5 Foods To Try In Canada + Canadadians Saying Sorry | Eileen Aldis

We're in my hometown of London, Ontario and we were sitting around this morning thinking how we haven't really eaten anything today and fantasizing about all the delicious Canadian foods that we can get while we're home here in Canada and at one point I was just like, let's just make a video about it. I can't decide. Let's just eat all the things. So we decided to go out and show you five foods to try in Canada. 🎵 I think we're going to just get the traditional. Woo! It's going to be boring. It's fantastic. Do you want the 17 foot by 5 foot version of that? I can slim it down maybe to this size. We can get it down to this one. Or I can even get it to that one. You don't want that one. You don't even want that one. At least we have two of them. Aww, confusing. Thank you. That's so nice. Thank you. That was so nice. That guy was amazing. Okay, I haven't actually explained what poutine is so if you've even heard of it, maybe you don't know what it is. It's delicious. That menu board is full of, like, different variations of it but the traditional, original one is just plain old french fries with lots of gravy and cheese curds and it's Canadian. It actually originated in the 1950s in rural Quebec so the absolute best, like, most authentic poutine you'll find in Canada is definitely in Quebec. We're in Ontario. This is pretty close so I'm going to try it and I haven't had this in a really long time. Like, like months which is too long for poutine. That is so good. It's so bad for you and it is so, so good. Canadian breakfast. Oh, nice and squidgy. I know. The curds are good. My arteries. I like the sign that said clogging arteries since 2009. Well, it's true. Something happened in Smokes Poutinerie that was distinctly Canadian and I actually caught it on film so I'll insert it here but everyone kept saying sorry and I was taking a picture of the back of the restaurant. I just wanted to see the sign and everybody in the restaurant, like, stopped. No one wanted to get in the way of my shot. And this guy who was wearing an I Am Canadian t-shirt, too perfect, started to walk through the shot. Noticed me about halfway through and went, Oh, sorry! And, like, ducked in. Don't worry. And this restaurant who was already almost out the door, she yells back, Oh, sorry! Did I ruin your shot? And I was just saying sorry. And I was like, oh, sorry, no. Oh, sorry, no. I'm just taking a photo. Don't worry. She's like, what's going on? We're all saying sorry. It just made me so happy. I love it. Who wants our poutine? You hungry? You're a hungry little squirrel. Whoa. Get that poutine out of here. Get the poutine. No poutine for you. Bad squirrel. My brother and I were kids. This was our absolute favorite dessert. Like, anytime there was a family party and there were Nanaimo bars. Party on. There you go, guys. Thank you so much. You're welcome. See you later. Bye. A box of Nanaimo bars. One of my absolute favorite Canadian foods is definitely Nanaimo bars and you actually buy them frozen so we had to wait for them to thaw a little bit, which was actually perfect because it's so sunny and we found this cute spot by a bunch of Canadian geese, which seems very appropriate. And I just can't wait any longer so I'm going to bust open this package and eat them right now. Nanaimo bars have been around since the 1950s. You can hear the Canada geese behind me. So cute. They're excited about the Nanaimo bars. So excited. So these are from 1953. It was the first published recipe ever from Nanaimo, British Columbia, which is on the west coast of Canada on Vancouver Island. And thank god they made their way east to Ontario so I could eat them all through my childhood. I can't wait any longer. Oh my god. Whoa. Way softer than I thought. I feel like I wasted my life not having these for so long. This Canadian food is butter charts. It's a dessert and it originates way back with the Canadian pioneers. In the prairies, my hood. And they're these little individually sized desserts and normally they're round and it's just a flaky pastry and you can fill it with little bits of raisins or nuts. I personally love raisins. I love the raisins. Or if you're a butter chart purist then you like it like this, which is just plain old eggs, sugar, butter, and syrup. So that's what we're going to have today. Let's dig in. Most people who are normal just eat it like this but I, as a kid growing up, always used a spoon because I refused to eat the pastry. I don't know why. And so even though I'm not a child anymore, I still like to eat the middle and sometimes I eat the pastry afterwards but I still like to eat it like this. This is not the normal way people eat butter charts, just so you know. This is so good. Oh I got a raisin! Yes! Woohoo! For those of us who didn't grow up eating it like Eileen with a spoon, this is how we eat it. Too bad there's no squirrels here. It's a good thing there aren't. More for me. This is another one of my favourite Canadian foods, ketchup chips. Apparently the Hostess Potato Chip Company in the 1970s exclusively marketed this in Canada and it was a huge hit and I love them. I grew up eating these so I think I'm going to have some. All they had was the family size. So good. Alright, Eileen's favourite are ketchup chips. Mine are dill pickle chips. Kind of tangy. Really weird taste. Do you want to try a ketchup chip? Oh yeah. I feel like you haven't had them in a long time. No I haven't. Are you going to feed it to me? Yeah. That is good. It is good, isn't it? Mhmm. I don't usually like dill but I'm going to try it again. I'll give it another shot. This might be the turning point. No, they're weird. More for me. I don't really like them but I will take more ketchup. Ice cream place I've been going for so long. Actually my brother played soccer. We used to come here after his soccer games all the time so I love this place. And it's Canadian. I don't know if it actually started. Almost impossible to find anywhere else. And it's orange ice cream with swirls of black licorice. It's delicious. And it's especially popular with kids, I think. Or big kids. Love licorice. Any other foods where you combine licorice and orange? You know of any. Leave a comment and tell us because I need to eat more of this. It actually tastes like a Terry's chocolate orange. But that's chocolate, not licorice. No, I know. I guess it's kind of similar. Similar. Yeah. I am so full after eating all this delicious food. But it was really fun. So fun. And we don't need to eat again any dinner, I'd say. No, that was dinner. Hopefully you guys enjoyed this video and seeing five Canadian foods. 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