So do all the Canadian entries in this foreign groceries museum mean that my home and native land is one of the mirror worlds?

Cool.

(Though I'd give several extremities to get a taste of those Crispy Curry Pringles. Those would probably beat the hell out of the Pizza flavour Pringles.)

Yelena

I would think that everywhere could be considered a mirror world of somewhere else, even within the same country. Consider differences between New York and LA. Or even New York and New Jersey.

Heh. Sorry. I just found it highly amusing that so many Canadian entries were listed on this page billing itself as a "foreign groceries" museum, right up there with products from Japan, etc., around the world. I don't really think of my food as "foreign"...you people just haven't discovered the wonderful advances science has given us, like Kraft Dinner and the Crispy Crunch chocolate bar, yet. But you will learn, oh yes, you will. (Evil cackles ensue.)

Yelena

I'm the curator of the Foreign Groceries Museum, and am in fact from Canada. I've also got some products in there from the US (where I live), figuring that every country is foreign to *someone.

The stuff from Canada ended up in there as part of my ongoing struggle to educate my friends here in the US about Kraft Dinner, Kraft Peanut Butter, and all the other great foods (smarties!) that they don't sell here.

steve@portigal.com

Yeeps! I should have guessed...figures a fellow Canadian would come up with the idea. Best of luck with the ex-patriate living, I hear it can be tough. I noticed the American stuff that was in the musuem, but thought that it was similar to the non-foreign "foreign" foods sold up here, i.e., Mr. Goudas and the like. (Which is actually Made in Canada.)

I dunno, I've only been to the States a couple times in my life (never for long periods), and I still find it hard to believe that they don't have Kraft Peanut Butter, KD, etc. A world without Smarties? Unthinkable.

Uhhh, don't mind me, junk food is my middle name....

So here's a question, if you're still reading this topic, Curator Steve: Have you eaten all of the products you've got featured? I want to know what those curry-flavoured Pringles taste like. I'm weird like that. Growing up out West will definitely mess with your tastes/cuisine preferences when it comes to food.

{not-so-brief explanation} Canadian West Coast cooking is pretty much fusion of everything, (with stir-fry and bagels being the "staples", along with Pacific salmon), you must make sure everything's hippie-certified "organic", "free range" or otherwise "alternative healthy" and groceries must be at least, what? Seventy percent? Of the cost of the standard of living.

You won't find NoFrills or PriceChopper supermarkets anywhere east of Manitoba, I think. The closest they ever came to bargain shopping, was Save-on-Foods (Renamed to Overwaitea, I believe? Or was that the other way around?), which still charged prices high enough to give most Ontario shoppers heart attacks. Ditto the local supermarkets. Sure, you get more of a variety of fresh, locally-grown food out there...but you pay for it. And you pay and you pay and you pay and you pay....

{clears throat} We apologize for this unscheduled interruption to discuss the coast-to-coast dichotomies in the odd Canadian supermarket economy. We now return you to your regularly-scheduled William Gibson discussion board....Hey! Anybody buy their ten copies of PR and roll of duct tape yet?!

Yelena

This is great, I especially like the NHL Ritz crackers. I haven't seen those before and I live in Canada. Funky Soy Sauce pringles! Yum!