American Reacts to Canadian Snack Foods 

As A Canadian, I Can Confirm, You WILL *INHALE* The Chocolate Mccain Cake

You will never know the shame of eating an entire tray of McCain deep and delicious cake in the middle of the night after too many beers!

This is why Canada discovered insulin!

I attended a wedding years ago and the cake they served to guests was the Deep and Delicious - everyone flipped out. You never saw cake disappear so fast. It was the groom's favourite childhood treat. A memorable wedding, if only for the cake!!

Kraft peanut butter used to come in glass jars shaped like the bears. If you peeled the label off the top of the plastic lid, there was a slit cut so it could be used as a piggy bank once consumed. I think I still have one somewhere.

A common theme you will find is that a lot of products got worse after being sold to an american parent corporation. Usually because the focus became solely on profit as opposed to profiting off of quality.

How did the Passion Flakie not make it into the video?!?!?!😯

I can confirm that Kraft peanut butter is way better than the US peanut butters. Also I’ve always found that Hostess cakes in the US, tasted too chemically. 😅

"We're the Kraft peanut butter teddy bears, with a fresh little story to tell ! Kraft Peanut butter keeps fresher in the jar than peanuts in the shell ! " Yeah - who else remembers that little sing song ad ? LOL

As for someone who lives in PEI, We have a competitor in frozen French fries called Cavendish, named after the town here, they're fires are some of the best frozen fries I've ever tasted If you ever want to travel to a place where there are acres of farms, right nearby a city, then PEI is the place to visit during the summers

Maple is not a stereotype. We do love our maple products… A LOT!

The number of times Tyler paused to speculate on something...that He'd learn about if he just kept watching. 🤣

When I was a Kid, a Jos Lois and a Pepsi was considered a Quebecer's breakfast of champions. Many videos can be found of Americans tasting these for the first time and the verdict is always the same..."why do we not have these in America?"

1. So Ah Caramel is a vanilla sponge cake with a cream and caramel top covered in chocolate. It is extremely sweet and definitely a favourite for many Canadians. It comes in a packet with two squares. 2. I have never seen Map-O-Spread, it's probably not a common item in the area of Canada where I live (I'm from Ontario). Also, maple is a natural sugar... you can actually boil maple syrup until it almost instantly turns into a sugar. Maple sugar is a popular replacement for white sugar. 3. Deep and Delicious cakes are amazing... they are a frozen cake that is moist and sweet but not overpowering. They come in chocolate, vanilla, swirl (chocolate and vanilla), and coconut. 4. Kraft Peanut butter is a sweeter peanut butter, less salty than other brands and is sold in Costco here. Kraft Peanut butter actually used to come in a glass bear container. 5. Maple Leaf Cookies are delicious... but they can vary depending on what company makes them. Some companies put two vanilla cookies with maple cream, some have two maple cookies with maple cream, or some have two maple cookies with vanilla cream. It just depends on what you like. My husband who is from Miami, loves maple cookies and it is all four of our sons favourite cookie. 6. Yes we have little Debbie but it's not as popular as Vachon. Jos Louis have definitely gone down in quality... it was much better 10 or 15 years ago. It now has a little bit of a fake chocolate taste. I used to love these as a child.

Usually, we don't make a thing about how some products are exclusive to Canada. But there was a famous commercial for Red Rose tea, where someone is shown trying it in Britain, and after being skeptical about how good it could be, and then trying it, he then realizes it's good. "Only in Canada? ... Pity!"

I am Canadian and I have never heard of Map-O-Spread.

You can eat a lot of maple cookies, that girl doesn't know what she is talking about.

I swear, we need a part 2 of you testing all of these !!!

7:00 Map-O-Spread is a maple tasting caramel spread. It's the artificial flavoured version of maple butter (maple syrup whipped and heated until it turns to a butter like texture )

I remember the old ads for the McCain cake, where adults would sneak out of bed at night to have a piece lol

The deep and delicious cake ... so simple yet so good. You, sir, need to try it.

The thing most people keep overlooking about the McCain cakes is they are frozen and are ready so quickly after taking out of the freezer. Meaning the cakes are innately cool and refreshing which is something many baked cakes lack. Being recently frozen it also is able to retain its moisture better than a 'baked' good.

As a Canadian it’s so strange to think the US doesn’t have Kraft Peanut Butter. It’s literally what I grew up on and has 70% of the Canadian market.

