Hello, everyone on my friends list! I had a few quick questions for you all.
I've been thinking, lately, of "Canadian culture" (if such a thing exists, and I think that it does), and what you really think of as defining a person's culture. One of those things is the food they eat. And I got to thinking: maybe some of my favourite foods, things that
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Things I know are rare outside of canada:
Smarties
Ketchup chips
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That's what I was wondering about perogies! ... They're so delicious, I have to wonder why they haven't migrated everywhere...
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Maple candies are delicious as well; you can get them in the consistency of smooth lolipops (in shapes like maple leaves, moose, etc.), but you can also get them like hard-packed brown sugar, also in shapes like maple leaves. They melt on your tongue; delicious and patriotic! ;)
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Maple syrup is the most Canadian of foods, I think. I mean, the leaf is on our flag and all that. ;) The most delicious form of it, though, I find, is what the francophones call "tire", which just means "to pull". It's a winter delicacy in which really hot maple syrup is dribbled in a row into troughs of crushed ice/snow so it firms up into a delicious drippy and sometimes chewy taffy. It's AMAZING. <3
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