# Montreal Dopers especially ... who likes poutine? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 5, 2001, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/montreal-dopers-especially-who-likes-poutine/71283 "2001-07-05T02:23:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2001, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/montreal-dopers-especially-who-likes-poutine/71283/21 "2001-07-06T00:11:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bughunter \* > \*\*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.” \*\* Why Pizza Hut hasn’t snagged this for a new topping idea, I’ll never know. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2001, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/montreal-dopers-especially-who-likes-poutine/71283/22 "2001-07-06T02:01:02Z")
So many people to respond to ;). Let’s give it a try, shall we ? **adam yax** and by extension **GingeroftheNorth** : No, poutine is not the only true Canadian food, there’s also, beaver tails (a waffle-like sweet), sugar pie, _farlouche_ pie (maple syrup-based pie), _ragoût de patte de cochons avec boulettes_ {pork feet stew with meatballs in gravy), _cipâte_ or _six-pâtes_ (same thing written differently according to the region it comes from), if you like tourtière, Ginger, you’ll love cipâtes. Think of it as tourtière on steroids. And that is just a small sample. **cher3** and **Wump** : cheese curds are little cheese nuggets (in French _fromage en crottes_, litterally cheese droppings). They’re not hard to find **here** and they’re not that expensive. As for the gravy, I don’t know, it is a thick brown gravy, I would guess beef, but it is a WAG. **bughunter** : Yeah, you could call it California Poutine (or cheap Italian poutine, up here :D). If you can get cheese curds, the taste will improve exponentially. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2001, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/montreal-dopers-especially-who-likes-poutine/71283/23 "2001-07-06T09:13:57Z")
It is Beef gravy- thick and almost black. If it’s made from some sort of fowl, it must be fermented… **irishgirl** , that superchip sounds identical, depending on what kind of cheese it is… and thanks **eunoia** Hmm. Poutine. That’s what I’ll be hunting for this weekend. ---
**Author:** ![cantara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@cantara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cantara)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2001, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/montreal-dopers-especially-who-likes-poutine/71283/24 "2001-07-06T12:43:13Z")
love that artery-clogging mess. I wonder if people eat it with the Dutch fritesauce (mayo). The story I heard was a Quebec truck driver stopped at his usual road-side stand and had the cook put this mixture together. The cook said “You’ll have a bloody mess.” (which apparently translated to poutine). It was found sporadically in Southern Ontario a few years ago, but the chains and lots of Mom and Pops are now serving it. Cheese curd is the curdled cheese before it is shaped and aged, and therefore very mild (almost bland)…delicious. It also has a fun texture and melts easily. In Yorkshire, England, I had the misfortune of witnessing the English equivalent of poutine…chips with mushy peas and malt vinegar loaded on the top. mushy peas{shudder} ---
**Author:** ![Gregor\_Samsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@Gregor\_Samsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gregor_Samsa)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2001, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/montreal-dopers-especially-who-likes-poutine/71283/25 "2001-07-06T12:59:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by detop \* > \*\*… **adam yax** and by extension **GingeroftheNorth** : > No, poutine is not the only true Canadian food, there’s also, beaver tails (a waffle-like sweet), sugar pie, _farlouche_ pie (maple syrup-based pie), _ragoût de patte de cochons avec boulettes_ {pork feet stew with meatballs in gravy), _cipâte_ or _six-pâtes_ (same thing written differently according to the region it comes from), if you like tourtière, Ginger, you’ll love cipâtes. Think of it as tourtière on steroids… \*\* Don’t forget butter tarts - apparently a Canadian thing only (I was quite surprised to learn this.) ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2001, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/montreal-dopers-especially-who-likes-poutine/71283/26 "2001-07-06T13:04:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by detop \* > **ragoût de patte de cochons avec boulettes {pork feet stew with meatballs in gravy}** Okay, now I know why there are no Canadian restaurants (I’m flashing back to _Canadian Bacon_.) bughunter: I would kill for a Tommy’s cheeseburger. Of course I would need a whole bottle of tums, but damn… ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2001, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/montreal-dopers-especially-who-likes-poutine/71283/27 "2001-07-07T07:07:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by adam yax \* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by detop \* > > ragoût de patte de cochons avec boulettes {pork feet stew with meatballs in gravy} > > Okay, now I know why there are no Canadian restaurants (I’m flashing back to _Canadian Bacon_.) Hey !!! Don’t dis it. It’s good winter food. It will stick to your ribs and will make a real man (or woman) out of you ! 😛 You’re right **Pipeliner** , I forgot about it. Attention Canadian Dopers, any other foods that should be listed ? (barring beer, of course, it’s a given). And **cantara** , I’ve heard the story, but I’m not sure about this origin of the poutine story (never heard the word poutine to describe a “bloody mess” as you put it). I’ve heard of a New Brunswick specialty called a _poutine râpée_, but I have no ideas what it is. I know that in the mid-70s I had a roommate from the Bois-Francs area who introduced me to poutine for the first time, saying that he grew up with the stuff. It didn’t come readily available in Montréal 'til the early to mid-80s [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/montreal-dopers-especially-who-likes-poutine/71283.md?page=1)