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(National Post) Asinine Like chocolate and peanut butter, some things just go great together. So why is a Canadian town considering banning poutine from hockey rinks?   (network.nationalpost.com) divider line 73
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smooshie [TotalFark] 2009-02-28 10:37:33 AM  
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Wow, I've never eaten poutine before, but that looks so farking delicious.

 
40yoVirgin [TotalFark] 2009-02-28 10:55:41 AM  
smooshie: Wow, I've never eaten poutine before, but that looks so farking delicious.

I'm totally starving.... I'd kill for some of that for breakfast right now....

*droooooooools*

 
eddyatwork [TotalFark] 2009-02-28 11:01:44 AM  
Because that stuff is disgusting.

 
oldebayer [TotalFark] 2009-02-28 11:07:19 AM  
You just try playing hockey after a bunch of rowdy fans start throwing cups of poutine on the ice.

 
big_pth [TotalFark] 2009-02-28 11:17:07 AM  
Look, canucks, your banks may still be stable and doing well, but if you don't get rid of that gravy covered crap you will always be just a large Tim Hortons.

 
Superjew 2009-02-28 11:50:46 AM  
I think they were having trouble with patrons being inextricably wedged in the arena seating.

 
ridcullylives 2009-02-28 11:52:32 AM  
big_pth: Look, canucks, your banks may still be stable and doing well, but if you don't get rid of that gravy covered crap you will always be just a large Tim Hortons.

Is that a problem?

/Loves me some Timmys.

 
eraser8 2009-02-28 11:52:37 AM  
Too many heart attacks?

 
g4m8i7 2009-02-28 11:53:43 AM  
FTFAComments: I have heard of Poutine but never seen it but after looking at the picture can't imagine any one eating it, especially me. God that looks awful apart from the fact that it could cause cancer (see recent report on French fries) and clog arthritis. One would have to drink Drano to open them up.

Damn Poutine! Clogged my arthritis again.

 
BumpInTheNight 2009-02-28 11:55:55 AM  
This is a total affront to my religious beliefs.

 
signaljammer 2009-02-28 11:56:12 AM  
I think the medical community is a trifle hubristic. They haven't conquered death, only abeyed it in a few, typically under terms that make life far less worthwhile. A life without poutine? Some life.

 
chumboobler 2009-02-28 11:56:23 AM  
I guess it is time to legislate all fat out of any place that sells food at all. It is clearly a danger to society. Personal responsibility and self control have nothing to do with it. The government must save me from myself. Although I maintain a healthy weight and exercise regularly I should not be allowed to have the option of occasionally having a fatty treat. Thank you government! You have saved me yet again!

 
kruppz 2009-02-28 11:56:59 AM  
Poutine in a hockey rink? pfft.
Donairs are the way to go at the arena.

 
JMurray 2009-02-28 11:57:19 AM  
wtf is all over my fries?
I mean really, it just looks gross...

Is it reallly gravy? It looks more like chocolate.

*ponders*

 
A-Rth-Urp-Hil-Ipdenu 2009-02-28 11:57:31 AM  
Oh my...want, want, want!

A Canadian friend of mine made some for me a while ago. It is now a constant struggle for me not to make some all the time.

It's been three months since the last time...I should be fine, right? I'm still young, my arteries should be able to take it!

 
iamscotto 2009-02-28 11:59:04 AM  
I seriously wanna try poutine. I've had gravy fries. I've had cheese fries. I've even had cheese fries with gravy. (If you grew up around NJ diners you'd understand.) But poutine seems to be a level of gluttony that we Twinkie-frying Americans have yet to waddle our way up to.

Anyone know where one can get poutine in the NYC area? (Not puta. Poutine.)

 
LlamaGirl 2009-02-28 11:59:17 AM  
I am a fan of mixing foods that should not be mixed, but that stuff is disgusting.

/tried it
//hated it

 
Xlr8urfark 2009-02-28 11:59:48 AM  
so poutine is french fries with gravy and is that cheese, Or mashed potatoes?

 
LlamaGirl 2009-02-28 12:00:46 PM  
Xlr8urfark: so poutine is french fries with gravy and is that cheese, Or mashed potatoes?

cheese curds

 
SeriousGeorge 2009-02-28 12:02:06 PM  
Poutine is great, but I take care to only eat it now and then.

 
SeamusFerrell 2009-02-28 12:05:31 PM  
iamscotto: I seriously wanna try poutine. I've had gravy fries. I've had cheese fries. I've even had cheese fries with gravy. (If you grew up around NJ diners you'd understand.) But poutine seems to be a level of gluttony that we Twinkie-frying Americans have yet to waddle our way up to.

