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Originally Posted by fotze2
The butter is problem. US butter is way better. I know that's sacrligious. Just figured butter was a staple but now its a staple on your lips.
Ice cream sucks now too. I'm not convinced even the Villages or Marcus' are buying good dairy. Waxy gross lip balm ice cream.
Its the farmers market only now.
I wouldn;t mind if not for the cartel part.
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A lot of issues with supply in Canada.
For example, a restaurant could never make an economically viable legit Chicago Deep Dish pizza in Canada. You can't mask the crappiness of the cheese, as it's such a thick layer at the bottom. You need to use an ample amount of high quality cheese. So to make it in Canada you're looking at charging $60+ dollars for a smallish pizza to make it worth it, so nobody makes it.
I had Pizza Hut in the USA, and it was just better. The cheese was more abundant and did that melty stretchy thing. In Canada the cheese doesn't even cover the whole bread. Pizza Hut, in Canada, is basically just an oily piece of bread with a few charred toppings on top. The crust tastes like its been recently frozen too.
As far as butter goes, Canada mandates that butter must be at least 80%, butter fat:
https://cdc-ccl.ca/en/node/777
Since there are so few major producers, they all just churn out that minimum standard without any incentive to be more competitive about it. In Europe the standard is 83-85%, and you can find that here, but it's definitely more expensive and a "specialty" product.
There was also the big "butter gate" scandal where a lot of the big producers got caught, despite denying it, using palm oil as feed, resulting in harder and less flavorful butter:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buttergate