I'm from England. I went to Vancouver for a month & when I came back to England I noticed foods you didn't get at all in Canada I thought you would have.
Admittedly your stores have tons of different stuff (especially candy) I had never seen, and I'm sure there's even more shit in America.
But how come no pasty?
pic related do you know what it is?
Pasty.
Y u no pasty? or do you...?
they call them hot pockets for some reason
Pasties are fucking Cornish why would Canada have them. Btw English fish n chips are god awful compared to Canadian versions.
>>7545048
I know parts of the midwest like Wisconsin and Michigan have them. I'd think they would've crossed the border by now, maybe not though.
need to come to the Upper Peninsula
then it's pasty time, my friend
ketchup or gravy, it's all up to you
>>7545048
we have pasties in Mexico m8, we call them "pastes"
I remember seeing pasties all over up in Minnesota, I sort of thought they would be just as prevalent up in Canada.
>>7545005
We have Jamaican beef patties in some parts of the US, then there is the infamous hot pockets found everywhere I think in your frozen section super market aisle.
>>7545005
Ex England Vancouver dweller reporting . Nobody here knows wtf a pasty is except you can get them in specialist uk grocery stores along with proper baked beans, pies and walkers crisps
Some fancy grocery stores will have them as they tend to be frequented by old people that still remember the old country
Well I live on Vancouver island and yeah we got those. Oddly enough I've only seen them in gas stations or old white people neighborhood stores though
>>7545005
mostly do sweets in the US
hotpockets are about the only savory pastry that comes to mind and they are only for trailer trash and middleschoolers who can't cook
>>7545058
UP you get credit for amazing beer (nod to blackrocks), but beyond that, be quiet.
>>7545048
>Btw English fish n chips are god awful compared to Canadian versions
I dont doubt it.
Fish and chips is fucking garbage. You can guarantee its the cheapest shitest chips with poor quality fish over cooked in a crap batter.
No doubt it can be made well. But 99% of places making it are independent and offer no quality control, and also cut costs by buying the cheapest shit they can to maximise profits.
Just get a pizza or a kebab instead. Even if its shit its still good.
>>7545048
dat poutine stuff was awesome with the fries and gravy
went to a place called belgium fries or something
>>7545319
belgian fries is fucking dank
high tier drunk food, since they give you hilariously large portions
anywhere else you went, englandbro?
>>7545336
went to that vansterdam café I guess you know? smoked quite a bit and made some Canadian stoner friends and walked up grouse mountain. Had my own apartment rented out so cooked a lot of my food to save cost, wish I had the money to eat out every night.
>>7545336
oh and you're not wrong about the portion sizes at that place i couldn't finish the large one and for the amount you get pretty cheap
>>7545005
Pasties are a particularly british taste. It's like how you can't get poutine in the UK, or cheese curds to make it with that are labelled as such.
I only had it a few times but FUCK have I been craving poutine ever since.
>>7545048
Confirmed for someone who's never had fresh fish and chips.
Anything more than an hour from the sea is going to have stale fish, and chips aren't something a lot of people know how to perfect.
Go to Whitby in Yorkshire. Eat at the Magpie Cafe, or just go to their takeaway shop. It's fucking delicious, even if you're fighting the wind to eat it on the pier.
>>7545058
>ketchup or gravy
You people sicken me.
>>7545048
Why would a British colony have British food? It is a mystery.
>>7545613
>Cornish people are British
Stop the goddamn genocide of Cornish culture.
>>7545462
>Go to Whitby in Yorkshire. Eat at the Magpie Cafe, or just go to their takeaway shop. It's fucking delicious, even if you're fighting the wind to eat it on the pier.
I'm not gonna say British fish and chips is necessarily better or worse than the Canadian variety, but to say that it's based on freshness is ridiculous as England has 12,429 km of coastline compared to Canada with 202,080km, the most in the world
>>7545068
Yep, you got them from Britain, just like the Jamaicans got patties from Britain.
>>7545201
I really want to try a hot pocket, all of the janitor memes about them made me interested.
>>7545624
Shut up Lisa, nobody likes you.
