I should just give up and move to Canada


A reader just sent me a photo to prove Canadian superiority: they have evolutionary bacon.

Now they also need a premium line called “Founder’s effect”, and maybe they could market scrapple under the “Random Drift” label.

Comments

  1. peterh says

    Scrapple is the Canadian equivalent of chitlin’s. Like haggis, some of doubtful mind consider it edible.

  2. Aquaria says

    Scrapple is the Canadian equivalent of chitlin’s. Like haggis, some of doubtful mind consider it edible.

    Similar to tripas for Mexicans, which is the small intestine of cows. Blech! Tripas, menudo, machitos, seso (brains!)–I’d rather starve, thanks.

    The grossest Mexican dish I ever encountered was ojo cocindado–eyeball soup. The sight of it made me hurl.

  3. ckitching says

    Scrapple isn’t Canadian. It’s Pennsylvanian. We have plenty of revolting dishes to our own name without people attributing American ones to our names, too.

  4. Randomfactor says

    That bacon is one of the year’s top ten offenses against Christianity.

    Definitely not kosher.

  5. juliaem says

    One of us! One of us!

    I’ve been eating that brand for the past year or so. It’s evolutionary AND delicious!

  6. edwardseedhouse says

    They sell it locally in Victoria B.C. where I live and I’ve tried it. In fact I had some for breakfast this morning because they had it on sale. I can’t tell any difference between it and normal bacon.

    Of course anyone who reads a blog like this one knows that “natural” is just a meaningless buzz word. Cyanide is natural, but I don’t think I’ll eat any intentionally.

  7. jacquelinesexton says

    Source of evolutionary bacon = reservoir for natural selection.

    It all makes sense now! God is a pig.

  8. McCthulhu awaits the return of the 2000 foot Frank Zappa says

    Wow! Seventeen responses after PZed says he should give up and go to Canada and not a single response from those original thinking Xtians about not letting the door hit his hynder on the way out. They must be too immersed in some other activity today.

    Don’t take it for granted you would automatically get the bacon though. I’m in Kamloops* for the holidays and everyone ate cereal this morning. Don’t tell PZ though, he’s already so disappointed after Greta crushed the Santa myth for him. I don’t think he could handle the double disappointment of finding out the truth about Canadians not having bacon for every breakfast.

    *PZ will be here in May, btw. Have you got your tickets?

  9. says

    Oh, do! You’d like Trent University, it’s about the size of Morris and Peterborough is the quintessential average Canadian town. Or if you want a larger city, there’s Kitchener-Waterloo with the University of Waterloo and the Perimeter Institute right there, or Guelph and U. Guelph just down the road.

  10. 'Tis Himself, OM. says

    I’m in Kamloops* for the holidays and everyone ate cereal this morning.

    Everyone in Kamloops had cereal? All 92,000 Kamloopians ate nothing but cereal? Citation sorely needed.

  11. Dick the Damned says

    I think PZ should move to Halifax, Nova Scotia. There are five universities to choose from, in a beautiful, vibrant small city (that claims to be Canada’s oldest English city), with North America’s friendliest people.

    Come on PZ, please, pretty please.

    Merry Xmas to everyone.

  12. shouldbeworking says

    True, Harper is here, but he is only one, the other people in his cabinet are not trying to be more reactionary than him. The GOP candidates are attempting to show that Genghis Khan was a softie.

  13. says

    I don’t think we have scrapple in Canada — at least I’ve never seen it — but in Newfoundland we have something called “fish and brewis” (pronounced “brews”, or “bruise”), which is salt cod and hardtack, boiled until it’s soft. Boiled bread. Just exactly as appetizing as it sounds.

    On the other hand, that dish is generally served with pork scruncheons, which are sublime.

  14. RFW says

    Ooooooo, so many things to respond to!

    1. Scrapple: My mother (in Maryland) wouldn’t touch the stuff; said it was made from the stuff they scraped up off the slaughterhouse floor. And that it had been known to contain human thumbs and short lengths of rope.

