The “Nanaimo Bars in New York Story” has grown, peaked and now sparked a backlash, all in a matter of days. Something Canadian comes to America and all the haters start appearing, spitting mad lies and disrespecting. Canadian paper, the Times Colonist, published a letter from Martin Barnett, a so-called chair of the  so-called professional baking and so-called pastry department at the so-called Vancouver Island University (located in Nanaimo) in which he writes of my Nanaimo Bars:

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“…we must not be so hasty to celebrate this aberration of the classic recipe…We Nanaimoans must be vigilante and insist on true appellation for the delicacy (like Champagne or Parmesan cheese).”

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My crew does not approve.

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Then, the paper itself runs an editorial in which they acknowledge that while I have “street cred” this time I have “gone too far” and suggest that because there is mint and sweet pea ice cream in my Nanaimo Bar, and because it is served on a square, rather than a round, plate that I am guilty of various Nanaimo “heresies.”

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Too gangsta? It’s just how I roll.

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For those who don’t know, Canada is like the hip hop industry in that there is a long-running East Coast/West Coast rivalry. It has rarely resulted in outright violence, but this is ill! And not in a good way. Are these haters trying to reignite an East Coast/West Coast feud? Do they really want to push me? Because I swear, I will get in my Barbie Dream Car and drive up to Nanaimo and I will begin slapping fools in the way that fools do not like to be slapped.

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When I get to Nanaimo, I’m going to get epic

on that editorial board.

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