# What is poutine?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-poutine/941685
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 8, 2021, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-poutine/941685 "2021-05-08T22:44:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@EastUmpqua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EastUmpqua)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2021, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-poutine/941685/1 "2021-05-08T22:44:22Z")
Is it Canadian?
Is it québécois?
Is it wink wink?
My sister lives in Canada. So I made poutine, with homemade thick-cut steak fries, homemade gravy, and Bandon cheese curds. It’s like bacon; it tastes great but you can’t eat it all the time.
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### Author:  [@Acierocolotl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acierocolotl)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2021, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-poutine/941685/2 "2021-05-08T22:45:25Z")
What is “wink wink”?
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2021, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-poutine/941685/3 "2021-05-08T22:47:05Z")
> [@Acierocolotl](#):
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> What is “wink wink”? -
It’s something you do with your eyelids but that’s not important right now.
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### Author:  [@EastUmpqua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EastUmpqua)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2021, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-poutine/941685/4 "2021-05-08T22:47:08Z")
Wink wink is an inside joke.
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### Author:  [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2021, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-poutine/941685/5 "2021-05-08T22:48:38Z")
I have to be honest: there aren’t a lot of unprompted real-world opportunities to invoke this clip, so … I simply must:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekzaRINoe0I)
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### Author:  [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2021, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-poutine/941685/6 "2021-05-08T22:49:10Z")
I’m guessing the joke is about how the word “poutine” sounds dirty, but it actually isn’t.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2021, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-poutine/941685/7 "2021-05-08T22:58:41Z")
I think it’s either a contest in which the last person alive wins or the president of Russia.
I’m not sure which.
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### Author:  [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2021, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-poutine/941685/8 "2021-05-08T22:58:52Z")
In 2017 I planned a hike/back country camp in Pukaskwa (Puck-a-saw) National Park (2017 was a free national park year in Canada). Plans meant arriving in Marathon the evening before and camping at Pebble Beach park (apparently allowed, at least for one night). Anyway, after arriving we decided to grab food at the nearby Canadian Legion Hall. I saw poutine on the menu and had to have it. Figure I would be backpacking and would burn the calories. It was pretty good.
Brian
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2021, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-poutine/941685/9 "2021-05-08T23:01:51Z")
If you’re blue and you don’t know where to go to why don’t you go where fashion sits?
[ ](https://images.sweetauthoring.com/recipe/194108_964.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Acierocolotl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acierocolotl)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2021, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-poutine/941685/10 "2021-05-08T23:19:02Z")
“une poutine en tabarouette,” was a thing I ate in my late teens and early twenties when I was trying to break into the glorious bicycle racing world and eating 5k calories a day. Though I didn’t say tabarouette, per se.
According to Macleans, it’s Quebecois, from way back when. Fair warning: this article contains “surprising” facts.
> **[7 surprising facts about poutine - Macleans.ca](https://www.macleans.ca/society/life/7-surprising-facts-about-poutine/)**
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> Can you believe someone ate 13 pounds of poutine in a contest?
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2021, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-poutine/941685/11 "2021-05-08T23:19:42Z")
Disco fries with added fat. But they are no match for:
Pastrami Chili Cheese fries w/tomatoes and pickles!!!
[ ](https://external-preview.redd.it/NRmT1ej8nAXgXsBec-A2xRA7kZmg2Ts5QJp9dYI9oPw.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=bc9554d57696da74329041f12c681511b2dd8c77)
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### Author:  [@EastUmpqua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EastUmpqua)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2021, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-poutine/941685/12 "2021-05-08T23:19:53Z")
Poutine means “mess” in french, so it sounds dirty but tastes good.
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### Author:  [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2021, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-poutine/941685/13 "2021-05-08T23:43:03Z")
> [@](#):
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> The average male would have to jog 2.5 hours to burn off the 1,422 calories contained in the country-style poutine (bacon, chicken, gravy, fries, onions and mushrooms) available nationwide through Smoke’s Poutinerie.
[ ](https://emojis.slackmojis.com/emojis/images/1555780768/5641/surprised-pikachu.png)
1422 calories?
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2021, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-poutine/941685/14 "2021-05-09T00:21:10Z")
> [@Acierocolotl](#):
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> … According to Macleans, it’s Quebecois, from way back when. Fair warning: this article contains “surprising” facts.
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> [7 surprising facts about poutine - Macleans.ca](https://www.macleans.ca/society/life/7-surprising-facts-about-poutine/)
> Can you believe someone ate 13 pounds of poutine in a contest?
He looks like he’s about to hurl. (Or as they call it in the food-eating-contest world, “suffer a reversal”)
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2021, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-poutine/941685/15 "2021-05-09T00:35:37Z")
There’s a poutine truck down the beach from here.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2021, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-poutine/941685/16 "2021-05-09T01:39:48Z")
> [@gnoitall](#):
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> > [@](#):
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> > The average male would have to jog 2.5 hours to burn off the 1,422 calories contained in the country-style poutine (bacon, chicken, gravy, fries, onions and mushrooms) available nationwide through Smoke’s Poutinerie.
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> 1422 calories?
Poutine’s good if you want a light snack.
But if you want something substantial, come to Rochester and get a garbage plate.
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### Author:  [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2021, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-poutine/941685/17 "2021-05-09T02:38:29Z")
Estimates vary widely, but backpacking burns 500-750 an hour so I probably burned off my poutine the next day. (of course I did eat the next day as well …)
Brian
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### Author:  [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2021, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-poutine/941685/18 "2021-05-09T02:45:49Z")
At Epcot Le Celier (sp) has gourmet poutine, and it was truly awesome.
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### Author:  [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2021, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-poutine/941685/19 "2021-05-09T04:59:40Z")
My son dated a Canadian for about 7 years, until she (now “they,” which is part of the reason for the split) broke up with him and broke his heart. Notwithstanding the fact that within 2-3 months of their break-up he had a new girlfriend he’s been with for about 3 years, he is still tragically angry with the ex and dismisses anything that reminds him of their relationship.
Except poutine. He still loves poutine.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2021, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-poutine/941685/20 "2021-05-09T05:12:27Z")
La poutine, elle est délicieuse!
[ ](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sElTHIgl2tg/hqdefault.jpg)
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