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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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 Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 8:01 pm Post subject: What is Canadian food? |
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| What is Canadian food? Is it just like American food? |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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There are some foods that were invented in Canada that most Canadians wouldn't think to call Canadian.
A lot of Chinese foods you can get in Canada are unique to Canada. Ginger beef was invented in Calgary.
Another one is donairs. Those were invented in Halifax. |
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wo buxihuan hanguoren
Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Location: Suyuskis
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| Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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| According to an old student of mine that went to Vancouver and only ate Korean food while there, Canadians eat a lot of bread. |
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Jarome_Turner
Joined: 10 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
There are some foods that were invented in Canada that most Canadians wouldn't think to call Canadian.
A lot of Chinese foods you can get in Canada are unique to Canada. Ginger beef was invented in Calgary.
Another one is donairs. Those were invented in Halifax. |
Donairs are Turkish. They've taken on various forms throughout the world, with many countries adapting them to specific tastes. The Haligonian donair is just one of many in the world which has been modified to suit local tastes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donair
Different regions of Canada have different foods I would call "Canadian"
One of the most famous is poutine, which comes from Quebec. It's great for those people who are trying to lost weight, or recover from a recent heart surgery:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poutine
In Newfoundland, a traditional sunday dinner usually consists of bioled veggies, baked chicken, and salted pork or riblets, topped with gravy. The locals call it "Jiggs Dinner":
Caribou and moose meat can be found filling freezers in most northern regions (Labrador, Norther Quebec, The Territories). This meat is often turned into sausage, steak, ground meat, etc...:
Albertans love a good feed of "prarie oysters" (bull nuts) every now and then:
And of course, who can forget maple syrup:
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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Bannock is a truly Canadian food-- it's basically a scone (from Scottish settlers) adapted by plains Aboriginals, and it became a staple flatbread. I think pemmican (pounded deer/bison meat with dried fruit eg., cranberries) is pretty Canadian too.
Do split-pea-and-bacon soup and tourtierre from the French settlers count? |
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hugo_danner
Joined: 21 Jun 2006
Location: korea
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| Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 11:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Canadian food is American food served in Canada. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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poutine
maple syrup
Montreal bagels
ice wine
back bacon (peameal bacon) |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 12:10 am Post subject: |
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Butter tarts. Lot of Canadian food is French Canadian food.
http://tinyurl.com/2aghhg
Tourti�re, butter tarts, sugar pie, the aforementioned poutine, pea soup.
English Canada: donuts
Download a handout here I did about Canadians and donuts:
http://www.gokorea.info/resources.htm |
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Pink Freud
Joined: 27 Jan 2003
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 12:27 am Post subject: |
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OK.
Without leaving my home province:
Appetizer:
Smoked Dickens Lake whitefish on rye wheat/quinoa cracker
Soup:
Wild rice, fennel, leek and white asparagus cream soup
Salad:
Baby spinach, picked beet, baby carrot, sunflower seeds, sweet red onion, Norland apple with a wild strawberry balsamic vinaigrette
First course:
Pan-seared Lac la Plonge Lake Trout breaded in 100 percent durum wheat flour, salt, cayenne, lemon pepper served with brown butter (made by the Monks at St. Peter's Abbey) and fresh rueben basil.
Second course:
Organic bison roast braised with onions, baby potatoes, wild mushrooms, sage, garlic and my buddy's famous chokecherry wine.
Dessert:
Black Bear Island Lake wild blueberries, Saskatoon berries and maple syrup flambeed in (Wiser's Deluxe) RYE whiskey served over homemade vanilla ice cream.
Everything sourced locally, except the cayenne pepper, lemon, and maple syrup, which is not produced in my home province. |
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Chillin' Villain
Joined: 13 Mar 2003
Location: Goo Row
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| Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 4:41 am Post subject: |
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| Moose Cack |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 5:15 am Post subject: |
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| Jarome_Turner wrote: |
"Jiggs Dinner":
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Looks somewhat familiar, though we rarely ate that salted meat. The most typical foods for me were fish (trout and cod were common), roast beef, chicken, veggies, maybe gravy.
We never used the term "Jigg's Dinner" either, but some Newfs may have, and I'm sure many oldtimers know what it is. The under 30 crowd may not know it.
I don't think I've ever eaten (seen?) turnip in Asia! Back in Newf it was common. |
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Lao Wai
Joined: 01 Aug 2005
Location: East Coast Canada
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| Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 5:49 am Post subject: |
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| jajdude wrote: |
| Jarome_Turner wrote: |
"Jiggs Dinner":
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Looks somewhat familiar, though we rarely ate that salted meat. The most typical foods for me were fish (trout and cod were common), roast beef, chicken, veggies, maybe gravy.
We never used the term "Jigg's Dinner" either, but some Newfs may have, and I'm sure many oldtimers know what it is. The under 30 crowd may not know it.
I don't think I've ever eaten (seen?) turnip in Asia! Back in Newf it was common. |
Both of my parents are from Newfoundland (Harbour Grace) and frequently use the term 'Jigg's Dinner'. In fact, I ate that stuff EVERY SUNDAY until I went to university. I didn't eat the salted meat because I thought it was gross. |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 6:18 am Post subject: |
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yeah, Jig's dinner is what that's called out on the Avalon, and Salt Beef is a staple for it. When I was a kid in Ontario, my parents would make pilgramages to the Newfie Shop in Toronto to get that and hard tack.
Quebecois food might be great, but I find Newfie food pretty close to inedible. |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
Location: ... location, location!
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| Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 6:34 am Post subject: |
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LOBSTER. C'mon.
And maple syrup.
And bacon.
None are uniquely Canadian, but... |
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wo buxihuan hanguoren
Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Location: Suyuskis
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| Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 6:41 am Post subject: |
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| Lobster with bacon covered in maple syrup - where do I sign up? |
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