You know, so I could swipe his Caramilks.
I ate a lot of fricot, tourtiere, rappee pie, etc. growing up. Lots of dulse, too, since I grew up on the Bay of Fundy and near Grand Manan. And what I’d give for a plate piled high with fresh, steaming fiddleheads.
WHAT?!?
Oh hell, that’s it, The move is off.
Oh no. To me, the Bloody Mary is one of the joys of travelling to the USA. They’ve never heard of Caesars, so those of us who detest Caesars (it’s the clam juice part that I cannot handle) never, ever have a well-meaning server give us a Caesar by mistake. I’ve been told a few times in Canada, “You said ‘Bloody Mary,’ but I knew you really meant a Caesar…” I don’t even bother any more; if I want a Bloody Mary, I make it at home.
Yes, the Caesar is a truly Canadian cocktail creation. But I hate it. So if it means I have to eat twice as many butter tarts to make up for my lack of Caesar consumption, then I will.
Spoons, my comrade! I’ve been searching for a fellow Canadian who wants a Bloody Mary, not a bloody Bloody Caesar! Let us swear eternal friendship!
You (and other expats) may want to check out this website. I can’t vouch for how good their service is, but I heard about it on CBC Radio over Christmas. They specialize in an online “Canadian favourites” foods for shipping to the US. It appears to include Smarties, Caramilks, and what no one has yet mentioned the real cheezies, Hawkins.
There is a chain of restaurants themed on the Canadian Rockies in the Boston area called Bugaboo Creek. It is basically just a steakhouse type place though.
They sell clamato in the supermarkets here as well.
Isn’t it craziness? I can’t for the life of me imagine why Cadbury hasn’t marketed them in the US. Maybe you can make your fortune by becoming a Cadbury marketer for the US.
Wow…I’m not the only one. Great to meet you, Rube!
::raises Bloody Mary in salute::
May your vodka be tasteless, your tomato juice tomato-ey, and your clam juice remain in the clam!
Well, once I make enough money, I’m seriously considering opening up a Tim Horton’s. Maybe we’ll sell Caramilks over-the-counter, too.
Canadians do NOT put malt viveagar on french fries. They put white vineagar. The colourless stuff that looks like water.
The reason Americans think we put malt vineagar on our fries is that when we go to the US and ask for vineager for our fries, first the waitress looks at you like you are fucking crazy, considers whether or not to call the cops, and then says something like this:
"Hey Murray!!! (All Americans are named Murray and all Canadians are named Lorne). “Guy out here (read crazy asshole) wants . . . .(looks at you like this is so hard to believe, she is checking to see if maybe you got two heads or antennae sticking out from under your Blue Jays ball cap). . . . . vineagar to put on his fries. We got any vineagar?”
This last sentence is delivered in much the same way that you would ask your hardware store if they still stock buggy whips.
Murray roots around in the kitchen and finally finds a bottle of malt vineagar way at the back of the cupboard under the sink next to the cream of tartar. The waitress brings it to the puzzled Canuck who stares at this strange brown liquid in a glass bottle of the kind they have not made for 60 years and says “Thank you.”
To which the American waitress replies “Shoowah.”
And this happened to me in Montpelier, Vermont, about an hour from the Canadian border!
Not true. I buy white vinegar for cleaning. That’s all it’s good for. Malt vinegar and salt is how French fries must be eaten.
Oh, and Rube E. Tewesday and Spoons, I’m with you too. I mentioned how popular Caesars are, but I loathe them.
A friend of mine looked into it. Tim’s isn’t ready to expand into this area yet. But, take heart! We only have to drive to Columbus for one! :rolleyes: