Dear Canada

Dear Canada,
We've been in your country for 3 weeks now, and so far, most things here have been the same as or better than things in Australia.  We really like it here - especially the tasty burgers and the awesome trees and the great subway system!  However, there are a couple of important things that I think you are doing yourself a disservice by not addressing, and we thought we'd lay them out here so that you can be fully aware of your flaws.

1.  Cheese
You have a real cheese problem here.  Supermarket cheese comes in bizarre packages:

This is a 500g block - instead of being a sensible, block shape, it's some sort of long package that's only 2cm deep.  What's with that?  Not to mention all of the cheese being orange.
This is turning out to be a bit of an issue for us, as in Australia we bought this:

... only we bought a 1kg block nearly every week.  I know, we can buy "gourmet cheddar" here which is a standard colour, but it costs $30/kg.  Ouch.  You really need to fix this one before we go into some sort of cheese-deficit coma.

2.  Vita-Brits

I'm surprised that you don't have Vita-Brits here - maybe they're an Aussie thing?  Instead you sell these:

... but once again, instead of selling them in 1kg boxes, there are 24 biscuits in a package.  That lasts Stephen a week if he's not hungry.  Also, they're a funny shape and they taste funny :(  You guys are really missing out!  Let us introduce you to the joys of tasty, healthy Vita-Brits!  

3.  Crushed Tomatoes
Of all of the strange things that are different, we didn't expect a tin of crushed tomatoes to be one of them.  We use a lot of crushed tomatoes in our cooking.

In the Aussie crushed tomatoes, they have tomatoes and salt and a little bit of sugar.

In Canadian crushed tomatoes, they use tomatoes, salt and citric acid.  They taste like vomit.  Urgh.
I am still trying to work out how to get around this one.  Of all of the strange things to be different...

4.  Pools
This isn't a food-related thing.  But in Australia, they have many pools, everywhere, and they look like this:

Some of them are indoor and some of them are outdoor - most of them are 50m long and some of them are 25m long.

Here, I went to see the gym under our building which proudly stated on its website that it had an indoor pool, and they showed me something similar to this:

Me:  "How long is it?"
Gym employee:  "12m - and you won't find another indoor pool around here until you get to the city."

12m?!  That's a backyard pool!  Imagine doing a 1-2km swim in that!  Canada, no wonder you can't win any swimming medals if people are training in 12m pools!  They're probably really good at turning...

In Conclusion
So, Canada, these are just a couple of things that we think that you could look at addressing - your country is totally awesome, but we weren't expecting these few little niggling things to be broken.  We'll just chill out in the corner here while you get started.

Love from,
Vicki & Stephen