Canadian Traditional Food and Drink

From the more traditional East Coast with a heavier French influence to the West  coast of Canada, there is much variation in the food preferences.  Traditional foods include bannock, moose, deer, bison, pemmican, and maple taffy.  When you ask which foods you should try, it is common to hear poutine, Caesar cocktails (which include clamato juice), beavertails (large pastry adorned with chocolate and other sweets), butter tarts, nanaimo bars (a dessert which requires no baking and is named after the city of Nanaimo, British Columbia, on Vancouver Island), ketchup chips (that do not taste like ketchup), montreal bagels (which are smaller, denser and sweeter than their New York City brothers and both boiled before they are baked using water from each city is a critical distinction) and maple syrup. Poutine is probably the single most famous “Canadian food,” poutine is a rather unhealthy dish produced by smothering French fries with gravy and lumps of white cheese curd.  Rumor has it that the Shotski, where people drink multiple shots at the same time on a ski, was founded at the University of British Columbia.  British Columbia wines have received great distinction particularly in the area around the glacier lake near Kelowna, BC.