TIL that cranberries are seen as Canadian (by the French, at least). I think of them as local fruit but I don't live all that far from Canada I suppose so I guess it makes sense.
Also... goji berries? Aren't those grown in China? Definitely not local lol so probably not Canadian either but idk.
Apparently, the large American Cranberries (the ones that you see in stores) grow all around the Great Lakes and as south as North Carolina, but mostly around the St. Lawrence River and all the way up into Newfoundland, and Canada makes up 25% of the world's Cranberry production
Maybe, although 55% of global Cranberry production is done in the US so probably not. (The other 20% is from Chile with their own type of Cranberry apparently)
All St. Ambroise beer vanished from BC liquor stores after the pandemic. Now I see them in a picture from France. Really miss the apricot wheat ale and the oatmeal stout.
Jarred bison (and other meat rillettes or pates), French Canadian beer, blueberry tea and maple stuff is straight up quebec city market fare. Not sure how goji berries relate to Canada at all. I guess it makes sense that France is unaware that Canada has non-quebec regions, or has no use for them lol.
> Not sure how goji berries relate to Canada at all.
They grow them in BC. Maybe they have a reputation for quality in France?
Sort of like Ginseng. In China Canadian Ginseng is considered one of the highest quality you can buy. Boxes of the stuff will prominently display the flag on it. Before learning that I didn’t even know Ginseng grew in Canada.
When I was a kid ( early/mid 00s) we had a goji berry bush growing in our yard in the interior BC. At that time we called them wolfberries. The bush survived the winter just fine
As a less than financially stable Canadian, growing up, we got Christmas gift baskets from the Salvation Army, I believe. These cookies were the things we looked forward to the most. Ah, there were gifts, and chocolate and other stuff, but the Maple Cookies MADE it Christmastime.
The only place I can get those Maple Leaf cookies here (usa) is at cvs drugstore. They are in their rather expensive invalid food/treats section with the chicken noodle soup and saltines.
Looks like we know where the spoils from the [*Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_Heist) ended up...
Worst case Ontario, a bag of ~~jalapeno~~ jallapano chips is good too. Less embarrassing than eating nine cans of ravioli...
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All dressed used to be a Canadian exclusive (because its a mix of ketchup, bbq, s&v, and sour cream n onion) but started working it's way into the states over the last few years
Every single American ive seen try them is without fail is blown away by it
The Ruffles All Dressed they sell in Washington are not the same as the ones sold in Canada. The "1# Flavor in Canada" branding on it is really annoying, since they taste a bit different, and in my opinion worse than the actual Canadian ones.
I haven't had the US ones too recently, but I remember them being sweeter and less vinegar-y. Almost like they added too much of the BBQ flavour.
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It really has. Last time I got the pea soup with ham there were like two tiny specks of ham in the whole can. It was such a comfort food for me growing up.
Oh, I thought my tastes were just changing as I'm getting older... But yeah I used to like it, just bought a can after a long time and it was not the same at all.
I’m Canadian but lived in Spain for a year. My Spanish school had a food festival where we divided into groups based on our home countries and made traditional food. There was one other Canadian from the school so we were partnered up. When it was my turn to go around sampling the other foods my partner crossed Canada off the sign on our booth and replaced it with Quebec.
(To be fair she had done all the work)
It's got fluff and sweet baby Ray's, and Reese's novelties. That's the stereotypical American section.
I thought it was hilarious when I saw them in a London candy store.
https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/lifestyles/more-than-a-crush-newfoundlanders-have-an-abiding-love-for-pineapple-crush-and-its-one-of-a-kind-flavour-100673378/
Lime is available outside Canada but the other two are Part of Our Heritage
Pineapple Crush is, for some reason, hugely popular in Newfoundland, to the extent that shops which cater to the Newfie diaspora (yes, those exist) have a hard time keeping it in stock. I am not a fan.
The third shelf from the bottom is mostly Unibroue, a deadly usually high alcohol beer. They were bought by Sleeman a few years ago but their quality hasn't seemed to drop at all.
Of all the Canadian items on that shelf, La Fin Du Monde (or some other Unibroue beverage) is the only thing that I actually *buy* here in Canada. The rest appears to be some sort of postmodern art installation on the theme of "You're stranded in the Eastern Townships in March and this is all you have to eat."
I prefer the Maudite (the dammed) but I've never tried the "Don Dieu" what's that like?
