Guest Blog: Fun Foods of Winnipeg
In honour of Canada’s 150th anniversary on July 1, we’re bringing you 150 Travelzoo Tips — one per day until July 1 — to help you explore and enjoy this great land. For Tip 115, travel writer, photographer and consultant Jim Byers gives us a taste of Winnipeg. Read more from Jim at JimByersTravel.com or follow him on Twitter or Instagram.
There are plenty of towns in Canada where you can get a pizza. But only one place I know offers foodies the choice of a “nip,” a “goog” or a “shmoo,” and that’s Winnipeg.
Salisbury House is a restaurant that’s been around for decades and is partly owned by Burton Cummings of the Guess Who -- it showcases some of his old guitars and memorabilia. You can order up a nip, which the rest of us might call a hamburger. The story goes that a former owner didn’t like the sound of the word “hamburger” and somehow came up with "nip," perhaps because it was meat nipped off one end of a steak. 
In the Osborne Village area you’ll find a dessert place called Baked Expectations that sells something called a “shmoo,” a soft, moist angel cake drenched in caramel sauce and topped with pecans. The word "shmoo" is said to have derived from a (somewhat risque) Yiddish word. Shmoo also was a character in the old Li’l Abner comic strip.
