Can ' t speak for the pancake thing , but the beer one depends on where you are . There are tons of local breweries especially in BC and Ontario , I ' d say the best beer is something made in whatever town you ' re in . Due to our weird laws it ' s unlikely you ' ll see a beer from Nanaimo , BC in Sault Ste . Marie , ON or vice versa , but if you ' re in either one I ' d give their beer a try . <| sep |> The free maket is a highly misleading term , and actually can ' t possibly exist in the sense that you imagine it . Capitalism requires a government to enforce property rights . A government with the power to enforce property rights is one that can and will be corrupted by the most powerful corporate interests , resulting in monopoly over time . For instance , when the regulatory apparatus of the state was at it ' s weakest , during the gilded age , we had Standard Oil and Carnegie Steel . This was a time when the National Guard and even regular Army and Marine Corps regiments were sent in to break up and put down strikes and labor unrest . John D . Rockefeller even hired a company of National Guard to put down a strike in Colorado ! All at a time when we were closest to a free market . Even back at the very start , capitalists used the state to get going . Look up the Enclosure Acts , where an act of Parliament pushed the peasants off the land and into the factories , creating a freemarket from which the first capitalists could purchase labor at the lowest prices possible . If , in the miraculous and unlikely event that the state were actually abolished in favor of pure capitalism , what would prevent the most powerful corporations from just recreating the state ? They ' ve managed to benefit from it so much . After all , future oil companies of the freemarket will still definitely require heavyhanded cops to defend their pipelines .