I have just searched me local supermarket web site, and they have never even heard of it. Whats to do?
Without this i can't see christmas happening Pickled walnuts, and mince pies wouldn't go amiss too.
Is this just a NS problem, or are Christmasses all over Canada blighted by this?

Go shoot yourself a Deer and scoff that. Job done.

I've spent several hours looking for this as well. Gammon that is, mince pies are commonplace around here and I would never think of eating pickled monkey brains

For the gammon I have decided to look for an unsmoked ham, I think its called a fresh ham and then glaze it in the same way I would a gammon.

If all else fails I'll drink gin.

PS, you do realise that under recent forum rules you cannot criticise anything in Canada without being called a whinging immigrant and told to go back where you came from

two weeks too late

We have something in the Safeways that is like gammon, and you can get a reasonble facsimmile of mince pies or buy the real thing at the nurmerous Englsih shops. You are on your own with pickled walnuts, yuk.

Can you get decent gin in Canada?

Well occasionally LCBO runs out of Tanqueray but usually its ok. The tonic can be a problem though, big problem. Again one has to improvise and drink gin martinis.

I'll be bloody whinging come the 25th when I ain't got no Gammon.
I will look out for unsmoked ham.

Right but that was the end of hunting season. I don't think there's anything to stop a person leaving a trail of apples running up to a large pot of boiling water. If a deer falls in, it only has itself to blame.

Ahh very cunning...love it!

At least now you know you can start curing your own gammon for 2010......assuming they have pigs and salt in Canada??? (do me one as well)

Feel for you on the mince pie front....its what brandy butter was made for.....

strangely 20 cm of snow has been predicted for N Derbyshire tonight.......we had about 15 of them during the day.......more tonight.......actually looks like Christmas for first time in a while..

You may not be able to get Gammon (I actually suspect you probably can, they may just call it by a different name - a bit like some of the other cuts of meat that are called different things in the UK compared to here), but there are plenty of ham joints to be had in the supermarkets.

Just get one of those and do that instead.

We have been predicted about the same, though it hasn't started yet.
I will cure us both a couple of legs for next year if Nikki doesn't mind me sitting them in the bath for a few weeks,salting.

Superstore has president choice mince pies on the web site, just nothing in stock.Drawn a complete blank.Could well be brandy butter n Pumpkin pie this Xmas
Shouldn't moan as normally i would have eaten several hundred by now and gained a stone.

We have some in our store here - should I grab a box or two and put them away until we next meet up?

I bought mincemeat in superstore and plan on making my own mince pies on Christmas eve (no doubt aided and abetted (or more likely hindered) by my darling daughters). If they are still behaving in the way they were today while I was icing the Christmas cake, I predict a bloodbath!