A reader just sent me a photo to prove Canadian superiority: they have evolutionary bacon.
Now they also need a premium line called “Founder’s effect”, and maybe they could market scrapple under the “Random Drift” label.
I should just give up and move to Canada
Of course, because you’re eating the losers of evolution.
Although, the fact you also eat the winners diminishes that logic somewhat.
Glen Davidson
Scrapple is the Canadian equivalent of chitlin’s. Like haggis, some of doubtful mind consider it edible.
Scrapple is the Canadian equivalent of chitlin’s. Like haggis, some of doubtful mind consider it edible.
Similar to tripas for Mexicans, which is the small intestine of cows. Blech! Tripas, menudo, machitos, seso (brains!)–I’d rather starve, thanks.
The grossest Mexican dish I ever encountered was ojo cocindado–eyeball soup. The sight of it made me hurl.
Ay–cocinado. Not cocindado. Sheesh.
Scrapple isn’t Canadian. It’s Pennsylvanian. We have plenty of revolting dishes to our own name without people attributing American ones to our names, too.
That bacon is one of the year’s top ten offenses against Christianity.
Maple Leaf, the producers of that bacon, certainly did produce some scapple-in-a-tube type products with strong “selective” properties.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Canada_listeriosis_outbreak
That bacon is one of the year’s top ten offenses against Christianity.
Definitely not kosher.
One of us! One of us!
I’ve been eating that brand for the past year or so. It’s evolutionary AND delicious!
Exhibit A: Poutine.
Definitely not kosher.
Or halal.
Sorry to have to burst your bubble on this one, but it’s all a marketing ploy :(
Don’t feel bad, I was taken too…
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/new-health/health-nutrition/nutrition-features/natural-deli-meats-may-not-be-as-healthy-as-you-think/article2201790/
Oh, nothing’s good for you. Eat, drink, and be merry.
Is the Evolutionary Bacon shelved next to the Ken Ham?
They sell it locally in Victoria B.C. where I live and I’ve tried it. In fact I had some for breakfast this morning because they had it on sale. I can’t tell any difference between it and normal bacon.
Of course anyone who reads a blog like this one knows that “natural” is just a meaningless buzz word. Cyanide is natural, but I don’t think I’ll eat any intentionally.
Source of evolutionary bacon = reservoir for natural selection.
It all makes sense now! God is a pig.
Wow! Seventeen responses after PZed says he should give up and go to Canada and not a single response from those original thinking Xtians about not letting the door hit his hynder on the way out. They must be too immersed in some other activity today.
Don’t take it for granted you would automatically get the bacon though. I’m in Kamloops* for the holidays and everyone ate cereal this morning. Don’t tell PZ though, he’s already so disappointed after Greta crushed the Santa myth for him. I don’t think he could handle the double disappointment of finding out the truth about Canadians not having bacon for every breakfast.
*PZ will be here in May, btw. Have you got your tickets?
Oh, do! You’d like Trent University, it’s about the size of Morris and Peterborough is the quintessential average Canadian town. Or if you want a larger city, there’s Kitchener-Waterloo with the University of Waterloo and the Perimeter Institute right there, or Guelph and U. Guelph just down the road.
This info should really make Pharyngulites keen on coming up for some bacon:
http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/Traditional+customs+going+wayside+poll/5908441/story.html
“Dog shit is all natural. It’s just not very good food.” — George Carlin
Everyone in Kamloops had cereal? All 92,000 Kamloopians ate nothing but cereal? Citation sorely needed.
‘Tis
I’ve been to Kamloops.
It wouldn’t surprise me.
I think PZ should move to Halifax, Nova Scotia. There are five universities to choose from, in a beautiful, vibrant small city (that claims to be Canada’s oldest English city), with North America’s friendliest people.
Come on PZ, please, pretty please.
Merry Xmas to everyone.
But we also have Stephen Harper…
True, Harper is here, but he is only one, the other people in his cabinet are not trying to be more reactionary than him. The GOP candidates are attempting to show that Genghis Khan was a softie.
