Advice for those skaters moving to Canada

[Pippuripihvi]

By the way, what's not to like about dill? Maybe Zhenya will be discover a new favourite in that Canadian speciality: dill pickle potato chips.

lol Russia has pretty much dill pickled everything, so I'm not sure that's a Canadian specialty after all. But Ketchup chips are :dev2:

As someone who moved from Russia to Canada I can say that Canada has a substitute for everything. Only 2 things are nowhere (at least yet) found in Canada: Russian tvorog and all sorts of pastries/baked good. I bet she doesn't eat pastries anyways and quark or cottage cheese can qualify as tvorog to some degree. The rest is all the same.

I'm sure her mom will make sure Zhenya's diet is healthy and nutritious. If you eat healthy, then you have no trouble finding food. It's all the same everywhere in the world. If anything, she will be pleasantly surprise at how affordable blueberries and blackberries are.

Edit: oh, that's a different buckwheat btw. Buckwheat sold in Russia is pre-roasted or toasted that's why it tastes differently compared to buckwheat in NA. But you can easily buy Russian buckwheat in any European / Ukrainian grocery store.

 

[tothepointe]

she won't have issues finding dill... i love it too and i put it everywhere...

the buckwheat for the pancakes I referred too is different from Russian buckwheat completely : it's buckwheat flour... not grains.

I'm sure she can grow a patch outside the rink no problem.

Tvorog sounds like something I would be very much into.

 

[TGee]

lol Russia has pretty much dill pickled everything, so I'm not sure that's a Canadian specialty after all. But Ketchup chips are :dev2:

As someone who moved from Russia to Canada I can say that Canada has a substitute for everything. Only 2 things are nowhere (at least yet) found in Canada: Russian tvorog and all sorts of pastries/baked good. I bet she doesn't eat pastries anyways and quark or cottage cheese can qualify as tvorog to some degree. The rest is all the same.

I'm sure her mom will make sure Zhenya's diet is healthy and nutritious. If you eat healthy, then you have no trouble finding food. It's all the same everywhere in the world. If anything, she will be pleasantly surprise at how affordable blueberries and blackberries are.

Edit: oh, that's a different buckwheat btw. Buckwheat sold in Russia is pre-roasted or toasted that's why it tastes differently compared to buckwheat in NA. But you can easily buy Russian buckwheat in any European / Ukrainian grocery store.

Yup. It has to be toasted to make decent kasha.

You can buy the pretoasted type in the kosher section in North America.

But my babushka and teotii would definitely give me the "look" if I used that rather than did it myself.

 

[jlmart]

Well, there are lots of Russian restaurants in Toronto - she can always just eat out.

https://www.blogto.com/eat_drink/2012/07/russian_restaurants_in_toronto/

 

[KiraraChin]

This is the best thread in Golden Skate

 

[Ladskater]

Well, I now need to take this out of the "Bagged Milk" thread. Jason was already warned against bagged milk when he announced he was going to TCC:

"jason please don’t let the canadians put you on that bagged milk nonsense"

https://twitter.com/hanyuzus/status/1001995026497523712

Hopefully someone does the same for Zhenya

Bagged milk? We Canadians can go one better. We now have milk "on Tap" you can bring your nice clean milk bottle and get fresh milk. Just like milking old bossy herself!

https://globalnews.ca/news/3944336/vancouver-island-diary-first-canada-milk-on-tap/

 

[Sabrina]

I don't understand the concern with dill or buckwheat. Here in GTA there is a lot of fresh dill and in autumn you also find the other type of dill (flower), that are used for pickles. The dill flowers may not be found in every store but I buy it from Highland farms every fall. Plus, there are plenty of Polish, Russian, Eastern European stores, or Italian, Greek and others.
I think Greater Toronto area is the best place for Europeans, and not only.

 

[ancientpeas]

I figured out why we all keep talking about food:

Remember when you were little and a honoured guest was coming to visit (like revered Great Uncle Frank who was a war hero and married a film star) and your mom spent days making sure everything in the house was perfect (so new pillows were bought) and that Great Uncle Frank would not starve so we had to have Spam and Vegemite in the house? I think Evgenia is our (Canadians mostly) collective Great Uncle Frank.

 

[chopinskate]

I figured out why we all keep talking about food:

I thought it was just because everyone was hungry, but decided to check GS instead of eating something.

 

[moriel]

I thought it was just because everyone was hungry, but decided to check GS instead of eating something.

Food is an interesting topic, and we learn a lot of stuff here.
I mean, I never even imagined that bagged milk & Canada thing for example

 

[Ducky]

I figured out why we all keep talking about food:

Remember when you were little and a honoured guest was coming to visit (like revered Great Uncle Frank who was a war hero and married a film star) and your mom spent days making sure everything in the house was perfect (so new pillows were bought) and that Great Uncle Frank would not starve so we had to have Spam and Vegemite in the house? I think Evgenia is our (Canadians mostly) collective Great Uncle Frank.

Oh, I thought that VIPs in Canada got a year's supply of Timbits and complementary trash panda.

 

[TGee]

I figured out why we all keep talking about food:

Remember when you were little and a honoured guest was coming to visit (like revered Great Uncle Frank who was a war hero and married a film star) and your mom spent days making sure everything in the house was perfect (so new pillows were bought) and that Great Uncle Frank would not starve so we had to have Spam and Vegemite in the house? I think Evgenia is our (Canadians mostly) collective Great Uncle Frank.

Ah, hospitality.

Another thing just about every Canadian can get behind. [emoji56]

 

[BillNeal]

In addition to the bagged milk, we love our Canada geese. It instills a bit of nationalistic pride when you hear that geese trying to cross the highway are causing traffic backup and emergency crews are at the scene to assist them. We love our wildlife .

 

[Tutto]

Guys, 7 pages of bagged milk discussion

Okay, what the heck, I add my 2 cent! Nearly 20 years on I still miss Estonian food with rye bread & cottage cheese topping the list. It is said that immigrants change their religion, language, culture but not tastes in food, and I have to agree... Prayers sent daily to whoever runs Polish shops here - at least some decent butter and yes, kefir!
Good luck to Evgenia! And to her Mum who is sure will be in charge of food...

 

[IceCrystalChris]

After reading through this thread I think I’m probably not the only one who has now become an expert on dill, buckwheat pancakes and bagged milk. [emoji23]

 

[ancientpeas]

I thought it was just because everyone was hungry, but decided to check GS instead of eating something.

GS is cheaper than weight watchers and you don't have to go to meetings!

 

[dante]

Guys, 7 pages of bagged milk discussion

Unfortunately, another 2 pages of vital information about dill and bagged milk was lost due to the server migration. Though there also was some offtopic about Medvedeva...

 

[Tulipstar]

In addition to the bagged milk, we love our Canada geese. It instills a bit of nationalistic pride when you hear that geese trying to cross the highway are causing traffic backup and emergency crews are at the scene to assist them. We love our wildlife .

That's very nice.

 

[chuckm]

A huge proportion of Canada geese live permanently in the US, leaving acres of goose poop for us to slip on. Wawa!

 

[Tulipstar]

A huge proportion of Canada geese live permanently in the US, leaving acres of goose poop for us to slip on. Wawa!

Isn't goose poop very good for fertilizing?