There's more to Canada than
just hockey and Tim Hortons our
neighbors to the north have lots of
great things to offer especially in the
snack Department it's the greatest
country or not so let's take a road trip
and discover the top 10 Canadian snack
foods America wished they had this is a
favorite Canadian dessert the chocolate
mousse can I cut you an antler ah
caramel try the caramel it's delicious
these soft vanilla sponge cakes wrapped
in chocolate and filled with caramel and
cream are a national treasure invented
in Quebec by the Vashon family who after
working on their farm for 25 years
borrowed 7,000 dollars to start a bakery
in 1923 they started by selling bread
and brioches and today the popular a
caramel filled pastries Vashon went on
to become a household name in Canada
while making other popular lines of
sweet pastries in 1999 saputo Inc
another Canadian success story and the
makers of cheese and dairy products
purchased beshal and most recently it
was purchased by mexican company grupo
Bimbo it is nice to think that maybe
Canadians would want to keep this in the
family but the truth of the matter is
they are in direct competition with
other US brands such as hostess who
sells similar cakes Vashon also
manufactures hostess products under
contract in Canada but that is why you
will never see Vashon cakes sold in the
US market as they will be in direct
competition with each other these days
there have been complaints from Canadian
consumers that the cakes no longer taste
the same apparently the recipe has
changed to taste more like the American
cakes and Canadians are not pleased even
with the recent changes the ah caramel
remains a Canadian snack food we would
all want to try ruffles all dressed
chips ruffles all dressed chips are a
Canadian flavor of the ruffled crinkle
cut potato chips marketed by frito-lay
even though frito-lay Inc is an American
City area PepsiCo in the u.s. ruffles
all dressed chips are purely a Canadian
invention and are sold only by frito-lay
Canada fredo layer right away right
there in fact there are many ruffles
flavors unique to Canada the all dressed
chips flavor goes as far back as 1978
when they were invented by two brothers
Paul Jabbar and Louie dugongs AG they
were the owners of yum-yum chips in
Quebec they jokingly mixed a melange of
barbecue salt and vinegar sour cream and
onion and ketchup chip flavors together
to create this unique seasoning blend
the flavor was actually launched 37
years before ruffles released its own
version ruffles also has other popular
flavors such as sour cream and onion and
ketchup which is in Canada only of
course all dressed chips are purely
decadent and a problem solver when you
can't decide which flavor you want the
all dressed chip will be around for a
while in Canada as it is one of the most
popular flavors along with ketchup only
in Canada a quintessential Canadian
snack Americans do not know what they
are missing do kaboom
Canada's greatest stuntman oh yeah they
post bread there's no question that
Canadians sure do love their maple
products so it would be fitting that
they have a spread named after the pride
of the country may post bread shirt for
maple spread is a delicious super sweet
compounded sugar spread that is only
available in Canada it's excellent on
toast pancakes waffles and for making
traditional Canadian desserts a favorite
old-time product for many Quebecers
where it originated in 1917 bay-buh
spread was invented by Ernest Carriere
of Carriere Foods who in turn sold this
popular spread to JM Smuckers in 1989
incidentally although this product is
called may post bread it does not
contain an ounce of maple syrup what and
is just purely sugar glucose fructose
artificial colors and flavors maple
syrup is the nectar that
runs through Canada's veins what you
think is coursing through my veins right
now sugar shacks maple forests and
wintertime fun is the image of Canada
too a lot of the world
Quebec produces 70 percent of the
world's maple syrup so it is strange
that a product made there contains no
natural maple at all
it's almost fraudulent Mabo spread we'll
probably never see the light on the US
market because of reasons regarding
supply chain production capacity and
distribution it will remain exclusively
a Canadian and Quebec product of your
Hickory sticks each Hickory sticks were
created by those ship loving people at
the Canadian hostess potato chips
company the hostess company began in
1935 when Edward Snyder began making
chips on his mother's kitchen stove in
Ontario to make a little extra money
hostess eventually made it to the top as
one of Canada's premier chip brands the
company then lost their position due to
brand erosion in the 90s the brand was
taken over by Lay's in 1996 as part of a
major rebranding and the Hickory sticks
are one of the only hostess products
still on the market and in production in
the US hostess brands are the makers of
Twinkies Ding Dongs cupcakes and zingers
which are totally unrelated to our
favourite spuds Hickory sticks are fine
little julienned potato sticks with an
addictively smoky flavour this snack is
a cross between french fries and chips
but they never made it to the US market
and probably never will for the same
reasons that many of the other popular
snack foods remain in Canada conflicts
and direct competition with similar
brands and products they are still a
favourite in Canada to this day even
with their unglamorous brown packaging
Hickory sticks have survived the test of
time and still have quite a cult
following you join this cult willingly
McCain deep and delicious cake for those
not on the know McCain
Foods Limited is a Canadian frozen food
company established in 1957 in New
Brunswick it is the world's largest
manufacturer of frozen potato products
McCain Foods entered the US market more
than 30 years ago and is a leading
supplier of frozen spuds and frozen
pizza in America
I met Joe exotic cries what McCain's
does not sell in the US is a famously
delicious pan sheet cake called deep and
delicious that is only available in
Canada if you are a chocolate lover you
will love this cake it is super moist
and the icing is super sweet and
deliciously creamy just pull it out of
the freezer and in less than five
minutes you have a quick dessert to
please any guests of course you can also
eat it by yourself in just one sitting
we won't say anything
McCain's deep and delicious cakes have
been a fixture in Canada since the late
80s every kid loved this one growing up
this moist cake is available in
chocolate vanilla and marbled topped
