Question for the Canadians: tell me more about La Poutine..
 

Is it true its french fries.. melted cheese and chicken fat?

How does it taste like?

chicken fat ( i.e. GRAVY )

its just gravy with cheese in it

it tastes like gravy with cheese in it

I thought the cheese was curds - like little balls, not melted?

i dont think poutine includes the fries.. the poutine just refers to the gravy and cheese part. Like if you order something you say "fries with poutine". If you just said " can i have some poutine ? " they would prob say " by itself ? "

it is, the pic is some fast food version or something..

although many places will do it like that ( grated cheese ) , but its more common in chunks

cheese curds

mmmmm I think I gained two pounds just thinking about poutine.

a poutine everyday ! :pimp

Poutine Rocks! ANd poutine means Freis with cheese and gravy. Depending on the place you go it will taste different, usualy the fast food versions suck.

Proper poutine is fries with brown gravy and cheese curds, not shredded cheese. You order poutine, not fries with poutine.

It is gravy and curd cheese over fries.

Smokey, Poutine is dish in the same way a sandwich is a dish. You would no more order a sandwich as have them ask "do you want the bread" than asking for a poutine and having them ask if you want fries. Poutine is the dish, not the dressing.

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Something more like that... the grated cheese thing isn't very common at all.

Alex

Bingo :thumbsup

Yes, you are right. The first pic above is after being digested. Second is right,

Your sig rocks bro.

:)

that's looks worryingly unhealthy

oh it is... but it tastes so damn good.

I have been promised some of this hip adding manna when I come to Vancouver!!!

its fucking disgusting, take the cheese off and its good :)

You couldn't be more wrong. All poutines, and there are many types, include fries and cheese. They gravy and "add-ons" varies depending on the type of poutine yu want....

Oh and my favourite poutine is "Italian Poutine" which they replace the gravy with spaghetti sauce and ground beef.:thumbsup

no way. "cheese on chips" is great.

or as you colonials call them - fries

i should have clarified east coast west coast poutine differences :)

I was going to say i think the quebecers do it differently , but everything west of manitoba i see "fries $1.50 , fries AND poutines 2.50"

kind of like chili fries ?

infact now that i think about it , in louisiana they have this place that sells something like that , its "stag" brand chili on fries with cheese chunks on top.. ( but the cheese is processed ughh )

Blech. I'm Canadian & have never tried it. Looks disgusting. I'm saving my calories for chocolate! :)

I don't know since I never tried chili fries:winkwink:

It's a Quebec dish which differ a bit from the rest of Canada.:1orglaugh

I can buy that here certain places because I'm near the canadian border and it's sooo fucking good

i LOVE poutine - but only the real version.

not true... next!

Ack...Canadians.

You don't know what your missing. I think the only Poutine I don't like is the "Michigan Poutine", all the rest are prety good and some better than the original poutine.

already established and stated in what you quoted .. NEXT

Poutine (pronounced, roughly, poo-TEEN, or peuh-TSEEN; is a popular snack consisting of french fries topped with fresh cheese curds and covered with hot gravy and sometimes other additional ingredients.

The curds' freshness is most important as it makes them soft in the warm fries, without completely melting. (When the curds are really fresh they will often squeak between the teeth.)


Mini Poutine with regular gravy, from Chez Ashton, Quebec City.Poutine is a fast food staple in eastern Canada; it is sold by nearly all fast food chains (such as New York Fries and Harvey's) in the provinces, as well as by small diners and pubs. International chains like McDonalds, A&W, and Burger King now sell poutine across Canada, but their product is scorned by many as being an inferior reproduction. New York Fries has poutine on the menus of its U.S. outlets as well as those in Canada. Popular Quebec restaurants that serve poutine are Chez Ashton, La Belle Province (restaurant), and Lafleur's. Also, poutine is very popular in student cafeterias in high schools and universities.

Poutine is available in only a few places outside of Canada, including the northern United States; Cuba (in some Canadian owned hotels); the Maple Leaf Pub in London England; and even one snack bar in Burkina Faso (La Quhahaha233;bhahaha233;coise).


Origins
The dish originated in rural Quebec, Canada in the late 1950s and is now popular all over the eastern half of the country, especially in New Brunswick. Several communities claim to be the origin of poutine, including Drummondville, Quebec (by Jean-Pierre Roy) and Victoriaville, Quebec. 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 hahaha231;a va faire une maudite poutine ("it will make a hell of a mess"), hence the name. The sauce 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.


Variations
There are many variations of poutine. A common variation, Italian poutine, substitutes gravy with Bolognese sauce, while another popular variation includes sausage slices. Some restaurants boast a dozen or more variations of poutine. For instance, you may find more upscale poutine with three-pepper sauce or Merguez sausage. Another variation, poutine Galvaude, includes shredded chicken and green peas, often eliminating the cheese. When ordering a fast food trio (or combo) in eastern Canada, you can often pay a little extra to get your french fries replaced with a poutine.

if your looking for really good poutine, go to New York Fries, order thier large:):)

Ewww. Gross. Really, the only good place to get poutine is little diners and places like Belle Province and Lafleurs in Quebec. The poutine sold here in Ontario and elsewhere just doesn't come close. Fast food joints like McDonalds, NY Fries and Burger King don't make good poutine because they don't have the right kind of fries. You need thick, hand cut fries for a good poutine, not those thin ones.

An Italian poutine is different from chili fries. First, it's actual spaghetti meat sauce, not chili, and second, the cheese is different. Michigan poutine would be a little closer to chili fries.

That's the type you'd be eating in the US...

the gravy doesnt look right... the cheese either...

You can try it with barbecue sauce.. good also..

The best Italian poutine you'll eat is at DicAnn's... :thumbsup

Trust me, poutine is alive and well in Manitoba, especially in St. Boniface, the French quarter of Winnipeg.

I like a good poutine now and again. Sure. Calories be damned. Any of you guys ever travel the southern states of the US? Ever see a most popular menu item called "Chicken-fried steak"? Tell me that's not a fucking heart attack on a plate. :D

As long as you're not gobbling down a poutine or two a day I see no reason not to indulge from time to time.


I like to heat mine up with a little tobasco. :thumbsup

Living in Canada all my life and I have never tried it..looks disgusting

If food's not fried, covered in gravy and cooked for 2 days in pork fat, it's not southern cooking. :thumbsup

What's disgusting about it? Tell me you don't like fries and gravy. What kind of Canadian doesn't like fries and gravy? :1orglaugh

And cheese curds.... well, all I can say is as far as poutine goes, don't knock it til you try it.


Plenty of foods "look" disgusting. Truthfully, some pizzas look like barf on a shingle, but hey.. IT'S PIZZA :D

http://members.shaw.ca/billy1-99/pics/homer.gif mmmmm....... pork fat..... http://members.shaw.ca/graphx/pics/drool.gif

I was in my 20's before I knew green beans were actually green and not gray and floating in fat :)

Poutine is good! :)


been a while since I had one though!... (a while here meaning like a week or two LOL)

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aaaaaahhhh yeahhhhhhh

fuck le fromage raper! pour faire une bonne poutine ca prend du fromage en crotte batard...

damn I love that stuff!

that's the real poutine i was talking about. note the thick, hand cut fries.