Description - Top commodities by province and territory

British Columbia: horticulture and dairy. ]

Alberta: cattle, grains and oilseeds.

Saskatchewan: grains and oilseeds, cattle.

Manitoba: grains and oilseeds, hogs. Ontario: grains and oilseeds, dairy.

Quebec: dairy, hogs.

New Brunswick: horticulture, dairy.

Prince Edward Island: horticulture, dairy.

Nova Scotia: dairy, horticulture.

Newfoundland and Labrador: dairy, eggs. Yukon: cattle, forage.

Northwest Territories: greenhouse crops, farmed sod.

Nunavut: caribou, musk ox.

What do Canadians like to eat and drink?

Canadians eat a lot of beef and chicken, less pork and some lamb.

Lamb is generally available only in small quantities and is expensive. Other specialty meats such as bison (buffalo) is fairly easy to find.

Canadians seem reluctant to eat other animals.

Canadians love to barbeque their meat. You will find barbeques in almost every yard (garden) and on many decks and balconies.

Even a small balcony that is only large enough to hold perhaps two chairs will also have a barbeque. These are close BBQ’s not open like in Korea.

The food cooks very quickly at high temperature. Canadians barbeque their food even when there is snow on the ground and the temperature is as low as -30°C!

Fresh fruit and vegetables are available all year, they are imported when needed during the colder parts of the year. Quality depends of what you expect.

The appearance is generally excellent, that being the measure that the supermarkets use to judge quality. Taste is a different matter, much of the food lacks flavour, especially the fruit and vegetables.

Food is sold by appearance rather than flavour health benefits. Good looking produce is preferred to better flavour.

Organic produce is normally available at a higher price.

In terms of what Canadians earn, some foods are cheap while others are expensive.

The following table shows some subjective price comparisons:

Item Comparison

with Korea

Beef

Cheaper,

especially

leaner meat

Pork

cheaper

Lamb Similar

Chicken Cheaper,

especially

leaner meat

Eggs Similar but

brown eggs

are

available, at

a premium

price.

Salmon

Better

selection

and

cheaper;

pink salmon

caught in

the pacific

ocean is

very cheap

when

buying the

whole fish.

Much of the

salmon is

filleted and

frozen, so it

is easy to

handle.

Flour

cheaper

Rice cheaper in

bulk, similar

in small

bags

Apples

Cheaper

but not very

big or

delicious

Oranges cheaper

Grapefruit

cheaper

bananas much

cheaper

plums similar but

quality

variable,

often hard

and fail to

ripen

Peaches

cheaper but

quality

variable -

these will

often fail to

ripen

properly

after

purchase

Nectarines

cheaper but

quality

variable -

on many

occasions

these fail to

ripen and

have to be

discarded

Pineapples

Pears

cheaper,

generally

available as

small or

large.

Sources

vary and so

does the

taste.

A----lot

cheaper but

hard as a

rock!

Cheeses

Cambazola very

expensive

Cheddar type similar

Soft similar

Bread

Speciality expensive

Sliced expensive

Drinks

Canadians drink a lot of carbonated (fizzy) soft drinks, referred to in Canada as 'pop' or 'soda', such as cola and orange.

These are sold in cans and bottles up to about 2 litres. Generally these are cheap, especially the larger sizes.

Small sizes are available from vending machines in many locations although these are expensive when compared to buying the same item in a supermarket.

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