Anyone know where one can get poutine in the NYC area? (Not puta. Poutine.)


Christ you are lazy. (new window)

 
berylman 2009-02-28 12:08:01 PM  
Explosive diarrhea... on ice!

 
Xlr8urfark 2009-02-28 12:13:11 PM  
LlamaGirl: Xlr8urfark: so poutine is french fries with gravy and is that cheese, Or mashed potatoes?

cheese curds


Um, yeah that doesn't sound all that appetizing. Keep the gravy though, you know how us southerners like gravy on everything.

/it's true

 
Stonerface 2009-02-28 12:18:04 PM  
Whoever was insane enough to come up with this retarded idea needs to be charged with treason. Oh and they should be labelled as terrorists for scaring the innocent people of Gatineau with this nightmarish idea.

Sure poutine isn't the healthiest low-fat option out there. But if you actually take your arse off the couch and move around enough, it really isn't hard to keep a small waistline.

Poutine is an extremely important food for me when I'm working in the bush. The work is so hard you need an extremely high calorie intake to keep up. If it wasn't for super fatty food like poutine and doughnuts I would have to eat six meals a day.

 
sicboy 2009-02-28 12:20:31 PM  
That's gotta be the saddest looking poutine I've ever seen.

 
specialk111 2009-02-28 12:27:20 PM  
Poutine in my hockey rink? That's a puckin'

 
Sue Dunham 2009-02-28 12:28:38 PM  
FTA
Mr. Egan complained how Gatineau is banning fun elsewhere - a wide range of music... from "danse" to "electronica" to "techno" to "rap" to "hip hop" to "hard rock" to "hard rock alternatif," as listed by officials, could be on the chopping block at a convention centre after some partygoers got carried away in the fall. He noted in his column: "Other than 24-hour Céline, it doesn't leave a whole lot, does it?"
Man, that used to be a real party town,too.

 
ciarraic 2009-02-28 12:32:00 PM  
Further proof that Canada is still part of the Commonwealth. If the people want poutine, let them have poutine!!

 
biglot 2009-02-28 12:41:13 PM  
Poutine? Put it in?

 
Violent Mary Ellen [TotalFark] 2009-02-28 12:49:51 PM  
I didn't have poutine until I was in first year university, and then I became addicted. (Frosh 15 became Frosh 30) But 5 years ago, I went to Newfoundland, and they have fries and dressing and gravy.... Even better. When we got home, we went and bought stovetop stuffing and gravy and would make it as a treat, usually weekly. Miraculously, I stopped eating both, and went back to my pre-university size. But reading this article makes me want both, badly....

 
The Gunslinger Roland 2009-02-28 12:54:55 PM  
www.siberianlight.net

 
slave1 2009-02-28 12:59:01 PM  
smooshie: Wow, I've never eaten poutine before, but that looks so farking delicious.

I married a Canadian, so I've been to Canada and eaten poutine....

It IS farking delicious

/wishes America realized the awesomeness of fries and gravy
//it doesn't even have to be poutine and have the cheese
///*drools*

 
fireclown 2009-02-28 12:59:37 PM  
Ontario has its share of things that tick me off, but crap if Poutine doesn't even out for most of it. Give the Canadians their Poutine!

 
fireclown 2009-02-28 01:00:40 PM  
slave1: /wishes America realized the awesomeness of fries and gravy
//it doesn't even have to be poutine and have the cheese


Yes, it does. And that isn't cheese. It's curd.

 
McKeesport Beer Baron 2009-02-28 01:06:59 PM  
So that's what they were talking aboot in Super Troopers..I thought the cop said "protein"..Never heard of poutine. Now I must find some.

 
Shadyman 2009-02-28 01:07:38 PM  
Shredded cheese pseudo-poutine is NOT the same thing as cheese curds.

 
brantgoose 2009-02-28 01:11:58 PM  
Since the article doesn't say WHY they propose to ban poutine (I assume it's because it's deadly poison that will kill you slowly and painfully) I looked for other articles.

The OC (The Ottawa Citizen, not to be confused with the show of that name) says they propose to ban poutine AND chocolate bars, cookies and soft drinks. They want to serve spaghetti, sandwiches, etc., and other crap that nobody likes and which can be prepared a couple of decades in advance of serving.

And sports drinks.

Clearly they are insane.

Not because they want to ban poutine, which is all right by me, but because they seem to imply that spaghetti is not a junk food (it's just over-cooked starch with cheese and some vaguely unsavoury sauce--like poutine), and still more perversely, that sports drinks aren't worse than soft drinks. They are. They're nothing but twice the sugar and twice the caffeine in the same amount of distilled water.

