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(Take a look at that combo-- if that's all you knew about Canadians you'd think we were the greasiest, fat-gugglers around).
Answers: Are there any Canadian dishes besides, Donairs, Garlic Fingers, and Poutine?
(Take a look at that combo-- if that's all you knew about Canadians you'd think we were the greasiest, fat-gugglers around).
CANADA:
Savoury Foods:
Beans and toast; baked beans served on or alongside toasted, sliced bread
Wild Chanterelle, Pine, Morel, Lobster, Puffball, and other mushrooms
Ginger beef, candied and deep fried, with sweet ginger sauce.
Back or peameal bacon (called Canadian bacon in the US)
Haddock and chips (often found at chip stands and in restaurants)
Tourtière and paté à la rapure (Quebec meat pies).
Hearty breads (known as brown and white)
Paté chinois ("Chinese pie", Quebecois shepherd's pie)
Bannock, fry bread, and dough goods
Bouilli, Quebecois ham and vegetable harvest meal.
Baked cream corn and peas
Habitant yellow pea soup
Roasted root vegetables
Sauteed winter greens
Oreilles de Christ
Fiddlehead ferns
Montreal-style bagels
Sea vegetables
Fèves au Lard
Pemmican
Force meat
Wild yams
Wild rice
Cheese curds
Oka cheese
Flipper pie
Hot chicken / turkey sandwich
Toutins, fried bread from Newfoundland
Wild Game:
Caribou
Seal
Moose
Venison
Bear
Ptarmigan
Partridge
Rabbit
Sea Food:
Salmon (especially Sockeye)
Lobster
Atlantic Cod
Winnipeg gold-eye
Arctic char
Mussels
Eulachon (Pacific Coast)
Geoduck (Pacific Coast)
Smelt (Great Lakes)
Walleye
SWEETS:
Blueberries, Blackberries, Saskatoonberries, Gooseberries, Salmonberries, Pearberries, Cranberries and Strawberries
Whipped Soapberry "Indian ice cream", known as xoosum (HOO-shum) in the Interior of British Columbia in most of the Interior Salish languages, whether in ice cream form or as a cranberry-cocktail like drink; known for being a kidney tonic. Called Agutak in Alaska (with animal/fish fat)
Pets de soeurs (lit. "nuns' farts") -- pastry dough wrapped around a brown sugar and cream filling
Matrimonial cake and pork pies (date filled desserts)
Maple syrup, especially tire d'érable sur la neige, also as flavouring, for example in Maple leaf cream cookies
Jam busters (prairie jelly doughnuts)
Apple pie
Various black licorices
Bumbleberry pie
Bakeapple Pie
Nanaimo bars (sometimes Nanimo bars)
Butter tarts - said to be invented in northern Ontario around 1915 . The main ingredients for the filling includes, butter, sugar and eggs, but raisins and pecans are often added for additional flavour.
Beaver tails, also known as Elephant Ears or Moose Antlers.
Sugar pie
Persians -- somewhat like a cross between a large cinnamon bun and a doughnut, topped with strawberry icing, unique to Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Sucre à la Crème -- Quebecois sweet milk squares.
Nougabricot, a Quebecois preserve consisting of apricots, almonds, and pistachios.
Candy apple -- also known by the British term "toffee apple", candided apples are far more popular than in the United States, where the caramel apple is common.
Moosehunters (Molasses cookies).
Figgy duff - a pudding from Newfoundland
Flapper Pie - A custard pie popular in Western Canada
Jigg's dinner:
A traditional meal from Newfoundland incorporating salt beef, cooked cabbage, boiled potatoes, carrots, turnip, and homemade peas pudding.
Fish and brewis or Fisherman's brewis:
Another Newfoundland favourite, with salt cod and hardtack.
Rappie pie: A traditional Acadian dish from Nova Scotia.
Beer.
The beautiful thing about Canadian food, is that its a mix of all the cultures that live here. As we love all tastes and flavours here.
Donairs are NOT Canadian - they are Lebanese
Garlic Fingers - Can't begin to tell you how messed up that sounds because I'm Canadian and I've never heard of them
Poutine - Must say, great Canadian invention.