Let's Discuss Canadian Food

I fucking LOVE poutine.

I go to Canada every summer (friends have cottage on a lake in northern Ontario) and the poutine is always a highlight of the trip.

Sad to miss out on my authentic poutine this year

I discovered orange creamsicle rum in a can in Newfoundland.

"I fucking LOVE poutine."

I looked that up bc I'm interested in all sorts of food, but it's basically just French fries with gravy and some cheese cubes. Why is it so special r1?

What do you call that fried dough thing?

I don't even know what you could call "Canadian food".

I grew up eating a lot of roasts. There were a lot of barbecued items. Lasagne, spaghetti with meat sauce... Chili... stews... soups.

Some kind of meat with potatoes on the side with a couple vegetables. One green, one non-green.

Sometimes a salad which was generally a "garden" salad.

Potato salad, macaroni salad which seem WAY lighter than what Americans make were a BBQ thing.

My parents came from poor families and aren't mediterranean and weren't from a coastal area so there was no seafood because it's too expensive and they didn't know what to do with it.

Oh, and I think poutine is garbage French Canadian street food that isn't very appetizing and feels heavy in the stomach. No one ever eats that at home, EVER.

Maple syrup is something you would only eat with pancakes and is expensive.

Bacon is the standard bacon and what you call "canadian bacon" is called "peameal bacon".

There is a significant different between 'real' poutine, made in a Quebec restaurant and all the imitation poutines sold in fast food stores and non French restaurants or made at home with a gravy packet. It isn't something you eat often but the real thing is a treat. We used to stop once a year for real poutine at this little resto-shack type place. It was always packed with locals and the poutine was delicious.

Poutine is something you buy from a food stall generally.

It is manna from heaven r3.

See also r6.

"Bacon is the standard bacon and what you call "canadian bacon" is called "peameal bacon". "

Peameal bacon is rare in the US. Canadian Bacon for Americans is 'back bacon'.

Butter tarts are divine.

I remember being somewhere in Quebec and ordering poutine "avec des saucisses" and expecting to get some kind of sausage ... like kielbasa or Italian sausage. Instead it came with sliced hot dogs.

Gross R10. I went as a teenager and mainly remember the breakfasts. Usually 2 eggs over medium served with baked beans, fresh sliced tomato, regular bacon and toast. Never any breakfast potatoes.

^^ This was in Quebec out in the country.

[quote] The term "Canadian bacon" is not actually used in Canada, where the product is generally known simply as "back bacon" while "bacon" alone refers to the same streaky pork belly bacon as in the United States.[4] Peameal bacon is a variety of back bacon popular in southern Ontario where the loin is wet cured before being rolled in cornmeal (originally yellow pea meal); it is unsmoked.[3]

I'm from southern Ontario so that's probably why I insist that "Canadian bacon" is peameal bacon.

Let's don't and say we did.