God forbid Ashens ever retires. The Couch should be in a museum. It's legitimately part of internet history.

I used to watch this channel when I was about 12 years old, Very regularly. Now I'm watching Ashens again as a 26 year old, with a much different life. Yet the intro is the same. The couch is the same. The presentation is the same. It makes my soul smile. It's like a constantly updated time capsule. I appreciate this dedication in such a way that words can't do it justice.

The reason British people tend to associate root beer with medicine is because it's main ingredient is wintergreen (similar to mint) which is only really used in Britain to flavor some medicines. Whereas in the US and Canada wintergreen is commonly used in many things such as root beer, dipping tobacco, general candy (wintergreen tic tacs), and other stuff.

3:39 All Dressed means all the classic crisp/chip flavours all in one. Salt from classic, vinegar from sea salt and vinegar, onion from sour cream and onion, and also barbecue flavouring (represented by a bell pepper on the bag). All of those dressings in one means all dressed!

I felt some sort of self accomplishment as a Canadian seeing Ashens have his doubts about the Kraft Dinner and then him being physically unable to stop eating it.

Seeing "sustainably sourced" on Nestle packaging is hilarious.

As a child I lived on a street that also had a factory producing Life Savers, and the entire area constantly smelled like the cherry flavour.

i love that Canada and the US have such similar food cultures but are treated completely differently by outside viewers. it's like ranking M&M colors

As a Canadian, this is so odd. We never have our snacks viewed as exotic foreign food. Will be sure to go to the event!

7:25 Ah yes, never fails to remind me of that old joke: An Irishman walks into a bar in Toronto and orders a drink. The bartender, noticing his accent, asks him "What brings you to Canada?" The Irishman says "Well, I was in a pub in Dublin and the coaster under my glass said 'Drink Canada Dry', so I thought I'd give it a shot."

Hey Ashens, I just thought as a Canadian I should let you know that “Kraft Macaroni and Cheese” is an American product with some differences to the Canadian made “Kraft Dinner” despite being made by the same brand. They are similar but not exactly the same.

"Popular in the Canadas" is probably the funniest thing I've heard in quite awhile. I couldn't stop laughing when I heard him say it.

It's so weird seeing an Ashen's food special mostly consisting of just random shit you can buy from shoppers drug mart.

This was so weird as a 'Murican. I recognize more of these foods than I did from the video on American foods.

I love how every time Ashens tries or bites into something, he makes a Homeresque "aauuwm" sound. By the way, the best addition to Kraft dinner is to mix in a drained can of tuna. Yum. If you don't like tuna, shredded chicken is also very good. Just add a veg on the side and you've got a meal.

As some people have pointed out, A&W in Canada is considered a seperate company from the american one, so if you got root beer manufactured in the states it'll taste different Also canadian bacon! (Called back bacon in my area) is really good fried up but you can eat it as is also some snacks are quite different regionally and some packaging looks significantly different if you get it on the east coast vs the west coast Maple syrup in a proper can tastes different than other packaging if you can get it, Also you can get darker grades of it as well similar to honey!

The all dressed chip/crisp is a barbeque, ketchup, and salt and vinegar flavors all mixed into one

I like that Stuart's digestive tract is so accustomed to rotten food that something can be "only" 4 years out of date.

It's so weird to hear Ashens describing food as "really good", especially after all the... stuff he's tried before.

"all dressed" is literally just all the regular flavors mixed together Ashens: sour cream and onion, barbecue, salt and vinegar, etc.

The box of kraft dinner that Ashens had was actually the American version. Us Canadians will forgive him though. 😁

The thing I loved about Coffee Crisp as a child is that, unlike any other wafer bar I've had, if you're careful you can eat the layers of wafer one at a time. When you're limited to one sugary snack a day, extending the experience is quite lovely.

Root Beer is a drink that really grows on you. There's a scene from ST:DS9 about it and it is one of my favourite scenes in the show's run.

I like when Ashens enjoys the food he tries.

Ginger beer is the one that punches you in the throat and takes your money. Ginger Ale just sits by and watches.

Fun fact for a lot of Canadians whenever we would ever have a cold or the flu we would drink Canada Dry or Schweppes ginger ale to help our stomach

i remember watching the first poundland special video, which is like, 15 years old when i think about it. When I do the math, I was 14 when I discovered ashens, and I haven't stopped watching Stuart's channel. I'm 29 now. Thanks for all the laughs and memories that I associate with you, Ashen.

