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.
I’ve never heard of it before now. It sounds heavenly. Fattening, but wonderful!
There, there, just have some fried green tomatos and think about all of the good stuff we have down here they can’t get.
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.
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!!!
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!
Here you go fishbicycle.
Am I the only one who thinks “poutine” sounds as dirty as the dish is decadent?
Only if you’re confusing it with “poon tang.”
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:
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.
It probably is dirty if you’re a cardiologist.
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.
Thank you for the link, detop.
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?
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?
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!
I know they have coffee and pastries, but do they have poutine?