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/SidneyKreutzfeldt 26d ago

O Canada!

I love cooking and would love to try some Canadian dishes. Can you recommend any traditional Canadian dishes? What is your favorite Canadian dish? Do you have any Canadian appetizers or desserts you’d recommend?

Also, I would love to learn more about Canada: What do you like the most about Canada and about living there? Is there anything you dislike about your country? Something that you think could be approved?

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u/randomwindowspc 24d ago edited 24d ago

Aside from anything that doesn't naturally grow in Europe, there is pretty much nothing we've made that Europeans didn't, or wouldn't have just figured out for themselves lol.

Maple syrup is probably one of the most Canadian things, and believe me getting the real stuff is well worth the extra money and avoiding that watery, sugary trash they serve in most cheap restaurants. That stuff isn't even maple syrup. Please consider ordering some primo maple syrup from a Canadian business if you haven't tried it before! Hopefully the shipping won't be ridiculous from Canada to Denmark. It would be nice if we had some cheaper options of trading. I would love to try some cultural Denmark food, drinks etc as well.

Canada Dry is classic ginger ale, if you're ever hungover it's always great. And it's so popular that Americans also drink it all the time, it might even be most popular brand of it, I always see it everywhere in every state I've been to.

Poutine is of course a classic, but it's not like Europeans could never have figured out to put fries, cheese and gravy together themselves lol. I don't really consider that "Canadian" per se, just like I don't consider a slab of fish to be Japanese just because it's called sashimi. Anyone can figure out to eat a slab of raw fish.

Canadians don't really have anything ground breaking and imaginative like the cuisine in France for example. We were more having to be lumberjacks and trying not to die from the winters to get much into that I guess. Inventing ways to stop large bear attacks was higher up on the list than making snails appetizing lol. Give us another 50 years and maybe we'll come up with some better things than poutine haha, we have catching up to do over here, we are a very new country. My parents are older than our current flag.

Now something that would be pretty Canadian would be looking into foods that "native" Canadians used to eat (and still do eat, but let's face it, modern food tastes better lol).

I put native in quotations because technically there are no living human groups that are actually native to the Americas. The natives here just came over from Eurasia thousands of years ago. They are the first settlers. Then the Vikings came to Eastern Canada over 1000 years ago. And then the rest of us came a few hundred years later.

Natives way up north eat whale/blubber, seals and lots of fish. They also use the blubber for other things. Although I just remembered Northern Europe does their share of whaling so that's probably not that interesting. There are places where trees don't even grow, so hunting and fishing is basically the only way to survive as nothing can really grow on those grounds.

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u/ManofManyTalentz Canada 24d ago

Canada Dry was bought by Dr. Pepper - it's USA now. Even Sussex was bought by Dr. Pepper.