Everything Americans Think About Butter Tarts Is WRONG

Two Americans moved to Toronto and got told, repeatedly, that we're wrong about butter tarts. So we did a five-stop butter tart crawl across the city — cheapest to most expensive, priced by weight — to find out exactly how wrong. Then a letter from Winnipeg settled the raisin argument for good. CHAPTERS 0:00 A Fight About Raisins 0:34 How We're Judging (price per 100g) 0:48 Shoppers Drug Mart — $1.07/100g 1:52 Summerhill Market — $2.70/100g 2:59 Circles & Squares — $2.87/100g 3:41 Canadians, Are We Getting This Right? 3:53 Bà Nội — $3.53/100g 4:57 Filosophy — $4.11/100g 5:40 Does Price Equal Quality? 5:53 A Letter From Winnipeg 6:40 The Raisin Verdict (1900) 7:12 See You In The Next One FEATURED IN THIS VIDEO (in order) Shoppers Drug Mart — the pre-packaged control sample Summerhill Market — https://www.summerhillmarket.com/ (@summerhillmarket) Circles & Squares Bakery — https://www.circlesandsquares.ca/ (@circlesandsquaresbakery) Bà Nội — https://ba-noi.myshopify.com/ (@banoi_toronto) Filosophy Pastry & Espresso Bar — https://filosophy.ca/ (@filosophycafeto) Huge thanks to Veronica in Winnipeg for mailing us her grandma's recipe. This one's for you. SOURCES Butter tart definition & history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter_... and https://nationalpost.com/life/food/bu... Earliest known published recipe (1900 Royal Victoria Cook Book, made with currants): https://www.cooksinfo.com/butter-tarts and http://kitchenhistoric.blogspot.com/2... New here? We're two former Americans figuring out Canada one wrong assumption at a time. Subscribe so you can watch us keep getting it wrong.