Irrespective of the ocean or common land border. Halifax (for example) is closer to the most distant point of the uk than it is to the southern states (traditional home of cornmeal I'm assured).

Alaska is a US State. How available is Cornmeal there? Or in Hawaii?

Guess I am just picky and want what I am used to. That is why I make grocery shopping trips to Niagara Falls from time to time. You can't tell me many people on this forum wouldn't do the same thing with the UK foods if it was just a 90 minute drive away.

Hang on you are prepared to drive to niagra but wont go to St Lawrence market??
No wonder George Dubya is president of your home land. :scared:

Probably right, bit as we cant we make do and adapt to what is available here, and dont expect it to be the same as "home".

After a while you realise its not really the taste of real baked beans (or whatever) that you crave, its just the familiarity, and after that its not really a problem any more.

Count yourself lucky you have the option I guess. If its that easy just ask your local "ethnic" food store to get it in for you. If the one here can find Walkers Crisps for people in Belleville, I'm sure they can get a specific brand of cornmeal for you and save you a drive to honeymoon hell.

It's not cornmeal that needs fetching from Niagara, it's grits.

If only.....M&S was only 90 minutes away.....I'd be in paradise.

In fact I'd move so I lived not less than 15 minutes away.

I've lived in the Yukon and really it doesn't really get as cold as you'd think and it barely snows. I bet winters (and summer) in Toronto are far worse -- except the lack of day light in the winter thing - that's a mind *****.

A Summary

1) Beer - By comparison American beer is like making love in a canoe. F**ing near water.

2) Toronto - New York run by the Swiss (Peter Ustinov)


Americans pride themselves on being a competitive society in the melting pot. Canadians tend to be more collaborative within in the cultural mosaic.

The result is that Americans tend to be more assertive while Canadians are more laid back.

Canadians are not any more Anti-American than the rest of the world (http://www.worldcitizenguide.com/index2.html)

Again, what quality domestic beer is available coast to coast in Canada? What's the equivalent of Samuel Adams?

Never been there, but I can say it is very common the the Southwest (ever heard of tamales, corn meal steamed in corn husks) and I have had cornbread in Chicago, several places in NY state, California, Arizona, Texas, Ohio. and Pennsylvania. I have yet to visit a US state that didn't offer corn bread and biscuits. Just crossing that border to the north, they disappear.

Remember, the question that started this was not what is available here or should be, but the differences between the US and Canada. Food was only on part of the list I gave to the original poster.

canada where's that regarding your post neill, i've noticed even on this forum that the canadian threads like to take 'digs' at the american this and the american that whereas the americans don't give a hoot...lol who cares.. the canadians talk with a similar accent and anyway you're all nth american

I have a P.O. Box in Niagara that I have to clean out once a month or so, hence I have to go there. I also have to travel to the US regularly for my business (just back from the KY Derby and Preakness, off to the Belmont in 2 weeks) so I stop at grocery stores then too.

If I could I would live on Mexican influenced food so YES. Crossing the border doesnt make those thinks disappear just harder to find (and in the case of mexican restaurants laughable)

As I recall it was you (in reply to dbd) who complained about having to travel to St Lawrence Market.

Was the Anjelica Houston character in The Grifters based on you?

There was an article in the Toronto Star recently about how hard it was to get decent Mexican food here. They interviewed the head of the Mexican Consulate and he said the only place here he could recommend was his house. :-)