    In Canada, it’s probably made around Waterloo, Ontario, where there is a significant Mennonite population. [However, there’s no recipe for it in “Food That Really Schmecks”, a cookbook devoted to Mennonite food from the Waterloo area, nor in its sequel “More Food That Really Schmecks”.]

    2. Poutine: Yes, it looks disgusting, but gee, it’s awfully good when you feel like eating something distinctly unhealthy. A Montreal smoked meat sandwich, a bottle of birch beer, and an order of poutine is a splendid meal.

    3. Natural cyanide: Found in bitter almonds, called for in very small quantities in a few recipes (notably the one I use for marzipan), but outlawed from commerce. Can supposedly be replaced by apricot kernels.

    4. God as a pig: Some anthropologists think that the reason Jews are forbidden pork is that in the mists of Middle Eastern prehistory, the pig was a sacred animal and hence taboo. I have my doubts about this, though.

    5. Kamloops: The correct designation of the inhabitants is Kamloopsian. Note the “s”.

    6. Stephen Harper: You can tell the guy is a nogoodnik: his eyes are way too close together!

  15. evilDoug says

    “But we also have Stephen Harper…”

    We could trade Harper (ptooie) for PZ maybe? And toss in the Calgary Sun, and the rotting carcass (yah, I know…) of Ralph Klein to sweeten the deal.

  16. Dhorvath, OM says

    Aquaria,
    I see what you did there.
    ___

    Edward S,
    Victoria, eh? Whereabouts? I’m in Colwood.
    ___

    ‘Tis,
    Poutine is awesome.

  17. 'Tis Himself, OM. says

    RFW #29

    A Montreal smoked meat sandwich, a bottle of birch beer, and an order of poutine is a splendid meal.

    You can have my share, especially the birch beer.

  18. Dick the Damned says

    Tis, i still remember a Montreal smoked meat sandwich, from a downtown deli, about 40 years ago. I’ve never tasted anything so delicious since.

  19. 'Tis Himself, OM. says

    Pastrami on rye is generally good and can be excellent. “Montreal smoked meat” sounds like something thrown together from butchers’ odds and ends.

    I’ve only had birch beer twice in my life. Each time it tasted like cheap, too sweet root beer. I’m not fond of root beer and even less fond of a drink which tastes like bad root beer.

    I’ve never tried poutine. I already have a cardiac condition and would prefer not to make it worse.

  20. peterh says

    @ #5:

    My bad. I was thinking of créton. Dunno why I thought “scrapple” (which I do indeed regard as marginally edible as with créton.

  21. Trebuchet says

    At least the bacon wasn’t advertised as “fresh”. Which I keep seeing applied to things that, by definition, are not. Such as cheese. “Fresh cheese” would be milk. Un-pasteurized, at that.

  22. stephenmortimer says

    GregfromCanada says:
    24 December 2011 at 11:47 am

    Sorry to have to burst your bubble on this one, but it’s all a marketing ploy :(
    Don’t feel bad, I was taken too…

    It’s a joke, a play on words: “Natural Selections”, get it? I don’t think PZ is commenting on the product itself.

    It’s obvious the term ‘natural’ is a marketing ploy, playing on peoples’ tendency to fall for the ‘naturalistic fallacy’. I read the ingredients on some animal crackers boasting natural ingredients, the first ingredient was ‘evaporated cane juice’….oh you mean SUGAR?

  23. HaggisForBrains says

    @#2 peterh:

    Like haggis, some of doubtful mind consider it edible.

    I resemble that remark!

    Yuletide Felicitations to all!

  24. Rev. BigDumbChimp says

    At least the bacon wasn’t advertised as “fresh”. Which I keep seeing applied to things that, by definition, are not. Such as cheese. “Fresh cheese” would be milk. Un-pasteurized, at that.

    So do you consider fresh beer to be water, hops, yeast and barley?

    Or fresh bread flour, yeast and water?

  25. Dhorvath, OM says

    Montreal smoked meat is about the only prepared meat I like and it is emphatically not floor scrapings. It surely resembles pastrami in ways.