Poutine: Fries with Cheese Curds and Gravy.

seeing this makes me proud to be québécois!

poutine is without any doubt the best fast food dish ever!

Ahh poutine… here’s a guy that loves his poutine: http://www.justfriends.ca/ba/indexx.html

Je crois que ça, c’est Québec!

poutinorama!

(first orange julep now this! thanks for the increase in quebecois posts!)

Please, watch your pronouciation.

It is not pronounced poo-teen.

Try poo-tin. It is closer.

Although, not from Quebec, I was lucky enough to live in buffalo, not too far away from Niagara Falls. The Burger King in Ontario had the most delicious poutine ever.

poutine.. is so good.. I think you can get poutine in a&w least in canada anyways..

It is not pronounced poo-teen.

It is in western Canada. Cripes, the poutine they served at my school was nasty stuff.

Trop bon la poutine!
They have the chicken poutine as well (hey! it’s chicken, that must be good for my diet… not!)
Try it in the winter : minus 40 outside, plus 40 inside! (oh, yeah : Celcius, of course

Man, poutine is awesome. I’m totally shocked to see it on here. Also, out west we do pronounce it poo-teen, but all the Quebecois I know pronounce it poo-tin.

Wiki said :
The dish originated in rural Québec, Canada in the late 1950s and is now popular all over the country. Several communities claim to be the origin of poutine, including Drummondville, Québec (by Jean-Pierre Roy) and Victoriaville, Québec. The most popular tale is the one of Fernand Lachance, from Warwick, Quebec, which claims that poutine was invented in 1957, when a customer ordered fries while waiting for his cheese curds from the Kingsey cheese factory in Kingsey Falls (now in Warwick and bought by Saputo). Lachance is said to have exclaimed ça va faire une maudite poutine (“it will make a hell of a mess”), hence the name. The sauce was allegedly added later, to keep the fries warm longer. Linguists have found no occurrence of the word poutine with this meaning earlier than 1978.

There are many variations of poutine. A common variation, Italian poutine, substitutes gravy with “spaghetti sauce” (a thick tomato and ground beef sauce, roughly analogous to Bolognese sauce), while another popular variation includes sausage slices. Greek poutine consists of shoestring fries topped with feta cheese and a warm Mediterranean vinaigrette.

Some restaurants boast a dozen or more variations of poutine. For instance, you may find more upscale poutine with three-pepper sauce, Merguez sausage, foie gras or even caviar and truffle. Another variation, poutine Galvaude, includes shredded chicken and green peas, often eliminating the cheese — this mimics the typical Québécois preparation of a hot chicken sandwich. When ordering a fast food combination meal in eastern Canada, you can pay extra to get your french fries replaced with a poutine. Note that fast food poutine is considered “fake poutine” by poutine afficionados, as the freshness or the kind of cheese (a common substitution is grated cheese) is not the same as in Québec where you can usually buy fresh cheese curds daily in almost any convenience store.

The etymology of the word is a subject of much debate in Québec. Many believe that it may be an adaptation of the English word pudding, the word being attested from the end of the 19th century in Oscar Dunn’s Canadian French dictionary with the meaning of pudding, and with similar meanings in Acadian French and Cajun French. Some marginal Quebecer linguists think that the word evolved from Provençal poutingo, which means bad stew, under the phonetic influence of English pudding (if so, this would possibly be the only Provençal word to have penetrated the modern Quebec French lexicon). However, the Québec office of the French Language (Office québécois de la langue française) states this is not true.

If you’ve never tried this, and there’s no place that offers it in your area, there are options….

Most purists insist on using cheese curds, but in a pinch, grated mild cheddar will do. Just go to the nearest place that offers fries and gravy, and bring some grated cheddar in a bag with you. Toss it in and stir, or talk to the guy and see if he’ll let you drop the cheese on the fries before he smothers them with gravy.

The secret is that the fries should be HOT, to melt the cheese, and if you can find a place that cuts their own potatoes into fries that’s the best…even better if they fry them in peanut oil, but not many places do.

Burger King poutine is crap. La Belle Province and Valentine are OK. But the best poutines are always from diners and “lunchenettes”.

I’m a French-speaker from Texas, and I’ve never heard of poutine (though it looks delicious). I’m confused about why it would be pronounced “poo-tin” by some, and “poo-teen” by others. I would pronounce it “poo-teen,” though my education and experience in French is mostly from and in France.

Anyway, continuing the theme of Québécois items, let’s have a post on Les Cowboys Fringants–I think they could catch on in the US!

Deeeeee-lish. Miss this stuff.

I live in Ottawa, capital of Canada, home to the Super Frank chip truck. I still believe the best poutine come from Quebec.

It’s a popular item here in Ottawa. We have a diner here with a really great breakfast…It’s called a Hangover Breakfast. Two eggs, meat of your choice (bacon, ham or sausage), baked beans, poutine, toast, and coffee, tea or milk.

I don’t know if it will cure a hangover but it sure keeps you full until noon time.

Poutine rocks it’s so good
Quebec power!!!!

mmm!! I want some poutine, I’m latin but i live in Montreal and I LOVE POUTINE!! and yes quebecoise its the best one!! and hey americans you can make your own homemade poutine will be still good.