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It's one of those things you don't even consider until you've moved away but not all Canadian junk food is available in the US. It makes it necessary to call home and beg for care packages. And my need for Old Dutch ketchup chips is a hunger that can't be fed.
Anyone else got a favorite?

   

I miss....

Lime Cordial for my Lager and Lime
Smarties
Coffee Crisp
Frozen Waffles (they taste like crap down here!!)
Shreddies
TIM HORTONS!!! with REAL CREAM - they ONLY have 1/2 and 1/2 here!!!

   

mmmmmm...timbits...
Oh...and I'm getting a Peanut Buster Parfait from DQ when I'm home (two weeks and counting!). I know they have Dairy Queen in the US but there isn't one within a reasonable driving distance from where I live right now.

   

A BIG bag of cheese curds from St Alberts Cheese factory just outside Ottawa. Combine trhat with some wild garlics and a few buddys and a box of beer...... Dam I miss it.......

http://www.st-albert-cheese.com/fromage2/index.htm

http://www.agrinewsinteractive.com/full ... ry%20Month
Signs of the times at St. Albert
By Tom VanDusen - AgriNews Staff Writer

By the end of June, locating the St. Albert Cheese Factory and its annual Curd Festival will be made a whole lot simpler for Hwy. 417 travelers.

ThatÂ’s because the cooperative is spending $75,000 to erect two giant promotional billboards along the highway, each one constructed of 105 full sheets of marine quality plywood.

A village of about 600 residents, manager Rejean Ouimet estimates the factory and its bustling retail store attract about 200,000 visitors to St. Albert every year.

The cheese-loving crowds reach their height at the summer Curd Festival held in and around the plant. The dates for this yearÂ’s festival are Aug. 14-17.

With those kinds of visitor numbers - not to mention bumper sales numbers being chalked up at the plant - the expense for the billboards was a reasonable one for the co-op board of directors to justify, Ouimet said.

With new cheese varieties offered and new innovations introduced on a regular basis, business just keeps booming at St. Albert.

In its efforts to keep up with increasing demand and expand into new markets, the factory has been equipped with an automated curd bagging machine costing $650,000, including renovations to accommodate it.

The new machinery marks the third major financial investment by the St. Albert co-operative in little more than a year, Ouimet said.

Other projects have included expansion of the shipping bays and refrigerated storage area at a cost of about $1 million, and addition - for about $280,000 - of a multi-armed cheese block wrapping machine. Along the way, a $10,000 cardboard compactor was installed to facilitate recycling.

"ItÂ’s great to be in a position to buy a compactor without thinking twice about it," the manager said, pointing out that St. Albert is now doing about $22 million in sales a year. "Before we got it, all the cardboard was going into garbage bins and ending up in landfill."

With finishing touches now being put on the curd bagger - which will handle several retail and wholesale sizes including new individual "portion packs"- Ouimet said itÂ’ll be running full-bore sometime in June, helping to process the 22 tonnes of curds St. Albert sells every week during high season.

That includes 10 weekly tonnes wholesaled to restaurants for use in poutine, that heart-stopping concoction of French fries and gravy, topped with crunchy curds; and 12 tonnes sold across the counter to be eaten pretty much on the spot.

As an example of its capabilities, the manager said the machine acquired through a U.S. supplier can process 50, 200-gram bags per minute.

"We have already tested it out. It performed very well. ItÂ’ll make us much more efficient without the loss of a single job in the plant."

Launched 110 years ago by 10 Franco-Ontarian dairy farmers, the 42-member St. Albert co-op employs about 45 local residents full-time, and another 20 part-time.

While the centrepiece product is curds, St. Albert also manufactures several types of hard cheddars and other cheeses for distribution throughout Ontario and Quebec. Recent additions to the product line include include Swiss and gouda varieties

   

Mackintosh's Toffee (you know, in the red box?)

Got wired to the stuff a couple months ago. Probably hadnt had any since I was a kid, and used to buy one at the Saturday movies.

I have a half-dozen in the fridge-freezer at any given time. At least one a day; smashed up into pieces and slow-sucking them.

   

CANADIAN WOMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

   

Mr. Big
Eatmore

Mmm... can't wait to be back in Edmonton next month.

   

It's not a junk food, but I miss Pea Soup...and Shreddies and Caramilk. But the two best things would have to be Kraft Peanut Butter and Lays Ketchup Chips.

   

If I were to move, I would probably occasionalyl crave for some smarties!

   

I'm sure you would crave a lot more than that. I moved to Denver 2.5 years ago and still crave a lot...Tim Hortons is the best, when I drive back home and I can see the Tim Hortons sign right across from customs at Michigan and Windsor...mmmmm....real creme...yum. and it would be nice if people down here knew what Kraft Dinner was.

   

You're kidding right? I'm not a kraft dinner addict or even a tim hortons caffeen junky but isn't kraft an american company? I know the guy who started it came from ontario but jeez on their website they have an american branch specified.

   

It is an American Company however in Colorado they don't have Kraft Peanut Butter, and when I say Kraft Dinner...people are like huh? They have it here, but it's Mac and Cheese they don't understand what Kraft Dinner is...down here they have different words for everything and I don't know if it's the same all around Canada but i'm from Ottawa and here is my list:

Kraft Dinner - Mac and Cheese
Laneway - Driveway
Pylon - Orange Road Cone
Candy Floss - Cotton Candy

I know there is more, just can't think off of the top of my head right now.

   

I call it a driveway and cotton candy as well. And I'm from Sask and/or BC

   

Laneway? Where the hell do they call it a laneway?

(just kidding)

   

I've never heard laneway either.

Anyone miss Jaffa cakes? Spitfire, GreatBriton? Those spongy cakes covered in chocolate with that smashing orangy bit?

   

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