/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.11607506]

Aside from poutine, what food is this country known for?

[Anonymous No.11607520]

>>11607506
Ummm the blood of its flag logo. They have a particular kind of lox from nova Scotia too. Its cold smoked. I'm out after that.

[Anonymous No.11607602]

A lot of canadian food is a fusion of french and american cuisine.

[Anonymous No.11607611]

lake fish cooked in traditional french fashion

[Anonymous No.11607638]

>>11607506
As an American I mostly associate Canada with maple syrup, and being more friendly to duck/foie gras than us, but the foie gras thing might just be because of the fame of Joe Beef and that other place in Montreal 5-6 years ago. I've only been to Winnipeg (don't ask) and Montreal, so Canada is kind of a mystery to me, even compared to Mexico (only ever been to Tijuana). It's kind of like a giant flyover northern neighbor. They send us lots of comedians, and we film a bunch of shit there pretending it's America.

[Anonymous No.11607651]

toutans

[Anonymous No.11607686]

>be burger
>visit montreal for work
>try poutine
>soggy fries with nasty gravy and shitty unmelted cheese curds
>find panini place next to literal brothel.
>eat paninis for the next two days.

[Anonymous No.11607708]

Nanaimo Bars are fucking delicious

[Anonymous No.11607716]

>>11607686
People who travel for work are cancer.

[Anonymous No.11607722]

>>11607716
t. neet incel

[Anonymous No.11607732]

>>11607722
I travel for leisure. People like you are the reason that you see nothing but Starbucks and McDonald's in Manhattan or Paris these days.

[Anonymous No.11607741]

>>11607732
This proves you’ve never left your basement

[Anonymous No.11607752]

>>11607741
I'd say you have that backwards, but I honestly believe that you might just not understand hyperbole.

[Anonymous No.11607754]

donairs
much tastier than they look

[Anonymous No.11607758]

[Anonymous No.11607768]

>>11607754
>Canadian
>cuisine

[Anonymous No.11607932]

>>11607638
Why are Americans adverse to duck? It tastes much better than chicken.

[Anonymous No.11607937]

>>11607932
Only urban folk don’t like duck.

[Anonymous No.11607953]

>>11607937
You have to be shitting me. I'm a Canuck and duck is enjoyed by city dwellers not just here but in places like Paris or Shanghai.

[Anonymous No.11607961]

>>11607932
We love duck, it's just something you only find at more upscale places here. Lobbying is a huge problem in the states, which is why most people only have access to chicken, beef, and pork, and why we have 300 times more mass shootings each year compared to every other 1st world country. All that aside, it's pretty comfy to be American, though I've never met a Canadian I hated and that universal healthcare thing is something I think everyone should get behind. That said, I still don't understand how an entire country exists North of the hellhole that is literally any state that borders Canada during the Winter.

[Anonymous No.11607967]

>>11607953
Now that I think about it, upper class fine dining snobs and hipster foodies both love duck. It’s the middle of the road suburban retards who don’t have access to or money for restaurant quality duck, but also are too useless to hunt that don’t like it.

[Anonymous No.11607972]

>>11607961
>Lobbying is a huge problem in the states
I agree with that, but I doubt it's the real reason people only have access to chicken, beef, and pork, unless the lobbyists somehow managed to restrict access to more exotic meats like duck and rabbit.

[Anonymous No.11607983]

Canadian food is the best! You Europoors and Americans don't know what you're missing.

[Anonymous No.11607990]

>>11607972
They haven't managed to industrialize duck and rabbit production to giant warehouses full of just corn and duck/rabbit shit.

[Anonymous No.11607996]

>>11607506
I don't know about you but as an American I mostly think of Canadian diet and motor fuel as consisting of a solution of maple syrup and pure, unbridled, unwarranted smug.

[Anonymous No.11608055]

>>11607990
You'd think that rabbit would be just as easy to factory farm as chicken, and turkeys are factory farmed too so I don't see why they can't do the same with duck.

