meme time

Since I'm a Canadian ex-pat living Down Under, I couldn't resist answering this one, as seen over at ' lj.

1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.

2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.

3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.

4) Post a comment here linking to your results.


Maple Syrup & Poutine's 100 Canadian Foods to Consume

1. Arctic Char
2. Ketchup flavoured chips
3. Wild Rice Pilaf
4. Caribou Steak
5. Gourmet Poutine
6. Screech
7. Beaver Tails
8. Maple Baked Beans
9. Bison Burger
10. Bumbleberry pie
11. Nanaimo bar
12. Butter Tarts
13. Cedar Planked B.C. Salmon
14. Wild Blueberries
15. Pure Local Cranberry Juice
16. Chocolate from Ganong or Purdy’s
17. A cup of warm cider from your local orchard
18. Caesar (Bloody)
19. 4 of the following types of apples (Cortland, Empire, Golden Delicious, McIntosh, Spartan, Greensleeves, Liberty, Granny Smith, Red Delicious, Honeycrisp, Golden Russet, Idared, Gala)
20. Freshly foraged mushrooms
21. Dinner cooked by Michael Smith, Susur Lee or Rob Feenie
22. Fondue Chinoise
23. Dish created from a Canadian Living Magazine recipe
24. Peameal Bacon Sandwich from St. Lawrence Market in Toronto
25. Lobster bought directly from a boat in a Maritime harbour
26. Handmade perogies from your local church or market (no, but from a wonderful Polish restaurant on Prince Arthur!)
27. Alberta Beef at an Alberta Steakhouse
28. Leamington Tomatoes
29. Roasted Pheasant
30. Wild Game hunted by someone you know
31. Ice Wine
32. Habitant Pea Soup – entire can
33. Any Canadian Artisanal Cheese
34. Bannock
35. Tourtiere
36. Flapper Pie
37. Jellied Moose Nose
38. Saskatoon Berries
39. Fish and Brewis
40. Screech Pie (but sounds real nice!)
41. Fiddleheads
42. Montreal Smoked Meat Sandwich
43. Flipper Pie
44. Montreal Bagels with Smoked Salmon
45. Toutins
46. Jam Busters
47. Bakeapple Pie
48. Bridge Mixture
49. Canadian Style Pizza (bacon, pepperoni, mushrooms)
50. Shreddies
51. A cone from Cow’s Ice Cream
52. Lumberjack or Logger’s Breakfast
53. Jigg’s Dinner
54. Rappie Pie
55. Pemmican
56. Lake Erie Sturgeon Caviar
57. Belon Oysters
58. Brome Lake Duck (maybe their pates…)
59. Beer from a stubby bottle
60. A beer from Unibroue or Phillips Brewery
61. Salt Spring Island Lamb
62. Fry’s Cocoa
63. A bag of Old Dutch Potato Chips
64. Every Flavour of Laura Secord Suckers
65. Chicken Dinner from St Hubert’s or Swiss Chalet
66. Hickory Sticks
67. An entire box of Kraft Dinner
68. Candy Apples (NOT caramel apples)
69. Corn from a roadside stand
70. A meal at Eigensenn Farm
71. Okanogan Peaches
72. Berkshire Pork
73. PEI Potatoes
74. Something cooked in Canola oil
75. Figgy Duff
76. Blueberry Grunt (no, but something very similar – I do love blueberries!)
77. High Tea at the Empress Hotel
78. Fresh maple syrup hardened on the snow
79. Oreilles de Christ
80. Nova Scotia Beer Warmer
81. A cheese plate containing Bleu Bénédictin, Friulano, St. Maure and Oka
82. Black or red currant jam
83. Maple glazed Doughnut from Tim Horton’s with a Large “Double Double”
84. A glass of Mission Hill’s “Oculus”
85. Alberta Pure Vodka
86. Chokecherries
87. Canada Day Cake
88. Boulettes
89. Canadian Iced Tea
90. Mead
91. Fricot
92. Grandperes
93. Local honey
94. Creton on toast
95. Glen Breton Rare
96. A whole box of Smarties, where the empty box is then used as a kazoo
97. Grilled cheese made with Canadian Cheddar
98. A meal from Harvey’s
99. Lake Erie Perch
100. Red Rose Tea
If you are unsure of what the item is, look it up!

Please pass the list on to your friends and fellow bloggers - whether they are Canadian or not.

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The 20 Questions


1. Make a list of 5 things you can see without getting up:
Telephone, battery charger, Matchbox car: Smart ForTwo Coupe red, watch, Lily in a frame.

2. How do you style your hair?
I don’t really. Often in a twist, held by a clip.

3. What are you wearing now?
Dark blue Bermudas, white no sleeve top, barefoot.

4. What's your occupation?
Stay-at-home mom right now, before that I was a film scanner and recorder technician for a digital film bureau.

5. The best things to happen to you as of late?
Hmm… my birthday was relaxing enough. Sims Castaway for our Wii alongside Wii Fit is pretty nice too.

6. What is one word you would use to describe yourself?
Neurotic. LOL I don’t know. Impatient. At the moment, that’s all I feel. Rushed, late, out of time. ::sigh::

7. What's your current fandom/obsession/addiction?
NCIS, SGA and Ronon Dex. I have a thing for Derek Reese too. J

8. What was the last thing you ate today?
Dinner: chicken schnitzels and Italian veggies. A couple of square of Green & Black’s milk chocolate.

9. What was the last (published ) book you read
Currently reading Lover Enshrined by JR Ward.

10. What websites do you always visit when you go online?
LJ, Facebook, Open Scrolls Archive.

11. What was the last thing you bought?
Ice cream.

12. What are you listening to right now?
In the background, hubby on the phone to his folks and Clannad from Lily’s room; in the foreground, silence.

13. What do you think about before you go to bed at night?
I don’t know, to be honest. Depends if I got to bed upset or something. I’m usually complaining about my back – so most likely my aches and pains, and wondering if I’ll get enough *decent* sleep.

14. What was the last cd you bought?
A toss between Live or Seether. Picked up about ten albums all at the same time when last visited Canada/US. I’d like to get U2’s latest…

15. What is your favorite weather, and why?
Warm, balmy.

16. Do you believe in love at first sight?
I think so. Or at least some form of instant lust/infatuation. I do believe some people just 'click'.

17. What modern convenience(s) would be hardest for you to live without?
Electricity, computer/internet.

18. What time do you usually go to bed?
Around midnight, sometimes 1am. I’m a night owl, having a toddler hasn’t changed that. I get my second wind around 11pm.

19. Would you tell someone what you really think of them if they asked you to and the answer was something difficult to hear?
It’s a tough question. I’m pretty forward and, some say, without much finesse. But I guess if someone ask it’s because they know I’ll give it to them straight so I probably would.

20. What's the weirdest thing you've ever eaten?
Alligator? Not sure about it being weird; it was quite tasty.