What to Eat in Canada
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- What to Eat in Canada - The Best Canadian Food for Travelers
Happy Canada Day! Canada is famous for its maple syrup, friendly people, incredible beef & their fresh seafood, but there are a lot more tasty treats you should have on your next visit to Canada. From incredible international cuisine from the multicultural diversity of Canada to the fun sweets like Beaver Tails to grabbing Mark's favorite beer/pub food ever, Poutine! Here are the best eats of Canada! and feel free to add more!
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You’re absolutely believable and trustworthy when you grab your belly with both hands in fond memory of some past culinary delight/experience. You bear all the right credentials when you step up to the plate to talk about food and beverages; I don’t know if I would necessarily trust some skinny person’s culinary suggestions. And believe me, my friend, I’m NOT getting fresh or being sarcastic. I’m just saying it like it is - you have to love and enjoy food, if you’re keen on making culinary recommendations. 👏🏻👍🏻
you are the best. thank you for believing in my and my belly's powers of finding fun and tasty foods :)
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Tip from a local: The best poutines are in Quebec, away from urban centers. Avoid big food chains (try the small shacks with home made fries), and make sure the cheese is super fresh (made on the same day you are eating it, it should make a 'sqweek' sound when you bite in it).
I usually buy my cheese directly from the factory, and make my own poutine with home made fries... It's the best!!!
Marie you are awesome! So true about the poutine, and i totally forgot abou tthe squeek! A local told us about that when we were driving through quebec a few years ago! Thank you so much for the reminder
Hey thanks for the tip, how do you make gravy? I never had that before.
@@valenesco45 The gravy is the easy part of poutine. There are good canned and powdered gravy mix.
About the fries: SO true! No frozen fries! Must be home-made fries--yes!!! A Quebecois friend made the poutine. We did go to the store to buy the squeaky cheese curds, though. Yumm!
Proud to call Canada my home🇨🇦🇨🇦❤️❤️
we loved our visits
@@woltersworld you are always welcome
As a Canadian I love getting special lattes from a place called Second Cup. Another good alternative to Tim Hortons is Country Style, love their breakfast sandwiches. As for fast food poutine I really enjoy Harvey’s.
I think you should even do an entire episode on the food in Quebec. We have a lot of good food!
the best food you mean! That will be on Simply Jocelyn my wife's channel. Food videos on Wolters World do not get served to very many subscribers as it is food based and not travel so our food videos from travel will start showing up on her channel starting this fall. And i see "food in quebec" being my favorite one to film for her channel for sure :)
I once spent a week in Quebec on the company dime. We were told by a cooworker to eat at a place called The Ancient Canadian. My meal was turkey medallions with a maple sauce, a carrot puree and something else, potatoes, I think. It was great food, but we went over our allotted daily budget. Oops!
We ate at a number of restaurants and one thing I noticed was just about every place had "mayo de maison" or "the house mayonnaise" for the french fries. It's funny how some people sneer at the thought of it, but yet will eat potato salad.
We didn't have a bad meal the entire time, to include the St. Hubert's Chicken, a roast chicken fast food place. I do regret not getting any Alexander Keith's beer while I was there, though, if only because it's my last name and someone asked "Like the beer?" Maybe some day I'll get to go back.
@@woltersworld I'll stay tuned to Simply Jocelyn, too!
@@HALO-2304 Oh yeah, St. Hubert's roast chicken -- you're bringing back memories. I've had the ribs there, too. Oh man!
@@mariposapapillon9261 There was also a restaurant called Cosmos that I liked as well. One night we wound up at some dance club type place for a brief moment while exploring the city. The next day we found out it was a place cougars liked to prowl...and I'm not talking about the four legged critters. 🤣
Ketchup chips is something uniquely Canadian I am told.
Very accurate video in my opinion. Covered all the bases. KD, Ceasars, butter tarts, Nanaimo bars, and poutine is pretty much my diet . Also, as a BC resident, you did a great job of covering West Coast cuisine. We love our seafood and craft beer!
honestly, i fell in love with the west coast cuisine. You all have some legit amazing stuff there
Mark as a Canadian living in America here is somethings I get when I go home, I get Lobster Rolls, Donair’s, Swiss Chalet and Fish and Chips
Canadian candy bars are the best! Mint Aero bars, Cadbury Fruit n Nut and McIntosh caramel, just to name a few.
Nothing is better about living in Ottawa than the beavertail stand on George St.