[Anonymous No.11608075]

>>11607983

[Anonymous No.11608077]

>>11608055
You can find factory farmed duck in the grocery store, and rabbit meat kind of sucks.

[Anonymous No.11608082]

>>11607972
>unless the lobbyists somehow managed to restrict access to more exotic meats like duck and rabbit
That's exactly what lobbyists do. They work for big agra, and push the shit that the big corporations pay them to push (at the most basic level, corn).

[Anonymous No.11608092]

>>11608082
How does one become a lobbyist?

[Anonymous No.11608133]

>>11608092
They usually begin by getting into politics; either working for a politician or running for office themselves. A law degree is pretty much a must, along with being a douche.

[Anonymous No.11608223]

[Anonymous No.11608273]

https://www.cheese.com/canadian-cheddar/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheddar_cheese#Canada

Following a wheat midge outbreak in Canada in the mid-19th century, farmers in Ontario began to convert to dairy farming in large numbers, and Cheddar cheese became their main exportable product, even being exported to England. By the turn of the 20th century, 1,242 Cheddar factories were in Ontario, and Cheddar had become Canada's second-largest export after timber.[31] Cheddar exports totalled 234,000,000 lb (106,000,000 kg) in 1904, but by 2012, Canada was a net importer of cheese. James L. Kraft grew up on a dairy farm in Ontario, before moving to Chicago. According to the writer Sarah Champman, "Although we cannot wholly lay the decline of cheese craft in Canada at the feet of James Lewis Kraft, it did correspond with the rise of Kraft’s processed cheese empire."[31] Most Canadian Cheddar is produced in the provinces of Québec (40.8%) and Ontario (36%)[32], though other provinces produce some and some smaller artisanal producers exist. The annual production is 120,000 tons.[33] It is aged a minimum of three months, but much of it is held for much longer, up to 10 years.

Canadian Cheddar cheese soup is a featured dish at the Canada pavilion at Epcot, in Walt Disney World.[34]

[Anonymous No.11608286]

>>11607768
The halifax style donair has been warped and mangled to be so far removed from shawarma/gyro/kebab that it might as well be it's own thing.


It looks similar but the meat is... we'll it's kind of fucked up and the 'sweet sauce' will shock you the moment it first hits your tongue.

[Anonymous No.11608322]

>>11608286
Tony's>KOD
Fight me on this.

[Anonymous No.11608328]

>>11607506
Cock.

[Anonymous No.11608353]

>>11608322
When I was in Halifax I went to king of donair. I've never tried tony's

[Anonymous No.11608356]

>>11607506
Lots of good wild game.

[Anonymous No.11608385]

>>11608353
KoD is the "original donair do not steal", but it's overrated. Halifax has changed so much in the past few years though that it's perfectly normal to charge +$12 for a subpar donair.

[Anonymous No.11608515]

>>11607506
Sushi pizza, a huge inspiration for Japanese food in Canada. Peameal bacon in Toronto. Ice wine of Niagara.

[Anonymous No.11608548]

>>11608075
Lettuce-shelled tacos actually tastes good with breadsticks.

[Anonymous No.11609279]

Smokies

[Anonymous No.11609466]

>>11609279
these are amaaaazing

[Anonymous No.11609583]

I've only been to Alberta which other Canadians tell me is just America, or rather, it's a part of Canada more obsessed with the cowboy image than most of America. That being said, while I was there I had a drink called a Bloody Caesar which was pretty good. And I ate some bison meat.

[Anonymous No.11609601]

>>11609583
Alberta is basically the Texas of Canada. Nice place, in my experience.

[Anonymous No.11609603]

>>11607506
Hawian Pizza

[Anonymous No.11609723]

>>11607708
True, but anyone making them with white custard filling can diaf

[Anonymous No.11609731]

>>11607506
Setting aside the issue of Mad Cow ~15 years ago, Alberta's beef is pretty fantastic.

[Anonymous No.11609735]

>>11607754
Looks like a Gyros with curdled cum instead of tzatziki.

