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Originally Posted by jacked
i dunno if they were invented there i'm pretty sure the idea of fries with cheese and gravy was created a long time ago in coney island, new york (coney island fries).
i've never heard of them served with cheese curd so maybe they tweaked it a little
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poutine
Poutine:The dish originated in rural Québec, Canada in the late 1950s and is now popular all over the country. [citation needed] Several communities claim to be the origin of poutine, including Drummondville, Québec (by Jean-Pierre Roy) and Victoriaville, Québec. [citation needed] The most popular tale is the one of Fernand Lachance, from Warwick, Quebec, which claims that poutine was invented in 1957, when a customer ordered fries while waiting for his cheese curds from the Kingsey cheese factory in Kingsey Falls (now in Warwick and bought by Saputo). Lachance is said to have exclaimed ça va faire une maudite poutine ("it will make a hell of a mess"), hence the name. The gravy was allegedly added later, to keep the fries warm longer. Linguists have found no occurrence of the word poutine with this meaning earlier than 1978.