When in Montreal one much try the bagels. The obvious question is which is better, Montreal bagels or New York bagels? However, the real debate is who makes the best Montreal bagel, *_Fairmount_* or *_St-Viateur?_*
someone is trying to start a youtube comment war :) big hugs from the whole famliy Tosh!
I'm embarrassed I've never been to either renowned bagel shop. However, at one of my fave under-the-radar Montreal hotels (hint: it's a apart-hotel in Downtown), and the sister hotel (near The Bay), I've enjoyed the bagels in the breakfast room. I politely asked a front-desk employee (it's a boutique-style operation, with no concierge due to the apart-hotel aspect) whether the bagels were purchased from St-Viateur or Fairmount. He said neither; that they were a different "supplier." Not that I didn't believe him, but it's this mystery that I want to solve. Those bagels, all of them, had sesame seeds. They were on the sweetish side and dense without being too dense. I loved and love them because they remind me of authentic Brooklyn Jewish bagels that we used to enjoy back in the 1980s and 1990s where I worked then. A colleague used to go to a bakery (can't recall which Brooklyn neighborhood) early in the morning and come to work with a large brown paper bag filled with dense, sweet bagels. He said the baker told him he added a little sugar to the water. Whatever, they were scrumptious. But bagels you get in Manhattan at carts, for example, are IMO no way as delicious as Montreal bagels I had at those hotels in Downtown Montreal. So now I MUST go to Fairmount and St-Viateur. :)
No, the only relevant question is: Saint Viateur or Fairmount?
Fairmount…I don’t eat west of Saint-Urbain. People tend to forget how cheaply you can eat on Ontario Street through Hochelaga.
wow poutine is served in every takeaway in the north of England after a drunken night out but its called cheesy chips and gravy
it's similar but the cheese and gravy of a poutine are different, I haven't found curds cheese outside of Quebec, except the border towns of Ontario and in a NY owned restaurant
No cheese curds in the UK. Poutine is not a pisshead recovery food.
@@anhdungtran6432 Cheese curds are hard to find outside of Quebec and Ontario, mostly due to pasteurization regulations for the provinces. I had a friend try to explain poutine to a Stampeded vendor one early morning and it came out with fries, gravy and nacho cheese sauce. It was not a good experience.
Butter tarts. Yum..
I would also recommend the local Canadian wines. Provinces such as Ontario, British Columbia, and to a lessor extent Nova Scotia and Québec have various wine regions. Both reds and whites are made in Canada and some of them will have unique features like red wines with light wood tones (such as oak) from the barrels. Canada is also a great arena to try international foods from every country imaginable!
Oh yeah, wrt Canadian candy bars, I almost forgot Coffee Crisp!
The coffee Crisps have been showing up in my Facebook and Instagram feed quite a bit the last few days
Happy Canada Day! Maple nut ice cream is delicious! 🍁 🍨
Poutine, beavertails and ketchup chips!!!!! \m/ XD Soooooo goooodddddd :P
ketchup chips are nasty and that is coming from a Canadian
The_Meninist_Podcast_Network Podcast more for me then 😆
Oh man I miss Canadian food
Nanaimo Bars! Gotta go to Nanaimo on Vancouver Island!
I don't know if you did the Quebec version of food video. But paté chinois and pudding chomeur are a must for that kind of video!
we are hoping the border opens so we can do a quebec focused food video on joelyn's channel
I would also include the Cabanes a Sucre (and Tire Erable, a must whent there) + the wonderful cheeses + Hundreds of Craft brews/spirits producers + Bagels! So many to list...
I was surpose to go to Canada today, but because of the world situation my trip got cancelled sadly...so it makes me glad to see your video, so I can at least get a little more ready for next year *hopefully*
French language is interesting to me. I can remember studying French in High School. It's weird how their is a street in France named my last name. Most of my family is from Louisiana. And most people from Louisiana have French Ancestry.
From the UK I've always dreamed of Canada and Canadian POUTINE! Need to experience North America some day, and hopefully many times
Lol I'm from Canada and I want to visit the UK so bad! Let's switch.
