What I've eaten, Canadian Version
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Maple Syrup & Poutine's 100 Canadian Foods to Consume
1. Arctic Char
2. Ketchup flavoured chips
3. Wild Rice Pilaf
4. Caribou Steak
5. Gourmet Poutine
6. Screech
7. Beaver Tails
8. Maple Baked Beans
9. Bison Burger
10. Bumbleberry pie
11. Nanaimo bar
12. Butter Tarts
13. Cedar Planked B.C. Salmon
14. Wild Blueberries
15. Pure Local Cranberry Juice
16. Chocolate from Ganong or Purdy’s
17. A cup of warm cider from your local orchard--It was cold, and in Quebec, but so was I at the time.
18. Caesar
19. 4 of the following types of apples (Cortland, Empire, Golden Delicious, McIntosh, Spartan, Greensleeves, Liberty, Granny Smith, Red Delicious, Honeycrisp, Golden Russet, Idared, Gala)
20. Freshly foraged mushrooms
21. Dinner cooked by Michael Smith, Susur Lee or Rob Feenie -haha can't afford it.
22. Fondue Chinoise --if you mean hotpot or dabeenlo, then yes
23. Dish created from a Canadian Living Magazine recipe --probably, but not cooked by me.
24. Peameal Bacon Sandwich from St. Lawrence Market in Toronto
25. Lobster bought directly from a boat in a Maritime harbour
26. Handmade perogies from your local church or market
27. Alberta Beef at an Alberta Steakhouse--does steak served at an Albertan wedding count?
28. Leamington Tomatoes
29. Roasted Pheasant
30. Wild Game hunted by someone you know--first time I saw my 7 year old brother hold a gun taller than him.
31. Ice Wine
32. Habitant Pea Soup --thank god, no. I received the warning very early.
33. Any Canadian Artisinal Cheese
34. Bannock--really tasty with jam, unforgettable with a Saanich welcoming prayer.
35. Tourtiere
36. Flapper Pie
37. Jellied Moose Nose
38. Saskatoon Berries
39. Fish and Brewis
40. Screech Pie
41. Fiddleheads
42. Montreal Smoked Meat Sandwich --ask me how I gained ten pounds last summer. Just go ahead.
43. Flipper Pie--I think I have, or have had it described in great detail. It's fishy and oily I think.
44. Montreal Bagels with Smoked Salmon
45. Toutins
46. Jam Busters
47. Bakeapple Pie
48. Bridge Mixture
49. Canadian Style Pizza (bacon, pepperoni. Mushrooms)
50. Shreddies
51. A cone from Cow’s Ice Cream
52. Lumberjack or Logger’s Breakfast
53. Jigg’s Dinner
54. Rappie Pie
55. Pemmican
56. Lake Erie Sturgeon Caviar
57. Belon Oysters
58. Brome Lake Duck
59. Beer from a stubby bottle.
60. A beer from Unibroue or Phillips Brewery.
61. Salt Spring Island Lamb
62. Fry’s Cocoa
63. A bag of Old Dutch Potato Chips
64. Every Flavour of Laura Secord Suckers--just the chocolates.
65. Chicken Dinner from St Hubert’s or Swiss Chalet--had the texture of a foam dinghy, thank you
66. Hickory Sticks--never understood these. Yummy, but so hard to pick up!
67. An entire box of Kraft Dinner
68. Candy Apples
69. Corn from a roadside stand
70. A meal at Eigensenn Farm
71. Okanogan Peaches
72. Berkshire Pork
73. PEI Potatoes
74. Something cooked in Canola oil
75. Figgy Duff
76. Blueberry Grunt
77. High Tea at the Empress Hotel--sadly no, and I used to WORK THERE
78. Fresh maple syrup hardened on the snow--It can be done, but i think it's better in the winter. I had it in the summer, made in a refrigerated pan of snow.
79. Oreilles de Christ -no, but I want to find out what they are!!
80. Nova Scotia Beer Warmer
81. A cheese plate containing Bleu Bénédictin, Friulano, St. Maure and Oka.
82. Black or red currant jam
83. Maple glazed Doughnut from Tim Horton’s with a Large “Double Double” --Yep, raise your cup to my undergraduate years.
84. A glass of Mission Hill’s “Oculus”
85. Alberta Pure Vodka
86. Chokecherries
87. Canada Day Cake
88. Boulettes
89. Canadian Iced Tea
90. Mead
91. Fricot
92. Grandperes
93. Local honey
94. Creton on toast
95. Glen Breton Rare
96. A whole box of Smarties, where the empty box is then used as a kazoo--oh good, I wasn't the only one. Does anyone remember these coming in tubes?
97. Grilled cheese made with Canadian Cheddar
98. A meal from Harvey’s
99. Lake Erie Perch
100. Red Rose Tea