Butter chicken, tacos and pickles top Ontario’s biggest food orders

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Food delivery has long been a convenience for people across the country and the pandemic only made the service that much more popular.

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SkipTheDishes released its latest trends report for 2023 and found that the most popular food for Canadians to order is butter chicken.

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The popular Indian dish was the top-ordered food item this year with garlic naan coming in second.

Miso soup came in third, poutine took fourth place and butter naan rounded out the top five.

California rolls, onion rings, caesar salad, chicken wings and plain naan were the other top foods Canadians ordered through the delivery app.

The data found that butter chicken was the most ordered-in food on New Year’s Eve and Canada Day, while chicken wings reigned supreme during the Super Bowl, California rolls were the perfect romantic dinner on Valentine’s Day and eaters had quite the hankering for samosas on Thanksgiving.

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Bubble tea was a hit across the country, though those in Alberta ordered boba more than all the other provinces combined.

It’s actually pickles that Ontarians loved, with 45% of all pickles delivered by Skip this year to those in the province.

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“As a Canadian brand, we love digging deeper into the ordering habits of our communities across the country, and this year did not disappoint,” Melanie Fatouros-Richardson, vice president of communications and government relations at SkipTheDishes, said.

There wasn’t a pickle in sight, however, when someone in the province spent $789.50 on 70 tacos and 25 orders of chips with a combination of guacamole, salsa and horseradish feast, making it the biggest order in Ontario.

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However, that doesn’t come close to someone in Alberta, who spent $921.61 on 36 plates of chicken and two salads.

The second priciest order went to somebody in British Columbia who spent $1,060.50 on 15 bottles of liquor — including two bottles of Grey Goose.

The most expensive Skip order went to someone in Quebec, thanks to 55 sandwiches, three pizzas, and seven orders of poutine.

That record-setting order came to $1,259.71.

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