Canada's iconic food...a challenge that was just completed by a national TV network:

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Marg CDN

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For any of you canucks who missed it. The top winners:

-maple syrup (of course)

-Poutine

-Saskatoon berries (miss my wonderful tree from the prairies)

-Nanaimo bars

-butter tarts

-smoked salmon

Surprised me that wild rice was not in there but it may be too expensive to be eaten frequently.

 
Can you compare the berries to something I might know of, Marg? Everything else sounds

good. Had poutine when we were in Quebec City. I could feel my arteries hardening but it was worth it!

 
They are similar to blueberries, look like blueberries & grow on trees with fine

trunks and branches. The flavour is perhaps not quite as intense as blueberries but so much easier to pick and more plentiful.

the Indians used to dry them for fruit for the winter and to add them to dry meat mixes for the winter. They are native to the prairies but some of us prairie people took them with us when we emigrated.

 
Being from Minnesota I can't believe I never knew about Saskatoon Berries

I wonder if the climate in MN is too harsh to grow the trees. Do they grow all over Canada, Marg? Or just in one area?

 
No. They are prairie guys and the climate is just like MN. I think the wind stopped the seeds when

the border was drawn many moons ago.

Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

 
Saskatoon Berries are also known as Service Berries an we have one in our front yard.

I have picked them but mostly leave the berries for the birds.

 
Yes, they've become a favourite among landscape architects in the east, who have so

much trouble finding them. Oddly, the birds don't. Robins love them.

 
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