POUTINE... is there anything on this planet more delicious than you? My older brother once told me that there was nothing you could find to eat that wouldn't taste better wrapped in bacon. Now, i love bacon, and while he may be on to something there, i may be more inclined to say that there's nothing you can find to eat that wouldn't taste better smothered in gravy and cheese. mmmm....gravy.....cheeese......
now, i suppose my brother and i could argue about this, but i say.... let's throw some bacon on the poutine and call it even.
Poutine is technically pronounced Pou-stin by the French. Actually, it's very hard to write out the proper pronunciation of this delectable dish! Pouh-steain? puu'stahn? man, unless you actually know a french Canadian...it's hard to imagine the sound of the "tine" part of poutine. So, for all intents and purposes on my blog? you can pronounce it....POOH-TEEN.Like a teenage Cubbly little Tubby ol' Bear. 
although delicious when smothered in cheese and gravy, not a poutine
Not to be confused with this Putin - who's name, apparently, when translated into French is spelled Poutine.
In communist Russia, Poutine eats You!
Also not to be confused with Poo-stain, which luckily for YOU i was unable to find a photo on Google of the kind of racing stripe worthy enough to be on my blog. - whoah. that's a sentence i never thought i'd write.
At one time the only place you could get a poutine was at the Greasy Spoon in your hometown, or at truck stops. Over the years, the Poutine has infiltrated the American fast food chains! You can now buy Poutine at Burger King (mmmmm), KFC, A&W, McDonalds for a while, it's gone now...and yes, even New York Fries. (Their poutine is very tasty)
Poutine is a standard staple of life up here in the Great White North, along with Back Bacon, Maple Syrup, Beer, and Crullers....
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HAHAHA....love the caption under Pooh there...I almost choked on my coffee!
The BEST poutine I have ever had was in Montreal at La Belle Province in Montreal. Every time I go there, that's my first stop. I just don't know how they do it.Any other chain just doesn't hold up!
And I agree with your brother, put bacon on ANYTHING and it makes it better!
I'm going to say it again, just because. In Montreal.
I really need to edit before I hit 'publish'. lol
montreal.
We don't have that around here. I don't really get it - when you order it out - say in Montreal, for example, at La Belle Province or wherever, does it come as just a plate of gravy and cheese or is it on top of something or do you order something and ask for it on top of it? I'm so confused. It looks like it tastes awesome (although also looks fattening...must resist temptation) arrgghh
At the small-town greasy-spoon "diner" between the farm and the city, I once made the mistake of asking for poutine. This was several years ago, when God Himself was still young.
"Wha?" the Lady said to me.
"You know, poutine...it's fries with gravy and cheese on top."
"You wanna chip with gravy...annna cheeeez?"
"Yes, please!" I exclaimed, very excited, and feeling as if I, single-handedly, had brought pan-Canadian "haute-couture" to this small town. Then my plate arrived.
Fries. With gravy on top. And one, single cheese slice, horribly and slowly bubbling and liquefying into unnameable oil-and-whatever-else-goes-in-those-things.
To this day, I never ask for Poutine (or Putin, or Pooh-teen, or Poo-stain) unless it is on the menu. I can not even begin to describe the disgustingness of that one plate of fries.
Incidentally, I don't find ice cream better wrapped in bacon, but that could be because the ice cream gets so very difficult to eat when next to high-temperature foods. Also, gum. I don't think gum wrapped in bacon would be good. But Poutine wrapped in bacon.....aaaaaahhhhhggggghhhhh
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Poutine in it's simplest form is fries topped with cheese curds then Smothered in gravy. when you order it you simply say: "Give me some of that sweet sweet nectar of the gods." and they'll bring you a plate o' cheesy/gravy-ey/french fry-ey goodness. Poutine can stand alone in my country. it is it's own entity. especially if you order it somewhere, like Montreal. :) hope that clears things up... oh yeah, and it is sometimes refered to as "Heart Attack on a Plate" so you don't want to order all the time...well, you may WANT to...but you shouldn't.
Cenobyte:
i'm so sorry you ever experienced something so disgusting as a piece of plastic cheese on a beautful mound of tasty fries and delectable gravy. if that were me, that would be the stuff of nightmares.
Brent, my brother, stands by his statement and tells me that yes, even ice cream would be better wrapped in bacon. Next time he comes out to visit, i'm totally going to make him eat bacon wrapped ice cream. So i agree with you on that...and also gum - that would be gross.
Let's get together over bacon wrapped poutine and discuss this further. :?)
I love me some poutine. Put bacon in it and I might just have to run for Parliament. I could not possibly be more proud to be Canadian than if I sat in front of bacon and poutine at the same time.
viva la canada
mmmm, poutine.
Thanks to you, I have been craving for days...
BK has the best veggi-burgers and poutine, they rocks my socks.
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