All joking aside, I live in northern Ontario where we have a large enough French Canadian culture up here and poutine is everywhere in just about every chip stand you can find.
A good true original Quebecois style poutine will be served with curds and gravy … most places will even refer to it as just ‘Quebecois Poutine’
A lesser, cheaper style is one where they just use mozzarella cheese instead. Most places just classify this as a ‘Regular Poutine’. There are also many places that will use cheddar or some other type of cheese as a substitute.
And if you are ever wandering around this part of the country, or in most other places around Canada and you order a poutine … ask them if it is a Regular or Quebec poutine … the difference is in asking if the poutine has curds or any other type of cheese.
I mentioned that in order to fix your poutine without curds by playing the Canadian National anthem … you should probably change that to instead playing the unofficial/official Quebec anthem Gens du pays
If you ever get the chance, you should do a cross country trek … Pacific to Atlantic (or vice versa) … it’s not that difficult as Canada is a pretty laid back country. You’d have to go searching for really terrible places and neighborhoods to be in any real danger.
And if all you’re searching for is a classic poutine then go straight to southern Quebec and search for any place that serves fresh cut fries, big chunks of Quebec cheese curds and hot, hot gravy.
And even if you can’t find these things or can’t see all of it, you should visit Canada in any way you can because all of it is a beautiful place. Remember, it’s not a matter of ‘if you can’ … it’s ‘when you can’.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
All joking aside, I live in northern Ontario where we have a large enough French Canadian culture up here and poutine is everywhere in just about every chip stand you can find.
A good true original Quebecois style poutine will be served with curds and gravy … most places will even refer to it as just ‘Quebecois Poutine’
A lesser, cheaper style is one where they just use mozzarella cheese instead. Most places just classify this as a ‘Regular Poutine’. There are also many places that will use cheddar or some other type of cheese as a substitute.
And if you are ever wandering around this part of the country, or in most other places around Canada and you order a poutine … ask them if it is a Regular or Quebec poutine … the difference is in asking if the poutine has curds or any other type of cheese.
I mentioned that in order to fix your poutine without curds by playing the Canadian National anthem … you should probably change that to instead playing the unofficial/official Quebec anthem Gens du pays
Monzcarro@feddit.uk 1 month ago
I would really love to try the Quebec type. Hopefully one day I will fetch to Canada to have the real stuff.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
If you ever get the chance, you should do a cross country trek … Pacific to Atlantic (or vice versa) … it’s not that difficult as Canada is a pretty laid back country. You’d have to go searching for really terrible places and neighborhoods to be in any real danger.
And if all you’re searching for is a classic poutine then go straight to southern Quebec and search for any place that serves fresh cut fries, big chunks of Quebec cheese curds and hot, hot gravy.
And even if you can’t find these things or can’t see all of it, you should visit Canada in any way you can because all of it is a beautiful place. Remember, it’s not a matter of ‘if you can’ … it’s ‘when you can’.