Iconic Canadian Foods You Need To Try Before You Die

Canada might not be the first country that comes to mind in regard to culinary travel. The Great White North is known for many things: ice hockey, awesome landscapes, and a penchant for apologizing. But the country has some pretty incredible food traditions, too.
If fried dough topped with peanut butter, chocolate, and Reese's Pieces sounds absolutely delicious to you, then you might just be a fan of Canadian cuisine. From sweet to savory, there's plenty to chow down on north of the border. Here are the iconic Canadian foods you need to try before you die.

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Poutine | 0:00
Tourtiere | 0:54
Maple Syrup | 1:46
Beaver Tails | 2:42
Butter Tarts | 3:32
Nanaimo Bars | 4:21
Montreal Smoked Meat | 5:18
Saskatoon Berry Pie | 6:13
Peameal Bacon | 7:11
Caesar Cocktail | 7:57
Montreal Bagels | 9:29
Tarte au Sucre | 10:46

[MashedFood]

Which of these are you most interested to try out?

[patriciaannturner]

I grew up in Detroit, where we could cross over to Canada easily, and enjoy Canadian foods. I am insanely in love with butter tarts, and crazy about peameal bacon. Yay, Canada!!!

[blackenedfeatherz]

Tourtière is so criminally underrated. I make one every Christmas and it's so damn good 😭

[dmacisaac]

I've made all of these, I've tapped my own maple trees, made poutine and I have made my own beaver tails and peameal bacon 😁

[benjaminr]

The butchering of the French language hurt me and I’m not even Québécois

[amandathomas]

Butter Tarts and Sugar Pies are all I need! Delicious! 🤤🤤🤤🥧❤

[jennaeisel]

Nanaimo bar was a submission to Reader's Digest for a bar recipie - it won. The woman who entered it, entered a family recipe that didn't have a name, but named it after her home town.

[igglewiggle]

As a Canadian, my favourites are the sweets… butter tarts first!!! Nanaimo bars as a close second. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[robertpearson]

Canadian Bacon and Peameal Bacon are two different products. Canadian Bacon is actually an American invention and is smoked pork loin similar to ham. Peameal bacon is a cured pork loin product that is never smoked. It drives me crazy that these two things are usually lumped together by people who don't know there's a difference.

[badjokecoke]

Ah yes. As a Canadian, I always loved me some tortare and tart a sook

[tysonlaplante]

so glad you mention Natives for the sap/syrup. Canadian and USA Natives help so much and taught us how to live on this land and they rarely given any credit.

[dmav]

i'm a Canadian and I approve of this list!

[elidagdagan]

Oh Canada We Stand On Guard On Thee 🇨🇦🍁 I love Beaver Tails, Poutine, and Maple Sugar Candy

[johnmeyer]

Absolutely no Canadian has ever or will ever call that "Canadian Bacon". That's a name Americans use to describe a slice of ham.

[sdovan]

Tried them all. But when it comes to poutine, beware of impostors. There are some restaurants (and yes, even in Canada) who will top their fries with grated mozzarella cheese and gravy and call it poutine. THAT IS NOT POUTINE! Real poutine has cheese curds, not grated cheese.

[martykong]

SO GLAD Borders are open again for the short trip to Vancouver for me :) BUTTER tarts and more await next rip back :) THANKS MUCH for sharing! Cheers :)

[The_Zilli]

As a Canadian, good list although I haven't tried all of these things such as the Beaver Tale. That's more of a carnival treat than something you find at your local restaurant. Montreal Bagels also toast crispier than their NY counterparts - I grew up in Montreal and lived in NY for 5 years and without a doubt, the Montreal Bagels destroy the New York variations that I've tried. It's also a different texture as it's more of a crunch than a chew - sorry New Yorkers, dont feel bad, you still beat us with Pizza. (for now lol) But if you only had to try one or two things on this list, make it the bagels and the montreal smoke meat - even better combine the two ;) But it must be French's mustard for the kick ;) Cheers.

[christinebotsford]

🇨🇦 We don’t call it peameal bacon. We just call it back bacon, or Canadian back bacon. Regular bacon is side bacon, or just bacon. Maple smoked is sooo good!
I grew up in Manitoba with Domino squares - what people now call Nanaimo bars - some of the custard filling was reserved to put the domino dots on the top.
Yes we have poutine from Quebec, but in Newfoundland they have “the mess”. It is fries topped with stuffing, fried up ground beef, cheese, & plenty of gravy. 😋
Butter tarts absolutely have to have maple sugar in them! And raisins!
Don’t see beaver tails out west, but plenty of donuts & bearclaws!

[The_Castol]

As a Québécois I see this as a huge win

[tylerthompson]

Butter tarts, Nanaimo bars, Saskatoon berry pie and Caesar cocktails are a staple in Saskatchewan. Rarely have a family function without at least a few popping up.