Due to public outcry from some of my Canadian readers (yes, you read that correctly, Canadian followed immediately by the word readers) who felt slighted at the absence of even one Caesar reference, I have been forced to make amends. The ladies, who I can only assume were renegade fur trappers living in New York on a top-secret beaver hunting mission, held me at hockey stick-point and demanded I atone for my blunder. Calm down, Canucks. I said "blunder" not "blubber".

Anyway, for my non-curling friends with no public healthcare option, this is the Canadian version of the Bloody Mary. They call it a "Caesar". Caesar, the man, was a military and political leader who pretty much turned Rome into the badass empire you know from Gladiator. Caesar, the drink, is a Clamato-infused bastardization of the Bloody Mary. But the CTV-watching lumberjacks up north didn't stop at a half-clam, half-tomato juice produced in New York to make this drink all their own. The maple syrup mongers then said to themselves, "what do we love more than anything on the planet?" And after 3 hours of praying to a bronze bust of Wayne Gretzky, they finally answered with, "Rimjobs". So they added a rim of celery salt for a splash of red on their already entirely red concoction. You know, cause that's our color, eh? And finally, they garnished it with THE EXACT SAME THING that garnishes a Bloody Mary and called it a day. Voila, your quintessentially Canadian cocktail, the Caesar.