I'm from the U.S., love my country and Canada, but oh my goodness have I been dreaming for 20 years to visit the UK and stay a very long time -- in urban and countryside, in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland. OK, I'd have to take 3 or 4 trips to do all that, but it WILL happen. My brother's family went to London for a brief trip almost 3 years ago and said that the Sunday roast tradition was superb! My brother said, after the chicken he had at that restaurant (I forget the name) was the best chicken he'd ever had. I'd want to try beef and chicken at Sunday roast -- on different visits -- and I wonder if the chicken is tastier than Parisian rotisserie chicken with those drippings flavoring the fries. Oh, am I so hungry now -- Wolter's World vid with all those great foods and all this talk of poutine and chicken. (Sigh)
And FYI, "North America" isn't really a thing. There's Canada and the United States. They're two completely different things.
@@sminthian North America is the name of the continent I live in. Very much a thing.
@@sminthian Also on our continent is Mexico. Ours is the one continent where lots of people, including those living on it, can forget that Mexico is one of the countries that share it. After all, there are a few countries in the SouthWest that belonged to Mexico.
Thanks for sharing all these great ideas of tasty food! 😍
glad I could try them all to help you know what to try :)
I sure miss traveling..................
Me too :(
Best Poutine me and my wife ever had was in Atlantic City at Gordon Ramsay’s Pub and Grill. It was duck poutine and one of the most amazing things we’ve ever had!
First stop when we visit BC is at Tim Hortons for a large Double Double and some Timbits.Also Granville Island in Vancouver is a must stop!
Local Gin in Quebec is amazing, Quebec has very good soul food "pâté chinois" and "tourtière", you can also find Guédille which is similar to a lobster roll in gaspesie and New Brunswick. Montreal also got its own food, Montreal bagels and Montreal smoked meat and so forth.
You forgot one that is right up there with Tim Horton's and that is Swiss Chalet. The best barbecue chicken and ribs franchise restaurant around. The sauce for the chicken is spicy and sooo good.
Watching this has made me hungry
Totally 😃
Babs R same
I'm with you. Editing this video was torture!!! So want to go back!
Me too, everything sounded so good! ❤seafood and poutine!
Great video Mark, I love your videos, keep up the good work.
Mark your videos are awesome! I’ve had Poutine in the US but for some reason they never come close to Poutine in montreal
Canada/anywhere that's not the states the kitkats prob have more cocoa content. They're candy in America rather than chocolate so they don't have to have a minimum percentage.
Mark, you mentioned seafood but didn’t mention lobster 🦞 in particular. Lobster suppers are ubiquitous on the East Coast (it seems every town no matter the size has at least one during the summer) along with lobster rolls, lobster Mac and cheese, etc.
McDonald's McLobster
Try the ice wine cookie they are so good
I am a Canadian but I must say that I cannot stand maple syrup. However, Kraft Dinner is my number 1 comfort food; especially with ketchup! Bacon of any kind is great, too.
PEI lobster dinners and Digby scallops!
There are two kinds of bacon: back bacon and belly bacon. English and Canadians eat back bacon. Americans and Canadians eat belly bacon. Canadians have the best of both.
No mention of Canadian cheeses? They make great cheese.
Love Canada.
Canada has better chips and candy bars. Everytime I drive up I bring a bunch back with me.
I love salmon, never heard of salmon candy, wow! I can't believe I've never been to Canada, that isn't right, must go. Looks like such a beautiful place. I so enjoy all these videos. Thank you!
it is a gorgeous country and the salmon candy seems to be a more west coast thing
Loved the poutine while I was in Quebec. Tasted great especially after a night out drinking.
heck yeah!
Bruno Schenkman yeah
my fav canadian treat is Nanaimo without any kind of doubt. with beer I'd probably go with Beau's. oh man I should be flying to Toronto by saturday but with all the COVID mess I think it's gonna be impossible until maybe Easter or so
I have been to canada many times and love their game meats. Venison, quail, buffalo.
Loved Kraft dinner (very filling for sure) and back bacon, still have to try Beaver Tails, really enjoyed the sushi, Indian food, and definitely the beer and poutine when I went 2 years ago!!!
Butter tarts are my favorite
they are good!
Had no idea they were a Canadian thing 🤷♀️ hi from Alberta
Poutine is my favorite. It falls close to the goodness of kimchi and pupusas
Now I'm all hungry!!!
