Pyat goes on yet another freaking lunch adventure! What? It's a slack time at work, okay?

[pyat]

May God have mercy on my colon.


And anidada wanted to go to the Poutinerie, so there we went. I had the "Cottage" - poutine covered with hot dogs. (WHAT????)


This is a nice photo of anidada... marred only slightly by the long string of cheese dribble dangling from nottheterritory's maw.


anidada ate this.


And now nottheterritory is sneering at the camera! Sneering!


After, we walked to the Silver Snail...


Which mostly sells this sort of thing, these days. Sigh. Look, Kevin with frosted glasses, clear glasses, and in colour!

Comments

[jdarkwulf.livejournal.com]

That first picture is vaguely terrifying, and yet I can't help but wonder...

[pyat.livejournal.com]

I eated the whole thing.

[melstra.livejournal.com]

I will say, that while I am a Canadiophie (partially out of necessity), i have never understood Poutine. Jeff frequently speaks wistfully of it, and I have had it a couple times, but in my world, gravy belongs firmly on mashed or baked potatoes, not fried ones. And don't get me started on all the other "goop." I don't even eat cheese fries in US pubs. Sadly, both of your pix look to me like the inside of a garbage bin rather than a takeaway box.

But I still love you crazy Canucks. (And I'm just as crazy in different ways.)

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Well, this is the thing... to me, it also looks like the inside of a garbage can.

Yet, I still wanted to eat it. National delusion, or something. :)

[nottheterritory.livejournal.com]

If it's any consolation, I don't think I meant to sneer - I cannot, for the life of me, imagine what I was thinking, but my poutine was quite good!

[foomf.livejournal.com]

Poutine, because, a Big Mac doesn't have enough grease in it.

[relee.livejournal.com]

What I don't understand is how my brother can put gravy, ketchup, salt and vinnegar onto french fries and think it's good. Those things don't mix! You have one at a time! Salt and vinnegar counts as one thing!

[melstra.livejournal.com]

Amen! Though I don't like salt&vinegar or gravy (or mayo) on french fries, just ketchup. And I don't put the ketchup ON the fries, it's strictly for dipping. Otherwise the fries get soggy...which seems to be the whole POINT of poutine. Ewwww.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

I eat that!

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was just catching you in the middle of forming a charming smile.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Big Macs are sooooo 1980. Pfft. 21st century eaters require something a little heftier than that, sir!

[hillarygayle.livejournal.com]

Good lord. So terrifying but I would absolutely try it.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

And you will! When you come visit! :)

[zenten.livejournal.com]

I don't see the gravy working with vinegar or ketchup, ketchup, salt and vinegar works on the right kind of fry (which is thick cut, but not super tasty).

[zenten.livejournal.com]

Poutine is one of those things that I never had (or even really heard of) until I moved to Ottawa. Same as Shwarma, or Pita Pit.

[summerfields.livejournal.com]

*drool*

(also, fries, gravy, ketchup, salt AND (white) vinegar is awesome...at WCBC we would also add stuffing to that)

[relee.livejournal.com]

I like salt and vinnegar when I'm having fish and chips, otherwise I usually either have just salt, or ketchup. Gravy is good on occasion too.

Those fancy things they put on fries at the Taco Bell are kind of good, but also kind of neccesary to hide the fact they have the worst fries of all.

Gravy is good to get your fries moist with. Gravy and potatos just go hand in hand with flavor.

[relee.livejournal.com]

Do they still sell Quadro Big Macs with four times the patties of regular Big Macs?

I like the McRib, but what's up with those weird pickles they started adding to it?

[foomf.livejournal.com]

HAH, I say to you.

That immense blob of deep-fried potato sticks, cheese curd, and brown gravy that you Canajuns call poutine is a creation of the 1950s!!

It is utterly last-century!!

[lonita.livejournal.com]

I'm impressed.

[lonita.livejournal.com]

I'm having fond flashbacks to Hamilton's Silver Snail, lo these many years gone, sadly.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Ooh, yes. I'd go in on Saturdays and rifle through books I couldn't afford (usually), and watch the strange new "Japanimation" cartoons they'd show.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

NOMNOMNOM!

[ladyperegrine.livejournal.com]

I ♥ poutine.

I haven't tried it with hot dogs, but it doesn't sound half-bad to me. anidada's looks good too.

[anidada.livejournal.com]

Mine had mushrooms, fried onions, bacon and chicken (very little of the latter, though). Not bad... but not as good as standard poutine made with onion rings rather than fries. :D