Canadian Cusine

[Gigi22]

Canada Dry Ginger Ale as a non-alcoholic beverage. Used to make a virgin cocktail with gingerale and Welch's grape juice, sweet and yummy.

 

[Gigi22]

Apparently not given the internet searches. Just not common with this group. Fruit cake is so darn expensive now, not sure it would be practical anymore.

OK, little secret about fruitcake wedding cakes. The fancy iced cake that the bride and groom cut in front of the guests was generally a fake, often mainly cardboard boxes that had been iced. Frequently just the smallest tier was real cake, then you had a separate loaf-sized fruitcake to cut up and put in boxes for guests. Not too pricy when all was said and done! You were supposed to keep the real fruitcake from the tiered cake and serve it at your first anniversary.

 

[declansdad]

Sorry, and pardon my french (regional). I was simply giving a link for others including Canadians to enjoy reading. I'll try not to reference your posts again. I can't make any promises though.

Well that reaction is a little over the top.

 

[kirstenb1]

Aero bars!

If we were ever near the Canadian border, we would drive over to the duty-free and buy some. Love those things! And I am pretty sure they are calorie free thanks to all those air bubbles.

OMG!! My parents were from Erin Ontario, and us kids would visit my grandparents each summer. Aero Bars were the best!!! Along with any Nielsen or Cadbury candy bar. I personally can't really think of Canadian foods. My family just cooked traditional comfort foods like pot roast, etc. My Granny was from Chichester England, and would have fun things like Christmas Crackers that you could pop, and get a small toy.

 

[mommasita]

BEAVER TAILS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeaverTails

And I want one.. RIGHT NOW

 

[Carina]

...would have fun things like Christmas Crackers that you could pop, and get a small toy.

You don't have Christmas Crackers in the US?

It's not Christmas Dinner if your not wearing a tissue paper crown reading bad jokes off little slips of paper!

 

[Aladora]

BEAVER TAILS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeaverTails And I want one.. RIGHT NOW

The one and only thing I miss about not living in ottawa.

 

[maddiel]

Bags of milk?

M.

 

[mommasita]

The one and only thing I miss about not living in ottawa.

They are such a slice of heaven..

To me they are soooo Canadian.. And SOO many different kinds

Sorry

 

[Teresa Pitman]

Icewine!

Or if you are going non-alcoholic, you can get icewine syrup - serve it over fruit salad or something.

Mustard is a major Canadian crop so maybe serve something with a mustard sauce?

TP

 

[kirstenb1]

You don't have Christmas Crackers in the US?

It's not Christmas Dinner if your not wearing a tissue paper crown reading bad jokes off little slips of paper!

We definitely do now. But 40 yrs ago, I can't remember any of my friends having heard of them. Nowadays, we can all get anything, anytime.

 

[tigercat]

I don't remember a Christmas that we didn't have Christmas crackers and I am almost 60. The outsides are getting fancier and fancier, I guess to match peoples decore.
tigercat

 

[tlens]

Apparently not given the internet searches. Just not common with this group. Fruit cake is so darn expensive now, not sure it would be practical anymore.

People get their backs up when you decide to state as fact over and over and over again, things that may be true for some areas or OLD traditions. You are arguing with CANADIANS about CANADA! I would think most of us who live her full time have a pretty good idea what being a Canadian is. Your family in a tiny little town in Northern Saskatchewan is not the same as people who live in the Vancouver or Montreal areas or Southern Ontario.

You've also declared yourself the resident expert on Britain because your daughter lived there or visited there or something. Visiting and living are two very different things and you should respect the people who live there as actually knowing a bit of which we speak.

I've been to California. I don't have the audacity to try to say I know everything there is to know about every region of the state. That is what you are doing when you argue about things you really have little knowledge of except some tiny personal experience.

 

[tvguy]

People get their backs up when you decide to state as fact over and over and over again, things that may be true for some areas or OLD traditions. You are arguing with CANADIANS about CANADA! I would think most of us who live her full time have a pretty good idea what being a Canadian is. Your family in a tiny little town in Northern Saskatchewan is not the same as people who live in the Vancouver or Montreal areas or Southern Ontario.

You've also declared yourself the resident expert on Britain because your daughter lived there or visited there or something. Visiting and living are two very different things and you should respect the people who live there as actually knowing a bit of which we speak.

I've been to California. I don't have the audacity to try to say I know everything there is to know about every region of the state. That is what you are doing when you argue about things you really have little knowledge of except some tiny personal experience.

I have only relayed experiences, never ever ever said it was cast in stone. I get my back up because people tell me those experiences did not happen.
This is a discussion board where people share their experiences, it would be pretty boring if everyone's experiences were the same.
And FYI, while my Grandparents raised their family, in northern Saskatchewan......the bulk (16) now live in Ottawa. Only 1 remains in Saskatchewan and 1 in Calgary. 4 have moved to Saudi Arabia, and 4 to Australia.

 

[JanaDee]

You don't have Christmas Crackers in the US?

It's not Christmas Dinner if your not wearing a tissue paper crown reading bad jokes off little slips of paper!

I've never heard of Christmas crackers.

 

[declansdad]

I've never heard of Christmas crackers.

They look like this

 

[declansdad]

I have only relayed experiences, never ever ever said it was cast in stone. I get my back up because people tell me those experiences did not happen.
This is a discussion board where people share their experiences, it would be pretty boring if everyone's experiences were the same.
And FYI, while my Grandparents raised their family, in northern Saskatchewan......the bulk (16) now live in Ottawa. Only 1 remains in Saskatchewan and 1 in Calgary. 4 have moved to Saudi Arabia, and 4 to Australia.

The point was that you act like an expert, not like someone simply relaxing experiences.

 

[SirDuff]

I have only relayed experiences, never ever ever said it was cast in stone. I get my back up because people tell me those experiences did not happen.
This is a discussion board where people share their experiences, it would be pretty boring if everyone's experiences were the same.
And FYI, while my Grandparents raised their family, in northern Saskatchewan......the bulk (16) now live in Ottawa. Only 1 remains in Saskatchewan and 1 in Calgary. 4 have moved to Saudi Arabia, and 4 to Australia.

Saying "All Canadian bakery websites feature wedding fruitcake" is very different from sharing your experiences (i.e. "The Canadian weddings in my family have all served fruitcake"). No one is/would tell you that the latter didn't happen. We did/would tell you that the former is wrong.

Big difference.

 

[tvguy]

Saying "All Canadian bakery websites feature wedding fruitcake" is very different from sharing your experiences (i.e. "The Canadian weddings in my family have all served fruitcake"). No one is/would tell you that the latter didn't happen. We did/would tell you that the former is wrong.

Big difference.

 

[SirDuff]

But you do the former (make concrete (incorrect) fact like statements). Then pretend that you are just doing the latter (sharing your experiences).

So, I guess the thumbs up means that you are agreeing with us that you are (annoyingly) acting like the expert of a country with which you are not that familiar. Glad to see we are all in agreement!