Cheese curds are still cheese. I will fight you to the death.
You want a real Canadian dish get some moosemeat and bannock. If you’re a real wussie pick some fiddleheads and steam them for some “fiber”. If I had my way I’d be headed down to the 'rez on a meat and salmon run.
Damn, I’m hungry.
Oh, where are we again?
Perogies and farmer sausage! Might not technically be Canadian, but all the Ukranians/Mennonites out there know what I’m talking about. It’s the first thing I look for whenever I head home for a visit.
Last year I went to a conference in Toronto with my Taiwanese collegues. They wanted to go to China town, while me and ratlung wanted to eat western food. I told them, “Canada, we are in Canada, you should eat Canadian food!” I mean, when we are in Taiwan we try their stinky tofu stuff. But then I realized, what is Canadian food? I asked the cleaning lady what kind of food Toronto is famous for, and she said Chinese food. BLAHHHHHHH.
Och, laddie! Fit like’s yir geography? Bannocks? Canadian? Shirley you jest! Bannocks are are as Scottish as Scottish can be.
dangerousapple said,
I will second that. mmmm. Simply the BEST.
Och, laddie! Fit like’s yir geography? Bannocks? Canadian? Shirley you jest! Bannocks are are as Scottish as Scottish can be.[/quote]
Nopers. Canadian as ?some food to be anounces?
Fried in Crisco lard naturaly.
I 3rd the Perogies and farmer sausage! but with moose or dear sausage.
Och, laddie! Fit like’s yir geography? Bannocks? Canadian? Shirley you jest! Bannocks are are as Scottish as Scottish can be.[/quote]
Nopers. Canadian as ?some food to be anounces?
Fried in Crisco lard naturaly.
I 3rd the Perogies and farmer sausage! but with moose or dear sausage.[/quote]
Ha! HA! Type “bannocks” into google and let me know how many pages you have to click through before you find a Canada reference among the tens of thousands of Scotland ones. 
Check your wikipedia, where poor old Atlantic seaboard gets a last-minute throwaway mention in the bannock world. (You’ll have to look it up yourself – it freezes the page up when I try to include the link)
All this time you thought your were eating Canadian when in fact, you were… no, even I won’t be so cruel as to rub it in any further.
The first hit for “bannock” I googled was this:
twobay.com/bannock.htm
It’s a strange baked recipe with raisons and other shite in it, but it would work. The natives would wrap it on a stick and cook it over a fire. It’s better fried in lard or other animal fats. You can keep the raisons.
I like moosemeat sliced thin and flash fried in very hot oil with onion and salt and pepper. Either that or stew it with root veggies. Caribou steaks, anyone?
My mothers side of the family came to Canada from Scotland a long time ago and mixed up with the Crees. Colhouns, Cowies, and Isebisters, they were. Supposedly the family had it’s own brand of “Cowie” whisky. I grew up listening to many stories about Crazy Horse and how I am related to him. Could never prove it, though. Damn white skin.
Oh, heres what Wiki has to say about it:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bannock
Seems the Scots did bring it to Canada and over time it’s considered traditional fare. I guess if you really wanted authentic, traditional Canadian foon, you would have to hunt it, fish it, skin it, grow it, and process it yourself, much like everybody did there not so long ago.
Ok, I admit it. Almost all known Canadian food aside from what the natives were eating before white folk got there comes from somewhere else. Pity we couldn’t have got a more Indian influence from the British Isles and I could have discovered good curry sooner.
If you’re looking for a dessert with a Canadian flair, why not try making Maple Crème Brûlée?
It does require an oven but a toaster oven will do as well. If the toaster oven has a broiler, you can use that to caramelise the brown sugar. Else, get yourself a blowtorch. It’s useful for other things as well. 
Waffles with Maple syrup served with a side of backbacon and for dessert Nanaimo bars and butter tarts.
Deer nuts
not to be confused with “Beer Nuts”. When in doubt, remember that “Beer Nuts” are a buck and a quarter and deer nuts are under a buck. The Northeast Kingdom is real close to Can-ah-da dere mister, so it may be a Canadian thing or just a Vermont thing: Hard tellin not knowin.
Yeah, I know what you’re talking about. :lick: I’m Mennonite, and I grew up with farmer sausage. 
Jeez, I thought I was the only one!
Yeah, I know what you’re talking about. :lick: I’m Mennonite, and I grew up with farmer sausage. [/quote]
Do you black out the chrome on your scooter and put your phone out on the yangtai?
I miss scrapple…