Kind sir, it is NOT just some chocolate cake. It's got a thickness to the icing and a bounce to the cake like no other. One issue with the Deep and Delicious cake is that if for any reason the icing ends up touching something, it adhears instantly to the surface and is ripped entirely from the cake with a fine layer of crumbs stuck to its underside XD There's also a carrot cake version. Haven't seen it in a while, but it was pretty good too. Not as thick as the chocolate one, but still delightful ❤😊

Ah Caramels and Jos Louis are amazing when refrigerated, or even slightly frozen, making the outer milk chocolate crunchy when biting into them SO good

As a former trucker, who also delivered and picked up loads in the USA headed for Canada, I have had Little Debbie, and found them very dry as compared to a similar Canadian product

McCain Deep'n Delicious is the best!!! in Quebec we eat it frozen. It is so moist and fluffy that even frozen it's still soft. it taste better cold.....

I just discovered your channel and I've been "eating up" your videos, much like you would definitely eat up McCain's Deep and Delicious cakes, or the other snacks you discovered in this vid! Haha... I love watching you, you're so expressive!

This was fun to watch! I've never had or heard of Map-O-Spread but ALL of the others, I've had many.

McCain's is a New Brunswick success story. The Maritimes, especially New Brunswick and PEI, are known for growing potatoes, so that's where McCain's cut their teeth. (See also the Covered Bridge Potato Chip company that recently had a devestating fire). McCain's is a worldwide company, but their HQ is in a small town of a few thousand people 2 hours away from any major airport (okay 30-45 minutes if they go to Fort Fairfield, Maine I guess). They are known for Potato Chips mainly, but they also got into frozen pizzas and were successful there. (Pizza Pockets are ubiquitous up here because of them), and frozen juices. Deep and Delicious cakes are also one of their hits, a common treat you can get in the freezer section, it was a go-to "desert" to get or bring out for company after dinners. And also as a late night snack too. The freezing seems to make the sweetness even more delectable. McCain's is big in the states but probably not as much under their main brand names. Most specifically, because they are on the border with Maine, they do a lot of work in Maine and New England in general. They also have exclusive contracts with McDonalds to supply french fries (Apparently one of two companies that make McDs fries, and I think they are the exclusive supplier in Canada and other places in the world).

The days of eating a KFC meal, being so full, but having room for the chocolate cake that came with it. I send that peanut butter to a German exchange student, who moved back to Munich.

Kraft peanut butter is my favorite. I have tried Skippy and Jif . Neither come close to being comparable. Kraft is unbeatable. I love both the smooth and the crunchy versions.

as a kid, we called Joe Louis ... Vachon Hockey Pucks, There was even a commercial with a hockey player shooting the puck and ended up as a Joe Louis in the goalie's mouth

Yea... the McCain cake is definitely a guilty pleasure of mine. Now I wanna buy one this weekend.

Can confirm that vachon snacks don't taste the same as they used to. It's not just a childhood nostalgia thing either, they took a dip in quality about a decade ago.

Literally opening an Ah Caramel as I watch this video. So good, even better when you keep them in the freezer

Vachon cornered the snack market in Canada (specifically in Eastern Canada) back when those companies were establishing their markets, so they basically blocked Hostess from spreading as far up here. They still have many fundamental snacks up here including: * Ah Caramel * Jo Louis * Flakies (puff pastries with a jelly and icing filling) * Millefilles (many layers of puff pastry with icings) and more I'm probably forgetting.

Map-O-spread has a similar texture than peanut butter and Nutella, but the taste is maple. We also call it « maple butter » (« beurre d’érable », in Québec). It is SO DELICIOUS. We mainly put it on toasts. 😊 But I was surprised as well to know that it doesn’t countain any maple syrup 😮 … Kinda makes it a little less good in my mind, now that I know that.

Most culinary goodies in Canada come from Québec ;) BTW Paul Vachon is at the origin of the creation of Jos Louis, in 1932. The round cake with chocolate and pastry cream is named in honor of his two brothers, Joseph and Louis, who were at loggerheads at that time.

Peanut Butter was also invented in Canada In 1884 by Marcellus Gilmore Edson

On a side note in 2005 my 02 ATV was stolen from my garage,but before the thief stole the atv he went in to my freezer and decided to have some of the McCain frozen chocolate cake, and the RCMP got his fingerprints off the rapper that he had thrown in the garbage just outside my garage. They apprehended him. 6 months later

The narrator of the original video listed the "ingredients" of the Ah Caramel at the beginning of the video, you just didn't hear it. Its vanilla cake base with cream and caramel filling dipped in chocolate. They are very sweet.

