Today show "Poutine" segment on now.

[xipetotec]

Amen!

Sometimes restaurants choose to "elevate" perfect street food to new heights rather than leave them as they were created.!

Nothing better than roaming the lake side with a container of freshly made poutine! Gosh I love cheddar cheese curds!

Me too. In fact, in Quebec you can get them at pretty much any corner store/grocery store. Many people ( myself included ) often will eat them all by themselves as a snack. Like some might eat a bag of chips.

mmmm.... cheese curds....

 

[BEASLYBOO]

Like some might eat a bag of chips.
mmmm.... cheese curds....

I was born in La Sarre, Quebec! Live in Florida now, lots of things I really miss!

 

[Jareds_mommy]

we like dark gravy all the way here too!

costcos Poutine isn't that great here though the gravy isn't hot enough to make the cheese goooooooy

NY fries' isn' that bad

 

[xipetotec]

I was born in La Sarre, Quebec! Live in Florida now, lots of things I really miss!

Oh wow, pretty far north. What a change in weather! I'm in Montreal, but have family in Chicoutimi. ( For my family, "Tourtiere" is a deep dish stew with a potatoes, meat and a crust on top not a meat pie. That to us is called "Pate de Viande". But I digress )

Aren't there places in Miami where Quebeccers have opened up "poutine" places? Not that you said you live in Miami, but it IS closer to you than coming all the way back up here

 

[Paticake]

Poutine- to us is a meat mixture pork or beef with a grated potato mixture wrapped around the meat tied in cheesecloth and boiled. My DH loves them with ketchup. I have never been a fan. We live in north central MA. They look like dirty snowballs and there has never been cheese. These are the only one's my French Canadian family ever made.

 

[xipetotec]

Poutine- to us is a meat mixture pork or beef with a grated potato mixture wrapped around the meat tied in cheesecloth and boiled. My DH loves them with ketchup. I have never been a fan. We live in north central MA. They look like dirty snowballs and there has never been cheese. These are the only one's my French Canadian family ever made.

Your French Canadian family must be Acadian? The poutine mentioned above is a Quebec dish ( and in Quebec, there is only one poutine ). But I see what you mean from Wikipedia:

"In New Brunswick, there is an earlier traditional Acadian dish known as poutine râpée, which is completely different from the "poutine québécoise". The Acadian poutine is a ball of grated and mashed potato, salted, filled with chicken or pork in the centre, and boiled. The result is a moist greyish dumpling about the size of a baseball. It is commonly eaten with salt and pepper or brown sugar. It is believed to have originated from the German Klöße, prepared by early German settlers who lived among the Acadians. Many other dishes, similar or not, are known by the same name."

Sound about right?

 

[Paticake]

Yes both of my grandparents came from New Brunswick.

 

[xipetotec]

Yes both of my grandparents came from New Brunswick.

Cool! ... My father is from NB, but he's Anglophone ( Up near Perth Andover ) , so no poutine on his side ... my mother is the one from Quebec.

 

[Grayce]

BLECH!

Sorry...I've had Poutine, and it is nasty. The blue cheese does me in.

Blue cheese!?!? No wonder you thought it was nasty. It should have cheese curds on it. Super yummy!!

 

[pumba]

My granddaughter goes to a college in northern Maine and the resident assistants when they are not on duty travel to a restaurant just so they can have this dish......GROSS....she loves it

 

[honeydiane1953]

Is this an ugly word.

 

[BEASLYBOO]

Is this an ugly word.

No, your confused with another french word spelled totally different having nothing to do with food!

 

[xipetotec]

No, your confused with another french word spelled totally different having nothing to do with food!

Yes, DW's sister was in town from Ontario ( english speaking Canada, for the most part ) and they were at a McDonald's here when she asked if they served it ( but she pronounced it wrong to sound like that "bad" word you are referring to ) and DW, without missing a beat turned to her and said "Oh yes, they'll serve you here"

 

[Chloesmom]

I had no idea le Cellier had Poutine.. I just booked it for our June trip so i can try thiers. Its been a year or so since I have been to Canada so I haven't had poutine in a while .
I saw on Anthony Boudain " No Reservations" where he was in Quebec and he went to this place that had all these fancy versions of poutine with all these toppings... and I thought it wasnt right.. It needs to stay simple. Thats the beauty of it.
And no.. it's not good for you but its ok for a treat here and there.

 

[onelilspark]

My boyfriend grew up in Burlington, VT (right across the boarder from Quebec.) He loves Poutine, but rants about how no one in the States makes it right ...He also has a thing against yellow cheddar