The official recipe for Nanaimo bars is enshrined in Nanaimo Museum for all to see, but bakers continue to get the ratio wrong.

Nanaimo鈥檚 iconic no-bake dessert made headlines again this week after the New York Times, on its cooking section Instagram account, posted a photo of a dessert square with a meagre amount of custard and an overly thick bottom layer.

Readers were quick to call out the Times for taking liberties with a Canadian delicacy, and on Thursday on its own Instagram account.

鈥淲hether you agree or disagree with the Nanaimo bar鈥檚 鈥榞olden ratio,鈥� we can all agree with the history of how it was named after our awesome city,鈥� the post noted, going on to encourage people to visit .

When it comes to questionable batches of Nanaimo bars, the Times may be the latest offender, but not the first. Canada Post went a tad overboard on the custard layer when it attempted to honour the Nanaimo bar as part of a in 2019.

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