Here in Quebec we have Coca Cola that is maple syrup flavored….Quebec is known worldwide for its maple syrup. We also have ketchup-flavoured potato chips. I rely on my VECTOR cereal. Quebec also has poutine which in French is Putin’s last name.KFC here in Quebec is PFK….Poulet Fait Kentucky.

As a Canadian in Quebec i taste them all at least at once and they taste amazing😍

The maple cookies are like going back to a time you were visiting your grandma and had a great wholesome time

My sister buys Cheese Whiz in Canada to take to the usa with her, says it tastes better. I googled it and discovered that the cheese whiz in the usa doesn't even have cheese listed in the ingredients. It contains whey and soy. In Canada cheese is the second ingredient listed, water being the first.

Ah Caramel is SO damn good. One of the best mini cake snacks ever. My aunt actually dated the Vachon CEO/ Owner's son when she was in high school, she dumped him, too bad, cause she'd be a multimillionaire if she didn't. 😅

Quebec is the top producer of Maple Syrup in Canada. You should check out the great Maple Syrup Heist in Quebec true crime story. It's fascinating how they attempted to pull it off... Also, imagine a gift basket/box bursting with maple products. Yum! ❤

I'm Canadian. 60 years old. I never even heard of Map-O-Spread. I'm calling shenanigans.

Nothing better than Maple Leafs and a giant glass of cold milk to dunk them on a saturday morning watching your favorite cartoon...even still at 45 years old 🤣 love your videos and cheers from Montreal

Ah Caramel is a white cake no too sweet and on top icing with caramel in the center covered in chocolate.

Hi Tyler ~ I have 2 boxes of “Maple Leaf” cookies - made by a Canadian company that sells on Amazon. If you are or anyone else is interested, I can share the brand and name of cookie. They are delightfully divine! Not as sweet as American versions , nor is the creamy filling “grainy” from excess sugar. Both the cookie and filling are creamy and smooth ~ and not too sweet! A couple of these sweet treats accompanied by a strong cup of Dark Roast Jumping Bean Coffee (Newfoundland coffee brand) and you have yourself a nice afternoon “pick-me-up” or JOLT - depending upon the number of cookies and cups of coffee you consume!😉 Hopefully, You and other will the Canadian brands if these cookies…some are certainly better than others and taste more “homemade” than others! I was fortunate to grow up with an extended family of aunts and both my mother and her father were Pastry Chefs, so I was fortunate to try nothing but “homemade” versions of everything, as that’s all that was in our home. I had the good sense and perhaps was expressing my “creative” gene, as I also draw/sketch with charcoals, dabble in watercolours, and experiment with other artistic materials (Candy blowing)…but…my first love is is being blessed with a grandfather and mother who taught me so much, and has become my passion! This afternoon, I’m making several loaves of Cinnamon Raisin Bread, along with a couple of savory Ciabatta loaves to give to my elderly neighbours! I enjoy giving my creations away, rather than eating them…so…my neighbours, the Salvation Army, senior complexes and the homeless are my “taste testers”, and in return, I end up with a heart full of JOY! Cheers!🇨🇦☺🇺🇸

The 'Ah Caramel' cup cakes are white sponge cake, circle of cream around the top with caramel in the middle, and ALL covered in chocolate. They also come with chocolate syrup instead of the caramel. Least they used to, if they don't anymore ! BOTH ARE DELICIOUS !!!!

When I was young, I lived in a town where there was a small Vachon cake factory. 2 days a week they opened the factory so that we could go and buy, at a discount, the boxes of cakes that had small defects and could not be sold to the general public. I remember my mom buying dozens of boxes and storing them in a big freezer in the basement... I miss those days when Vachon cakes were less sweet, more fluffy, and generous! I miss the raisin tarts since they don't exist anymore... 😞 By the way, maple syrup is our liquid gold, here in Quebec... ;-) There are A LOT of maple syrup producers in Quebec (simple to produce: you harvest the maple water from the maple trees and boil it to reduce the amound of water contained in it, concentrate the sugar, flavors and nutrients); we dont eat white sugar that much, maple syrup is our local sweetener... Just like cane sugar is the local sweetener in the West Indies, for exemple...

Mapple cookie... Give me box and a glass of milk to dunk in it, and the content will disapear in one sitting 😁

Random fact, talking to a airline agent in the US, she would stock up on Canadian peanut butter every time she went to Canada. She said it actually tasted like peanuts unlike US peanut butter!