Hey Marc, thank you for this video. My wife an me were in Vancouver last year and I'm happy about to see the city in this video again. The people there are absolutely fantastic,nice and helpfull. Kind old lady told us to not go through hastings street east...... to late , we we just step out of it :-)..........this city is really worth to go to. thank you from germany.......move on bud 👍😂
Short ribs poutine is my favorite Quebecois food, followed by ham & cheese crepe. I haven't yet explored all of inhabited Canada because I'm quite content (and 20 pounds heavier) vacationing in Quebec province. Not sorry as I sit here watching your excellent vid and hoping those Canada-U.S. borders open from East to West, or West to East, really soon. (Sigh)
Mariposa i completely understand :) i want to go do a quebecois food video series so bad right now
@@woltersworld Ohhh yeaaahhh :)
Mark, you make me smile! I love your videos!
Canadian here. Yes, do try the poutine. It is everywhere and comes in many variations, from the traditional with the genuine cheese curds (which squeak when you chew them) with dark brown gravy, to the offbeat with bacon, pulled pork, or whatever. Also the Nanaimo bars and butter tarts. Beaver tails I think are more a central Canada thing (Ontario and Quebec). I have never had one.
If you are on the coast, definitely try the fish. I’m a prairie girl (from Alberta) and my Dad used to take me fishing a lot. I ate so much trout I got sick of it, but what I wouldn’t give to have some nice fresh trout now! Such a lovely fish, related to the salmon but with a more delicate flavour.
And Kraft dinner with hot dogs and ketchup! A low brow meal for sure but one that delighted my family. For a treat you can stir some sour cream into the KD.
Tim Horton’s unfortunately has gone down hill. They made their fortune on good coffee with higher fat cream. It was wildly successful and for a while engendered as much patriotic fervour as fireworks on Canada Day. However management decided to begin using a lower quality coffee and they switched the doughnuts to the Orwellianly named Always Fresh system which actually means never fresh.
I don't really relate to French people but my last name is French. I want to travel to Montreal Quebec Canada. Never been to Canada. I like New England Clam Chowder it's really good.
I forgot about peameal bacon--yumm! Enjoyed that as a snack sammie at St. Lawrence Market in Toronto. Desserts: sugar pie, lavender creme brulee.
you are killing me!!!!
@@woltersworld It's gets better. This was my first trip to Ontario province -- OK, let me tell it straight: I only saw Toronto in Ontario, so I haven't "seen" Ontario. Anyhoo, I had watched the Wolters World Toronto video, which was the ONLY reason I went there. My Canadian friends in a certain province begged me not to go to Toronto, or else get shot.
So, I went to Toronto for four nights (of course, looking back, I should've stayed a week and taken a day trip to Niagara Falls and Niagara-on-the-Lake for vineyard fun). So I exited the Grayline hop-on/hop-off bus at the St. Lawrence Market and went straight for the bakery closest to Front Street. I had the peameal bacon sandwich and four butter tarts. Then I went to a tiny booth/shop and bought nuts and prunes. It was getting late, so I never got to see the entire food market. (when the Canada-U.S. borders re-open, I will return to Toronto but in spring or summer and then take VIA Rail Canada to ... where else ... Quebec province ... can't wait) So as the St. Lawrence Market was soon to close, I exited at Front Street, hopped on the last hop-on/hop-off bus and while finishing the rest of the loop from the Distillery District toward Dundas, I snacked on prunes with the peameal bacon sandwich. Man, slam me down! OH!
Food-wise and museum&gallery-wise, I'll return to Toronto in a heartbeat. It's just a bit dangerous, becoming like my old neighborhood in Brooklyn circa 1985, yet architecturally resembling Midtown Manhattan and parts of Philly. A cousin of mine suggested I also stay at a cottage in Ontario; I guess she's paying for that. I'd rather check out Sault Ste-Marie on the Canadian side, eating freshly caught pike or some other fish fried up on the grill beside a lake. I'd stay in a lodge or inn. Right now, though, due to Covid-19 it's Can-a-di-an dreamin' upon a summer's day!
Have a fantastic day dreamin' too, Mark!
I would say that Japan's answer to Tim Hotons is Mister Donut. Also, have more Beaver Tails locations opened since I left in 2017? When I was there, the only locations in Alberta were Banff, and the mobile truck in Edmonton where you had to check their Twitter to find out their location.
mister donut is in el salvador as well, they have the best horchata in el salvador
Sometimes Mark I feel I need to go for a two mile walk after just listening some of your food recommendations. (I am so far from Alaskan salmon and halibut right now.)
3:01 OK seriously where is that chowder from? What restaurant I got a know it looks amazing.