As a Canadian, you definitely hit all the main ones. Im not sure Turtles are Canadian but they are amazing. Coffee Crisp is a personal fav, so are Smarties, you might have to do those in part 2

I wouldn't worry about the mac and cheese being "out of date." That stuff lasts forever.

That's American A&W root beer. The A&W we have here is a separate company and one of our major fast food chains (and yes they do also sell their root beer in cans at the grocery store).

Ashens would be mortified at how sweet Crush Pineapple is

It was lovely to see Ashens genuinely enjoying some lovely food that he enjoys

The Stanley Cup is named after Lord Stanley of Preston the Governor General of Canada from 1888 to 1893. He donated it as an award to Canada's top-ranking amateur ice hockey club.

For what it's worth, I'm not a huge coffee drinker, but I *love* Coffee Crisp. They're right up there with peppermint Aero bars and Caramilk, IMO.

I think it's hilarious. Every European I've seen try root beer says it tastes like medicine. Initially they hated it, but they always grow to love it.

Ashens not knowing what the Stanley Cup is is very funny. Also, interesting fact about Canada, we have a government facility dedicated to the storage of millions of barrels of maple syrup.

I think that Kraft dinner was actually the American stuff. You can tell cus there's no french on the packaging.

My friend belongs to a Welsh language group, and she tells me that when a bunch of the group from Wales came over to Canada, they saw a big sign advertising Canada Dry as, "Drink Canada Dry!" Which they then took as a challenge.

American here. I'm almost certain the A&W root beer and the Lifesavers were actually ours, the packaging looks identical to what I've seen here. Possibly some of the other things too. Kraft mac and cheese is also popular in the US but I do think American Kraft is a bit different from Canadian Kraft. We also have Ruffles chips but not the "All Dressed" flavor. "All Dressed" and Ketchup flavored chips are just Canadian. Here in the US our best Ruffles flavor is the Cheddar & Sour Cream.

I have a trick for you, Stuart, as well as anyone else who doesn't think they like rootbeer. All you have to do is go to a renaissance festival. You walk around in peak summer heat all day in costume. You're so excited to be there, buying a sword and an ocarina, watching knights joust and bards sing. Then you realize how thirsty you are. You buy a $5 rootbeer in a massive tankard. It's ice cold and you're dying of thirst and heat. It's the best thing you've ever drank in your life. Then you chase that medicinal-tasting dragon for the rest of your life, because no carbonated sugar drink in a can will ever match that homemade rootbeer you drank that summer.

The a&w root beer you get in the restaurant in Canada is actually a different formula to the one you get in cans. It's much much better

This is more like North American foods, a lot of these are available in the US. The mac n cheese was definitely the American version.

A good amount of stuff in this Ive had in America, benefits of living right beside one another

I used to live in Canada for 9 years (I'm British), I used to love Mac & Cheese! And yes, I had a recipe that I liked to make it extra special. In Canada you can get condensed soups and juices where you add water to them before using. My recipe is to use condensed mushroom soup as well as some frozen peas. I would cook the pasta and a couple of minutes before they are done add some frozen peas, so the peas just have time to thaw out and warm up. Then instead of adding milk, add a small can of condensed mushroom soup and half a can of water (so it's not too thick) then add the cheese powder. The mushroom soup takes away some of the saltiness of the cheese powder and the peas add an element of sweetness to the meal as they are not over cooked so have their natural sugars still. My family used to love it. Damn, I am now craving it! I'll have to go on Amazon to get some now, yep it's sold there! lol

The "root" in Root Beer is from a tree called Sassafras. Another name for it was Sarsaparilla. The essential oil extracted from the roots and bark of sassafras is used in the production of MDMA. AKA Ecstasy. Actual use of sassafras in any food product has been banned for many years. Modern "root beer" is flavored primarily with wintergreen and star anise.

It’s so fun watching him eat food he actually enjoy

Just saw Ashens and the Quest for the Gamechild on Tubi. What a legend!

Root beer MUST be served ICED COLD. It's typically served in a frozen glass buck. It changes the whole flavour.

