Crazy rest of the world :P

[captaincabbage]

NZ has bags of milk, useless fucking things they are. Poutine is just gravy fries with cheese. Tomato sauce flavoured chips are disgusting. And only americans spell colour as "color".
Guess Canadians dont know much about the rest of the world other than the US. >.>

Fucking ZING!!
Well put, my NZ brother. Yes I've seen bags of milk here in Australia, albeit not very often because it's a RETARDED way to transport milk, poutine is indeed just gravy chips, tomato sauce flavored chips are alright, but I don't really like them and as far as I know America is the only place that spells "colour" as "color".

But it's alright Canada, it doesn't mean you're crazy, it just means you're like the rest of the world, which is a nice, normal place to live. Except for that "Bags of milk" thing, that's spasticated.

 

[Penguinishka]

I find myself weirdly interested in this topic of bag vs non-bag milk.
(It's late and I'm bored!)
I suppose that it really doesn't make much difference in the taste of the milk, although milk I've had in other countries just seemed tastier. It's just that milk in bags always kinda freaked me out. I'm sure it's perfectly tasty and safe.
That doesn't make it any less unsettling.
It's just there...in bags...wiggling...waiting *shivers*

 

[GoAwayVifs]

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Actually that does seem more sensible.

Also, is that your daughter? What an adorable picture!

Not my picture unfortunately.

 

[Lizardon]

Also, tomato sauce does not in any way shape or form equal ketchup.

Here in Australia, what you call ketchup, we call tomato sauce.

OT:
The milk bags seem like an odd way to do it in my opinion. Bottles seem like a way more practical way to have any liquid.
Poutine is chips with gravy and cheese. We have that here, but I'm not going to touch it.
And we also have tomato sauce/ketchup flavoured chips.

So really the rest of the world isn't crazy, Canada is crazy for thinking it's special =P

 

[Moromillas]

Tomato sauce? With chips? ... Eww how disgusting.

 

[GoAwayVifs]

To be pedantic Poutine is specifically made with cheese curds, not just any old cheese. It makes all the difference. I am hardly and expert on the matter but most 'poutine' outside of Canada I've seen does not use curds.

 

[Shikua]

I've never had a problem with milk in bags sucking up odours in the fridge, and I have milk bags sitting open for up to a week.

Well that the thing, we buy gallon(roughly 3.79 liters)jugs or half gallon jugs. A half gallon lasts about a week and a half, sometimes longer, and a gallon lasts three weeks to almost a month.

So bags would still be impractical in my household.

We buy our milk bags in 4 litre bags, which are segregated into 3 1.33L bags that slip into the jugs. Each bag can be open for at least a week before going bad.

 

[Shikua]

To be pedantic Poutine is specifically made with cheese curds, not just any old cheese. It makes all the difference. I am hardly and expert on the matter but most 'poutine' outside of Canada I've seen does not use curds.

You -can- get away with using grated cheeses, but the gravy has to be good to make up for it. *self labeled poutine conisseur*

 

[plaugeman]

well here in New Zealand you can get milk in bags - all the way up to a 10ltr bag with a tap, but its not popular. also if you think ketchup or tomato sauce chips are strange here you can get Paua (abalone) flavoured chips not to mention a huge range of other flavours. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WklZxUq56HQ

 

[Lyri]

So I just found out that Canada is the only place with bags of milk and poutine and ketchup chips. I gotta ask how do you guys live without having tried poutine or drinking your milk the correct way or not eating ketchup chips? It sure is a crazy world outside Canada, a crazy world where colour is spelled color and food is not how it should be I feel scared

The UK has all of these, except milk in a bag. We're not silly enough to do that, it's completely ridiculous.
Chips, cheese and gravy is nothing special either.

 

[Lizardon]

Also, tomato sauce does not in any way shape or form equal ketchup.

Here in Australia, what you call ketchup, we call tomato sauce.

You make pastas such as spaghetti, rigatoni, and other Italian dishes using (the condiment) ketchup?

Disgusting, scandalous, and worth the ire of Italian, New York, and Chicago mafias!

No you misunderstand me.
This is tomato sauce (your ketchup)

This is pasta sauce (your tomato sauce)

 

[Pat8u]

Mcdonalds confused the hell out of me with ketchup it tasted like tomato sauce but it was called something else, then I learned

 

[JesterRaiin]

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Also, we say "kolor".

 

[PinkiePyro]

bags of milk never heard about that before,

however both poutine and ketchup chips can be found in the us

ketchup flavored chips seem to be mainly an east coast thing here but I have seen them and if you think thats werid we also have pickle flavored

as for poutine it hasnt really caught on here but I know that around the more northern states it is a known thing


as for crazy us foods is there anything we dont deep-fry?
at the indana state fair they sell fried pepsi (its basiclly balls of dough injected with pepsi syurp and then fryed like a doughnut hole)

and a few weeks ago I tryed fried lemon slices

not to mention down south they eat fried pickles XP

 

[true story]

what exactly is a cheese curd? cause i always wanted to try poutine but i never had the chance and was hoping to make some and then promptly trow it out because it may be disgusting.

 

[StBishop]

It's OK, we spell colour right in Australia too. And we've never had your crazy milk bags, so we don't know what we're missing out on. I have seen those chips however, I often wonder why those crazy flavours exist(surly they couldn't be profitable?).

We do have bags of milk. It's no better than a bottle.

We also have poutine, it's just called chips, gravy and cheese here. Because curd isn't readily available.

We have Heinz Big Red Sauce flavoured chips. Smiths make them. They're pretty bad.

So yeah, everything OP said is misinformed, because everything he said no one has is all available in Australia.

 

[StBishop]

Also, tomato sauce does not in any way shape or form equal ketchup.

Here in Australia, what you call ketchup, we call tomato sauce.

You make pastas such as spaghetti, rigatoni, and other Italian dishes using (the condiment) ketchup?

Disgusting, scandalous, and worth the ire of Italian, New York, and Chicago mafias!

No you misunderstand me.
This is tomato sauce (your ketchup)

This is pasta sauce (your tomato sauce)

Do you have the word 'condiment' in your regions vocabulary? You do know it isn't the same thing as a sauce, eh?

EDIT: Never mind, you probably put your 'tomato sauce' on hot dogs like most lesser parts of my country... I don't blame you, I blame (in good humor) your heritage (and theirs).

Then again, I don't think of Soy sauce as a condiment... go figure.

You have no Brown Sauce, presumably no barbecue sauce, and almost definitely no HP sauce.

The problem is, sauce can be a condiment or a part of a dish. I make tomato sauce to go on my pasta out of tomatoes, wine, onions and herbs. I also use tomato sauce from a bottle in the same way you use ketchup.

Mustard and mint jelly are both condiments and are not runny. (Runny mustard isn't mustard. Mustard comes in jars, not bottles.)

 

[Mad World]

Bags of milk? I live in B.C., and I've never seen those. I've had poutine and ketchup chips, though.