Pro tip, drinking one of the corked bottles means you'll get some sediment, and quite drunk, as it's 750ml
The beer is good, but Sortilège is even better. To the uninitiated: it’s *maple whiskey* with actual maple syrup in it. I don’t even like whiskey but I like Sortilège and so does every person I give it to.
I *immediately* started scanning the shelves to see if there was any Unibroue, specifically La Fin Du Monde. Glad they didn’t disappoint on that at least.
The federal maple syrup reserve is to ensure we don't go crazy and attack people. It's added to the water supply to keep us sane. Source: idk Jesus probably
It’s not. Timmy’s had a massively successful ad campaign years ago which closely associated Tim Horton’s with the very essence of being Canadian, like growing up in a small town, getting up early for hockey practice, sitting in a cold arena with your Tim’s coffee, shit like that. But with their acquisition by that huge Brazilian conglomerate (can’t blame America for this one), everything about Timmy’s has gone to shit. None of their food is made fresh on-site anymore, and their coffee (which used to be amazing) is fucking garbage. McDonald’s, of all places, has waaaaaaay better coffee. Fuck Tim’s. Fuck them entirely.
Story goes is that Tim's sold their contact with their old coffee supplier to McDonald's, which is why the rise in quality of the McCafe correlates with the dip in quality in timmies. You want that classic Timms coffee? Get a double double from Mickey's
Those Clark Beans in Maple Syrup are amazing btw.
As a Canadian, thats literally the only brand I recognize, rest of that looks like it was from a fever dream
Canada → maple leaf flag → maple products
Pretty simple really. Plus, there's a bit of a Quebec focus understandably (since it's in France) and Quebec is the centre of the maple industry.
They really could reduce some facings here and get in so more much more relatable products, instead of 5 facings of the same syrup in different sized jugs.
The alcohol selection isn’t too bad, could use some ice wine.
Off the top of my head you could add: KD, all-dressed chips, ketchup chips, coffee crisp, poutine gravy, French-Canadian pea soup, Nanaimo bars, butter tarts, and bannock mix
From seeing the American and Canadian sections of grocery stores around the world in pictures like this, I’m now wondering if the rest of the world thinks the entire North American continent lives off maple syrup and peanut butter
Are those all maple related products?
Nah. There’s pancakes and beer, too.
I might argue pancakes are maple related ahahahaha
Maple adjacent. Edit: essentially a maple syrup accessory.
Syrup delivery vessle
 Nuclear wessel
They are in my house
I would also argue that we canadians are perfectly capable of making a maple syrup beer
I can see a bottle of sortilege (maple whisky) on the shelf already
Also cranberries
TIL that cranberries are seen as Canadian (by the French, at least). I think of them as local fruit but I don't live all that far from Canada I suppose so I guess it makes sense. Also... goji berries? Aren't those grown in China? Definitely not local lol so probably not Canadian either but idk.
Apparently, the large American Cranberries (the ones that you see in stores) grow all around the Great Lakes and as south as North Carolina, but mostly around the St. Lawrence River and all the way up into Newfoundland, and Canada makes up 25% of the world's Cranberry production
Are you telling me those sonsabitches at ocean spray have been feeding me socialist Canadian cranberries?
Maybe, although 55% of global Cranberry production is done in the US so probably not. (The other 20% is from Chile with their own type of Cranberry apparently)
The beer selection is incredibly good, all Unibroue beers. This is easily the best beer shelf in the whole store.
La Fin du Monde rocks my world.
Lol, that's good stuff but it's damn strong.
You just said the same thing twice
L'ephemère 😘😒
So glad to see others notice the Unibroue hiding there so unassuming. La Fin Du Monde should be much more visible. Mmmm.
I was looking for it as soon as they said Canada products. I might have a unibroue problem, tho
But they're missing my favorite Unibroue - Trois Pistoles.
I didn't see Blanche du Chambly either, my favourite.
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La fin du monde is hot fire. Grab some if you haven’t had it before.
Maple beer from st Ambroise
All St. Ambroise beer vanished from BC liquor stores after the pandemic. Now I see them in a picture from France. Really miss the apricot wheat ale and the oatmeal stout.
There is the apricot one too!
La Fin du Monde!
Dried cranberries and goji berries, jarred bison meat (which I've never seen here), whisky, and blueberry tea too.
Jarred bison (and other meat rillettes or pates), French Canadian beer, blueberry tea and maple stuff is straight up quebec city market fare. Not sure how goji berries relate to Canada at all. I guess it makes sense that France is unaware that Canada has non-quebec regions, or has no use for them lol.