[Anonymous No.11609926]

>>11607686
This guy speaks the truth. I live in Canada. There is no Canadian cuisine. They talk about poutine like it's good but no it's just garbage fries with sticky gravy and smegma garnish. Canada is literally just wannabe America. Now they import brown people by the millions to substitute as a culture lmao

[Anonymous No.11609963]

>>11607506
Didn't they invent Timbits?

[Anonymous No.11609968]

>>11609926
>Canada is literally just wannabe America.
>now they import millions of brown people
Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery I guess.

[Anonymous No.11609969]

Canada is the largest consumer of KD
>>11609926
For fucks sake, can we have one thread without you fuckers trying to bring politics into everything?

[Anonymous No.11609994]

>>11609969
Sticking your head in the sand won't make the problem go away.

[Anonymous No.11610002]

>>11609968
Based and redpilled.
>>11609969
Unbased and bluepilled.

[Anonymous No.11610018]

Butter tarts

[Anonymous No.11610123]

>>11609963
Donut holes have been around forever. Fucking Africans and Arabs have been making them for thousands of years

[Anonymous No.11610130]

>>11609583
Alberta is that you get if you a people try their hardest to imitate ol western movies and cowboy aesthetic

[Anonymous No.11610135]

>>11610018
That's Arabic, but I doubt there's a difference anymore lol

[Anonymous No.11610137]

>>11610130
>aesthetic
I do not believe you know what this word means.

[Anonymous No.11610195]

>>11609735
You're not far off. I live in Halifax and donair is fucking terrible. It's shitty, low quality doner made for shitty, boomer flyover tastebuds.

But welcome to Canada, where you can roll leftist virtue signalling soccer mom NPCs, white trash boomers, and flyover-never-left-my-home-province retards, into one person.

I actually fucking hate everyone who lives in this goddam country.

[Anonymous No.11610208]

doobage, atch

[Anonymous No.11610248]

>>11610195
>buzzwords

[Anonymous No.11610267]

>>11610248
Literally prove me wrong. All you mainlanders deserve is a fucking rope.

[Anonymous No.11610451]

>>11610018
Based

Here's tourtière. My grandma made several of these every Christmas, great with ketchup.

[Anonymous No.11610458]

>>11610451
Forgot pic

[Anonymous No.11610459]

>>11607506
acadian poutine?
It's like a ball of mash potato filled with the fries, gravy, cheese, and pork

[Anonymous No.11610474]

>>11610267
you do realise that halifax is also on the mainland, yeah?
stop pretending to be a newfie

[Anonymous No.11610480]

>>11610474
BARELY

[Anonymous No.11610513]

>>11610267
As an amerilard, I have to say I met a lot of Quebec folk when I was RVing around the US for a couple years and they were really good people. Pretty much drank at buzz maintenance levels all day long, but that fit in with my lifestyle at the time. They were bros. I guess the Quebecois are into RVing big time because they were the majority of Canadians I met on the road.

[Anonymous No.11610543]

>>11610474
I live there, I'm not from there.

[Anonymous No.11610546]

>>11610543
then go the fuck back to where you came from you immigrant parasite

[Anonymous No.11610555]

>>11610513
Quebecers are literally the most hated Canadians for how stuck up and snotty they are
We tried to burn them out of Canada but they demanded to stay and then have been trying to secede ever since so they're just the most entitled and rude people ever.

[Anonymous No.11610604]

>>11607506
Maple syrup, bacon.

[Anonymous No.11610621]

>>11610555
Interesting, I never got that feeling at all from them when they were on holiday here in the US, but I carried no confirmation bias and preconceived stereotype baggage about them around with me either. Most of the other Canadians I've met have been at poker tables as a lot apparently retire early or simply stop working since they don't have to pay out the ass for medical insurance and they've been cool too, a lot less volatile and cranky than american players. I have to say, I've never met a Canadian I didn't easily get along with. Most like to drink, so there's that bonding element too, I suppose. Quite frankly the NE Canadians from the Maritimes seemed the most standoffish, arrogant assholes to me.