Kraft is the best pb! In fact, I run my church's food bank and when giving out pb, when given the choice of a 2 kg jar of another brand (including name brands) vs 500 g (1/2 kg) of Kraft, I have never seen anyone choose the non-Kraft pb (even if the family is huge) in my entire 4 years giving out the food

In Canada, maple sap starts running in the early spring. The sap is boiled until it reduces to syrup. We make an annual event of this happening, and families will head into the woods to "sugar bush camps", where they can observe the whole process, from start to finish. Many of these sugar bush camps also have petting zoos, hay rides, etc. These sugar bushes are all over the country, and are a nice break from normal winter misery, and a reminder that spring is near

Yep…..have one of those McCain cakes half gone in my freezer right now! They are good! 😊🇨🇦

McCain's Deep'n Delicious is the most moist cake you'll ever experience. What's heartbreaking is that they used to have a banana flavour but it is now discontinued. It was like the world's best banana bread with icing on it. It was truly outstanding.

I am a Canadian and have never seen or heard of Map-o-Spread. Strange that this is shown.

When I was a kid the kraft peanut butter came in a bear shaped plastic jar and at one point you collected upc codes and mailed them in with like 5 bucks to get a plush smooth or crunchy bears

Video like: "vanilla cake, caramel covered in chocolate" Tyler like: "what's in these ah caramel?"

Those Deep and Delicious cakes were already around in the 70s. Great memories!! Now I want one...

Maple sugar candies and maple toffee are the best for maple treats, I recommend them if you've got a sweet tooth! Maple sugar candles are literally just maple flavoured sugar compressed in the shape of tiny maple leaves, and they melt in your mouth. Maple toffee is hot maple syrup poured on snow and then wrapped around a popsicle stick, simple and yummy, and a classic childhood treat of mine when visiting the Sugarbush to see how maple syrup is made

Kraft Peanut butter with the green lid is the best, also deep and delicious cake is really dangerously delicious, maple cookies are good but very sweet

Also McCain is the parent of Day & Ross trucking. So much product being shipped they started there own trucking company.

Tyler, my mom just brought home Vachon Ah, Caramel ! in maple syrup flavour…yes I’m Canadian 😅

Vachon is a staple in the province of Quebec. There's a whole line of them. Jos Louis, Mae West, the flaky, ah caramel, swiss rolls, etc.

Maple from Quebec is so good that they put it in a lot of products to give it a natural and “homey” sweetness that most Canadians have grown up with as children - like Americans do with straight white sugar and preservatives lmao

As a child, had the Map-o-spread on toast more than I had jam. 2 more snacks: Flakies.-jelly and cream in a flakey pastry. Then there are the macaroons. Which is smothered coconut. (Don't even let me get started on the Beaver Tails!)

Worked 45 yrs in Ontario grocery stores and have never heard of Map-O-Spread.Little Debbie was recently discontinued in Canada.

We have McCain's in Australia too. "Ah McCain, you've done it again! "

You might find that Ah! Caramel, May West, and Jos.& Louis each have their adherents (talk aboot cults, heh, heh) My fave is May West, which is a mini vanilla layer cake, with a kind of Boston Cream filling, all coated with semi-dark chocolate icing - YUMMM! Growing up in Montreal, there used to be a rivalry between Coke and Pepsi, respectively favoured by English & French, so the slang nickname for French Quebecois was (Pepsi). SORRY, just the facts. no offense intended. BTW, May Wests, etc., were originally made by the (Stuart"s) bakery, which was within walking distance from my home. Also, there is a Quebec cookie maker (Leclerc) that has bought out plants in PA, TN, and AZ. And the Dare company in Ontario bought the Viau brand from QC. Among many other products, they make the old Viau (Whippet) cookies, which are Montreal originals.

the Ah caramel has white cake with a circle of white icing that holds the dollop of caramel in place when it gets covered in chocolate

I love McCain Cake, the marble one is my absolute favorite and again it's not that sweet and neither is the top.. it's perfect.

Lived in Canada since birth and am turning 44 and have never seen or heard of maple spread

They have chocolate flavor, Vanilla flavor and my favorite marble which is a mix of both chocolate and vanilla.

yeah I ate a few time Ah caramel whole, I was in a rush at work and I was having a snack at the same time, so I had to eat the cake whole, also I never really noticed that the flavor of those square cake to have changed, seem to me they have tasted the same since forever. Map - O - Spread, taste great, but it can be very messy, you can get sticky fingers very easily. Maple Leaf cookies, I can eat an entire box all by myself, it eat by itself without hunger. Mckain Cake, been ages since I ate one, that's another thing that can be eat very easily. Joe Louis are nice as well and for their 100 birthday, Vachon started to mix 2 different cakes. Ah Caramel and Joe Louis call now: Ah! Louis, Passion Flakie fused with the Ah! Caramel call: Passion Caramel. I also saw a fusion of maple syrup and the Ah! Caramel, instead of Caramel inside, it was maple syrup. There is also Big Louis, but I don't know if the exact name, anyway, it's a Joe Louis but with 2 cakes, two times the cream inside on two layers. I think they created that cake for their 50 years of living. I know they fused other cakes, but unfortunatly, those are all the one that I remember