Nanaimo bars are my favorite. I could probably eat them everyday. And Beavertails are awesome. Everytime I am in a city that has one I make sure to visit. I love the one with cinnamon sugar and the lemon wedge. Canada has some great food.
Canada has so many great treats
I'd never heard of poutin as a kid but I would order things like gravy on french fries or cheese on my open face roast beef and get weird looks. I'd like poutin a lot.
you know i had that as a kid too. my grandpa taught me and now that i think about it he was in quebec quite a bit as i remember as a kid. so maybe he got it from there. cheers jimmy
Jimmy Bangus Careful how you spell it...lol.
I love my Nanaimo bars...yummy!
tasty in my tummy
Ketchup chips are my favorite
i had a video of me devouring a whole bag but i couldn't find it for the video! i was so pissed as i specifically had that video of me eating the whole bag for the video. I was like... NOOOOOOO!!!! When i couldn't find the video
Beaver tails
When in Halifax, Nova Scotia... donair donair donair!
Yes!!! 🤤 I recommend KOD (King of Donair for the uninitiated 😄) on Quinpool Rd where it all started, although Jonny K’s at Pizza Corner has great donairs as well.
Hi. What is donair? When this pandemic is over, and add a year, I'll be visiting Nova Scotia, staying at an inn in HalifaxCanada station. I'd love to know what donair is so that I don't miss out on trying it -- maybe the inn will not have it. But if I have to take a taxi to find it, I will. Thanks!
@@mariposapapillon9261 ask anyone in Halifax.. they'll point you in the right direction. Enjoy
@@shakesjg9923 Thanks so much! :) I'll make sure to ask at the inn and out on the street. I wish the trip were tomorrow!
I've gotten those maple leaf cookies from places like World Market before. They're pretty addictive, like Barnums Animal Crackers with double stuff maple cream sandwiched between them.
Oh so true! I'm not crazy about the chocolate cookies double stuffed w/maple cream, though. I do love Moose Droppings -- the chocolate-covered almonds -- too.
Donairs!
I had poutine in Montreal from La Banquise,its the best!!!
nainaimo bars are good, but very rich. I LOVE poutine.. I'd weigh twice as much as I do now if poutine was available to me everywhere
*Wolters World* Good content
thank you Deep
Thanks, Mark. I think you really nailed it! I also find it funny that Vladimir Putin is spelled as Vladimir Poutine in the French language media.
really? that is hilarious
We just visited Quebec City last summer, fell in love with the city (and the poutine!) and we wanted to drive back up this summer - do you think Canada will let US citizens in soon to visit??
I hope so, but with the recent spike in new cases I am doubtful for this summer
Don’t count on it, as far as I can tell nobody here wants the border opened anytime soon. In Alberta where I live, a bunch of Americans were recently fined $1200 each for stopping to tour in Banff (they said they were just going straight through to Alaska but lied).
Please do not plan on travelling to Canada this summer. We'll still be here next summer.
What’s good to eat around Banff, Jasper, and Yoho in Alberta?
I'm Canadian and I had no idea butter tarts were a Canadian thing 🤷♀️ i thought everyone had em'. They're tasty!
For this native New Yorker (a traitor living in NJ now), next to Portuguese custard tarts Canadian butter tarts are the JAM! (Pronounced JAY-ammm) lol
@@mariposapapillon9261 I love them with rum soaked raisins in 🤤
@@b2h316 Oh, now you've given me an idea: Must stock hotel room's kitchen fridge with lots more beverages than orange juice and wine. Must buy rum ... and raisins, while I'm at St. Lawrence Market stockpiling on prunes for the peameal bacon sammies. Thank you!
@@mariposapapillon9261 so much better than just plain old raisins
I knew about Poutine; I knew about Coffee Crisp; I had not yet heard of the marvel that is the Nanaimo Bar. That thing looks DELICIOUS
It's a little too sweet. The bottom is a chocolate macaroon. The middle us usually frosting. The top is pure dark chocolate. If your lucky the top will be unsweetened or bitter sweet to balance out the first two layers. But it rarely is. The candied salmon is amazing, though. That comes from the Norwegian community that came here in the 1920s and 30s. (From Vancouver).
@@Julie-7605 I've yet to be anywhere where salmon *wasn't* delicious:-) the candied salmon does look amazing.
nanaimo is more of a west coast thing i think
If you are in the Maritime provinces, eat a donair! Its like a gyro with a sweet sauce.
oh i loved those. We need to go back!
