What is canadian cuisine?
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PacoT
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Interesting topic, and I would also like to know more about it.
Friends back home keep asking me the same question. Due to my limited knowledge, I've only mentioned poutine and maple syrup.
PacoT
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Some Mexicans firmly believe Ceasar salad is Mexican because it was first sold in Mexico 
I think this got subsidized for cultural purposes....
Maybe not tho
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Saw them at booths here and there. Do recall the cinnamon ones were tasty.
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Canadian cuisine is a mosiac ...
Maybe not tho
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I used to love KD back when it had the nuclear orange cheese. I don't know what they've done with it in the last 5-10 years aside from removing the isotopes, but it sucks now.
Cod tongue , pemmican, birch beer , moose? Butter tarts
You could “argue” on behalf of a lot of regional food , but we are only 350? Yr old ( for the white occupants, let’s not go indigenous) and competing with 600-800 yr old cuisine.
Food history is pretty interesting if you like to eat , Italy didn’t have the tomato until it came back from the new world ( America) and now it’s in so much stuff . French food sucked , until an Italian noble was married into French royalty and brought her own cooks because she was not eating French crap, now they make the most complicated stuff around. It was based in many regions on what you could grow/ shoot/ forage , because nothing was shipped for many years .
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You could “argue” on behalf of a lot of regional food , but we are only 350? Yr old ( for the white occupants, let’s not go indigenous) and competing with 600-800 yr old cuisine.
Food history is pretty interesting if you like to eat , Italy didn’t have the tomato until it came back from the new world ( America) and now it’s in so much stuff . French food sucked , until an Italian noble was married into French royalty and brought her own cooks because she was not eating French crap, now they make the most complicated stuff around. It was based in many regions on what you could grow/ shoot/ forage , because nothing was shipped for many years .
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Mad Mike
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Salsbury Steak?
Ketchup and Ketchup Chips?
Hawaiian Pizza?
Maple Syrup?
Beaver Tails?
Canada is a multi-cultural country that is relatively young in terms of cultural evolution. You could probably say many of the things America has as cultural foods would be equally as consumed in Canada. Hod dogs, hamburgers, high piled sandwiches, fries.
My MIL figured out the pathway to make bread / sourdough without me touching it the minute it cools off enough to tolerate...
She just bakes when I'm at work
Very disappointing.
Very nice, looks tasty!
Mad Mike
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There is no singular answer to that question - Culture is how each individual defines it.
If your ancestors have been here for a 1000 years or more, you likely have strong cultural connections but may not identify as 'Canadian'. If not, you're family immigrated to Canada, bringing some existing cultural connections.
If your ancestors arrived before 1930, there's a good chance your feeling is Canadian culture is an extension of the British or French empires.
If you arrived post-WWII but before 1980, you might feel a strong cultural connection to Western Europe or the USA.
If you arrived after 1980, you may see Canada as a place where you can maintain and practice the culture of your homeland no matter where you came from.
Over time I'm guessing Canada will maintain it's multicultural identity and not go down any single nationalistic cultural path. Canada's populations of Eastern Europeans, Indigenous, Asian S Asian, Hispanic and Middle Eastern peoples (sorry if I missed anyone) and their cultures will continue to level out, so will the the historical dominance of the Western European cultures.
Hard to say what it is now, but easy to see where it is most likely heading...
Mad Mike
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The images above are pretty much 'farm' and 'rural' culture across the country, except maybe BC.
That's the sad part about multiculturalism (vs melting pot) - it favors cultural enclaves, which are hard to find outside very large sites. at the turn of the 20th century, Irish were a different culture than the English, as were Icelanders, Polish and Ukranians. Those folks kept small portions of their cultures but generally 'melted' together into a uniform culture that is as close to being uniquely Canadian as anything.
