Halifax donairs, garlic fingers and diner comfort food

Modern Atlantic Canada has its own fast-food icons, led by the Halifax donair. This variation on döner kebab, created in Halifax in the early 1970s, uses spiced ground beef on a rotating spit, wrapped in a pita with onions, tomatoes and a distinctive sweet condensed-milk–based sauce; it’s popular enough that Halifax declared the donair its official city food in 2015. In Newfoundland & Labrador, “fries, dressing and gravy” (“Newfie fries”) and other fry-truck specialties sit alongside moose burgers and hearty diner plates. This category can cover donairs, donair pizza and poutine, garlic fingers with dipping sauce, loaded fries (fries, dressing and gravy; donair poutine), burger and hot-sandwich plates, and other late-night or takeout-style dishes. It rounds out your taxonomy with contemporary urban and small-town comfort food that locals strongly associate with Atlantic Canada’s cities and roadside eateries.