Idiots.

Or as they say in French, idiots. They sound even stupider in French. Eee-DEEe-oh. Try it.

I don't like poutine. We managed to get by without it through 350 winters and summers and nobody really needs it, but then I don't like pea soup, or beans and lard either. Well, maybe a bit of baked beans once in a while. To mortify the flesh as penance for my sins.

These are peasant foods designed for people who need 5,000-6,000 calories a day or more.

Not for you!

Chocolate bars? Are you kidding?

My guess is that they are jumping on the anti-junk food bandwagon to save money on concession stands and cleaning.

Poutine is a terrible thing to put in your belly but it's even worse on the ice or floor. Stick to throwing octopuses, jackaninnies!

Poutine really gums up the works of the ole Zamboni, and somebody has to heat up the gravy.

There's a sentence that probably no one has ever said or written before. Unless I'm right, and the real problem is cleaning and food-prep expenses, not hockey fans killing themselves slowly with their love for greasy, salty, fatty, oily, starchy, sugary, cottony fresh junk food.

I just put cotton in there to complete the list of what I call the Seven White Deaths: the worst, most deadly, over-subsidized crap in the world.

I blame Americans for (1) inventing all these farm subsidies and (2) spoiling the game of hockey. I'm not angry, just terribly, terribly hurt. And a bit too chubby.

Fortunately I haven't been to a hockey game since I was an undergraduate and personally knew one or both teams. Hockey's more fun if you know the players. It makes baseball almost bearable. Football is still as dumb as half a brick, but at least the quarterbacks have IQs over 90.

 
GoteamVenture 2009-02-28 01:13:19 PM  
O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!
From far and wide, O Canada,
We stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

 
OniNeko 2009-02-28 01:17:52 PM  
smooshie: Wow, I've never eaten poutine before, but that looks so farking delicious.

I, for one, am adverse to eating anything that looks like it just dropped out of my ass. To each their own, though.

 
Evil Canadian [TotalFark] 2009-02-28 01:30:12 PM  
I can't imagine Gatineau, of all places, banning poutine. I was an earlier adopter of eating the stuff when I lived in the Ottawa area. Couldn't get it where I came from, couldn't get it in Toronto when I first moved here.

What is the world coming to? NO POUTINE IN GATINEAU? The horror!

 
PacManDreaming [TotalFark] 2009-02-28 01:32:24 PM  
"Like banning rainbows and happiness"

Rainbows don't make you happy. They make you gay!

 
FourPetesake 2009-02-28 01:36:20 PM  
"What really needs to happen is the rise of poutine here in the states. There aren't enough people who have tried this amazing wonder of artery-clogging junk food wonder yet."

I'd grab some!

 
MrBentor 2009-02-28 01:44:55 PM  
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MMMM! Brains in milk gravy (new window).

 
LinaBo 2009-02-28 02:01:23 PM  
The photo in the article isn't a very good example of poutine. The cheese isn't even a little bit melted, and the fries look like they were baked in an oven. The gravy looks about right, aside for the lighting or whatever making it appear a bit dark.

I'm planning some poutine for dinner, tonight. I'm going to use the brown duck stock I have in the freezer (from Christmas) for the gravy, pan fry some hand-cut potatoes with the skins on, and use some extra old white cheddar crumbles over the fries (the store was out of white cheese curds).

They shouldn't ban this stuff in arenas and what not. Going to see the game, just like the food they serve there, is an occasional treat. If it were, say, a school or hospital, then I'd understand.

Instead of banning it, they should enact something that will ensure a couple of healthier options on the menu... in case anyone wishes to eat a salad while watching some guys beat the shat out of each other on the ice.

 
squidsrus 2009-02-28 02:18:38 PM  
/wishes America realized the awesomeness of fries and gravy

They're called "Wets" between Boston and Baltimore, Bubba.

 
Dear Jerk 2009-02-28 02:22:27 PM  
They're called "Wets" between Boston and Baltimore, Bubba.

I think he meant before they're eaten.

 
lorosammy 2009-02-28 02:23:09 PM  
That looks tasty. We in Louisina eat Jalapeno, Cheese and Gravy Fries. Great combination. That along with lots of the good stuff.

 
Samsquantch 2009-02-28 02:23:14 PM  
From my cold, dead, gravy covered hands.

 
swamp_of_dumb 2009-02-28 02:28:30 PM  
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Disapproves

/link is as hot as Rowsdower!

 
Tannhauser Gatekeeper 2009-02-28 02:31:58 PM  
I like fries with cream gravy and lots of pepper; I do sympathize with Canadians deprived of poutine. That's just wrong.

 
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