Canada used to have Little Debbie but they lost their only canadian distributor, so Little Debbie is only in the US now and last week when i went there i bought 5 boxes of Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pies because i used to like them a lot

Les ptits Gâteau Vachon, la fierté des Beaucerons!!!

There is a deep n delicious cake in coconut cream now that is SO good!! The icing on these cakes are amazing! Creamy, almost a texture similar to marshmallow fluff but not sticky. Kraft PB is super creamy. Beautiful peanut butter.

We tap the maple trees on the farm. So we have lots of maple syrup. I make maple butter. 2 of my grandchildren live with us and they have toast with peanut butter and maple butter. But they want the maple butter on top so you get that taste first. Kraft peanut butter all the way. However no name is pretty good too actually. We eat a lot of peanut butter in this house. It just a beautiful thing.

I loved the Flakie and Jos Louis when I was a kid. Indeed Kraft makes the best PB anywhere!

Mmmm, McCain Deep N Delicious. I would definitely recommend it to you if ever come to the Great White North. It might be just be a simple cake, but some how so much more. I think that Kraft Peanut Butter even made a pair of teddy bears that apparently synchronize between each other no matter the distance. They light up when one is holding it, or something like that. It had a cute commercial of a kid at camp and a father picks his up and the child’s lights up and cheers the home sick kid up. Mmmmm Maple cookies. Joe Lois are still around but I havent had it. The other three I mention are definitely my 90s treats. The peanut butter being the most common, then the Cakes and occasionally the maple cookie, which it is simply called. This is the first video that I have seen of you and if you want to see some Canadian stuff that is outside food, check out the Red Green Show. It was a Canadian sitcom (I guess you could call it) of an outdoorsy sketch show of a “not-so-handy” handy man running a log that is 42 beer stores north.

You can freeze the Flakies. They're amazing when the cream is super cold.

Anyone remember the 1kg kraft peanut butter bear jar

Me again, I love the Kraft peanut butter and have tasted many different brand and I find them okay but always come back to Kraft.

Canadian snacks, chips and chocolate bars are still something I miss, even after having lived State-side for almost 22yrs.

McCain's deep & delicious cakes are very good, the marble is my family's favourite, the cake is always a soft consistency and the icy is creamy smooth. Ah Caramels are really tasty too. Kraft peanut butter does taste better than Jif & Skippy IMO. Those maple cookies are really good.

The bears on the Kraft peanut butter were actually made into stuffed teddy bears and sold by the company I worked for at the time (Enesco) Canada. Of course I ended up buying both. They each had a different colour bow.

I worked really close to Vachon in Burlington Ontario. Sometimes on they way to work, the baking of their products was wafting through the air.

*Sara Lee cakes used to be quite accessible in the early 1980s, my mom would buy the frozen ones often. The McCain is SOOOOO MUCH BETTER!*

Here's some more interesting peanut butter facts about Canada: up until a while ago we had three major kinds smooth, crunchy, and extra smooth (which basically had some kind of thin molasses in it, made it a bit too sweet in my eyes). These days we still have three kinds, but extra smooth is gone, and it's been replaced by dark (which uses dark roasted peanuts, and is amazing).

Omg that deep and delicious cake is a favourite since my childhood…in the 90s it was a treat for us kids ❤❤❤just so yummy

I was a landscaper for the dare family cottage. They were so lovely and on our last day of the summer season they told us ahead of time that we were welcome to bring our swimsuits and dive off of the dock and hangout with them since they were our last site of the day and it was a heat wave. We all had a pint on the dock and yes they put out some cookies haha. Their dog Lilly was super friendly and would come say hi sometimes. My one coworker never remembered her name so he called her cookie 😂

Smuckers here is jam

Another favorite of mine is peanut butter and honey spread made with real honey, so good!

Quebequoi here, I keep all my vachon pastries (like ah caramel & jo louis) in the freezer as my father taught me. They're much better like this, they turn into ice cream cakes and they taste less sweet

It's safe to eat a full box of maple cookies! No worries. Although, you may start saying "eh!"