Poutine!!!😋🤩😋
The best poutine I've had here in calgary was duck fried poutine with truffle gravy and cheese curds. Unreal!!
That sounds super good! However, I am very picky with the cheese curds... I am so used to the "fresh-from-the-day" cheese (also named "squeek-squeek" cheese here in Quebec) that I am always affraid to try any poutine out of Quebec...
But all the tastefull ingredients you named just made me want to give it a try when I will visit your province (it is in our projects).
@@mariethe_patate3696 the restaurant where is had it is called Charcut www.charcut.com/. Hope you make it out here!
oh my God... you just blew my mind and my taste buds with the thought of this pooutine
Oooh! :)
Looks like maple syrup is to Canada what garlic is to New Zealand ;)
Tim Horton’s is the only fast food place that I know that makes grilled cheese with tomato sandwiches.
sounds tasty
OK, now those sandwiches will get me back into a Tim Horton's when the Canada-U.S. borders reopen. Would you know if those grilled cheese w/tomato sandwiches are on offer at Tim Horton's franchises across Canada? Thanks in advance! :)
I’m actually not sure which franchises carry them. I believe I got mine in Maine, USA.
McDonalds makes them
What about Instant noodles such as Indomie?Are they common?
Butter tarts!
can't beat a butter tart!
Get a coffee crisp! The BEST candy bar hands down.
Here in Victoria you can get Nanaimo bars fully dipped in chocolate.
Oh. Now that sounds good
I still don't understand how I possibly could have traveled Canada for three weeks back in 2009 without even knowing about poutine. It looks so darn tasty!
you were robbed... that is all i can say :) but back then it really was just in Quebec more or less
Can't blame you ... My first time in Quebec province, 2007, I took a look at poutine and thought it must taste nasty. Don't know how I could've thought that because, hey, I love fries, gravy and cheese, right? So that first time in Quebec province, specifically in Montreal, I headed to Le Plateau and walked the long way through that gorgeous neighborhood at La Banquise (because I was working for a book publishing company, and one of our guidebooks told me to go there). Almost hidden at one end of rue Rachel est, La Banquise is a wonderful restaurant, known for its many types of poutine but great at other foods as well. Anyhoo, I nearly walked past it because I had my eye on the park up ahead (just a few yards away) and the weather was awesome (mid-October, fall foliage in full effect ... ohhh yeaaahhh). But I was afraid to take the leap to poutine -- heck, I couldn't even pronounce it. It took me 8 years, despite friends' coaching me on French pronunciations, to say "poutine" their way. They didn't like me saying "poo-TEEN," but that was preferable over the pronunciation that had Quebecois merchants and residents laughing at me from Charlevoix to Quebec City to Montreal. How was I pronouncing the iconic dish: "pouh-TENH." (As this is a family channel, I'll leave to your imagination why everyone was laughing at me ... and I mean laughing so hard that they were doubling over, tears in their eyes. One older man in St-Jean-de-Baptiste district told me, "Madame, non, non" followed by "Hah-hah-hah-hahhh"). So since being schooled on saying "poutine" the true, Quebecois way, I'm allowed to say "pouh-tin" with the "tin" spoken subtly and with equal stress on both syllables.
Nowadays I never finish a vacay in Quebec without having poutine, whether at a friend's house or at a restaurant -- often both. But no longer will I attempt poorly in the hotel kitchen. BIG mistake there! Hand-cutting potatoes on vacay? Unh-unh
I think it's only around Quebec (the east coast). I've been all the way through central and western Canada many times and never seen anything about it.
@@woltersworld we've only been on the west coast, so that might explain a bit. And we had a rather picky eater in our group, so even if we had seen it somewhere, not sure if we would have tried it. But all the more reason for another visit to Canada...
WizardOfOss, poutine was almost exclusively served in Québec back in 2009, it was not as highly regarded outside of the province, also nowadays you will find it difficult to find a good one outside of Québec, because the cheese is not readily available.
You never truely live if you didn't had beer and poutine. Trust me, this is awesome.
Etienne Chandonnet I thought that cherry Pepsi, or Dr. Pepper was the accompanying drink of choice to pair with poutine!
@@1autumnleaves1 not a bad choice to go all in drive through style, but I ment it more like a pub-esque way ;)
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Poutine vieux Hull with a pint of Bonnie Parker will wash down all of your worries I guarantee ;)
amen to that!