I don’t think we have scrapple in Canada — at least I’ve never seen it — but in Newfoundland we have something called “fish and brewis” (pronounced “brews”, or “bruise”), which is salt cod and hardtack, boiled until it’s soft. Boiled bread. Just exactly as appetizing as it sounds.
On the other hand, that dish is generally served with pork scruncheons, which are sublime.
Mmmm, science bacon.
And the Newfies have screech to help wash it all down! Good stuff.
Ooooooo, so many things to respond to!
1. Scrapple: My mother (in Maryland) wouldn’t touch the stuff; said it was made from the stuff they scraped up off the slaughterhouse floor. And that it had been known to contain human thumbs and short lengths of rope.
In Canada, it’s probably made around Waterloo, Ontario, where there is a significant Mennonite population. [However, there’s no recipe for it in “Food That Really Schmecks”, a cookbook devoted to Mennonite food from the Waterloo area, nor in its sequel “More Food That Really Schmecks”.]
2. Poutine: Yes, it looks disgusting, but gee, it’s awfully good when you feel like eating something distinctly unhealthy. A Montreal smoked meat sandwich, a bottle of birch beer, and an order of poutine is a splendid meal.
3. Natural cyanide: Found in bitter almonds, called for in very small quantities in a few recipes (notably the one I use for marzipan), but outlawed from commerce. Can supposedly be replaced by apricot kernels.
4. God as a pig: Some anthropologists think that the reason Jews are forbidden pork is that in the mists of Middle Eastern prehistory, the pig was a sacred animal and hence taboo. I have my doubts about this, though.
5. Kamloops: The correct designation of the inhabitants is Kamloopsian. Note the “s”.
6. Stephen Harper: You can tell the guy is a nogoodnik: his eyes are way too close together!
“Everyone in Kamloops had cereal?”
I thought Kamloops was a cereal.
“But we also have Stephen Harper…”
We could trade Harper (ptooie) for PZ maybe? And toss in the Calgary Sun, and the rotting carcass (yah, I know…) of Ralph Klein to sweeten the deal.
Aquaria,
I see what you did there.
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Edward S,
Victoria, eh? Whereabouts? I’m in Colwood.
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‘Tis,
Poutine is awesome.
RFW #29
You can have my share, especially the birch beer.
Tis, i still remember a Montreal smoked meat sandwich, from a downtown deli, about 40 years ago. I’ve never tasted anything so delicious since.
I shoulda said, pastrami on rye.
Pastrami on rye is generally good and can be excellent. “Montreal smoked meat” sounds like something thrown together from butchers’ odds and ends.
I’ve only had birch beer twice in my life. Each time it tasted like cheap, too sweet root beer. I’m not fond of root beer and even less fond of a drink which tastes like bad root beer.
I’ve never tried poutine. I already have a cardiac condition and would prefer not to make it worse.
@ #5:
My bad. I was thinking of créton. Dunno why I thought “scrapple” (which I do indeed regard as marginally edible as with créton.
At least the bacon wasn’t advertised as “fresh”. Which I keep seeing applied to things that, by definition, are not. Such as cheese. “Fresh cheese” would be milk. Un-pasteurized, at that.
Bully Beef sandwiches. that which replaced the lash in the triad of the British Navy.
It’s a joke, a play on words: “Natural Selections”, get it? I don’t think PZ is commenting on the product itself.
It’s obvious the term ‘natural’ is a marketing ploy, playing on peoples’ tendency to fall for the ‘naturalistic fallacy’. I read the ingredients on some animal crackers boasting natural ingredients, the first ingredient was ‘evaporated cane juice’….oh you mean SUGAR?
@#2 peterh:
I resemble that remark!
Yuletide Felicitations to all!
So do you consider fresh beer to be water, hops, yeast and barley?
Or fresh bread flour, yeast and water?
And yes, we at the BigDumbChimp household are having bacon for breakfast.
Merry Baconmas
Montreal smoked meat is about the only prepared meat I like and it is emphatically not floor scrapings. It surely resembles pastrami in ways.
@ #41:
De gustibus, you know . . . .
Poutine is a meal.
Mary P