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@pauldrye @RickiTarr

Yeah but costco pays their employees well and has retained all of their DEI initiatives.. so if anything you should go to Costco MORE.

@RickiTarr https://www.youtube.com/video/JpqvgcaJi8Q

@RickiTarr
Hawaiian pizza is also a Canadian creation

@An0n
It always irks me when restaurants put pineapple on something and call it Hawaiian. It’s like when they add peanut sauce and call something Thai. Or when they add violence and call it American.

@RickiTarr

The real secret is to use unsweetened chocolate on the tops. My gram had the original Nanaimo bar recipe and lived just outside of Nanaimo. I was skeptical at first, but the bitter balances the super sweet of the bottom, and, If you've ever been to Nanaimo, that makes a lot of sense.

@RobotDiver Ohhh I could see that, I like not too sweet desserts

@RobotDiver @RickiTarr I tried to look up where in Japan Nanaimo is, and it turns out it's in the Vancouver prefecture?

@RickiTarr

one should always make Nanaimo Bars.

The only contentious issue about Nanaimo Bars is how to pronounce them. Is it

- Nan-eye-moe bar? or
- Na-ney-moe bar?

Canadians have struggled with this for decades.

While Molson or Labatt's are our versions of Coors or Budweiser, they're owned by Coors and InBev respectively. So Canadian-signalling requires Moosehead (better beer anyway)

@tezoatlipoca @RickiTarr I managed to spend 5 weeks in Canada last year without drinking any of those, until the flight out to the US when I had to settle for Molson.
I didn't research the ownership of all the beers I picked up at the supermarket, though, so it's possible I did unintentionally.

@RickiTarr Interesting, a sort of take on caramel shortbread but with a custard not caramel layer and a more cake like crispy base.

@nusher @RickiTarr That's a pretty good description.

For some reason nanaimo bars seem to have flown under the radar here in the UK, but they're absolutely delicious and easy to make. You can experiment with all sorts of flavours and colours, too.

@RickiTarr "Store the Nanaimo bars in the refrigerator for up to four days"

HAHAHAHAHA! Sure, sure… They look like just the sort of thing to last for four days with me around.

@RickiTarr I’m a bad Canadian in that I don’t really care for Nanaimo Bars. More a butter tart guy.

@Chigaze @RickiTarr

Butter tarts > Nanaimo bars

@RickiTarr I was just watching a Schitt's Creek clip where someone brings a tray of those, and I had been meaning to look them up

@RickiTarr My aunt worked at a small dairy in central Utah that made amazing ice cream bars, and she'd make a candy version of them to give as holiday gifts, they weren't bars, but big chocolate coated mounds with those ingredients. Seems like there were walnuts in her candy version, too.

@RickiTarr Butter tarts. That is all.

@RickiTarr Very tasty, and addictive too.