[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Butter tarts, for the uninitiated, are a small pastry, like a mini-pie that fits easily in your palm. They have a sugary sweet "custard" filling, made of raisins, walnuts, brown sugar, corn syrup, softened butter and eggs.[/quote:post_uid0]
Must. Get.[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]They sounds a bit like treacle tarts. Um, but without the treacle.[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][i:post_uid0]No butter tarts?[/i:post_uid0] Good God, what else is the rest of the world missing?[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Not a lot, by the sounds of things. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Any other Canadians who want to be amazed about the fact that non-Canadians don't have butter tarts? Sa'ar perhaps? :eyeroll:[/color:post_uid0]

[quote:post_uid0="Kira"][color=#000000:post_uid0]Good God, what else is the rest of the world missing?[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Igloos.[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Any other Canadians who want to be amazed about the fact that non-Canadians don't have butter tarts? Sa'ar perhaps?[/quote:post_uid0]

Don't look at me. I live here, and I know nothing of butter tarts. I could say that it's a non-BC thing, but that doesn't explain Nan.

For the record, I've also never had back bacon, been in an igloo, drunk Molson, or had real Quebec maple syrup.[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Same to all of the above, except of course the butter tart thing. Â Obviously, Sa'ar's grandmother was a cruel, cruel person and never fed him delicious homemade butter tarts.

I'm only surprised about the butter tarts because it never occured to me that it was a strictly Canadian thing. Most stuff we eat originated somewhere else, probably due to the fact that -- especially in Saskatchewan -- the majority of our grandparents or great-grandparents were born on another continent and brought their delicious recipes with them.[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Same to all of the above, except of course the butter tart thing. Â Obviously, Sa'ar's grandmother was a cruel, cruel person and never fed him delicious homemade butter tarts.[/quote:post_uid0]
Stop making me want to try them even more than I already do! :bawling:[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Everyone knows that Vermont Maple Syrup is the best you can buy. ;) And anyways, I'll bet the lot of you have never heard of Coffee Milk. And no, it's not coffee with milk in it -_-[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]And anyways, I'll bet the lot of you have never heard of Coffee Milk.[/quote:post_uid0]
What makes you say that? :S[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Obviously, Sa'ar's grandmother was a cruel, cruel person and never fed him delicious homemade butter tarts.[/quote:post_uid0]

She was English, and made me delicious apple pies. The recipe is a family heirloom now.

My other English grandma (who lived in Australia) died about 25 years before I was born.

[quote:post_uid0]the majority of our grandparents or great-grandparents were born on another continent and brought their delicious recipes with them.[/quote:post_uid0]

Half my parents weren't even born on this continent. My only Canadian-born ancestors are my mum and her dad.[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Back bacon: Check.
Been in an igloo: sorta check (I made a couple stabs at building ones myself out of snow, one of which was fairly functional)
Drunk Molson: nope, I prefer Isenbeck
Had real Quebec maple syrup: yep, and it's gooood

Also had tortiere (gleh). Picture a meat pie with, like, seven meats in it, one of which may have been Bambi's mother.

Never had poutine, though. Also known as Your Francophone Friend on the Merry Way to Heart Disease. *shudder*

Good times.

Anyone had a jambuster? ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I'm Canadian, and I hate butter tarts. I've had bacon, spent a weekend in an igloo, Had Quebec maple syrup, and am too young to drink. The maple syrup was really sweet, I didn't like it much. I guess I'm not an ordinary Canadian.
Although, I find poutine very good, I eat it all the time. The cheese to gravy to french fries ratio has to be just right though. too much of any one isn't good. Yeah, I'm actually part french, so maybe that's why I like it? Eh, I don't care, it's good.[/color:post_uid0]

[quote:post_uid0="catalina_marina"][color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]And anyways, I'll bet the lot of you have never heard of Coffee Milk.[/quote:post_uid0]
What makes you say that? :S[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]It's a Rhode Island thing, and anytime you go twenty feet out of the state people have no idea what you're talking about.[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Weird, we have it. I don't drink coffee, though, so I've never actually had it, but everywhere you go in the Netherlands, you get asked whether you want sugar and/or milk in your coffee.

I [i:post_uid0]do[/i:post_uid0] hope we're talking about the same thing here. :eyeroll:[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Hm, it seems to be pretty widespread in Western Europe. I've certainly never met a German who didn't know of the practice of using milk in your coffee. (Though, as catalina can testify, the term threw me off for a minute before I understood what was meant.)

Gatac[/color:post_uid0]

[quote:post_uid0="catalina_marina"][color=#000000:post_uid0]I [i:post_uid0]do[/i:post_uid0] hope we're talking about the same thing here. :eyeroll:[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]lol We're not. Coffee milk is like Chocolate milk. only you add coffee syrup instead of chocolate syrup. Let's see if I can find a link or something...There you go. :) Enlighten yourselves! :D[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Ahh. That explains why you think no-one has heard of it.

I still can't see your avatar, btw.[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Sigh. I don't know what's up with it. :\ If I right click and go to view picture it works, but it doesn't show up. I just don't understand it.[/color:post_uid0]