I like how ashens thinks Ontario is a dainty little province that isn't 5 hours of mostly farmland in every direction

It is such a weird feeling to be a Canadian and have our everyday products seen as a spectacle lmao

The Ashens Couch needs to go into the Museum of History... It is A legendary item of Life.

Root beer is best literally ice cold with no ice in it, the bigger A&W burger places served it with frosted/chilled cups. It's better then any soda when u get it fresh out the freezer in a glass mug 😅

Every once in a while I'll come back to this channel and binge hours of episodes. Good to see this channel has never changed. Thanks Ashens. Love you

I like how the Canadian Food Special ended up being, in true Canadian spirit, nicer than the other food specials

The spicy pickle chips sound awesome to put on a sandwich.

Speaking of mac and cheese, though, here's a fun fact: its popularity in the US predates our adoption of other, more authentic pasta dishes by a whole century. Thomas Jefferson discovered macaroni during a trip to Europe, and the practice of smothering it in cheese sauce is thought to have been an invention of his personal chef. It is known that it was served at official state dinners while he was President. "Macaroni" was briefly slang for something Americans thought of as fancy, which is where the line in "Yankee Doodle" comes from.

11:57 Ashens proves himself to be turtle-y enough for the Turtle Club

Miss Vickie’s are some of my favorite chips, never knew they were a Canadian brand. We have them in the US but they’re sometimes hard to come by, I usually see them in sandwich shops like Subway.

The sharp cheddar kraft dinner is markedly better than the regular imitation cheese product flavor. But you can do worse for bachelor chow, definitely. Miss vickies is a very legit brand, just hearing the crunch makes me crave their salt & vinegar. But yeah I can't imagine spicy pickles being nice.

I love giving people their first taste of root beer. Gave it to someone from Honduras recently and it was funny watching him try to be polite but you could tell he hated it.

The preemptive apology for the mac and cheese was perfectly Canadian.

Canada Dry, Ruffles, A&W, Nestle, Life Savers, Red Hot, and Kraft is exceedingly common here in America, at least in the southeast.

I'm so happy you're coming to Toronto. I've been a fan for 13 years and I never thought you'd come here!

"Ashens" is the couch storyteller of the unusual stuff!!! Just love the channel!! Thanks, "Ashens"

Holy crap, Ashens actually talking about things I'm familiar with! I'm kind of surprised that ketchup chips never came up. That's the other classic Canadian chip flavour. And, yeah, don't worry, none of us really know how to describe All Dressed chips either. That flavour is just known as "all dressed". It's apparently just a combination of all the other basic chip flavours, but it really is its own thing. I was not aware of your coming here next weekend. I shall make plans to attend.

You have the American Mac and cheese.... the Canadian one is kraft dinner. Totally different tastes

That C64 Summer/Winter Games Canada anthem didn’t go unnoticed! Great reference!

I've found Ashens again! O happy day! A fan from 8 or so years ago and lost track of his videos the past couple of years! He's still awesome as always!Coffee Crisp sounds delicious.Most of these we DO have here in the USA.

You should've got the Miss Vicky's Jalapeño chips, those are genuinely a god-tier potato chip

If you can get a root beer from the tap at one of the sit-down A&W restaurant, it's some of the best root beer you'll ever taste. The stuff from cans doesn't measure up.

I visited Canada in 2006 and fell deeply and madly in love with the country and its people. Also, I described all dressed cris... chips as tasting like barbecue, salt and vinegar and prawn cocktail all mixed together, but they were bloody lovely.

I’m 72 and don’t care how much sugar a soft drink has as long as I like it.

ashens: "Is stanley cup a person? do you get to meet him if you win?" me as a canadian: *commence internal screaming

A&W and Canada Dry are readily available in the US as well! A&W also sells cream soda here and its great. :)

Wow, Summer/winter games on the C64, that took me back. Thanks!

