I read a book about these guys who, a couple of years ago, visited all 30 Major League Ballparks in 38 days. Their experience in Montreal was particularly interesting because they spoke of poutine, a french fry-based concoction that is as popular at the Expos’ place as nachos are at the average American ballpark.
It sounds funky.
As my mother is a health-junkie, I didn’t get to try poutine 'till a few years ago.
My goodness it’s yummy.
Gross, fattening and so filling I can’t eat an order myself, but GOOD. I know very few people who don’t like it.
It’s served all over, not just at ballparks. At restaurants, cafeterias… mostly everywhere they have fries. It’s is “fry-based”, being fries, with cheese curd and gravy.
Not only that but you can get different kinds of poutines :
Yum !!
I like poutine. Mmmmmmmmmm.
Delicious. Also available at McDonald’s and Burger King.
How much does an order of poutine at McDonald’s cost?
Probably a buck or two more than normal fries.
Poutine is fries that had a sad encounter with a bulemic rat. POUTINE BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD.
I lived on poutine while going to CEGEP. Mmmm. Poutine.
Do not DO NOT DO NOT get poutine at MacDo’s or Burger King! That is the anti-poutine!
Real poutine requires fries that have been cooked in oil that hasn’t been changed since Maurice Duplessis died.
And don’t forget, a gravy thick enough to lube the transmission of a school bus.
I like poutine, but it doesn’t like me. The fat and salt content of this stuff is off the charts.
I like poutine myself. Is it fair to call it the one true Canadian food?
I like poutine well enough. I have it now and then. Enough fat to kill a supermodel, I’m sure.
where i come from (belfast) we have something called a “superchip”.
this consists of a gravy chip (fries with gravy) combined with a cheesy chip (fries with cheese). is this a similar sort of thing to poutine?
all i can say is that with food like the superchip about it is no wonder we have the highest incidence of heart attacks in the world here.
Poutine? Mm, yes. :)I like fires, I like cheese, I like gravy … and I like it all together.
To expand the discussion a little, I don’t like vinegar on my fries (another seemingly-common Canadian food combination).
Barbarian’s right on!
That, and tourtiere. Mmmmmm.
Here in California, they call fries with gravy “wet fries.” I love 'em. But they don’t have cheese on them.
If you want cheese, you get “chili cheese fries,” which is a basket of fries smothered in whatever passes for chili at the place you’re eating, and a pile of grated cheddar. The best places, like Tommy’s Burger, or The Hat, don’t put beans in their chili - it’s just suspicious meat, spicy tomato chili sauce, and lots of reddish-orange grease.
I guess you could call that “California Poutine.”
What exactly is cheddar cheese curd? Is it something you could buy in a grocery store, like cottage cheese? (I’m assuming they’re not the same.)
And what kind of gravy are we talking about here? Chicken? Beef? Or is it something that just comes in a can marked “GRAVY?”
Note: TRUE Poutine is made with cheese curds. because they are more expensive(or harder to find), most comercial places sell it with regular grated cheese. Go with the cheese curds, They’re BRILLIANT… mmmmm, i could go for some poutine right now…