>>7545624
But they are. Fucking wales has more culture than the shitty pensioner mud hole called Cornwall
>>7545005
What a delicious looking empanada.
>>7545733
>The amount of coastline is representative to the freshness of fish
Tell me how fresh the fish is in Edmonton.
>>7545928
Your daily reminder that you South Americans got your empanadas from the British pasty and that every time this thread emerges you always turn up to spout your bullshit about emapandas and then you always argue with everyone who posts what I have just done.
There, I saved the thread from the una vela autism.
>>7545005
American here. I've never had a pasty before, but judging from the recipes I just saw on Google a Hot Pocket isn't very similar at all. A hot pocket is just a shitty, frozen, single-serving calzone with enough preservatives in each to mummify every corpse in Egypt. Usually has cheese in it, often tomato sauce and a meat as well. Generally something to avoid eating unless you're poor and desperate or have an acquired taste for the things.
>>7546021
I ate a hotpocket in the US. They were a lot worse than I was expecting.
Same with twinkies, they were just gross.
>>7546037
I had an imported Twinkie here in the UK, the sponge tasted like and had the texture of a kitchen scourer and the cream, it was like liquid plastic. Very unusual and I don't want to think about how many years each bite took off my life.
>>7546037
Bro, I've lived in this country my entire life and I've never even eaten a Twinky. They're fucking gross. If you want to eat decent food in America you either cook it yourself or go to a nice restaurant. That's simply the culture here; food is fuel.
>>7546058
what kind of fuel is a twinkie.
It's just a meat pie in a different shape. Canada is (relatively) famous for tourtière.
I don't live in vancouver, but we do have pasties here, I bought a couple at our store's deli once. Nothing really special, but they might have been low quality, who knows.
We got those molbray pork pies too. They're frozen and I'm not sure if they're imported, but I've always been curious to try them.
>>7546056
The thin film of grease on the outside put me off the most.
>>7546066
Fat and sugar.
>>7546066
To understand that you have to understand the origin of the Twinky. Back in the day, the company that makes Twinkies made shortcakes with strawberry filling, but they were losing profits in the winter when strawberries were scarce and production faltered. Eventually someone had the idea to just fill the shortbread with sweet whipped cream while there were no strawberries, and for some reason they became more popular than they thing they replaced.
Twinkies embody both the idea of food being simply fuel and also the fabled "American ingenuity". They're popular because they're sweet, consistently mass produced, and branch from the imagination of a capitalist.
I have a pasty place at my town but the owners are some grouchy ass old people that like to overcharge for everything. I hate them so I don't wanna go there.
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>go to england
>no meat pies
nearly died from pie withdraws to be honest
>>7546144
Fucking convicts.
>>7546069
>Canada is (relatively) famous for tourtière.
No. Tourtière is something Canada has. Canada is not famous for tourtière, otherwise someone outside of a few frogs in Quebec would have heard of it.
>>7546182
I don't even live near Quebec. Take a little interest in your heritage, anon. You're a sorry excuse for a Canadian if you've never heard of or eaten tourtière.
>>7545005
Saw these on an episode of Secret Meat Business.
Brilliant!
And he tied in some historical reference for bonus points: Miners ate these for lunch 'cause you would hold the ends while eating it, then throw them away to avoid poisoning yourself with the coal dust transfer from your hands.
>>7545928
You fucking retard. An empanada is different from a pasty (paste), the dough is completely DIFFERENT, and if you think they are the same it is because they don't cook either properly in the shithole you come from.
>>7546854
Adding an egg to your shortcrust doesn't make it completely different.
>>7545005
your mistake was going to Hongcouver. If you wanted Canadian food of more European origin then you should have gone to the east coast (Halifax, Montreal, etc)
Vancouverite here. Not sure if you noticed OP but this city isn't big on European food. Maybe because Vancouver is no longer Canadian, it's an Asian city. If you want some of the best Chinese food in the world you come here, if you want good sushi for under $10 you come here, if you want to eat Malaysian on Tuesday, Thai on Wednesday, Indian on Thursday, and Korean on Friday you come here. If you want European food you go to Montreal.
