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I am presently on vacation in Ireland, and within the week, will be in Poland where I have been requested to prepare some food and/or drink from my "culture" for local consumption.
When I think of Canadian food, my mind draws a complete blank. If you have any recommendations, please list them here. Furthermore, if you can think of any Canadian "drinks," you are welcome to brainstorm with me.
There is the obvious maple syrup, but what to serve it with?
Your recommendations should be easy to make (or buy) by inhospitable hands.
Failing success, I suppose I could impersonate as a German, but it would be a tough sell to the Poles.
   
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The only specifically canadian food I know of is poutine. :D
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On August 25 2009 19:07 Alsar wrote: The only specifically canadian food I know of is poutine. :D
Not precisely representative, but I'll take it. Can it be prepared at home?
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Eh, I thought Maple Syrup was Vermont which is in the US. Never knew Canadians were "famous" for their Maple Syrup, though I knew Vermont was. o.O
Off the top of my head though....Moose?
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Get some GOOD red wine, that should be a good start.
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Poutine is definitely something you can call strictly 'Canadian' (or 'Quebecer'), but it's not a very elegant dish. You can certainly prepare it at home - just make some good fries (from scratch, with potatoes; try this a few times beforehand so you have a good feel for it), get gravy, and try to find some cheese curds (this might be hard). I suppose you can make it look good by adding basil leaves all around and other superficial things. Probably the easiest meal to make, especially if you buy frozen fries. You just dump stuff together with hot enough gravy so that it melts the cheese.
I think something better (though not necessarily Canadian, but North American) would be something with pancakes/crepes (whatever you call the thin ones). This works well for breakfast:
Pancakes with shrimp and broccoli. Marinade shrimp in some garlic/olive oil/basil/lemon/spice/soy sauce concoction. Make thin crepes. Boil, then saute broccoli. Make Alfredo sauce. (I haven't seen it anywhere in Europe - and I've looked. No one has heard of this kind of sauce). On a crepe, combine sauteed shrimp and broccoli, pour with sauce, fold over pancake. Nothing hard here as long as you know how to make crepes.
This has turned out ridiculously good every time I've made it. It's a good, light breakfast, and if you want to be truly Canadian, you can serve it with coffee with maple syrup (which adds as a good substitute for sugar and makes it tastes mmm... add nutmeg for best results).
I was going to post this recipe once on TL but I never got around to it, though I did it and took pictures of the process, so lemme know if you're interested and I'll try to get them for you.
Where will you be in Ireland? When and where will you be staying in Poland?
EDIT: Canadian whiskey? Dr. Pepper? ... no such thing as a Canadian drink, I think.
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hahahaha, canadian food, that's a good one. all I can really think of is like, tim hortons and timbits. but that's not exactly revolutionary, is it?
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Wait poutine is strictly canadian?
First ketchup chips now this.
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On August 25 2009 19:51 genwar wrote: First ketchup chips now this.
England had these yearsss ago, they were the best. No idea why they died out though.
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lol you really should google this stuff
but off the top of my head... what about BC smoked salmon? prbly will be hella expensive to make or even impossible in poland though
you could also try to get some raw moose/whale/seal i forget what that inuits actually eat up north haha that will be great to present, and also prbly impossible to get
oh right, also ginger beef lol, which like fortune cookies and other stuff, is actually not real chinese cuisine, but food made by chinese restaurants way back in north america and marketed as chinese food. if i remember correctly ginger beef originated from alberta you could prbly make ginger beef, to my knowledge it's just a strip of beef covered in some kind of thick fried starchy shit
EDIT: oh man, even the canadian cuisine shouts out the multinational country that is canada... smoked salmon and raw seafood from natives, poutine from french ppl, ginger beef from chinese ppl... lol...
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On August 25 2009 19:23 Aegraen wrote:Eh, I thought Maple Syrup was Vermont which is in the US. Never knew Canadians were "famous" for their Maple Syrup, though I knew Vermont was. o.O Off the top of my head though....Moose? 
to people outside the US, maple syrup is most definitely considered canadian rather than ameircan
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On August 25 2009 19:23 Aegraen wrote:Eh, I thought Maple Syrup was Vermont which is in the US. Never knew Canadians were "famous" for their Maple Syrup, though I knew Vermont was. o.O Off the top of my head though....Moose? 
yeah it's not like we have a maple leaf on our flag or anything
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poutine is good, also if you're on the east coast, lobster rolls? you can even get them at mcdonald's. but that might be an east coast thing more than a canadian thing.
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only truly canadian food i know is Poutine.
Drinks? For beer we have Molson and Sleeman (Honey Brown mmm... awesome beer). I could say Granville Island Brewing but they seem more local than national to me...
BC is also known for its Okanagan Ice Wine (nice gift to give to the boss after vacation)
and there's a ton of maple syrup in our tourist shops so im willing to say it's one of the foods Canada's known for.
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man... the day canada is no longer associated with maple syrup... gg =(
that's like how some ppl think polar bears roam canadian streets, while other people don't even know polar bears lived in canada; of course you could go one more level and have ppl who dont know what canada is or what polar bears are. unfortuantely not all of them are children =p
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aegraen is too busy associating them with socialism is all, our neighbors up north are still the syrup kings
as a side note, i've always found grade b maple syrup to be much better
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