The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Ryujin]

Shove the only two things on there worth bragging about in the dead middle of the list, smh

You have clearly never had a Nanaimo Bar. Or buttertarts. A friend, who writes for a couple of motorcycle mags, once made his circum-Province tour about finding the perfect buttertart.

 

[Ryujin]

Minor quibble: While it's true that Marcellus Edson filed the first patent for a peanut-butter-making machine, and he was from Montreal, Quebec, the Aztecs and Incas (and probably others) had been making peanut butter from roasted peanuts for centuries prior to European contact.

Pretty much in the "Europeans discovered America" camp but I just posted it. I didn't curate it

 

[Ryujin]

2 observations:

I made Nanaimo bars the other day and I contend they are better with milk chocolate instead of bittersweet and the substitution of vanilla pudding mix over custard powder.

If you would like a chuckle look up why canola oil is called canola oil.

But then they aren't Nanaimo Bars, are they?

 

[CleverNickName]

Pretty much in the "Europeans discovered America" camp but I just posted it. I didn't curate it

No worries, I'm just an engineering history geek and my ears prick up whenever I hear a claim about an invention.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Nah. The Hut's menu has always been weak.

I would recommend not posting everything you find immediately. If you look at the full source of your Domino's Ad, for instance, you'll see that they are offering Coca Cola Classic, which make 1981 seem ... an unlikely date for that advertisement.

True story- while I had heard of it before, the first time I distinctly remember seeing pineapple offered on pizza as a topping was when I was doing a west coast swing in 1991. That's not to say it wasn't around before that, but the 1980s marked a seachange in food habits in the United States, and the difference between 1980 and 1990 (for example) was already vast. This shocks a lot of people today, but in the late 80s, you literally couldn't find bagels in most parts of the country (other than maybe frozen Lender's bagels).

 

[trappedslider]

Nah. The Hut's menu has always been weak.

Spoiler: Godfather's Pizza Menu from the 1980s

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Shouldn't that be Uncle Enzo's Cosa Nostra Pizza?

Minor quibble: While it's true that Marcellus Edson filed the first patent for a peanut-butter-making machine, and he was from Montreal, Quebec, the Aztecs and Incas (and probably others) had been making peanut butter from roasted peanuts for centuries prior to European contact.

Nerd

 

[Gradine]

You have clearly never had a Nanaimo Bar.

My Google Fu brought up the term "coconut crumb" and I will clearly never have a Nanaimo Bar.

Or buttertarts.

And this just looks like a basic tartlet. Which, to be fair, sounds delicious, but "we found a way to make butter delicious" doesn't really inspire bragging rights.

I will not lie though, I would 100% try poutine.

tl;dr, Chinese Buffets are one of the best culinary inventions of our time, but why you gotta pair it with "let's make sushi boring and bad"

 

[eyeheartawk]

Let's not forget that for all the good the Canadians have done they're also incurable monsters who put milk in bags.

 

[Clint_L]

I literally grew up in Nanaimo, British Columbia, and it is to my shame that I report that I am not a huge fan of Nanaimo bars. Too sweet.

Ham and pineapple on pizza, on the other hand, is a delightful combination, and anyone who is against poutine is against life itself.

Also, milk in bags is a weird, eastern Canada thing. Our milk comes straight from boxes, as nature intended.

 

[CleverNickName]

I would recommend not posting everything you find immediately. If you look at the full source of your Domino's Ad, for instance, you'll see that they are offering Coca Cola Classic, which make 1981 seem ... an unlikely date for that advertisement.

This is just good advice for anyone. You're correct, I googled "pizza menus 1980s" and didn't do my due-dilligence.

True story- while I had heard of it before, the first time I distinctly remember seeing pineapple offered on pizza as a topping was when I was doing a west coast swing in 1991. That's not to say it wasn't around before that, but the 1980s marked a seachange in food habits in the United States, and the difference between 1980 and 1990 (for example) was already vast. This shocks a lot of people today, but in the late 80s, you literally couldn't find bagels in most parts of the country (other than maybe frozen Lender's bagels).

This is so true, especially the part about bagels. Or espresso drinks: until Starbucks made it to the mainstream, nobody I grew up with had ever even heard of a cappuccino. I remember taking my dad to a coffee shop in the late 90s, and he was shocked to learn it wasn't a diner. "They don't sell pancakes here?" he asked, looking over their menu. "What about eggs? I can order eggs, right?" and then later, "What the hell is a cap-oh-ka-keen-o?"

But I grew up eating pineapple on pizzas, and I grew up in Oklahoma. Even the local family-owned joint ("Joe's Pizza") offered green olives and pineapple tidbits on their toppings selection. So whenever I got to college and started meeting people who had never heard of it, I thought it must be some kind of "Southern" thing, or maybe even a "Midwestern" thing.