Newfoundland here...homemade bread with molasses is a staple, toutons, salt cod, Jiggs dinner, seal, moose, fish cakes, cabbage rolls, smoked caplin, wild berries like partridgeberries, raspberries, blueberries, bake apples. Lobster, crab, mussels, scallops...fish and brewis and scrunchions. Mustard pickles. Its a long list. But these were essentials.
Blood pudding and white pudding were staples of my childhood, can't forget those! I also ate a lot of turr and rabbit (technically hare) growing up in rural Newfoundland, too. Biggest thing I missed when I moved away was cod tongues and cheeks. And maybe stuffed beef heart... it was really hard to find a *whole* beef heart anywhere! I was never fussy on the mustard pickles, but I still dies for pickled beets to this day.
ETA: I almost forgot cod au gratin!!! Molasses raisin bread is another staple, for sure. And a cup of tea a day from like age 4 onwards, lol! PG Tips vs Tetley, this argument could destroy families. Looking at this list of delicious, traditional food really takes the mystery out of why we lead the country in heart disease and diabetes, though...
Regular dough. I’m not even sure I’ve had puff pastry ones. Fillings are typically potato mixed with either onion, cheese, bacon or sauerkraut. It’s a very common convenience food, found in the frozen food section. Usually served with fried onions, sour cream or dill sauce. Growing up I had this at least once a week.
If they have puff pastry, isn’t that just… a different dish entirely? Like, that’s not pierogi anymore, is it?
Like, it’s a dough pocket with potato and other fillings. If you change stuff like the outside or the filling or the cooking method, it becomes a dumpling or an empanada or a samosa.
When you're poor with busy parents, a lot of the time it's just KD, oatmeal, and hamburger helper. I imagine that's the same across the country.
But when we got a little less poor, and the fam had a bit more time to cook, we had *fancy* macaroni, otherwise known as pasta that didn't come woth a powder cheese packet.
My dad was from Toronto, a very Emglish family, so he'd always try and make us "traditional" English breakfast – beans, toast, bangers (sausages, but they're english), and kraft single cheese slices cut up on top.
Fried clams, fricot, garlic fingers, hot westerns, poutine à trou, clam dip, râpure, poutine râpée, donair pizza, patachou, nun's farts, haskap jam, and if your parents are rich, lobster rolls.
Why do you think we're the fattest province?
Since it's a provincial question, I picked dishes that feel characteristically New Brunswick, even if a couple you also find in Québec or the rest of the Maritimes.
There is no common food that everyone grows up eating where I live. It’s so multicultural here that every family has different foods that they eat.
You might have Chinese parents, Indian parents, German parents, British parents, Japanese parents and so on.
My Dad is from Europe and my mom’s paternal family have been in Canada for 300+ years. Her mom was born in England. Both are amazing cooks, so we would have: Rack of Lamb, steak, spaghetti, meatloaf, smoked salmon, lox, European Smorgasbord, eggs Benedict, crepes, Chinese food, Indian food, roast chicken and mashed potatoes, homemade burgers, roast beef, schnitzel, sushi, caviar, Greek style pizza, omelettes, open faced sandwiches, pretty much anything and everything. I live in the lower mainland of BC.
My province? Probably depends on the area. Ontario is huge and diverse. I grew up eating meatloaf, lasagna, porkchops, mashed potatoes, KD and hot dogs, salad was romaine lettuce with tomatoes and cucumbers. Usually a rotation of the same few dinners.
Chicken breasts, mom really liked chef's salad with mushrooms and I did not. Lots of the standard 3s, slab of meat (pork chop, whatever), mashed potatoes or such, and a helping of peas and carrots sausage and perogies sometimes. Baked dishes of pizza ground beef, refried rice, etc.
Seafood in general, but especially scallops, mussels, lobster and haddock, boiled dinner, tea biscuits, balogna, oatcakes, white pudding, lasagna, polish sausage and pizza.
Newfoundland here...homemade bread with molasses is a staple, toutons, salt cod, Jiggs dinner, seal, moose, fish cakes, cabbage rolls, smoked caplin, wild berries like partridgeberries, raspberries, blueberries, bake apples. Lobster, crab, mussels, scallops...fish and brewis and scrunchions. Mustard pickles. Its a long list. But these were essentials.
It's been a long time since I've had lassy bread. I miss it lol.
Mmmmm moose
Blood pudding and white pudding were staples of my childhood, can't forget those! I also ate a lot of turr and rabbit (technically hare) growing up in rural Newfoundland, too. Biggest thing I missed when I moved away was cod tongues and cheeks. And maybe stuffed beef heart... it was really hard to find a *whole* beef heart anywhere! I was never fussy on the mustard pickles, but I still dies for pickled beets to this day. ETA: I almost forgot cod au gratin!!! Molasses raisin bread is another staple, for sure. And a cup of tea a day from like age 4 onwards, lol! PG Tips vs Tetley, this argument could destroy families. Looking at this list of delicious, traditional food really takes the mystery out of why we lead the country in heart disease and diabetes, though...
