# I've heard stories aboiut poutine... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 27, 2006, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-heard-stories-aboiut-poutine/350054 "2006-03-27T06:18:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-heard-stories-aboiut-poutine/350054/21 "2006-03-27T17:05:17Z")
We have something similar (and better) to poutine in New Jersey diners. Just ask for the “disco fries”. It’s better than poutine because they use mozzarella cheese instead of the cheese curds. FYI, they might not be on the menu but every waitperson will know what you’re talking about. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-heard-stories-aboiut-poutine/350054/22 "2006-03-27T18:38:35Z")
I’ve never heard of it before now. It sounds heavenly. Fattening, but wonderful! ---
**Author:** ![adhemar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-heard-stories-aboiut-poutine/350054/23 "2006-03-27T18:47:48Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > This is one of the cruelest threads I’ve ever opened. Here I am, 30 minutes before my lunch break, and you all taunt me with mouth-watering pictures of poutine, which I hazard to guess is not available anywhere within 1,000 miles of here. ☹ > > Time to start planning my annual Canada vacation… There, there, just have some fried green tomatos and think about all of the good stuff we have down here they can’t get. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-heard-stories-aboiut-poutine/350054/24 "2006-03-27T18:48:38Z")
And now I know how to pronounce it. _Put sin_ in a bowl…and you have _poutine._😛 And next trip to Montreal I will actually eat some. ---
**Author:** ![butler1850](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@butler1850](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butler1850)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-heard-stories-aboiut-poutine/350054/25 "2006-03-27T20:00:01Z")
I would gladly give my next born (Mrs. Butler would kill me if I gave up the one already born, but might understand a “child to come later” trade 😃 ) to someone who can tell me where to get proper Quebec-ian cheese curds in the Manchester NH area. Poutine is a creation of the gods. It took all their work (collectivly) to come up with something that great. Fries - good. Gravy - good. Cheese - good. The combination? Certain to send me to the deepest level of hell in exchange for the pleasures of eating it!!! 😃 😃 😃 ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-heard-stories-aboiut-poutine/350054/26 "2006-03-27T20:51:08Z")
I know, let’s do this if we can, to help out our poutine-deprived friends. Does anybody have a recipe for chicken gravy that they’d care to post to this thread? I don’t know how to make it - I’ve always been gravy-challenged. But if I had step-by-step instructions (don’t leave anything out) on how to make the proper gravy, I’d go hunting high and low for cheese curds and make my own poutine. If I couldn’t find them at the grocery store, there is at least one dairy here. I could call and ask them if they make cheese or curds. Failing that, I’d settle for mozzarella. We need to turn the world on to this stuff! ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-heard-stories-aboiut-poutine/350054/27 "2006-03-27T22:53:12Z")
[Here](http://www.therecipebox.com/members/box/sauce/sau0169.htm) you go **fishbicycle**. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-heard-stories-aboiut-poutine/350054/28 "2006-03-27T23:18:10Z")
Am I the only one who thinks “poutine” sounds as dirty as the dish is decadent? ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-heard-stories-aboiut-poutine/350054/29 "2006-03-27T23:27:14Z")
Only if you’re confusing it with “poon tang.” ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-heard-stories-aboiut-poutine/350054/30 "2006-03-27T23:30:42Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Am I the only one who thinks “poutine” sounds as dirty as the dish is decadent? Considering some of our unabashed and rather vulgar young men back home haven’t much of a problem trying to slur the word quickly enough so that their buddies swear up and down they ordered a large _poontang_, you’re probably not terribly far off thinking it sounds dirty. :o I’m from a bi-lingual province, and the “French” way of pronouncing it was always “poo-TIN” (said quickly, it’s almost _p’TIN_), and the “English” way of saying it was “poo-TEEN” (again, quickly, it’s _p’TEEN_). I’m sure it varies. I know some that used to enter the local greasy spoon and just say “Gimme a pooten.” Whatever works, I guess. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-heard-stories-aboiut-poutine/350054/31 "2006-03-27T23:57:45Z")
Good…well, gravy. How this escaped the radar I’ll never know. But I do know where to get some cheese curds…Gotta go. Now. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-heard-stories-aboiut-poutine/350054/32 "2006-03-28T00:03:57Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Am I the only one who thinks “poutine” sounds as dirty as the dish is decadent? It probably _is_ dirty if you’re a cardiologist. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-heard-stories-aboiut-poutine/350054/33 "2006-03-28T03:04:14Z")
I confess that I’ve never tried it… But how could fries with gravy and cheese be anything other than wonderful? I mean, it’s three different sources of cholesterol! And we all know that anything high in cholesterol tastes good. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-heard-stories-aboiut-poutine/350054/34 "2006-03-28T03:26:31Z")
Thank you for the link, **detop**. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-heard-stories-aboiut-poutine/350054/35 "2006-03-28T03:26:54Z")
I’d never heard of it until now. Hm. Sounds pretty good. Hell, there must be a Canadian restaurant somewhere near here… Wait. _Is_ there such a thing as a Canadian restaurant? ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-heard-stories-aboiut-poutine/350054/36 "2006-03-28T03:36:44Z")
> [@Rysdad](#): > > Wait. _Is_ there such a thing as a Canadian restaurant? [Safari](http://www.safaribarandgrill.com/), [North 44](http://www.menupalace.com/menupalace/?fr=1&rid=33470), and [Monsoon](http://www.menupalace.com/menupalace/?fr=1&rid=33368) kindly invite you to kiss posterior. 😉 (Warning: links have sound.) ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-heard-stories-aboiut-poutine/350054/37 "2006-03-28T04:07:17Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > [Safari](http://www.safaribarandgrill.com/), [North 44](http://www.menupalace.com/menupalace/?fr=1&rid=33470), and [Monsoon](http://www.menupalace.com/menupalace/?fr=1&rid=33368) kindly invite you to kiss posterior. 😉 Well, gee whiz, I know there are Canadian restaurants _in Canada_, but I wondered if there was such a thing outside of the Great White North. I mean, I’ve never heard of a restaurant that specializes in round bacon, poutine and blubber anywhere near here, and I’m _close_ to Canada, sort of. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-heard-stories-aboiut-poutine/350054/38 "2006-03-28T04:09:31Z")
> [@Rysdad](#): > > Well, gee whiz, I know there are Canadian restaurants _in Canada_, but I wondered if there was such a thing outside of the Great White North. > > I mean, I’ve never heard of a restaurant that specializes in round bacon, poutine and blubber anywhere near here, and I’m _close_ to Canada, sort of. Ahhhhh, my bad. How about a Tim Horton’s, then? ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-heard-stories-aboiut-poutine/350054/39 "2006-03-28T04:10:59Z")
mmmm…squeek squeek!! Now I really want poutine! I think I’ll have to gather up some ingredients sometime this week and indulge. Though the cheese is never quite right here. No Squeek. I can’t WAIT to move back to Quebec! ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-heard-stories-aboiut-poutine/350054/40 "2006-03-28T04:14:56Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Ahhhhh, my bad. > > How about a Tim Horton’s, then? I know they have coffee and pastries, but do they have poutine? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-heard-stories-aboiut-poutine/350054.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-heard-stories-aboiut-poutine/350054.md?page=3)