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[Marlene]

Made specifically for Canada Cadbury's Maple Caramel bars

Canadianism's. Things you'll only find in Canada scroll down to the food part.

[ludja]

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I've never heard of Clamato juice outside of Canada (I always get funny looks if I try to explain - "Clam juice? You want clam juice?").
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It's available in the U.S., maybe just more or less in some places...

[Marlene]

It is true you are starting to see Clamato in parts of the US, particularly the parts that Canadians flock to, like Florida in the winter. However, go into any US bar and ask for a Bloody Ceasar and like as not, you'll get a blank stare.

[piperdown]

My ex-girlfriends family would rent a house in Cape May every summer, and they would have to bring cases of Clamato Juice with them. It was actually quite funny to see a trunk half-full of suitcases, and half-full of Clamato. Those people liked their Caesars.

[carswell]

Screech
Caribou (the drink, not the animal)

[lexy]

Caribou (the drink, not the animal)

Oh god, I'd forgotten about Caribou. That's something the rest of the world does not need to experience.

[carswell]

Oh god, I'd forgotten about Caribou. That's something the rest of the world does not need to experience.

The only drink that comes with its own cane!

[Mooshmouse]

Badabing, badaboom... Canadian Favourites - A Unique Taste of Home.

Timmy Ho's coffee. It really isn't all that good.
Tetley Tea
Dad's Cookies
Mr. Christie Cookies - Arrowroot, Social Tea, Coffee Breaks, Pirate, Maple Leaf to name a few
Dare Cookies
Canadian Oreos (are sweeter according to this article)
Crunchie Bars
Cadbury Fruit & Nut Bars
Clodhoppers!
Vachon Cakes

[jayt90]

There are some excellent fish easily available in Canada and not in the U.S. (except possibly Alaska): Arctic Char, and Greyling. And there are superb small shrimp from Newfoundland, and great but larger shrimp from Vancouver Island (most go to Japan) without that musty farmed taste.

Then theris Buckwheat Honey; is that still sold in the U.S.?

Edited by jayt90, 28 June 2005 - 09:05 AM.

[Mayhaw Man]

It is true you are starting to see Clamato in parts of the US, particularly the parts that Canadians flock to, like Florida in the winter.  However, go into any US bar and ask for a Bloody Ceasar and like as not, you'll get a blank stare.

Not in New Orleans. They'll have that and they'll have beef bullion as well if it is a reputable joint ( I wouldn't know, I don't hang in reputable joints).

[Dave the Cook]

Clamato has been around for a long time. I know (good) bartenders who make their Bloody Marys with it and just don't tell their customers why the drink is so good. And clam juice is available everywhere -- look on the shelf above the canned tuna, in close proximity to the smoked oysters.

As for the blank stare, these days you can invoke that by asking for any number of cocktails that aren't highballs, basic sours, or extruded from a slushy machine.

[*Deborah*]

Many items named above are not Canadian, but rather have come to us with Commonwealth or what have you...licorice allsorts, e.g.

I think Smarties are available in the UK as well (which is also home of the craziest potato chip flavours ever, like roast chicken; but I don't know that I've ever seen ketchup there...they do have prawn and cocktail sauce flavour though, which is delish, in a scary, vinegary way)

I have to say that the Jos. Louis and the Mae West are among Quebec's finest contributions to the sweets of the world! I always get my friends to bring me back Mae Wests from Montreal. That chemical-laden yellow cream...it's not a Moon Pie, not at all, but a Moon Pie is about the only thing I've ever had that can compare in utter sweetness and desirability.

And someone took poutine off their list? don't tell me they have them in France?! It's actually just as well I don't live within delivery distance of a decent poutine any more. And the poutine italienne--oh boy.

Murchie's teas, those are Canadian.

[ludja]

Clamato has been around for a long time. I know (good) bartenders who make their Bloody Marys with it and just don't tell their customers why the drink is so good. And clam juice is available everywhere -- look on the shelf above the canned tuna, in close proximity to the smoked oysters.

As for the blank stare, these days you can invoke that by asking for any number of cocktails that aren't highballs, basic sours, or extruded from a slushy machine.

Good comments that I agree with. After reading the following quote, I can also see making the case for it (the Bloody Caesar--rather than Clamato itself) being a Canadian specialty, even if Bloody Mary's are sometimes made w/Clamato here.

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Mott´s Clamato is the integral ingredient in the Bloody Caesar Cocktail a Canadian invention. It was developed in Calgary, Alberta in 1969 when to mark the opening of a new restaurant -Marco´s -the owners commissioned Walter Chell to develop an original cocktail. After three months of exploring different recipes. Chell discovered a spicy drink made of Clamato juice, vodka, salt, pepper, Worcestershire sauce and a dash of oregano.

The Bloody Caesar remains Canada's #1 selling cocktail to this day. In fact, more than 200 million Mott´s Clamato Caesars are sold every year.
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edited to add: I was wondering if we had any threads on Clamato and found this old one on Bloody Caesars... click

Edited by ludja, 28 June 2005 - 10:15 AM.

