Nothing wrong with chili-cheese fries, but poutine is just a whole nother ballgame.
I wish I were Canadian. Poutine!
I wasn’t thinking of The Hat when I voted for chili-cheese fries, but thank you for putting it in my mind. That place is a religious experience for a gourmand like myself.
I like both, although I’ve never had true poutine in Canada. I’ve made it myself a couple of times–we have a good local dairy that makes fresh white cheddar cheese curds, and I got some good direction about how to make the gravy from a Canadian friend who suggested adding a tiny bit of BBQ sauce to some regular beef gravy. OM NOM NOM.
Zombie chili?? Gotta have the chili cheese fries, especially from Weinerschnitzel.
No option to vote neither? I don’t like chili, and I’m turned off by how poutine smells…
But what culture? Honestly, where did using chili as a condiment become normal. Even in a poll where the vast majority are American, it loses to the Canadian dish poutine. I have honestly never seen an adult order a chili dog or chili fries. It must be normal somewhere because every 7-11 I’ve been to sells it. I remember in high school my friends would go to the 7-11 and get one, but the whole idea never appealed to me.
The neither option is not to vote. This poll is not for you the same way people that don’t like cranberry things don’t vote in the annual cranberry sauce polls.
A well-constructed chili-dog is a work of Art. Pink’s and Tommy’s set the bar.
Cincinnati chili is almost always served on spaghetti or dogs or fries. Nearly every sports bar or Mexican restaurant or American-style grill or diner or chili house I’ve been in serves some form of chili as a topping for something or other. So, it’s definitely American culture.
I’ve been and the bacon poutine is great. However, there was a thing in the Toronto Star about Smokes’ recently and basically an order of poutine make the Double Down look like health food.
I know that it exists in some part of American culture, but where did it originate? I’ve seen it on the menu, but never actually seen anyone order it.
I doubt you’ll ever pin down any specific origination, or that there was ever a single point of origination. Chili is so sauce-like by nature, it seems perfectly natural to pour it on something else. I almost always put my chili on something—be it spaghetti, macaroni, rice, tortilla chips, mashed potatoes, french fries, or corn bread—because it naturally just seems to call out for a medium of some kind. Having grown up with Indian food, I treat it just like a curry.
Never had the opportunity to try poutine, but I’m dying to. As goog as cc fries can be, I chose poutine, because that’s what I want RIGHT NOW.
Joe
Straight chili, or as a topping?
Straight chili originated in San Antonio around the turn of the last century. Cincinnati-style chili originated in the Greek community and uses a much different spice base.
No, not straight chili. I like chili in a bowl like soup, I’m just curious about where it became a condiment that one might pour on hot dogs and fries.
According to Wiki, the Coney Dog originated back in 1914.
And what I thought a coney was, turns out to be a white hot. Interesting.
Smoke’s is okay, and I really like their curry poutine, but I thought Poutini’s was slightly better. I didn’t Smoke’s had opened in Quebec!
I thought their gravy was a bit too thyme-y or something.
I love poutine, and get some every time I go to Canada (about once a year). It’s heavenly.
However, chili > gravy. Not really much of a contest, in fact.