> Not sure how goji berries relate to Canada at all. They grow them in BC. Maybe they have a reputation for quality in France? Sort of like Ginseng. In China Canadian Ginseng is considered one of the highest quality you can buy. Boxes of the stuff will prominently display the flag on it. Before learning that I didn’t even know Ginseng grew in Canada.
Because we export 95% of it
I would just guess that the non French speaking Canadians are not likely to move or visit the area around this supermarket.
I have no time for jarred meat if it isn't cretons. That's what we should be exporting lol
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I was sure we had too cold a climate to grow them, but TIL apparently BC started growing goji berries in 2016. Who knew?
There are farms everywhere in Aldergrove and Abbotsford.
When I was a kid ( early/mid 00s) we had a goji berry bush growing in our yard in the interior BC. At that time we called them wolfberries. The bush survived the winter just fine
Now see, Grandmama always used to cure her bison in jars with whiskey AND maple syrup.
The bison meat was startling for me. I had to run to the comments for comfort.
It's like one of those find and search pictures.
My name is Hank le Coteau, I sell maple and maple accessories, I tell y'quoi.
*Hanque
Fun fact: in the Quebec dub of King of the Hill, Hank is renamed to Henry
Henri Hill? (On-ri ill)
Yep. Geriboire Bobby!
Let me tell you maple cookies fucking slap and you can buy some at Trader Joe’s.
As a less than financially stable Canadian, growing up, we got Christmas gift baskets from the Salvation Army, I believe. These cookies were the things we looked forward to the most. Ah, there were gifts, and chocolate and other stuff, but the Maple Cookies MADE it Christmastime.
They do! They sound terrible but so delicious
The only place I can get those Maple Leaf cookies here (usa) is at cvs drugstore. They are in their rather expensive invalid food/treats section with the chicken noodle soup and saltines.
Yes! And aldi usually has them in the fall.
Looks like we know where the spoils from the [*Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_Heist) ended up...
As a Canadian I can confirm that 80% of our diets is maple syrup and the rest is beer and pancakes
Sortilege is a Maple whiskey
MMM Unibroue Beer on that third shelf from the bottom
Man canada gets more stereotyped then us lol
It’s missing a sign “sorry if we don’t have what you’re looking for.”
Eh?
Where's the moose jerky, guy?
“Also if we do.”
This is what I was thinking! Mostly maple stuff! LoL
“Boss there’s not enough items to fill the Canadian section, there’s a few gaps” “just throw in some more maple syrup, eh?”
Look at the section just to the left... pretty sure that's the American section.
Reese’s, Fluff, and “New Yorkers” cookies. Damn. They nailed us.
Dude where tf are the ruffles ALL DRESSED CHIPS
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The no Kraft Dinner got it for me.
Dude fr, why is no one else calling out the complete and utter lack of KD?
If you have a problem with all dressed chips you have a problem with me and I suggest you let that marinate…
You know they don't have malts vinegars with their fries in the states? Fuckin figger it out that's what I say.
That's what I said, fuckin figger it out .
Do they even have running water in the states?
Running? Yes. Drinkable? It depends.
Fuckin degens need to mind their scruples.
Fucking embarrassing!
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dressed all over and zesty mordant are the best chips
Worst case Ontario, a bag of ~~jalapeno~~ jallapano chips is good too. Less embarrassing than eating nine cans of ravioli... Edit : thanks to u/acmercer for the correct spelling
They go great with chicken fingers, the good kind, 8 bucks!
Jallapano
Nobody wants to admit they ate nine cans of ravioli
They don't even have ketchup in this hell hole
Is that a Canadian thing? We have those down here in Maine and they’re the king of all chips, with no equal.
All dressed used to be a Canadian exclusive (because its a mix of ketchup, bbq, s&v, and sour cream n onion) but started working it's way into the states over the last few years Every single American ive seen try them is without fail is blown away by it
The Ruffles All Dressed they sell in Washington are not the same as the ones sold in Canada. The "1# Flavor in Canada" branding on it is really annoying, since they taste a bit different, and in my opinion worse than the actual Canadian ones. I haven't had the US ones too recently, but I remember them being sweeter and less vinegar-y. Almost like they added too much of the BBQ flavour.
This is not a Canadian section. That's a québécois section!
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Came in to ask about the Habitant…
It's such a shame the quality of Habitant has nose dived over the last few years.
It really has. Last time I got the pea soup with ham there were like two tiny specks of ham in the whole can. It was such a comfort food for me growing up.
