Noshing Around World Showcase – Snacks from Canada

By Katie McNair

Epcot is well known for having the largest variety of options for dining at Walt Disney World, especially around the World Showcase. However. we are focusing on the snacking options in each of the countries. So let’s head back to Epcot and see what we can find!

A blue arrow pointing the way to Epcot

We started in Japan, and tried rice crackers and red bean paste buns. After really enjoying the rice crackers, I am looking forward to trying something else. Next, let’s try to see what we can find to try in Canada, home of the really popular cheddar cheese soup.

Before we head to to Canada, let’s review:

Snack Rules

No snacks over $10; preferably less than $5
As unusual as possible
Something I personally would eat

Approaching the Canada Pavilion

The pavilion in Canada looks like it’s set in the mountains

Canada has a narrow front entrance that opens to an expansive view of different styles of architecture. It goes back quite a far distance, and has restaurants, O Canada! attraction, plus sweeping views of mountains and flowers. It’s visually striking, and mostly hidden unless you climb the stairs.

The pavilion showcases the different cultures of Canada

But let’s head to the shops to check out the snack situation!

The Northwest Mercantile is one of two shops in Canada

The Northwest Mercantile is the first shop you come to as you climb the stairs. Outside the door is a bunch of frontier supplies, like lanterns and snowshoes, and is styled like a log cabin. Like many of the pavilions in the World Showcase, this shop flows into the next shop.

The other shop in Canada

 

The Snacks from Canada

Once you go inside the Northwest Mercantile, your eyes will need to take a minute to adjust to the darkened interior. When they do, you will see a small table to your right that has a small collection of snacks. Compared to Japan, the selection is quite small and limited, featuring a maple theme.

All of these snacks are maple flavored.

On the snack table they have maple creme sandwich cookies, maple flavored toffee, maple flavored hard candy (which has no actual maple, strangely enough), maple mints, and maple crumbles, that they suggest sprinkling in your coffee or on top of ice cream. So many maple options!  The maple snacks range in price from $2.95 to $13.95 for one of the larger boxes of cookies.

Ketchup flavored chips? Bizarre.

Heading through the store to the Trading Post portion, there’s a small display of chips and gummy candies. The chips are apparently traditional Canadian flavors, which include Ketchup and Montreal Steak Spice, and the chips cost $2.95 each.

These are available on the Disney’s Dining Plan!

The gummies are mostly recognizable, but the fun thing about them are they are on the Disney Dining plan as a snack option! Sometimes you may find you have leftover snack credits, and you could easily spend them all at once on snacks that you can take home with you. If you’re purchasing them without a snack credit, they cost $3.95 each.

After carefully weighing all of my options, I decided that I had to try something maple, and so I picked out a maple leaf lollipop.

Here’s a maple leaf lollipop. What flavor is it? Maple!

I really like maple flavor, so I expected to enjoy this, plus it was only $2.95, so it made it a great choice.

It’s made of 100% maple syrup!

The maple lollipop was very detailed and quite tasty. It had an unusual texture for hard candy, which seemed particularly sticky. It lasted for a long time, and had an intense maple flavor (perhaps obviously!) I recommend trying it if you enjoy maple flavoring, since it was reasonably priced and was a satisfying sweet treat.

Quite a large lollipop

So what do you think of the options of Canada? Are you enjoying snacking around the world? Did you prefer the snacks from Japan? Let me know!

 

 

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