with sweet icing it comes in a metallic
aluminum foil tray with a resealable
plastic dome lid but because McCain's in
the US also owns and sells Sara Lee
cakes McCain Canada does not want to be
in direct competition with themselves
therefore McCain deep and delicious
cakes will never see the light of day on
American tables craft peanut butter
peanut butter has become one of life's
sweet food staples unless you're
allergic of course popular in many
countries worldwide and especially in
America the US is the leading exporter
of peanut butter Americans also consume
close to 800 million dollars of peanut
butter a year while there are plenty of
varieties of peanut butter brands
available Canadians swear that Kraft
peanut butter is definitely better than
anything on the American market
crafty nut butter is most recognizable
because of the two cute teddy bears on
the label Kraft peanut butter has been a
fixture for over half a century on the
Canadian market Canadians truly trust in
this brand more than any other for a
while
Americans got the Kraft peanut butter
the teddy bear logo it was sold in
yellow labelled jars with yellow lids
and had the craft name on them but
because of the trademark disagreement
with another company who produces the
same product using similar packaging
they were no longer able to sell the
yellow cap lids of peanut butter and Us
stores nonetheless for Canadian craft
peanut butter lovers there is no
comparison it may have had the Kraft
name but it tasted completely different
since the US market is flooded and
dominated with other peanut butter
brands Kraft has backed away from the US
market for now maybe if they tried again
using the bare packaging instead who
doesn't love cute cuddly looking bears
oh come on I do not sound that much like
Peter Griffin Hawkins cheesie's
relatively obscure Hawkins cheesie's are
not a household name especially in the
US why would they be when there are
Cheetos Utz and planters do Americans
really need another brand of cheese
puffs but our friends to the north have
a different opinion we're gonna mop the
floor with you we're gonna put the boots
say yeah sorry
Hawkins cheesie's are super crunchy and
really cheesy similar to Cheetos they
are a more vibrant orange tangy and are
made with real aged cheddar these
Canadian cheese's were actually created
in Chicago after the Second World War by
two Americans named James marker and WT
Hawkins once they perfected their recipe
they moved their operation to Ontario
Canada in the 1950s and set up shop
although invented by Americans they are
not sold in the US but Canadians swear
that they are truly one-of-a-kind
Hawkins cheeses are still manufactured
by the same family using the original
machine made by their inventors the US
may have an endless array of cheese
puffs and cheese balls
but without a passport you will never
find out how good these delightfully
crunchy cheese puffs really taste there
are even rumors that US border agencies
have blocked the product from getting
into the states it has something to do
with a Cheetos fiasco that took place a
while ago
this eat ova the country has even
slapped a tax on the product by listing
it as a cheese product instead of a
snack so tariffs are much higher may
believe cookies may believe cookies are
a Canadian sandwich cookie shaped like a
maple leaf makes sense right the maple
leaf is the national symbol of Canada
and this cookie is filled with another
proverbial Canadian favourite maple
flavored cream several Canadian
companies produce them mostly for the
domestic market although they do have a
small cult following in the u.s. no no
it's not a culprit and it is not only
the expats who are loving these cookies
may believe cookies originated in the
province of Quebec some 114 years ago
the originator of these maple cookies is
a company called LeClair
but dare also makes maple leaf cookies
which are now available in the US but
with different packaging they can be
commonly found on the East Coast the
cookie and the cream centers are
actually made using real maple syrup
they are super sweet and only a few can
be eaten at a time before your teeth
start hurting there's a reason why the
maple leaf is on the Canadian flag you
won't believe some of these proposals
look at this one this Joe Louis Joe
Louie is another snack cake that was
invented by the Quebec based Vashon
company in the 1930s named after two of
the owner sons Joseph and Louie and not
Joe Louis the American boxer this mini
cake is made of two chocolate cake
rounds filled with rich vanilla icing in
the center and covered in milk chocolate
for many Canadians born in the 60s and
70s this was a familiar snack packed in
many school lunchboxes daily today this
would be considered blasphemy and really
not conducive to healthy eating how
times have changed it's legal now
the Joe Louie is a true Canadian classic
along with the Mae West and the ahh
caramel they can be found in all major
convenience and grocery stores across
Canada but not in the USA sold in
individually wrapped portions or in a
box format it
very similar to one of America's
favorite snack cakes the ding-dong oh oh
you were expecting a joke there
too easy the Joe Louie actually predates
the ding-dong as you can surmise because
of competition with hostess Joe Louis
can't be found in the US and probably
will never make an appearance but you
can always order them online ketchup
chips Americans love ketchup they put it
on everything ketchup on fries great
ketchup on a burger YUM ketchup chips
well not so much for some reason ketchup
chips are more of a Canadian
quintessential snack for many Canadians
it's the perfect blend of tomato and
vinegar with a tangy sweetness all
together in one bag you're welcome
Canada many Americans that have tasted
them find them repelling the ketchup
chip has a complicated history invented
in the 70s the ketchup chip came about
when hostess Canada now lays created a
line of some odd flavored chips which
included some fruit flavored options
Canada you did it again you even found a
way to ruin this not surprising the
weird flavors did not stick but the
ketchup flavor did stand out as a fan
favorite was most Canadians Americans
tried to emulate this south of the
border
but only in limited or special edition
attempts which failed to garner any
enthusiasm so they have been
discontinued entirely while the concept
may have spread out into the u.s. it
hasn't caught on in the same way it has
in Canada where ketchup chips have
become a national treasure in their own
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