Favorite Canuck eats and drinks (live, restaurant, shop)

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by Mouldy Old Schmo

Is poutine considered Canada's national dish?

We don't really have a national dish.

Some people say it is poutine but it has only been around for 50 years and only spread out to the rest of the country beyond Quebec in the past 10 years or so.

Plus it's junk food.

[MexiQuebecois]

Originally Posted by Acajack

We don't really have a national dish.

Some people say it is poutine but it has only been around for 50 years and only spread out to the rest of the country beyond Quebec in the past 10 years or so.

Plus it's junk food.

But it's mighty delicious. Heart attack on a plate has never tasted that good.

[Mouldy Old Schmo]

Any fans of spruce beer? Or caribou (the drinkable kind, not the reindeer)?

[BIMBAM]

Originally Posted by Mouldy Old Schmo

Any fans of spruce beer? Or caribou (the drinkable kind, not the reindeer)?

My mother likes both of those, but I do not

[Zoisite]

Oka cheese. Hawkins Cheezies. Iced Caps. French Canadian yellow split pea soup with smoked ham.

We do grow fiddleheads here, from ostrich ferns, they grow wild on the west coast in the rainforest. (Not to be confused with bracken ferns and dogtooth ferns which also grow wild here but they're not really very palatable - goats like them though).

I love perogies, Pacific red prawns, steelhead, bannock, thimbleberries, pink huckleberries. Don't know that they specifically qualify as 'Canadian' foods but I'm Canadian and I like to eat them so that makes them Canadian food to me.

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[Zoisite]

Originally Posted by MexiQuebecois

But it's mighty delicious. Heart attack on a plate has never tasted that good.

I'll second that. Love poutine. I've been eating English style fish and fried potato chips with ox-tail gravy, grated cheddar and melted butter on them for 60 years (a favorite recipe that mom brought over from England in the 1940's) but I'd never had actual "poutine" with the gravy and white cheese curds up until 7 or 8 years ago.

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[Luhts]

Beaver Tails are Bannock, they just go by different names in different areas. I found that they are also called Elephant Ears sometimes. The best is topped with cinnamon sugar and drizzled with lemon juice! I believe the Beaver Tail franchises call that a Sunrise Special?

Yes, there was a pub in England I was at recently that served chips topped with gravy and cheese, so poutine is not unique to Canada, either.
But since Canada and the US are pretty much made up of immigrants, you can bet that most of our food has influences from other countries.

[GTOlover]

A nice T-bone steak on the BBQ with a side of Corn on the Cob and Potatoes with a Ice Cold beer to wash it all down while watching summer CFL games is pretty Canadian IMO...

[UrbanLuis]

Nova scotian oat cakes half dipped in chocolate. Halifax Donairs!!!!!! Lobster with P.E.I potatoes! Alexander keiths!!!!!!! Pumpkin Pie!! strawberry and Rhubarb pie!! Fish and chips! fiddle heads with butter. And i cant forget poutine!!!!!

The best Donair spot in Canada, King of Donair Halifax,

Halifax Feb 2010 by Lionel Caines, on Flickr

small donair

Donair plate by gray_eminence, on Flickr

They even make donair pizza!!!!!!!!

King of Donair, Halifax by are you gonna eat that, on Flickr

[imokay]

Ok, anything actually HEALTHY?