Tuesday 8 January 2013

Oh Canada ! Our home and deprived land....



 Canada – a land filled with snow, Mounties, beaver tails, maple syrup and dare I say Alberta Grade A beef. To our neighbours just south of us, we are perceived as an exotic but cold place with a unique language “eh”!  Though we have a rich history, a mosaic of multiculturalism and a bi-lingual nation (in theory not so much in practice) what perplexes our American neighbours most about us is not how we live without guns and tolerate free accessible and equitable healthcare.


No those things don’t concern them at all….

What mystifies them is the unfortunate fact that we Canadians do not have a Roscoe’s anywhere on our home and native land – not east not west, not in the prairies and not Maritimes. Nowhere can us peacekeeping Canadians enjoy what some believe to be the food of Gods, that’s right….I’m talking about “Chicken and waffles”!

My reaction to this sad reality is similar to that of our American friends and neighbours. What horrible thing did we ever do to be deprived of such goodness? Why would something like a smoked meat sandwich with Schwartz ever satisfy the void we have from never having consumed Roscoe’s wonderful chicken and waffles? My guess is that we are being punished for voting Harper in and his neo-con politics into power – but that’s just speculation!

You will note almost that every American city has a Roscoe’s – LA, Chicago, NYC….but not TO.

For those of you scratching your beaver lined moose skin cap wondering what the heck Chicken and Waffles are, let me enlighten you…..Fried chicken and waffles lathered in butter and hot syrup. Sometimes this wonderfulness is accompanied with grits, macaroni salad or beans – depends on the mood and the season.

According to our friend Wiki:

“Chicken and waffles is a dish combining waffles, a breakfast food, with (usually) fried chicken. It is served in certain specialty restaurants in the United States.[1]

The more commonly known, soul food version of the dish is made by serving fried chicken with a waffle, the waffle then typically being covered with butter and/or syrup (as is common practice among those who eat waffles for breakfast in the United States). This unusual combination of foods is beloved by many people who are influenced by traditions of soul food passed down from past generations of their families.

The traditional Pennsylvania Dutch version of this dish consists of a plain waffle with pulled, stewed chicken on top, covered in gravy.”

It is now time for us to take matters into our own hands.  It’s time that us Canadians demand a Roscoe’s!

 

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