A Taste of Canada Challenge

Some of these Canadian delights are well-known, others not so much. Some of these foods originated in Canada and some were brought to here and became part of Canada's culture.

My challenge will be to try as many of these foods and beverages as possible in 2019.

Acadian Meat Pie
Akutaq (Eskimo Ice Cream)
Alberta Beef
Alberta Steak
All Dressed Chips
Arctic Char
Arctic Prawn
Baked Beans
Bannock
BC Smoked Salmon
Beaver Tails
Boston Pizza
Bridge Mixture
Bumbleberry Pie
~~Butter Tarts~~
Caesar Cocktail
California Roll
Canada Dry Ginger Ale
Canadian Club
Caribou
Caribou Stew
Chalet Sauce
Cherry Blossom
Clearly Canadian
Cloudberry
Cod Au Gratin
Cod Tongue & Scrunchion
Coffee Crisp
Craft Beer
Cretons
Crush Cream Soda
Dill Pickle
Dill Pickle Chips
Donair
Double Double
Duck Poutine
Fiddlehead
Figgy Duff
Fish and Brewis
Flapper Pie
Flipper Pie
Game Jerky (Moose, Deer, Elk)
Game Meat
Giant Jos Louis Cake
Gibelotte
Ginger Beef
Green Onion Cake
Halifax Donair
Hawaiian Pizza
Hawkins Cheezies
Hickory Sticks
Ice Cider
Ice Wine
Inuit Herbal Tea
Jiggs Dinner With Figgy Duff
Joe Louis Cakes
Ketchup Chips
Ketchup Popcorn
Kraft Dinner
Labatts Blue
Lobster Guédille
Lobster Mac N'cheese
Lumberjack Breakfast
Mae West
Maple Bacon & Perogies
Maple Bacon or Sausage
Maple Butter
Maple Cookies
Maple Fudge
Maple Syrup
Maple Syrup Pie
Maple Taffy
Maple Walnut Ice Cream
Maple Water
Maritime Grilled Oyster
McCain French Fries
Milk in a Bag
Molson Canadian
Montreal Bagels
Montreal Smoked Meat
Moon Mist Ice Cream
Nanaimo Bars
Newfoundland Snowballs
Nova Scotia Lobster Roll
Oka Cheese
Oreilles De Crisse
Pâté Chinois
Peameal Bacon
PEI Lobster Mash
Pemmican
Persians
Pickerel Cheeks
Pig's Feet Stew
Ployes
Potato Candy
Pot-En-Pot
Pouding Chomeur
Poutine
Poutine Râpée
Prairie Oysters
Ringolos
Saskatoon Berry Beer, Wine, or Liquor
Saskatoon Berry Grunt
Saskatoon Berry Pie
Screech
Seal Meat
Seawater Lobster
Seaweed Pie
Second Cup
Shish Taouk
Shreddies
Sleeman Beer
Smarties
Sourtoe Cocktail
Split Pea Soup
Spruce Beer
Sucre a La Creme
Thrills Gum
Tiger Tail Ice Cream
Timbits
Tire D'erable Sur La Neige
Tourtiere
Toutons
Ungava Gin
Whippets
Wild Chinook Salmon
Wild Game Served With Saskatoon Berry Chutney
Yukon Sourdough

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