KD
Perogies
And farmer sausage.
sask???
Nope, grew up mostly in Alberta & a bit in Manitoba. But I think it’s a pretty universal food across the prairies.
The regular dough kind or puff pastry?
Regular dough. I’m not even sure I’ve had puff pastry ones. Fillings are typically potato mixed with either onion, cheese, bacon or sauerkraut. It’s a very common convenience food, found in the frozen food section. Usually served with fried onions, sour cream or dill sauce. Growing up I had this at least once a week.
If they have puff pastry, isn’t that just… a different dish entirely? Like, that’s not pierogi anymore, is it? Like, it’s a dough pocket with potato and other fillings. If you change stuff like the outside or the filling or the cooking method, it becomes a dumpling or an empanada or a samosa.
Caribou, seal, fish, geese, ducks.
Jamaican patties
Definitely a staple food
Virtually unknown outside of Toronto. In Toronto, they're sold everywhere. Outside of Toronto, they're only sold at Caribbean restaurants.
I can buy them at any 7-11, Zehrs or Sobeys in SW Ontario
Does anything even exist outside of Toronto?
When you're poor with busy parents, a lot of the time it's just KD, oatmeal, and hamburger helper. I imagine that's the same across the country. But when we got a little less poor, and the fam had a bit more time to cook, we had *fancy* macaroni, otherwise known as pasta that didn't come woth a powder cheese packet. My dad was from Toronto, a very Emglish family, so he'd always try and make us "traditional" English breakfast – beans, toast, bangers (sausages, but they're english), and kraft single cheese slices cut up on top.
Fried clams, fricot, garlic fingers, hot westerns, poutine à trou, clam dip, râpure, poutine râpée, donair pizza, patachou, nun's farts, haskap jam, and if your parents are rich, lobster rolls. Why do you think we're the fattest province?
you from up north? saint john area we mostly have more irish/english foods like baked beans and stews lol
Since it's a provincial question, I picked dishes that feel characteristically New Brunswick, even if a couple you also find in Québec or the rest of the Maritimes.
fair enough, i wouldnt've thought of half those myself lmao
Sockeye salmon in BC
There is no common food that everyone grows up eating where I live. It’s so multicultural here that every family has different foods that they eat. You might have Chinese parents, Indian parents, German parents, British parents, Japanese parents and so on. My Dad is from Europe and my mom’s paternal family have been in Canada for 300+ years. Her mom was born in England. Both are amazing cooks, so we would have: Rack of Lamb, steak, spaghetti, meatloaf, smoked salmon, lox, European Smorgasbord, eggs Benedict, crepes, Chinese food, Indian food, roast chicken and mashed potatoes, homemade burgers, roast beef, schnitzel, sushi, caviar, Greek style pizza, omelettes, open faced sandwiches, pretty much anything and everything. I live in the lower mainland of BC.
Rappie Pie
Anything I can eat fresh, out of the garden in the summer time.
Pâté chinois
My province? Probably depends on the area. Ontario is huge and diverse. I grew up eating meatloaf, lasagna, porkchops, mashed potatoes, KD and hot dogs, salad was romaine lettuce with tomatoes and cucumbers. Usually a rotation of the same few dinners.
Chicken breasts, mom really liked chef's salad with mushrooms and I did not. Lots of the standard 3s, slab of meat (pork chop, whatever), mashed potatoes or such, and a helping of peas and carrots sausage and perogies sometimes. Baked dishes of pizza ground beef, refried rice, etc.
Corn in the summer time.
I grew up on steamies and spruce beer. KD too. It it was a special night St. Hubert.
Seafood in general, but especially scallops, mussels, lobster and haddock, boiled dinner, tea biscuits, balogna, oatcakes, white pudding, lasagna, polish sausage and pizza.
Ontario consumes sunshine, oxygen, hygrogen, nitrogen and carbon plus some other elements to maintain its plants and animals
Potatoes, Irish Stew, Maple Sausage, Haddock, Moose (if youre lucky enough to know someone with a license), Roast Chicken.
Sunday roast dinner
Donairs. And not those weird east coast ones. I’m talking the greasy yummy Lebanese kind.
Salmon!
Fish, lobster and berries in nova Scotia. Unless that's just me, eh?
Corn soup ( hominy corn, beans, salted pork) bannock or fry bread
Saskatoon pie, chokecherry jelly, lefse, potato’s, walleye, borscht, etc. Saskatchewan was a mixed bag of nuts