Food talk : poutine
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<div class="IPBDescription">I love it. Have you ever had one ?</div>Funny topic.
Tonight at the office, we were just talking about places here in Montreal where to order <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poutine" target="_blank">Poutine</a>. Cause we LOVE poutine. Some places here have like 20 different kinds of poutines.
Doing a search on Internet for best poutine places here, I found interesting articles. <a href="http://www.montrealpoutine.com/?history" target="_blank">One historical article</a> said that for a long time, people were actualy embarassed to admit they loved poutine because it was considered to be a low-food type of meal (probalby more because they felt it was a meal for people having no money). Even the Prime Minister was ashamed to say if he liked eating poutine or not in 1991 on live cameras.
The same article mentioned the origine of it. It was created around 1957 in a city I grew up in. I heard lots of rumors about where it came from while I grew up but never heard or read an official statement about it.
There is even a <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=116246284112016403887.000001126b360ee3d68c4&ll=42.666127,-61.260718&spn=52.025465,138.164063&z=3&om=1" target="_blank">world map on Google</a> about places in the world where they serve Poutine.
I know this subject may seam a bit weird. It is a very well know meal around here and lots of people eat it and love it. I grew up with it and originating from my neck of the woods, I was just wondering who from other countries besides Canada ever had one. What was it and did you liked it ?
My favorite kind is called a Galvaude and is only found in the East part of Canada, in Gaspésie. Its served in a big place with 3 inches tall of fries, with sauce, cheese, diced up tomatoes, cold slaw, pees and chicken. Hummm..... poutine.
Have you had your poutine today ?
Tonight at the office, we were just talking about places here in Montreal where to order <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poutine" target="_blank">Poutine</a>. Cause we LOVE poutine. Some places here have like 20 different kinds of poutines.
Doing a search on Internet for best poutine places here, I found interesting articles. <a href="http://www.montrealpoutine.com/?history" target="_blank">One historical article</a> said that for a long time, people were actualy embarassed to admit they loved poutine because it was considered to be a low-food type of meal (probalby more because they felt it was a meal for people having no money). Even the Prime Minister was ashamed to say if he liked eating poutine or not in 1991 on live cameras.
The same article mentioned the origine of it. It was created around 1957 in a city I grew up in. I heard lots of rumors about where it came from while I grew up but never heard or read an official statement about it.
There is even a <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=116246284112016403887.000001126b360ee3d68c4&ll=42.666127,-61.260718&spn=52.025465,138.164063&z=3&om=1" target="_blank">world map on Google</a> about places in the world where they serve Poutine.
I know this subject may seam a bit weird. It is a very well know meal around here and lots of people eat it and love it. I grew up with it and originating from my neck of the woods, I was just wondering who from other countries besides Canada ever had one. What was it and did you liked it ?
My favorite kind is called a Galvaude and is only found in the East part of Canada, in Gaspésie. Its served in a big place with 3 inches tall of fries, with sauce, cheese, diced up tomatoes, cold slaw, pees and chicken. Hummm..... poutine.
Have you had your poutine today ?
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What makes it non-veggie?
BEEF FAT! (and cheese depending on how veggie you are)
Poutine is not really found around here (NYC) for lack of proper cheese curds. There are a few places that sell it (<a href="http://www.pommesfrites.ws/" target="_blank">Omme Frites</a>), but I think it is more just cheese fries w/ gravy.
However, Cheese Fries W/ Gravy is a Diner staple (generally made with American cheese, but you can sometimes find it made with cheddar).
Side note, Belgium Fries are are awesome.
vegetarians will eat animal product derivatives, vegans will not.
either way, I'm Canadian, of course I eat poutine. Go to a good ski lodge after some good downhill. Warms you up and it tastes pretty good.
vegetarians will eat animal product derivatives, vegans will not.
either way, I'm Canadian, of course I eat poutine. Go to a good ski lodge after some good downhill. Warms you up and it tastes pretty good.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Vegans are a subset of Vegetarians (all Vegans are vegetarians, but not all vegetarians are vegans).
Beef fat is NOT a animal product, it is the animal itself (Well, a good portion of it). Thus gravy (unless veggie gravy, and that stuff IS good) is not vegetarian.
there is actualy a difference (read the incredibly biased wiki entry cheese curd)
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I should say that I am Canadian, but a west coast Canadian. Poutine is almost unknown out there, and the places that do have it serve it poorly. Good poutine is one of the few reasons I like Montreal (another, of course, being smoked meat).
And vegetarians are not really a unified group. Unlike vegans, they don't have a strict "code" they adhere to. One vegetarian may eat stuff that another refuses.
And vegetarians are not really a unified group. Unlike vegans, they don't have a strict "code" they adhere to. One vegetarian may eat stuff that another refuses.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
quite true. I make up my rules as I go along. I drink/eat tons of dairy. I'll eat eggs if they're an ingredient in something, but eating an egg as an egg is something I don't do - too hard to divorce my mind from what it actually is, even if no animals died to make them. just seems gross - but really, you can make anything seem gross if you talk about it the right (wrong?) way, vegetables included, so I'm not one of those preachy vegetarians or anything like that. I believe that most food animals are probably mistreated in the food production process, but I'm not going to start a war over it. I'm almost anti-animal-rights, in fact. I work for a pharma company that obviously tests on animals. I get a big kick out of people who get bent out of shape over things like dog fighting or seal clubbing - sure, it's so horrible to kill a couple of cute animals, when meanwhile we have institutionalized slaughter of millions of food animals every day... but whatcha gonna do? people gotta eat.
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No, he doesn't eat eggs <i>alone</i>. It's fine if they're mixed in with something. It's more of a pyschological thing than a moral thing, I guess.
Sounds like it'd pwn though.
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La Banquise. Yea I found out about it too yesterday. Never went there. The guys I'm working with know about it and they DID eat the bacon one. Kinda makes me want to try it I just don't know how long I will live afterwards. I am 43, physicly !
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