Talk:Nanaimo bar

message: What do you find in a Nanaimo bar?
Barstools and drinks! --Note, clean punchline used instead of common one. HighInBC 14:50, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  This reminds me of a joke 

message: I don't think I want to eat any of Catherine O'Hara's Nanaimo bars:
:In the American film A Mighty Wind, Canadian actress Catherine O'Hara improvises in one scene that she wants to go home and "bake a nice tray of Nanaimo bars".
because Nanaimo bars aren't baked...(see recipe link).Skookum1 08:13, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Catherine O'Hara's cooking 

message: Has Starbucks really popularized the term 'Nanaimo bar'? Or is it more of a local usage? The article states that the term is used in New York, L.A., etc., but does anyone know how prevalent it is? 207.81.77.182 21:02, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  So, how popular is the term outside of Canada? 

message: Immediate answers to immediate questions. Off to the kitchen. O Canada! I would love wikipedia more if I had those nanaimo bars on a plate in front of me right now...03:34, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  This is why I love Wikipedia 

message: Is the reference to Mrs Kowbel providing the recipe vandalism?  No source is cited.  I note that this paragraph and its information is gone:
 
There is an official recipe for the bar. In 1985, Mayor Graeme Roberts initiated a contest to find the ultimate Nanaimo bar recipe.  The recipe submitted by Joyce Hardcastle, a resident of Nanaimo, was unanimously selected by a judging panel to be the official recipe.  The bars' influence on the culture of Nanaimo is so strong that the city of Nanaimo's mascot is known as Nanaimo Barney and has the shape of a giant Nanaimo bar.  The popularity of the bar in Nanaimo lead to local residents mobilising to have it elected "Canada's Favourite Confection" in a National Post reader survey.
This does seem to have a source although it does not claim to be where the original recipe came from.  Without some cite for the Kowbel reference it should removed.
--KenWalker | Talk 15:48, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  source of recipe 

message: I took out the word "soft".  No doubt some people make Nanaimo bars with a soft chocolate topping, but that is not a "defining" characteristic.
In fact the reference given at the end of that sentence 
(http://www.joyofbaking.com/NanaimoBars.html)
talks about the chocolate layer having a "wonderful snap".
CBHA (talk) 17:07, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Soft chocolate 

message: In the Canadian context, Nanaimo bars are an institution.
Why low importance?  CBHA (talk) 14:56, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe on WikiProject BC the rating his higher; donairs and poutine rate higher countrywide.......and real good Nanaimo bars I've never really had in Atlantic Canada or Ontario/Montreal.....which is why maybe they're not held in such high regard?Skookum1 (talk) 09:20, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Low Importance!!?? 

message: I slightly amended the description, as it is misleading (and inaccurate) to call the middle layer of a nanaimo bar "custard", as the custard powder is only used as a flavouring, rather than it being a full ordinary custard (which has a much more gelatinous or runny consistency). It is more accurately an icing.
69.172.93.171 (talk) 01:39, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Custard 

message: (You can find recipies for nanaimo bars on www.nanaimobarrecipies.com)
This part of the page sounds a lot like advertisement.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.2.20.120 (talk) 00:31, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  This isn't really fact 

message: The nationalpost.com has a news story dated Mar. 23, 2011 on the "fiercely contested origin story" "Mrs. E. MacDougall’s recipe for “chocolate slices” was first published in The Woman’s Auxiliary to the Nanaimo Hospital Cook Book, and reprinted in the Vancouver Sun in 1952."
Here is the direct link to the story http://www.nationalpost.com/life/Exotic+Canada+great+Canadian+dessert+none/4491721/story.html
Dss902 (talk) 22:42, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I ran a Google Books search on "Nanaimo bars" covering the period 1/1/1900 through 1/1/1955 and it returned one hit: the 1931 edition of The Joy of Cooking. The book's contents aren't available online, so it is left as an exercise for some diligent contributor to acquire a copy to verify the inclusion of a Nanaimo bar recipe in that book. —Largo Plazo (talk) 18:49, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I got a hold of it, and the Nanaimo bar isn't in it. I went back to Google Books, and now it isn't returning that book as a hit. Damn, Google! —Largo Plazo (talk) 02:45, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: 1950s is the accepted era of origin......1931 seems more than early, but if so why in the Joy of Cooking? Far from homebase i.e. Nanaimo. The 30s doesn't seem a likely era for popularizing a home made confection i.e. custard, sugar, chocolate all in short supply......and no modern refrigeration come to think of it....Skookum1 (talk) 09:23, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: For what it's worth, the article itself says that the bar is thought to have existed in the 1930s (albeit without the distinctive name), and the icebox cake article indicates that that confection was popular even earlier. —Largo Plazo (talk) 02:09, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

text: Actually, the 1931 Joy of Cooking (as long as I have it in front of me) has recipes for several different kinds of "ice box cookies" and "ice box cakes". —Largo Plazo (talk) 02:11, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updated Information on Origin 

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