Uniquely Canadian Foods

The Winter Olympics Daily Bulletin listed 15 Canadian Foods. Ever tasted any of these?

• Canada Dry ginger ale: Canada's version of Vernors
  
• Tim Horton's coffee: a Canadian institution and a coffee shop started by a famous hockey player
• Beaver Tails: Fried dough in the shape of a flat beaver tail, topped with sugar, cinnamon, or hazelnut
• Butter tarts: said to be invented in Eastern Ontario around 1915 (like a mini sugar pie)
• Maple Syrup: developed by the Algonquins from the sap of maple trees (Vermont is famous for its Maple Syrup)
• Sugar Pie: single crust pie with a filling made from flour, butter, salt, vanilla, cream, and brown sugar or maple syrup. When baked, these ingredients combine into a homogeneous mixture similar to caramel
• Chocolate Bars: Coffee Crisp, Caramkilk, Aero, Crunchie, Bounty, Crispy Crunch, Smarties
• Flipper pie: Dish made from seal flippers specific to Newfoundland and commonly eaten at Easter
• Pemmican: dried lean meat of wild game that was created by the Cree nation for emergency food
• Montreal style bagels: wood fired, smaller, sweeter and with a larger hole than New York bagels
• Montreal smoked meat: a method of preserving meat that has it's roots in Jewish Europe
• Tourtiere: a traditional French-Canadian meat pie, often served at Christmas
• Peameal Bacon: also known as back bacon or "Canadian bacon", it's the lean ovoid portion of the pig
• Fiddleheads: the unfurled fronds of a young fern commonly used in salads and pasta dishes
• Poutine: french fries topped with cheese curds and brown gravy

We have discovered and tasted some fine Canadian wine. As the earth warms, maybe British Columbia will become the Napa of the North.