What do other countries think of Canadian Cuisine?

ChrisGreaves · Post by **ChrisGreaves** » 29 Dec 2014, 19:24

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Post by **Rudi** » 29 Dec 2014, 19:29

Interesting combo; ash and lentils.
I assume they are not supposed to be mixed.

Glad to see no one was injured.

ChrisGreaves · Post by **ChrisGreaves** » 29 Dec 2014, 19:39

Rudi wrote:I assume they are not supposed to be mixed.

Well when you're cooking on a grand scale you tip the ingredients into a nearby river and tell the folks downstream to help themselves, no?

Rudi wrote:Glad to see no one was injured.

Well, we haven't heard back from the taste-testers yet ...

Freight train derailments are part of everyweek life in Canada.
I suspect that the newspapers keep reports on file and just paste the latest one in on a slow news day.

I believe, but can't prove, that most derailments are due to a booming economy and Canada's refusal to allocate budgetary amounts to regular upgrades and maintenance.

Post by **Rudi** » 29 Dec 2014, 19:44

In your opinion, what is the main cause for the derailment? Is there debris on the lines or is it the drivers fault; like speed, or is it maintenance like wheels breaking off? I mean, what can actually cause a train to derail. I have only witnessed footage of derailments because of excessive speed.

So how does cuisine fall into the conversation?

ChrisGreaves · Post by **ChrisGreaves** » 29 Dec 2014, 20:02

Rudi wrote:In your opinion, what is the main cause for the derailment?

I don't know.
But my bet, were I a betting man, would be failure of the rail bed due to any one of a thousand Canadian reasons, amongst them:
1. Flood sweeps away rail track
2. Water rots sleepers
3. Fire burns sleepers
4. Concrete ties contract awarded to lowest bidder
5. (above with ) who happens to be brother-in-law to premier
6. The Conservative Party
7. The <adjectival> Liberals
8. Rob Ford (why not? he's to blame for everything else)
9. Avalanche
10. Snow-on-the-points.
11. Snow (we never dreamed when we built the Scarborough LRT 30 years ago that it might SNOW here in Toronto - hah hah)
12. Too many lentils in the cement
13. ... and so on. You get the drift (see "snow" above)

So how does cuisine fall into the conversation?

Well, given what was in the rail cars I thought it just lent itself ... Now if it had been cement and sago I would have said it segued ...

Post by **HansV** » 29 Dec 2014, 20:34

"Fifteen freight cars containing fly ash" - the mind boggles at the thought of the number of flies that had to be cremated to fill fifteen freight cars with their ash...

GeoffW · Post by **GeoffW** » 30 Dec 2014, 02:29

Somebody spilt the beans?

John Gray · Post by **John Gray** » 30 Dec 2014, 13:26

I thought "Canadian cuisine" consisted solely of walrus...

Post by **HansV** » 30 Dec 2014, 13:44

I thought that Poutine was the national dish...

Post by **Rudi** » 30 Dec 2014, 14:04

John Gray wrote:I thought "Canadian cuisine" consisted solely of walrus...

...and potato patties.

Post by **Jay Freedman** » 30 Dec 2014, 14:52

My wife made us tourtière on Sunday, and it was delicious. I suggested pairing it with poutine, but she gave me "that look". Maybe some other time...

Post by **Rudi** » 30 Dec 2014, 15:00

My wife showed me a recipe that combines sweet potatoes and marshmallows.
I would NEVER have thought to combine these two products!!

Post by **HansV** » 30 Dec 2014, 15:14

Weird! But who knows...

BobH · Post by **BobH** » 30 Dec 2014, 16:36

Rudi wrote:My wife showed me a recipe that combines sweet potatoes and marshmallows.
I would NEVER have thought to combine these two products!!

That is a delicacy long known in the American South, Rudi and Hans. I have eaten sweet potatoes fixed with marshmallows all my life. Of course, there is also candied yams which involves Karo syrup and sweet potatoes.

I hope the derailment does not have long-term ill effect on the Bow or the town of Banff Springs. It is one of my favorite places in the world. We stayed 10 days at the Banff Springs Hotel during the '88 Calgary Winter Olympic Games (gratis). Even in mid winter it was wonderful and beautiful. A return trip in August was even better.

As for Canadian cuisine, my take is that there is no such thing . . . just as there is no American cuisine. There is American fast food for certain, and there is Tim Horton's in Canada; but I think both countries are melting pots of many cultures and have not yet been around long enough to develop a cuisine of their own.

PaulB · Post by **PaulB** » 30 Dec 2014, 17:29

HansV wrote:I thought that Poutine was the national dish...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the fast-food dish. For the Acadian dish, see Poutine râpée. For the Russian President, see Vladimir Putin.

OK, now that cracked me up!

PaulB · Post by **PaulB** » 30 Dec 2014, 17:33

Jay Freedman wrote:My wife made us tourtière on Sunday...

Does your wife have French Canadian roots, Jay? I've not heard that term used much outside French Canada.

Post by **HansV** » 30 Dec 2014, 17:55

The French spelling of the name of the Russian president is Vladimir Poutine...

John Gray · Post by **John Gray** » 30 Dec 2014, 18:20

Jay Freedman wrote:My wife made us tourtière on Sunday, and it was delicious.

How close that word is to "torture"!

ChrisGreaves · Post by **ChrisGreaves** » 30 Dec 2014, 20:57

HansV wrote:"Fifteen freight cars containing fly ash" - the mind boggles at the thought of the number of flies that had to be cremated to fill fifteen freight cars with their ash...

Well now you know why they say "There are no flies on CN rail ..."

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