It's gratifying to see Ashens enjoying what's considered our cheap foods/snacks. You kind of take them for granted here when you live in Canada, but they are definitely a good quick grab in any pinch. Hope you enjoy visiting Canada, west coast is too far for me to trek out to Ontario, but our air is fresh and most of our people are nice. Try not to eat everything and smuggle Kirkland Maple Syrup out of our country. Couple more easy-access things you can try while you're here along the same lines: - Smoke's Poutinerie: Just a shop that serves up many tasty variants of poutine, or you can DIY your own favourites. Just the normal pulled pork one is dangerous if you like pulled pork. - Saskatoon Pie: If you can find a good bakery, a delicious slice of pie filled with saskatoon berries is delightful. We have a whole midsection of Canada that is practically nothing but flat farmlands and the agriculture game is pretty strong here. - Butter Tarts: I love these tiny little tarts, they're very rich so it's good to go for only one or two. Really simple tarts that have a slightly sweet bite and are (as you've guessed), quite buttery. - (High Quality) Hawaiian Pizza: This is probably one of the most controversial foods I've ever seen online, but if the prospect of trying a sweet and salty pizza is okay for you, a good pizzeria can really make Hawaiian pizza taste amazing. Despite its name, it is our creation, and without doubt, it is the most crucified food we conceived. I love it though. - Uh, Maple Syrup: Yes, Kirkland is actually a really solid brand since Costco vets everything they sell under it, but true true Canadian maple syrup is one an even higher level. Try popping into even a local Canadian gift shop and you're bound to find well-rated 100% pure Canadian maple syrup. Sometimes they even come in fun little maple leaf bottles!

In the US we use ginger ale for stomach aches, it's a STRONG staple. Honestly most of the people I know dislike it because it reminds them of being sick.

Famous person: I'm finally coming to Canada! Me: Yes come check out the rocky mountains! Famous person: I'm only going to Toronto though. Me: every damn time...

BlackJack ,Clove and big red gum are my favorite gums in smell and taste

thank you ashens!!!! i move to canada next year this is helpful

A&W is the shizzle. Especially with a scoop of good vanilla bean ice cream.

This could nearly pass for American, especially the out-of-date Mac and Cheese. Before inflation, that stuff cost about fifty cents (sixty cents Canadian) per metric ton.

I've not watched you videos for years mr ashens. But I've always been subscribed to you. Love your videos always

kraft dinner is a staple. you really cant beat it for ease to taste ratio. And all dressed chips are EXCELLENT. they're amazing!

Coffee Crisp is the chocolate bar I miss the most as a Canadian living in the UK. True pros bite off the layers so that only the brittle centre remains. Turtles are great as well, I always get a box of the originals and dark ones at Christmas.

Yay another video. I’ve been watching you for about 6 years now and I can say confidently, you’re my favourite KZfaqr and you always will be. Thank you so much for the content, I enjoy it so much

I remember a flavored sparkling water called Clearly Canadian

i love that soda Canda dry also makes Cactus cooler which is one of my favorite sodas

Premium Kraft Dinner Recipie From Canadian: Use Kraft Deluxe, higher quality, plus no need for milk and butter. Slice hot dogs/smokies into coins and fry, sprinkle into Kraft dinner and mix once done, finish with a bit of pepper and voila. Kraft dinner that actually has some flavor

It is always a good day when there is an Ashens upload.

Here in the US I remember when Ruffles sold All Dressed chips for a while and they were my favorite flavor

As a canuck living in the states, I sorely miss Ruffles all dressed

I'm glad that Ashens are enjoying the Canadian food so far- (shows the spicy dill pickle kettle chips) Oh no...

The title of this video instantly reminded me of that nasty Canadian Tuna spread Ashens reviewed back in 2014.

This was basically just watching Ashens drink soda and eat snacks from an American gas station. The coffee crisp and the bottle of maple syrup are the only things I've never seen here.

After years of watching Ashens KZfaq videos and I think this is first time I've known you to actually enjoy almost everything on the couch 👍 and the first time I've not heard make any wretching noises for an entire snack/food video 🤣👍

If you liked the spice of the pickle chips, try the Miss Vickies Jalapeno chips

The weird medicinal part of A&W is (some artificial flavors trying to imitate) sassafras. It used to be considered a throat medicine, though the evidence I have seen for that is basically "it tastes a little like throat medicine". Then it was discovered to be a mild but noticeable carcinogen so it's illegal to put it in food in the US and Canada. But that was long after (sassafras) root beer became popular so we now have a soda imitating a medicine that people started to like despite it not being medicine and also slightly cancer-inducing.

The Stanley Cup is actually a championship trophy awarded annually to the NHL playoff champion.

Yay ! The land of rosedoodles and other assorted deliciousness ! I liked the nice message on the kraft mac and cheese one