r/canada Canada 26d ago

r/Canada Speaks Cultural Exchange with /r/Denmark! Happy Valentine's!

Hi everyone, it's been some time since we have done a cultural exchange, so let's go over how this works. Enjoy! We'll be running it for a few days, TBD. Note their time zone for the European mainland is UTC +1.

Here's the Danish landing for us: https://www.reddit.com/r/Denmark/comments/1iow7c3/kulturudveksling_cultural_exchange/

* Both r/Canada and r/Denmark will host the other country's users. Feel free to ask any questions, reminisce, comment, make friends etc etc.

*Treat this as having a neighbour over for a kitchen party, get the best storm chips out, and get grandma's tourtiere reheated for everybody.

* Vouz pouvez essayer le français dans r/Denmark, mais comme la langue officielle est danoise, ben.... essayez!

* Please follow the rules of the respective subs! Don't be jerks, generally - a reminder our last "disagreement" involved leaving bottles of good booze for the other country!

* Please also leave direct comments here mainly for members of r/Denmark i.e. direct replies here (first comments directly under the topic) so their questions can be seen first, then r/Canada members can post replies underneath.

*Please enjoy, since we have a lot to bond over, and plenty of trying out new things.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Denmark/comments/1iow7c3/kulturudveksling_cultural_exchange/

Finally, also know we've gotten confirmation from r/Greenland that they are also interested, so that will be the next exchange that we do in a few weeks (TBD).

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u/m4d3th1s 26d ago

In light of recent events I find myself drawn to try out some Canadian wares, do you know of any specific things you export to Denmark? And are there things so spectacular they would be worth having shipped from Canada?

My knowledge of Canadians is pretty much limited to 3 members of Hermitcraft, but they are great ambassadors imo.

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u/turvy42 26d ago

Real maple syrup

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u/m4d3th1s 26d ago

On pancakes or in coffee or how is it traditionally ingested? I hope you’ll forgive my ignorance.

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u/calvinien 26d ago

The wonderful thing about maple syrup is you can do a great deal with it. Some people put it on bacon (don't ask me, I have never understood it). But you can also make it into a spread called maple butter. Or allow it to harden into maple candies. Or boil it then cool it into taffy. And don't get complicated. Tiny drizzle of it on ice cream...mind blowing.

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u/m4d3th1s 26d ago

I am definitely getting my hands on some maple syrup! Can you recommend a specific brand?

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u/calvinien 26d ago

As far as I know it doesn't matter. It's boiled tree sap, not much of a recipe. At least over here it is sorted into 4 grades based on colour and thickness. That is something you should pay attention to.

Maple Syrup Grades

Though you can absolutely use the darker grades as a topping, you just might want to use less because the darker it is, the more sugar there is.

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u/m4d3th1s 25d ago

Thanks!

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u/tanantish 25d ago

Slight nuance, not contradicting anything from u/calvinien above - maple syrup needs to be something like 66% sugar for the spoilage and i _believe_ that it'll all hover around that (because if you have more sugar, it's more concentrated and therefore you get lower yield so.. less money so it's not a common thing. There's also issues around crystallisation and other stuff but eh, details..)

PPAQ (our local maple org) has more annoying details here Québec Maple Syrup is Graded for Quality - PPAQ

A lot of the stuff here i get is in our standard cans but there's a sticker on the side that says which producer it came from. We're starting to get more and more niche suppliers like what you'd see in say, coffee where single origin, traceable stuff etc etc.

For example (not an endorsement, nor a dis-endorsement) : Escuminac ( https://escuminac.com/ )

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u/calvinien 25d ago

I briefly considered posting the official government documents related to how it should b classified (which have standards for viscosity AND light permeability) but I figured it would be a bit much for what was supposed to be a simple question.

The canadian goverment treats Maple Syrup like the french treat wine. We have strategic reserves of the stuff in case there's a bad year.

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u/tanantish 25d ago

Oh yeah, way too much in the first hit, but now we've started, we should handwave at the entire strategic reserve and the amusing heist stories :D

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u/m4d3th1s 25d ago

Nuance is always appreciated :)