We have pretty much no remnants of the British influence left here in Vancouver. Since the 80s our governments have sold this city and province to Asia, it's not a Canadian city any more.
>>7546884
Burgerstanian here: What's the deal with that, anyway?
Why are you guys doing that?
>>7546893
it isn't by choice. corrupt chinese officials needed a place to move dirty money off shore, vancouver real estate just happened to be a convenient place for them to do that. in some ways it can be looked at as an economic invasion
>>7546926
Vancouver is a fucking port. You want to eat something that isn't fucking gook shit in Vancouver, you eat fresh seafood. That's about it.
>>7546935
Pretty much this. So much gook shit.
>>7546893
The same reason that it's happening in every Western country: replacement, and new people who they can get to take pay taxes.
>>7546893
Well, it's a long history of Asian immigrants in Vancouver. They were first brought here in the 1800s to work in the lumber industry and building railways. Vancouver has one of the largest Chinatowns in North America where none of the new Asian immigrants even go to these days.
Then in the 80s the government were bitches like they are now and allowed a lot of the Hongers to come here because of the tension from the reunification.
Lately the government pretty much sold the city and province to Asia. They allow foreign investors to buy up property and because of a citizenship loophole in Quebec they're eligible to receive citizenship by investing money in Quebec but while living in Vancouver. It's a shitty deal for the locals already here, including the Asians from the previous migrations. Locals can't afford to live in Vancouver. I'm leaving in September, I'd like to continue living here but its' just not worth it, the city doesn't have enough to offer to warrant the high costs. >>7546897 is also right, lots of corruption everywhere, the provincial politicians are fucking future generations over in order to earn more now.
>>7546926
Vancouver never really had a regional cuisine. There's a lot of seafood, if you've never been here there's a sushi restaurant on literally every corner. Seafood is fairly cheap I'd say. But for the future I see fewer and fewer traditionally common North American restaurants, you know burgers and steak type places in favour of fusion or just straight up only Asian food.
>>7546897
what? vancouver is on the west coast, and most major west coast cities (vancouver, seattle, sf, la) have a large gook presence because they're on the west fucking coast. same reason most mexican americans live in boarder states. it's convenient.
>>7546982
what are you rambling about? did you even bother to read the fucking backlinks for context? holy shit
>>7546996
>backlinks
you're off your meds again.
you'll have to provide those.
>>7546982
This is true historically but in the last decade Vancouver started allowing Mainlanders to invest their money here, even illegally assisting them in getting their money out of China (there are limits on how much money you can take out of China per day which the banks in Canada have circumvented). The people moving here from China are not poor impoverished Chinese who want a better life. They're mostly families of people who got rich fast and are the shittiest people in the world. They and their families are dicks to everyone, to the point where most Chinese living here hate them.
>>7547002
First day on the Internet, I see.
>>7547006
Huh, well I suppose things work differently in Canada than the States. We get a lot of Chinese in certain LA suburbs, but afaik the government doesn't have much to do with it.
>>7546037
Hot pockets are cheap garbage for lazy moms with fat kids
>>7546144
You didn't go in a pub or fish and chip shop then ? They're both pie filled
Looks like a samosa or a hot pocket desu
>>7546960
Putin himself said that Canadian officials are some of the most corrupt in the world, so let that give you some perspective, Mr. Bob McAdams. The Chinese could have gone anywhere but the government was the one to let them in so they could get in on sum mad CNY, HKD, and INR.
By far the best place to get a solid burger that isn't Meme Guys(fucking garbage) or Krusty Robin(Boston Pizza) is still at Whitespot, and there's nothing wrong with that. Steaks? You get what you pay for.
Also the food in Vancouver is like in most big cities: shitty to mediocre and overpriced aside from the few places that locals will wait in line for, and restaurants at that caliber are usually quite diverse in both region and price point: Medina, Lucky's, Kintaro, Congee Noodle House, Pho, California, Stepho's, Foundation. to name a few. All other places are trash: Jap, Korean, Indian, Chinese, Honger, Viet, Mexican, Indian, Malaysian, Greek, French, Italian, "American", whatever. It doesn't fucking matter. Notice that I could list a restaurant in this city for each region that I just specified, because it's a reality of living in the western world to have cuisine just as diverse as its people. It doesn't help that Canada is a complete joke when it comes to having a national and cultural identity too. M-m-muh maple syrup, poutine, and beavertail!!! lmao
Try to think critically next time because these regions are all quite unique from each other and would be quite insulted by your sweeping generalizations(yes even North Americans), which your stereotypical and outdated palette for steaks and burgers seems to be only able to taste.
