As I discovered to my horror when I innocently ordered a burger on my first trip to SF.

I guess when I'm in SF I'm eating seafood (not anymore but then) and salads so much I never encountered it. Thank you for the heads up.

I would put on my hamburgers...

mayo
mustard
ketchup
relish
onions
cheese


mmmmmmmm!!!

Canadian borders and cultures.

are good.

I always liked the ones made at the bakery of the local Calgary Co-op when I was there.

French meat pie.

Smothered in thick gravy.

I used to love the stuff until I gave up beef about six years ago.

Maybe some day I'll make one using vegie beef and (real) pork.

I grew up with German/Hungarian/Ukrainian and French influences.

We ate a lot of perogies, and kubasa. Cabbage rolls (both the Ukrainian kind with no ground beef and baked with butter, and the Hungarian kind with a lot of ground beef and tomato soup). Chicken Paprika. Rhubarb Pie (still don't understand why you can't find good rhubarb in the store). Wild blueberry everything. Pea soup. Stew. I made moose stew, and moose meatballs. I discovered I'm not a real fan of moose (or deer). My poor aunt made deer meat curry one year (her husband, who has passed, was of Indian heritage and was a kick ass cook and taught my aunt everything...) and I couldn't bring myself to try it and felt horrible, but how Canadian is that - deer curry? I do like Bison, however.

At Christmas in my world as a kid, there was tourtière, bûche de noël, BUTTER TARTS (still make them every single year), ham, scalloped potatoes and the usual Ukrainian fare aforementioned, plus nalysnyky, borcht, boiled wheat....

Still Ketchup chips. I remember that was the ONLY flavour us kids ate. Especially at the hockey arena.

I agree with some of the comments. I didn't even know poutine existed until I was an adult...and I'd even spent a week in Quebec with my aunt who lives there, so I don't know that it's not a more recent 'thing'. Unfortunately, as an adult, I discovered poutine.

And then we did the 'everyday' stuff too, burgers, spaghetti, KD, hot dogs, tuna casserole, steak, shake 'n bake

Interesting article

Loved that during our winter carnivals. A REAL treat!

I'd say either poutine or pork pies. I grew up in a neighborhood with a lot of people of French-Canadian background.

you can feel your arteries harden as you eat but it's damned hard to stop at one.

My favorite recipe

http://www.joyofbaking.com/NanaimoBars.html

washed down with some Molson. eh?

Manufactured in my home town. We used to go to the plant on school trips.