[Paradasia]

I left Canada in 1987, and ever since I have difficulty to get authentic Canadian Versions of:
Cinnamon buns
Cinnamon/sugar toast
Bran Muffins

There are several Canadian Chains developing Cinnamon Buns in Foreign lands, but I find them to be not the same as I was used to (like the ones at the UBC Coffee Shop in the 70’s).

Also, I observe that in most countries Atlantic Lobster is generally recognized as a Canadian product; even though I think in some cases it may actually be coming from the US.

[gus_tatory]

in the Xmas-time candy category:
--those pink + brown candied 'chicken bones' from Ganong
--'barley toys' lollipops, aka 'clear toys'

[peppyre]

And I've been wanting to forget "Baby Duck"... "baby Canadian champagne".   

Hey, I have a bottle of Baby Duck in my wine rack that my grandma bought for my Christening. Hmmm...anyone think it's aged well

[Marlene]

I got very very drunk on Baby Duck for my 18th birthday. That was just before Ontario switched it's drinking age to 19. It cured me of ever wanting to drink the stuff again.

[*Deborah*]

Don't they make Baby Duck in upstate New York?

(trying desperately to share the blame for that one)

Edited by *Deborah*, 28 June 2005 - 10:36 AM.

[Jenny McClure]

Aero, crunchies, liquorise allsorts cadburys fruit & nut and smaties are all found in Britain in Ireland.

Chips & vinegar also.

[maggiethecat]

Cheap readily-available hard cider. I had an experience similar to Marlene's with a couple of bouteilles se St. Antoine Abbaye.

[GordonCooks]

Poutine
Tarte au sucre
Seal flipper pie 
Tourtiere
Smoked salmon and candied salmon ("Indian Candy")
Montreal smoked meat
Maple syrup candy
Ketchup-flavoured potato chips
Coffee Crisp chocolate bars 
Nanaimo bars

I love "Indian Candy" - I always grab a handful from caviar direct when at the St Lawrence Market.

Coffee Crisp

[carswell]

And someone took poutine off their list? don't tell me they have them in France?! It's actually just as well I don't live within delivery distance of a decent poutine any more. And the poutine italienne--oh boy.

'Twas I. But only because Mooshmouse beat me to it. All signs point to poutine's being invented in Warwick, Quebec, in the '80s. See here.

Edited by carswell, 28 June 2005 - 10:54 AM.

[*Deborah*]

And someone took poutine off their list? don't tell me they have them in France?! It's actually just as well I don't live within delivery distance of a decent poutine any more. And the poutine italienne--oh boy.

'Twas I. But only because Mooshmouse beat me to it. All signs point to poutine's being invented in Warwick, Quebec, in the '80s. See here.

You've never eaten one?

I'm so sorry!

[Mabelline]

OK, what happened to the Moscow Mule? I had copper cups I ordered from Smirnoff's in the '70s for the same thing.

[*Deborah*]

Wasn't that effectively a White Russian? Vodka, Kahlua, Milk...with lots of Kahlua!

Add ice cream if you want! or maybe that's just me

[Mabelline]

No, the one I had was vodka, Clamato, Worchestershire, and beef broth.Could be cold or hot. PLayboy was where it came from. But I only read the ads.

Edited by Mabelline, 28 June 2005 - 12:39 PM.

[*Deborah*]

No, the one I had was vodka, Clamato, Worchestershire, and beef broth.Could be cold or hot. PLayboy was where it came from. But I only read the ads.

Whoa!

I think I like my misinformed one better

[Dave the Cook]

No, the one I had was vodka, Clamato, Worchestershire, and beef broth.Could be cold or hot. PLayboy was where it came from. But I only read the ads.

I think you're thinking of a Bloody Bull, which I suppose could be made with Clamato, although it's giving me a headache thinking about it.

The Moscow Mule is something else altogether.

[carswell]

Expanding on the preceding post, according to Dave Broom in the New American Bartender's Handbook:

Back in the 1940s, when America hadn't woken up to vodka, John Martin of the drinks import company, Heublein, met in New York with Jack Morgan, the owner of the Cock 'n' Bull restaurant in Hollywood, California. Morgan had landed himself with a surplus of ginger beer, which was proving difficult to shift.

Martin wanted to get rid of the equally slow-moving Smirnoff vodka, for which he'd put his reputation on the line. Morgan and Martin put their heads and their products together, added a splash of lime juice, and created the Moscow Mule.

They then ordered 500 copper mugs engraved with a kicking mule and marketed it to cocktail bars. On the backpack of the mule, Smirnoff vodka's sales tripled between 1947 and 1950, and then doubled again the year after. America would never be the same again.

[Mabelline]

Dave- I'm sorry that that's what you found on the net, but I do remember the cups, and what went in them. My daughter still has them, but that is the recipe on them. My husband and his fly buddies went for them, the only reason I particularly remember that. Vodka gags me.