[Anonymous No.11610646]

>>11610555
Albertans*

[Anonymous No.11610662]

>>11607961
>can't handle a little cold and snow
Absolutely pathetic

[Anonymous No.11610670]

>Maple Syrup
>Butter Tarts
>Montreal Bagels
>Montreal Smoked Meat
>California Roll
>Halifax Donair
>Saskatoon Berry Pie
>Tourtiere
>Bannock
>Garlic Fingers
>Beaver Tails
>Maple Fudge
We have a lot of regional snacks and treats like Ketchup Chips and Coffee Crisp. I think Canadian liquor is better than our food desu. Lots of amazing craft breweries, lots of great whiskeys, amazing unknown high quality wine and emerging craft spirits as well.

[Anonymous No.11610677]

>>11610480
I wish Maine was part of Quebec
t. Mainer

[Anonymous No.11610697]

>>11610555
Québécois are based, they're the only Canadians (besides maybe the Maritimers and Newfies) that can actually hold their drink. They also love eating horse. Definitely the Chad province.

t. Onterrible resident

[Anonymous No.11610756]

>>11607754
Lived in Halifax for a few months. Donairs are god tier drunk food.

[Anonymous No.11610869]

>>11610451
>>11610458
ayy caliss de tabernac that's a fucking meat pie you Montrealer shitstain. Real tourtiere has at least 3 meats, potatoes and is fucking tall as fuck.

Just kidding, both are great and yeah, better with ketchup desu.

[Anonymous No.11610913]

>>11610869
I'm from a francophone town in northern Ontario, must be a regional thing. Osti de tabarnak potato is a bonne idée, I'm going to try that

[Anonymous No.11610914]

>>11607506
Westernized Asian food

[Anonymous No.11610921]

What goes on here?

[Anonymous No.11610936]

>>11610921
Mining and literally nothing else. There's actually nothing at all there.

[Anonymous No.11610939]

>>11610756
someone told me the sauce is weird though, like it is sweet or something?

[Anonymous No.11610990]

>>11610921
The highest wages in Canada to accompany the highest prices of mouldy cheese.

[Anonymous No.11611014]

>>11610670
Don't forget Nanaimo Bars. I rarely eat our Canadian specialties, though. Typical food is just the standard American and Western fare.

[Anonymous No.11611035]

>>11611014
Nanaimo bars are fucking amazing. I rarely eat canadian food like you but we have some god tier ethic food. Literally some of the best asian food you can get and since it's all fresh regulated ingredients it's in some cases better than the traditional stuff. I've been to thailand and still one of the best pad thais i've ever had was in Canada.

[Anonymous No.11611038]

>>11610914
This is actually the biggest one. Canada invented chinese food.

[Anonymous No.11611052]

>>11607686
you probably went to a shitty poutine place then

[Anonymous No.11611063]

>>11611035
Depends on the ethnicity. No way is our Japanese food even half the quality of what they have in Japan.

[Anonymous No.11611072]

Pineapple pizza oddly enough. Though it was from a Greek immigrant.

[Anonymous No.11611074]

>>11610913
So there's two kinds of tourtiere. There's the Montreal-style meat pie you posted a pic of, and there's the Gaspe/East Quebec style, which is basically lining a turkey roaster (tall oval pan/pot with lid) with dough, and filling it with beef/pork/rabbit/moose/whatever your weird uncles shoot and potatoes.I've got a soft spot for the East QC style since that's where my family is from. If you can get green ketchup, or chow-chow it's fucking god-tier.

[Anonymous No.11611088]

Canada has no cuisine.


Quebec does however.

Actually, everytime you think of Canada, you probably think of Quebec.

[Anonymous No.11611091]

>>11611088
t. BQ

[Anonymous No.11611113]

>>11610913
So there's two kinds of tourtiere. There's the Montreal-style meat pie you posted a pic of, and there's the Gaspe/East Quebec style, which is basically lining a turkey roaster (tall oval pan/pot with lid) with dough, and filling it with beef/pork/rabbit/moose/whatever your weird uncles shoot and potatoes.I've got a soft spot for the East QC style since that's where my family is from. If you can get green ketchup, or chow-chow it's fucking god-tier.

