Re: Poutine anyone, eh?

by CanuckBob Tue Dec 06, 2016 1:45 pm

I'm gonna ask for some crispy bacon bits on my batch of poutine. Go big or go home is my motto.....

by ferret Tue Dec 06, 2016 1:50 pm

So I was thinking about poutine as a side order to tortiere...and started to feel my arteries hardening. ;(

by RichD Tue Dec 06, 2016 2:25 pm

Bob, they have all kinds of chit to add, but I went traditional without actually studying my options.

Buen provecho.

by Canada_Mike Tue Dec 06, 2016 9:33 pm

Poutine is wonderful. It's rich, indulgent, and not something you eat everyday if you want to live a long and healthy life. Gravy on fries is as Canadian as malt vinegar on fries. It's a national thing like, let me think, oh yeah, hot sauce or maybe (ugh) ketchup on absolutely everything.

I saw the place and expect to try it soon - glad for the reviews.

by Lady Otter Latté Tue Dec 06, 2016 9:41 pm

CanuckBob wrote:I'm gonna ask for some crispy bacon bits on my batch of poutine. Go big or go home is my motto.....

Well, shoot, nobody said there could be bacon involved! That changes everything!

by Trailrunner Tue Dec 06, 2016 10:15 pm

Hahaha

by Flamingo Tue Dec 06, 2016 11:25 pm

Sounds totally gross. Tell you what. You can keep your poutine and I'll keep Rocky Mountain Oysters (Google it) and I get the best of the deal IMHO

by slainte39 Tue Dec 06, 2016 11:35 pm

Flamingo wrote:Sounds totally gross. Tell you what. You can keep your poutine and I'll keep Rocky Mountain Oysters (Google it) and I get the best of the deal IMHO

Rocky mountains oysters covered with melted cheese and hot gravy. Beer

aka rocky mountain poutine.

by RichD Wed Dec 07, 2016 2:41 am

slainte39 wrote:...aka rocky mountain poutine.

You would go nuts for it.

Try criadillas if you see it. Rockies are usually made from sheep but the criadillas are real bully as Ted Roosevelt would say.

by Zedinmexico Wed Dec 07, 2016 5:59 am

My Mother grew up in Lewiston Maine which at the time had a huge french speaking population to work in the mills. So they have Poutine in Maine. She also says everybody spoke french and english. The french is mostly gone but the Poutine survived generations of time.

Z

by Bill Phillips Wed Dec 07, 2016 7:21 am

Poutine is definitely a French Canadian (Quebecois) dish, but not limited to the Province of Quebec and east.

Here is a web page of a chain of restaurants that are spread across Canada and with locations and head office in the U.S.A.

Smokes Poutinerie

Have a look at their "Menu".

Bon Appétit....

by Trailrunner Wed Dec 07, 2016 7:35 am

You can smoke it! Do you get high?

by RichD Wed Dec 07, 2016 7:37 am

Trailrunner wrote:You can smoke it! Do you get high?

Only if the gravy doesn't get the rolling paper wet.

by Canada_Mike Wed Dec 07, 2016 8:01 am

There's a lot of folks who want poutine to be the Canadian national food.

by Trailrunner Wed Dec 07, 2016 8:09 am

What are their BMIs?

by CanuckBob Wed Dec 07, 2016 9:16 am

If you Google "which restaurants serve poutine" you will notice that it is a pretty big item all across NA now. McDonalds, Costco, A&W, Wendy's, KFC & Harvey's to name a few fast food places and there are lists of higher end restaurants in many states serving it. Even Emeril is serving it. It has certainly gained in popularity since I left Canada 5 years ago. I had no idea it was this popular now.

by ferret Wed Dec 07, 2016 9:18 am

If you want to survive a Canadian winter, you definitely need to have a BMI on the higher side. ;)

by Trailrunner Wed Dec 07, 2016 10:03 am

No surprise, fast food emporiums are not known for healthy eating. Just look at the bodies of Americans these days. . .an epidemic of obesity and diabetes. Wonder why??? not

Hawaiians love french fires and gravy too and it's on all the local food menus. Hawaiians also suffer from morbid obesity. The city and county runs a special "ambulance" for these people, it's a flat bed truck. Fork lifts are used to load them. Wanna be like that?

You are what you eat. Eat fat, be fat.

by RichD Wed Dec 07, 2016 10:06 am

Yada, yada, yada. Grown ups need no lectures.

by brigitte Wed Dec 07, 2016 10:09 am

yes but in Hawauu they have a side order of macaroni and cheese and or other spcial dishes all classified as " tambouille " in France..

by CanuckBob Wed Dec 07, 2016 10:31 am

I thought in Hawaii they had a side order of Spam.......

by Trailrunner Wed Dec 07, 2016 10:36 am

hahaha Yep, another low-fat, low-salt "food" item. So, Spam is made up of pork scraps pressed to make something resembling a real food with pink slime added. Where do they get these scraps? Floor sweepings! Provecho!

by CanuckBob Wed Dec 07, 2016 10:40 am

Lips and assholes.........jaja.

by RichD Wed Dec 07, 2016 10:47 am

There are plenty of lips in barbacoa.

by ltollefs Wed Dec 07, 2016 11:15 am

As per usual, someone wrote a song about this very subject...

"Five in one, baby, one in five. No one here gets out alive." Wise words. Eat, drink, be merry.

by ferret Wed Dec 07, 2016 11:37 am

Trailrunner wrote:No surprise, fast food emporiums are not known for healthy eating. Just look at the bodies of Americans these days. . .an epidemic of obesity and diabetes. Wonder why??? not

Hawaiians love french fires and gravy too and it's on all the local food menus. Hawaiians also suffer from morbid obesity. The city and county runs a special "ambulance" for these people, it's a flat bed truck. Fork lifts are used to load them. Wanna be like that?

You are what you eat. Eat fat, be fat.

I disagree...and so does this article.

This depends completely on the context. A diet that is high in carbs AND fat will make you fat, but it’s NOT because of the fat.

In fact, the studies consistently show that diets that are high in fat (but low in carbs) lead to much more weight loss than diets that are low in fat (114, 115, 116).

https://authoritynutrition.com/top-13-nutrition-lies-that-made-the-world-sick-and-fat/

But then what's poutine without the fries.
I also think that sugar substitutes are not all they're cracked up to be and can lead to metabolic disorders like diabetes. I've lost weight since I stopped drinking diet coke.
And I also lost a ton of weight in my thirties by eating high fat/low carb...used to order a small pizza and just eat the toppings and cheese and ate peanut butter by the spoonful and cheddar cheese by the pound.

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