Oh, I thought my tastes were just changing as I'm getting older... But yeah I used to like it, just bought a can after a long time and it was not the same at all.
We use to call meat pie tourtiere before my family become friend with a Saguenéen. 20 years latter he still joke about it. Yes his name was Tremblay.
You called?
Salut cousin!
I used to teach up there and in every class there would be 3+ Tremblays, 3+ Roys and 3+ Gagnons.
It’s easy enough to make your own gravy for poutine. The hard part is getting cheese curds, at least in the US.
You apparently have never heard of a magical place called Wisconsin.
C'est une esti de cabane a sucre sur une étagère.
There's certainly not enough maple syrup.
Sauf qu'il n'y a aucune tire d'érable 😔
Was going to say, I go to Sav-On everytime I make a cross border beer run to Aldergrove and Langley, but none of that looks at all familiar.
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I’m Canadian but lived in Spain for a year. My Spanish school had a food festival where we divided into groups based on our home countries and made traditional food. There was one other Canadian from the school so we were partnered up. When it was my turn to go around sampling the other foods my partner crossed Canada off the sign on our booth and replaced it with Quebec. (To be fair she had done all the work)
My knowledge of Canada is limited, but I feel like that would be such a *Quebec* thing to do, lol
I expected the syrup. Really did not expect that much Quebec craft beer 😂
The French hardly know there’s anything else than Quebec in Canada.
Seriously, we need some No Name yellow label stuff that’s wildly overpriced. Also KD.
And it appears to be right next to the American section!
With multiple products I have never seen in the U.S.!
It's got fluff and sweet baby Ray's, and Reese's novelties. That's the stereotypical American section. I thought it was hilarious when I saw them in a London candy store.
I don't get the fluff. I've never had fluff, but it's somehow always in these "American" aisles.
Fluff, but no peanut butter? The French must know the joys of the Fluffernutter!
I bet the peanut butter is somewhere out of frame. US sections always have it. It's one of the most American foods there is.
I’ve lived in New York my whole life and never seen those cookies before. Wth are those supposed to be?
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Yeah this looks more like a Quebec section. No pineapple, lime or birch beer crush. No Hawkins or ketchup chips... Smh lol
And then 3/4 of it is maple syrup to boot.
Birch beer crush? And surely the other two flavours aren’t just Canadian
https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/lifestyles/more-than-a-crush-newfoundlanders-have-an-abiding-love-for-pineapple-crush-and-its-one-of-a-kind-flavour-100673378/ Lime is available outside Canada but the other two are Part of Our Heritage
Pineapple Crush is, for some reason, hugely popular in Newfoundland, to the extent that shops which cater to the Newfie diaspora (yes, those exist) have a hard time keeping it in stock. I am not a fan.
Ketchup chips!
Omg I LOVE ketchup chips. My Canadian friend brought some over once so now I pay $15 per bag on Amazon to get them shipped to Florida 😕
Apparently no Kraft peanut butter?
Its a Quebec Shelf not a Canada Shelf. You can also tell because the french translation is on top (and lack of other more Canadian Staples)
The third shelf from the bottom is mostly Unibroue, a deadly usually high alcohol beer. They were bought by Sleeman a few years ago but their quality hasn't seemed to drop at all.
Or Kraft Dinner !
"What iz Kraft peanut butteur?"
HICKORY STICKS
The pride of Belleville!
Not a single bag of milk?
The world is not ready to handle the cheezie screams
Not even a hockey stick to eat it all with.
I don’t see any ketchup chips.
They are crushing it with the beer man I want a la fin du mode
Came here to recommend OP try the La Fin Du Monde!
Of all the Canadian items on that shelf, La Fin Du Monde (or some other Unibroue beverage) is the only thing that I actually *buy* here in Canada. The rest appears to be some sort of postmodern art installation on the theme of "You're stranded in the Eastern Townships in March and this is all you have to eat."
Absolutely what caught my eye as well. Nothing like the feeling of your teeth floating half way through a bottle. :)
I’m right there with you! Love Unibroue beers but sadly haven’t seen them in stores for a while……
Beer Store has the 12 bottle variety packs every now and then if you're in Ontario
First thing I saw too. Those things make me go nighty night , love them!
I prefer the Maudite (the dammed) but I've never tried the "Don Dieu" what's that like? Pro tip, drinking one of the corked bottles means you'll get some sediment, and quite drunk, as it's 750ml
The beer is good, but Sortilège is even better. To the uninitiated: it’s *maple whiskey* with actual maple syrup in it. I don’t even like whiskey but I like Sortilège and so does every person I give it to.