@@1autumnleaves1 the two drinks you named are the choice drink when you eat smoked meat. If you are in Montreal, try it at Shwartz
B.C. Ferries have the best nanaimo bars. 😋
i must take note on my next trip
Try A&W. In Canada it is owned separately and has a different menu with excellent fast food!
Swiss Chalet FTW!
we went to a few of those!
I mean yea, when you pronounce it poo-teen it sounds funny! ;)
Tim Hortons is everywhere, their coffee is terrible but they are just everywhere so everyone ends up eating there.
I think Beavertails might be my fave.. KD is also awesome. Now I want some..
My favorite Canadian inspired food in Australia is Maple Bacon on pancakes.
Kraft Mac & Cheese, we have here to; I've never really liked.
Ray Green Kraft sucks! Bad!
We grew up with Kraft Mac & Cheese so its our thing, like vegemite for my australian friends, it is just something we grew up with so we love it and not everyone else does :)
@@woltersworld lol I really wish I liked it sometimes. People get so excited and I get jealous. Have you ever heard of scrapple?
@@woltersworld Vegemite is kinda my "ok, i'll try it once again ... ewwww"-food every time i go down under ;) Aquired taste for sure. With dark toasted bread and salted butter under it it's kinda edible ;)
@@woltersworld Amen, brother :)
Aw, I'm going through Canada in a few weeks but I'm not allowed to do anything because they think all Americans are carrying the plague...
I'm American, too. Can we fly to Canada, walk around and then fly back to the States? Not that that's fun, not to be able to eat anything, even to shovel it down while standing on a streetcorner, but I miss Canada so much. I wish that the Canadian border patrol would permit us Americans to visit for a week or two if we show written proof of negative results from a recent Covid test.
@@skkeech Will do. :( Thanks, though.
I had neighbors 30 years ago who would make a run to Ontario from Cleveland every once in a while to pick up a case of Heinz 57 steak sauce because it had apple chunks in it. Different formula up there!
I would higly suggest the mennonite and hutterite cooking coming out of manitoba and the other prairies. Some pretty amazing food you really won't find in the other provinces. South of winnipeg
Thank you for the suggestion!
They do some damm good cooking
A Caesar is not a bloody Mary. 😮
Quimby nephew charged in beating. "Chowder" said wrong
we call it peameal bacon
Tim Hortons is not what it used to be. McDonalds has way better coffee and if you want bakery goods find a good cafe or bakery it will taste better.
It was much better when each restaurant made their own doughnuts fresh every day, not from frozen. The doughnuts were much larger then too.
That's because Mcdonalds bought out the Tim Hortons coffee contract.
timmy's has really fallen
Absolutely true. Last time I had doughnuts and coffee (together) at Tim Horton's was 2018. The doughnuts were tasty but uninspiring, and the fact that it was freezing outside (late November) is the only reason I paid little attention to the coffee's quality. But, oh man, when I bought a cup of Tim Horton's coffee on a summer's day (OK, it was an early evening in July), that liquid was incredibly bitter. Thinking as I write this, why did I go to Tim Horton's anyway when there was free coffee in the hotel room??? lol ... I guess I wanted to go to Tim Horton's symbolically.
Tim Horton is not as good as it was since it was bought by a US company, it changed it's coffee, the donut aren't made in the sop anymore.
You should talk about Québec's sugar shacks.
Ok, what's a sugar shack? I will be missing out on my August trip to Canada, but that gives me more time to plan my food stops!
@@karenlaux4554 In March and April, there are bus tours to cabanes au sucres -- sugar shacks -- or you can drive. Sugar shacks are located in or just outside forests were maple trees are "sugared off" in March and April. Not only will you get to pour maple syrup over all you want -- while seated with lots of also-hungry people at indoor picnic tables -- but you can dance the Quebecois two-step ... wonderful folk music, with violins playing live. Yes!
Honestly... tried Poutine in Montreal in February 2020. It was not good at all.
Kraft diner is good when drunk ahah
amen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s peameal bacon. And why show an a and w and not a Canadian place like Harvey’s that is way better than all of them.
i don't care for beer, but poutine sounds yummy................i'm from the south, so fries and gravy are a go.....................
Poutine goes with everything :) beer, soda, air :)
Not sure about salmon candy, but I've always known it as candied salmon
i was surprised how much i liked the salmon candy
In America, we say "salmon candy." I know, across borders it can be so different. Cheers :)