# Tell me about poutine **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 16, 2009, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-poutine/503181 "2009-07-16T01:47:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-poutine/503181/41 "2014-07-18T00:17:04Z")
Had it. Meh. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2014, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-poutine/503181/42 "2014-07-18T00:47:56Z")
I’ve resorted to making it myself a couple of times, just because that was the only way I’d have an opportunity to try it. But I have no idea how good of a job I did. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-poutine/503181/43 "2014-07-18T00:53:08Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > So which would you rather have: poutine, or poteen? We recently had a funny experience that relates to this. At our Weight Watchers meeting a couple of weeks ago, one of the members was going on vacation in Canada and was trying to get other members’ opinions about acceptable Canadian foods. My husband suggested (jokingly) poutine (jokingly because it’s hardly WW-acceptable) and the poor woman blinked, muttered to herself “That’s Irish” and shrugged it off. I told him after the meeting she probably thought he meant poteen (and subsequently explaining what poteen was) and at the next meeting, the woman actually confirmed that she’d thought he said poteen and only realized that he hadn’t after we’d all gone to our respective homes. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-poutine/503181/44 "2014-07-18T18:37:22Z")
Oddly enough neither my wife or I has ever tried it, but whenever my kids visit, they head straight for the nearest poutinnerie. If I wanted to make the cheese myself, I would follow a recipe for mozzarella and stop before kneading. But I think grated mozzarella would also work. ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-poutine/503181/45 "2014-07-18T18:51:41Z")
Quite a few restaurants in Atlantic Canada seem to cheap out on the poutine and use grated mozzarella. In the early nineties, to a young lad fresh from Western Canada it was a revelation but after many years of the good stuff mozzarella is a pale imitation that is not worth bothering with. ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-poutine/503181/46 "2014-07-18T19:00:30Z")
[**Poutine**](http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/10/02/canada.poutine/) isn’t living on the edge without a deep-fried Mars bar for dessert. I’ve never tried it — can’t get past the bowl of vomit part. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-poutine/503181/47 "2014-07-19T02:28:07Z")
Seems to me I’ve seen it mentioned on billboards for restaurants in Louisiana. Is it considered Cajun cousine? ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-poutine/503181/48 "2014-07-19T06:20:12Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > Seems to me I’ve seen it mentioned on billboards for restaurants in Louisiana. Is it considered Cajun cousine? Nope. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-poutine/503181/49 "2014-07-19T07:00:33Z")
BB’s cafe in Houston offers the [Tex-Cajun Virgin](http://bbscafe.com/locations/heights/heights-menu/)–shoestring fries topped with gravy, roast beef & _chile con queso_. Obviously this is fusion “cuisine.” If I’m ever Up North, I’ll gladly try the real thing… ---
**Author:** ![vontsira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/51bf81/32.png) [@vontsira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vontsira)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-poutine/503181/50 "2014-07-19T12:44:04Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Poutine is OK. It’s not the ambrosia that some people make it out to be. I like it just fine, but I also like a lot of other simple dishes just fine. I mean it’s only fries, gravy and stringy melted cheese after all. I’ve seen a lot about poutine, on message boards in recent years. I’m British, never been to North America, so have never encountered the stuff in real life. Tend to feel about it rather like Leaffan here – who has had first-hand experience. It strikes me as not at all disgusting, but just seemingly, rather dull: efficient and agreeable-enough belly-filler if one were definitely hungry. Maybe there’s quite an element here, of the thing of foods (often decidedly plain) which people have known and loved from childhood, and the sentiment / nostalgia factor which goes with that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-poutine/503181.md?page=2)