If your fries don't look like any of the above - you can't make a decent Poutine. Just sayin'
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If your fries don't look like any of the above - you can't make a decent Poutine. Just sayin'
Will you please overnight ship me some cheese curds with ice packs? LOL!
I had some poutine in Wisconsin once and on several of my Canada trips. It's very nostalgic and I am sad I can't get them here, except for those crappy frozen and breaded ones. Yuck.
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Put some mozzarella on top of that brown gravy instead of squeakers and you have the famed dish: Disco Fries. Staying alive!
That's because it isn't.It just doesn't seem like a true poutine without the curds
Cute name and implies the desired freshness.I couldn't find curds here in Ontario and finally gave up looking. 'Till one day I discovered they call them Squeakers here.LOL
"Sacrebleu!"? That's French, not Québecois. It should be more like,"Câline de tabernouche!"
I beg to differ. I suppose it depends on when and where one is introduced to poutine. I first met them in Rivière du Loup in about 1978. I hadn't heard of them before and when I got home to Montreal, I couldn't find them anywhere.
In 1977, on a weekly basis, I was sitting in a Perkins with the guys drinking coffee and recapping the night's events eating French Fries with brown gravy on them and no cheese... and WE LIKED IT!
And at no point did we call it poutine then either.
And at no point did we call it poutine then either.
LOL, I used to say Colin de Bin-bin for calisse. But a lot of my friends used Sacrebleu, or tabernak esti, depending on the situations. But... we are both probably going to get a warning as swearing is swearing no matter the language.
When I worked in Lachine I had to cross the 20 (before they made an underpass) during the lunch hour to get to a patate frit place. That was a risky effort that we joked about. It was rudy dangerous especially after they put up some guard-rails down the middle that you had to clamber over (in a skirt, no less!). That was early 70's. The fries were phenomenal just like those pictures but I honestly don't remember if poutine was served there.
But back to the fries - a really good patate frit place had fries like that, in so far as we were concerned. Everything else was just... mehh...
Like you say - depends on when and where you first had them. You go thru phases of go-to places and foods.
When I worked in Lachine I had to cross the 20 (before they made an underpass) during the lunch hour to get to a patate frit place. That was a risky effort that we joked about. It was rudy dangerous especially after they put up some guard-rails down the middle that you had to clamber over (in a skirt, no less!). That was early 70's. The fries were phenomenal just like those pictures but I honestly don't remember if poutine was served there.
But back to the fries - a really good patate frit place had fries like that, in so far as we were concerned. Everything else was just... mehh...
Like you say - depends on when and where you first had them. You go thru phases of go-to places and foods.
caseydog
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It just doesn't seem like a true poutine without the curds
I can get them here, and I like the taste, but the squeaky teeth thing kinda' messes with my head.
CD
caseydog
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I can get them here, and I like the taste, but the squeaky teeth thing kinda' messes with my head.
CD
Funny how different foods find their way into different places.
caseydog
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That's because it isn't.
Cute name and implies the desired freshness.
"Sacrebleu!"? That's French, not Québecois. It should be more like,"Câline de tabernouche!"
Québecois has a lot of similarities with cajun French, or so I've heard.
CD
caseydog
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The HEB in Frisco has a HUGE cheese department. When I decided to try poutine, I went straight to HEB, and there they were... IIRC, more than one brand.
CD
I wasn't swearing unless words like darn and golly are swear words. I used the non-blasphemous variations of those words for that exact consideration.
Like - Yee gads and lil' fishes! my moms favourite. And the worst word she would ever say, especially when extremely fed up/angry... was "Ahh Sheeeeet!" drawn out just like that.
I was the only one that swore - no one else in the family does, well think I mentioned one sister would say "Oh fudge!"
I was the only one that swore - no one else in the family does, well think I mentioned one sister would say "Oh fudge!"
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Disco fries are a classic New Jersey diner dish consisting of French fries topped with melted mozzarella cheese and brown gravy. The dish is especially popular as a late-night snack for people leaving discos and nightclubs, which is how it earned its name in the 1970s.
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