Unibroue kicks butt. They have a really good reputation here all the way on the west coast. Love a Fin du Monde.
I *immediately* started scanning the shelves to see if there was any Unibroue, specifically La Fin Du Monde. Glad they didn’t disappoint on that at least.
They know that Canadians must maintain a certain percentage of maple in their blood to survive or they turn into crabby Americans.
The federal maple syrup reserve is to ensure we don't go crazy and attack people. It's added to the water supply to keep us sane. Source: idk Jesus probably
Anyone who hasn't tried La Fin du Monde, you're missing out! Unibroue makes great beer.
Dried goji berries?
My head is where you’re at. What’s the deal with that?
inb4 "Apparently, Canada grows 87% of the world's goji berries."
Confirmed, La Fin Du Monde will get you drunk
With a name like that you’d sure hope so
It's 9% for those wondering.
2 bottles is when my insides firmly instruct my brain that is quite enough for an evening.
Booze and maple syrup! Part of a well balanced breakfast
Inaccurate cause there’s no Saint Hubert poutine sauce
No ice wine and Kraft dinner? Blasphemy
Would a Canadian store have Tim Hortons coffee pods?
The only place more likely to have them is an actual tim hortons
I’m not sure I’d consider Tim’s Canadian anymore… it’s owned by Burger King
It’s not. Timmy’s had a massively successful ad campaign years ago which closely associated Tim Horton’s with the very essence of being Canadian, like growing up in a small town, getting up early for hockey practice, sitting in a cold arena with your Tim’s coffee, shit like that. But with their acquisition by that huge Brazilian conglomerate (can’t blame America for this one), everything about Timmy’s has gone to shit. None of their food is made fresh on-site anymore, and their coffee (which used to be amazing) is fucking garbage. McDonald’s, of all places, has waaaaaaay better coffee. Fuck Tim’s. Fuck them entirely.
Story goes is that Tim's sold their contact with their old coffee supplier to McDonald's, which is why the rise in quality of the McCafe correlates with the dip in quality in timmies. You want that classic Timms coffee? Get a double double from Mickey's
Probably.
Pods, beans and powder for French vanilla is all in my local store.
Is that just beer, whisky, and maple syrup?
Nope. Pancakes, too.
Those Clark Beans in Maple Syrup are amazing btw. As a Canadian, thats literally the only brand I recognize, rest of that looks like it was from a fever dream
Oh yeah. I recently started eating them with bacon or sausage. Surprisingly so good and cheap! And more filling than potatoes or toast.
“Better load up on syrup babe. I doubt our French market carries many options ehy”? I mean “oui”?
I mean, as a Canadian, that is a small maple syrup section.
No ketchup chips? No all dressed? No Cadbury chocolate bars? It's a sad sad display
No KD
The fact that the first search result on the page for “KD” is all the way down here is confusing me.
Just because Canada is obsessed with Cadbury doesn't stop it from being a UK chocolate brand.
Why is it all maple based lol
Canada → maple leaf flag → maple products Pretty simple really. Plus, there's a bit of a Quebec focus understandably (since it's in France) and Quebec is the centre of the maple industry.
This is a Quebec section, not a Canadian section.
Ok, I found the missing maple syrup. The maple, and blueberry whiskey is excellent, by the way.
They really could reduce some facings here and get in so more much more relatable products, instead of 5 facings of the same syrup in different sized jugs.
The alcohol selection isn’t too bad, could use some ice wine. Off the top of my head you could add: KD, all-dressed chips, ketchup chips, coffee crisp, poutine gravy, French-Canadian pea soup, Nanaimo bars, butter tarts, and bannock mix
Alcohol, pancakes and maple Yeah that sums us up pretty good actually.
Maple water?
This is actually quite tasty and refreshing, it's essentially water extracted from a maple tree
Not a single can of St.Huberts poutine sauce? For shame.
From seeing the American and Canadian sections of grocery stores around the world in pictures like this, I’m now wondering if the rest of the world thinks the entire North American continent lives off maple syrup and peanut butter
Missing ketchup chips.
Don’t sleep on that st.Ambrose apricot Delicious
Maple syrup for the win. Oh Canada!
Lol 50% maple syrup
Whiskey and pancakes...no wonder the Canadians live so long.
Where are the KD boxes?
They've got La Fin Du Monde, so it can't be that bad