Fo real, I hate the people here as much as you do, maybe even more. I'd be willing to bet that Vancouver is just another flavor of shitty in this garbage country, and by extension this world and the people that live in it and let corrupt officials rule the world so they can watch sports and produce offspring in peace. At least the food is good.
Pasties are easily found in Vancouver if you went to a bakery. Some large chain grocery stores have them too like Save-On-Foods. It's much more difficult to find them actually served as a dish in a restaurant or pub here, though.
>>7545175
>or old white people neighborhood
Oak Bay?
>>7547214
Does the Superstore in Richmond still stock Tim's Jalapeno Chips?
>>7547257
Don't make it down that way to much so no idea. Never even heard of them. I'm in Port Moody.
They're much more common in the northern US than they are in Canada for whatever reason.
>>7547262
Sounds comfy. That whole area seems really nice to have a stroll in. I shouldn't complain living in Downtown but the seawall and False Creek get boring really quickly.
>>7545733
Best chippy in the world right there.
>>7545175
Islander here too, can confirm pasties in Country Grocers.
>>7547117
> doesn't like overpriced mediocre food
> recommends medina
Lol
>>7546111
I'd also like to add to this anon's post by saying that Twinkies were originally planned to have banana cream in the center. WW2 put a damper on those plans, and thus we have the plain cream filled Twinkie that exists today.
>>7545945
I don't know about Edmonton, but Halifax and the NS south shore has some of the best fish and chips I've ever eaten.
>>7545005
www.cornishpastyco.com
Got this motherfucker in my town, good stuff.
>>7545070
Yeah theyre in damn near every grocery store in mn. Actually pretty good too for being premade. Reminds me of my mom's homemade ones
>>7547117
>Canada is a complete joke when it comes to having a national and cultural identity
Doesn't help that any conception of Canadian identity was legislated out of existence 45 years ago. Since then it's been nothing but propaganda and laws harming Canadians while giving money, citizenship and social power to foreigners.
It's a travesty of justice that Trudeau didn't get shot in the street for what he did.
>>7547819
fucking Nova Scotia is like a seafood eden. Halifax, Lunenberg, and Green Bay are like the trifecta of incredible foods. Would give 10/10 reccomendations for the entire area, particularly if you like the coziness of the maritimes
>>7546859
It's not only adding egg, the empanada dough is flaky, while the pasty dough is crumbly and thicker. Also, in Argentina "empanadas" are fried instead of baked.
So, yes. They are different, and if you don't know the difference you haven't tried a properly done one.
>>7547062
He's a Bruce, they only eat a very specific type of pie like the yanks and their chicken pot pie.
Australians eat a beef and gravy pie with a layer of cheese on top of the filling. They call this by a generic"meat pie", not a description, but a name.
>>7546884
There's a special place in hell reserved for traitors like the ones who sold out your city.
>>7547269
If there are mines, there will be pasties. The Cornish were the best miners in the empire so were always the ones called on to do the job. They spread around the world to mine and the pasty spread with them.
>>7548150
>Nova Scotia
>>7547902
>www.cornishpastyco.com
>With a side of red wine gravy or ketchup
I tried so hard and got so far, but in the end it doesn't even matter.
>>7548214
no we aussies eat beef mince/gravy pies as the default- we call it "pie" as in "want a pie mate?"
then there are cheese and bacon, steak, shepherds pie, chicken and leek, mushroom etc.
>>7548426
Well in that case then I have no idea what he was on about not being able to find pies in Britain, the land that brought the pie to Oz.
>>7547731
Medina wouldn't be so bad if not for the wait. Their waffles can be skipped though. Nero does them better.
