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Posted by I_Am_Vince on Jan-23-2008 04:13:

quote:
Originally posted by malek
Mileage might varies with the belle province, which location do you go to?


St. Laurent / Ste Catherine

I was looking for the place that had like 70 different types of poutine, but no one knew where it was I'll find it when I go to Bal en Blanc


Posted by malek on Jan-23-2008 04:45:

quote:
Originally posted by Invasionmix
St. Laurent / Ste Catherine


never been there. a few block up st-laurent there's a much better on.


Posted by zoogla on Jan-23-2008 13:36:

Smuncks, next week?


Posted by smuncky on Jan-23-2008 20:20:

quote:
Originally posted by fayraree
Smuncks, next week?


buddy i'm down for anytime during the weekend. give me some details on what date ur thinking of.


Posted by Abercrombie on Jan-23-2008 20:43:

For me, it's better for me after work weekdays (except most Mondays).


Posted by zoogla on Jan-23-2008 21:26:

quote:
Originally posted by Abercrombie
For me, it's better for me after work weekdays (except most Mondays).

Sorry Smuncks, weeknight wins. Weekends are for fams and girls, didn't you know that?

Hey everyone, how about meeting up for poutine on Thursday, Jan. 31 followed by a movie...I'm thinking "There Will Be Blood" or "Rambo" or something?

(sorry, Smuncks, no "Atonement" for you) lol


Posted by smuncky on Jan-24-2008 01:29:

quote:
Originally posted by fayraree
Sorry Smuncks, weeknight wins. Weekends are for fams and girls, didn't you know that?

Hey everyone, how about meeting up for poutine on Thursday, Jan. 31 followed by a movie...I'm thinking "There Will Be Blood" or "Rambo" or something?

(sorry, Smuncks, no "Atonement" for you) lol




bahhh any day but thurs. i have class at 8am on friday


Posted by soupastah on Jan-24-2008 01:47:

happy birthday


Posted by kotsy on Jan-24-2008 02:20:

Best poutine used to be at Harvey's.. they went wrong some time ago though


Posted by malek on Jan-24-2008 04:57:

I should resell some authentic poutine in TO streets to make some cash


Posted by Yohan on Jan-24-2008 05:04:

quote:
Originally posted by malek
I should resell some authentic poutine in TO streets to make some cash

well, you'd make a lot of money off of TOTAs who seem to have this poutine addiction


Posted by rabbitjoker on May-10-2008 15:51:

More cheese than you can shake a stick at.


Posted by Abercrombie on May-10-2008 19:03:

and real cheese, not the GTA processed crap


Posted by StereoPrincess on Nov-09-2008 14:07:

Real Poutine is coming to Toronto!

http://smokespoutinerie.com/

Apperently opening on Nov 20th, 2008 at 11:30 a.m.


WHO ELSE IS EXCITED ABOUT THIS!?


Posted by Yohan on Nov-09-2008 14:16:

quote:
Originally posted by StereoPrincess
Real Poutine is coming to Toronto!

http://smokespoutinerie.com/

Apperently opening on Nov 20th, 2008 at 11:30 a.m.


WHO ELSE IS EXCITED ABOUT THIS!?

so, what are they doing that makes the poutine 'real'?


Posted by The Ear on Nov-09-2008 14:25:

quote:
Originally posted by StereoPrincess
Real Poutine is coming to Toronto!

http://smokespoutinerie.com/

Apperently opening on Nov 20th, 2008 at 11:30 a.m.


WHO ELSE IS EXCITED ABOUT THIS!?


I am now!!!! Nice find Margs!

I`ve just planned my 1st heart attack on a plate order....goin w/ the pulled pork + double smoked bacon ... hahahahahaha... take THAT arteries!!!!


Posted by StereoPrincess on Nov-09-2008 14:35:

quote:
Originally posted by Yohan
so, what are they doing that makes the poutine 'real'?


hand cut fries, chicken/beef combo gravy, and curds from quebec.


Posted by Intangible on Nov-09-2008 16:17:

omg yummmmm....

If we ever have another TA lunch meet up... I nominate this as the place.


Posted by The Ear on Nov-09-2008 16:59:

quote:
Originally posted by Intangible
omg yummmmm....

If we ever have another TA lunch meet up... I nominate this as the place.


Friday?

I think that's when I'll be checkin this place out anyway.


Posted by T_ALI on Nov-09-2008 17:05:

mmmm...really craving one right now, too bad the GTA's poutine is nothing compared to the ones in Quebec. Have u guys been to this little place near McGill (sorry, forgot the name)? By far the best poutine I've ever had!!


Posted by ChemEnhanced on Nov-09-2008 18:50:

nacho grande poutine here I come.


Posted by smuncky on Nov-09-2008 19:05:

quote:
Originally posted by The Ear
Friday?

I think that's when I'll be checkin this place out anyway.



i like the way that sounds.

i'm free after 11am on friday.


Posted by Abercrombie on Nov-09-2008 19:15:

It's about time a Quebecer brings them to Toronto. So far only Costco used real chunky gouda cheese curds, and the same recipe they server in their Quebec stores. The gravy wasn't that great though.

I'd like to see what kind of fries this new place uses.