[Anonymous No.11611126]

>>11611074
My family as all from western Quebec, so I assume everything west of Montreal uses a similar recipe. I wonder if there's some maritime influence for the eastern/Gaspe recipe? Especially with the potatoes.

[Anonymous No.11611176]

>>11607506
Middle class families being unable to afford meat

[Anonymous No.11611195]

>>11611176
Good. Consumption of flesh is a hindrance to our evolution as a species.

[Anonymous No.11611201]

>>11607506
Nobody gets up and says
I think I want Canadian for dinner

[Anonymous No.11611209]

>>11611176
CANADA IS COLLAPSING

[Anonymous No.11611262]

>>11610546
I gladly would if there were any fucking work on the island.
>immigrant parasite
Loathe though I am to admit it, NL is still part of Canada.

[Anonymous No.11611275]

>>11610621
Generally "Quebequois are arrogant" comes from Montreal faggots who think they're Canadian NYC.

Maritime inhabitants are those blue-collar, extremely proud yet have absolutely nothing to be proud of rednecks. Their only claim to fame is their huge, completely unearned superiority complex over the US.

[Anonymous No.11611313]

>>11610670
California Rolls nor Beaver tails are Canadian

[Anonymous No.11611321]

>>11611035
t. Basic white bitch that eats at Panda Express

[Anonymous No.11611327]

>>11607716
All my food/drinks is comped when I'm traveling which is more than half the time, I get per diem, and I keep all the reward points because I charge everything on my CCs. Stay anally fissured dollar general worker.

[Anonymous No.11611331]

>>11611088
I know whenever I think of weak, effete cucks, I'm thinking of Quebec.

[Anonymous No.11611385]

>>11611331
You're one weird motherfucker then.

[Anonymous No.11611473]

>>11607506
it seems all the good Canadian dishes strictly come from Quebec. I can't think of any Anglo Canadian dishes.

[Anonymous No.11611747]

>>11611321
Never even stepped foot in one. Vancouver has hundreds of personal restaurants owned by immigrants

[Anonymous No.11611753]

>>11611313
California rolls despite the name are from Canada. Beaver Tails are literally a canadian company that started in Canada and is still in Canada

[Anonymous No.11611857]

>>11607932
It's usually thought of as an "upper class" meat, and you're not likely to find it at many restaurants that aren't expensive. The only people I know who regularly eat duck are on my moms side of the family, but that's because they hunt

[Anonymous No.11611964]

>>11611201
It sounds weird with "American" too.

If necessity is the mother of invention, we're orphans. We've never needed to come up with our own style of cuisine - there have been immigrants bringing their cuisines with them since before we were our own nation.

We'll have certain unique preparations and fusions... (un)fortunately most of our local edible flora and fauna are either easily found elsewhere, or lend themselves to stews (and ultimately pies), which are pretty much European.

That said, sipping a cloudberry gin martini while tasting a nearly finished venison stew, and soaking a metric tonne of fiddlehead ferns, so they can be ready for a quick fry in some shallot butter... knowing that you, your friends, and your family put most of this together with things from your own backyards, with the rest coming from within a few km (the cloudberries would be from some godless natural icebox near Hudson Bay most likely) - it might not be a uniquely Canadian experience per se, but I know that that deer grazed on Canadian vegetation, that butter was made from Canadian dairy, those shallots, onions, peppers, garlic, and ferns were grown in Canadian soil... even that gin was Canadian.

It's not normal to eat that way here - maybe a twice a year thing for me - so why would it be normal to import and adapt it elsewhere?

[Anonymous No.11612123]

>>11609279
Americans don't have smokies?

[Anonymous No.11612173]

>>11610921
Natives doing drugs and white lumberjacks raping native girls

[Anonymous No.11612180]

>>11611176
My coworker can't afford meat for his kids lmao. They eat lentils and carrots. Meanwhile me and my gf eat delicious steaks a few times a week