On a side note... has anyone read this article in the STar yesterday?

http://www.thestar.com/article/530474

quote:
The war of the curds

A victor is revealed in the long-standing battle to be declared creator of Quebec's famed poutine

Nov 08, 2008 04:30 AM
Marion Kane
Special to the Star

The all-Canadian controversy surrounding the origin of poutine has simmered for decades, occasionally boiling over into a food fight.

Finally, it has been resolved.

On a gloriously sunny fall day, four of us set out to find the answer: myself, my bilingual brother and filmmaker Eric, and two francophones: Eric's girlfriend Claire and camera-woman friend MarieJosee.

We were trying to solve the debate over where, when and by whom Quebec's famous roadside fast food concoction was invented.

Any poutine pilgrimage worth its salt must begin in Bois-Francs: the bucolic, verdant countryside dotted with dairy farms, villages and small towns an hour or two's drive northeast of Montreal.

We have three destinations: Le Roy Jucep restaurant in Drummondville, still alive, hopping and billed on its website, menu and awning as "Plus que l'inventeur de la poutine" ("More than the inventor of poutine").

Next stop, a vintage diner on the small highway that runs through the tiny town of Victoriaville. Max Poutine, a humble eatery, makes no claim to have invented poutine but is a must-visit, with more than 50 versions of the popular dish on its menu.

Our third stop is Warwick, touted by many as the first place to serve poutine in 1957 at a café then called L'Ideal and later renamed Le Lutin Qui Rit (The Laughing Elf). Sadly, this main-street restaurant is no more; its location now a charity shop for children's clothes.

Both claimants to poutine invention are no more. The owner of Drummondville's Le Roy Jucep, Jean-Paul Roy, died a year ago and Fernand Lachance, proprietor of the defunct Warwick café, passed away in 2004. But we have clues, witnesses and evidence that are key ingredients in what turns out to be a successful search.

At its most basic and in its original version, poutine is simply this: hot french fries topped with cheese curds then doused in gravy, referred to in these parts as "la sauce."

At Le Roy Jucep, our source is the affable, chatty and bilingual Daniel Leblanc. He's the long-time manager and now owner of this spacious, bustling establishment that was Quebec's first curbside diner and takes up almost a block.

This spot is known for its excellent burgers, hot dogs and other traditional fast-food fare – but especially for poutine. We order the day's special: Trio de degustation, a poutine tasting trio, for $9.99.

One is your basic and perfect rendition. Piping hot, crispy home-made fries on which magnificent local white cheese curds melted, all soaked with a light but flavourful gravy made, Leblanc says, from Roy's original recipe.

The second is a veggie version, featuring the three key ingredients, plus chunks of tender-crisp green peppers, onion and tomato.

The last is a superb Oktoberfest poutine, with slices of grilled sausage added to the mandatory three-ingredient mix.

Leblanc relates how a customer accidentally invented poutine one busy Saturday in the late 1950s.

"It was a gentleman from Montreal," he explains. "He had the newspaper in one hand and was eating fries with gravy with the other. There was a gallon container of cheese curds on the counter and he asked the waitress to add some curds to his dish of food."

The creation only appeared on the menu as poutine in 1964 after the owner gathered his staff together and asked them to come up with a name for what had been a popular item for several years.

"Somebody said it should be called poutine," he says. "Poutine was slang for the English word "pudding," which our grandmothers used for food that was a mixture of things all put together."

Leblanc is adamant that Warwick's claim to poutine creation is false.

"I have newspapers that prove we were serving it in the 1950s," he continues. "What Fernand Lachance made in 1957 was not poutine. It was just fries with cheese curds."

At Max Poutine, we're tucking into a couple of versions including the house special. The poutine Special Max is divine: your basic poutine crowned with thin slivers of sautéed beef, plus chopped green peppers, tomato, celery and onion.

As we leave, Claire chats with an elderly man seated at the horseshoe counter. It seems he knows Eddy Lanaisse, reputedly the inventor and first man to eat poutine at Lachance's Warwick café. He hands us a napkin with Lanaisse's phone number scribbled on it.

We feel compelled to eat poutine in Warwick, our last stop. At a large cheese shop, milk bar and poutine emporium on the edge of town, we try poutine Galvaude. Rough translation: knock-out poutine. The addition of unappetizing sliced chicken and canned peas is our first poutine disappointment.

We head home, napkin in hand, to phone Lanaisse at his Warwick home.

Through a translator, Lanaisse claims to have been the first man to eat poutine. However, he admits that his version, eaten in 1957 in that Warwick café, was simply french fries topped with cheese curds, no sauce. He says he has witnesses and evidence.

Nevertheless, the winner is Le Roy Jucep, the Drummondville eatery where you can chow down on the original poutine any time, complete with mandatory sauce, and especially at the second annual poutine festival to be held at the end of next August.

Watch the video version of this poutine pilgrimage at marionkane.com.


Posted by StereoPrincess on Nov-09-2008 19:40:

quote:
Originally posted by smuncky
i like the way that sounds.

i'm free after 11am on friday.


only open in two weeks.


Posted by smuncky on Nov-09-2008 20:06:

quote:
Originally posted by StereoPrincess
only open in two weeks.


yup. i was just assuming that he meant the friday after the opening and not this coming friday.


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