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What is poutine and why is it Canada's pride?
So he said, oh, dump some brown gravy on that stuff and said, how you like that for warm? Yeah. But in French.
Do you want me to try the French quote? Oh, sure. Ça va te faire une maudite poutine. Nice. So, okay, we've got our first entrant, Fernand Lachance, courtesy of Eddie Lannes. This is 1957? I guess, no, 1963 is when he added the gravy.
Yeah, that's when poutine, complete poutine was 1963. But our next guy comes from in Drummondville, Jean-Paul Roy, and he said, no, I had a place, a drive-in restaurant called Leroy Jusep, and in 1964, which was clearly a year later, He said, I've been serving fries with this sauce though since 1958. I called it patat sauce. And he said, customers started adding cheese curds.
I was selling those at the snack counter. And they started dumping those in there. So he started doing that and added it to the regular menu and named it fromage patat sauce. And kind of a fun little side note there, apparently he couldn't find a container for In his province, like that could even hold this stuff, it was so heavy.
So he had to go to Toronto to source a vendor who could provide these sturdy containers.
Yeah. Pretty fun. So poutine, actually the name of it is, it essentially means messy or mess, at least in slang in Quebec for sure. But people say that it's probably or possibly one of the etymological theories is that it hails from the English word pudding. And not pudding like you and I think that has the jiggly skin off top that you have to peel off when you take it out of the refrigerator.
This is pudding as in like figgy pudding, which is essentially like a mixture of various foods, sometimes fig, and that it can be kind of messy. It's not like, it's just like a hodgepodge, just kind of mixed together, that kind of messy. And so poutine, possibly from pudding, is where this whole thing came from.
Yeah, or maybe one of the other like 10 to 15 explanations of root words, like French words like pâté or how would you say that one? Poutine. Poutine, which is a potato ragout. So, you know, no one agrees on that, kind of like a lot of the stuff that we talk about with these origin stories of foods.
A lot of people will lay claim and no one agrees on who the person is, although I'm sure there will be people write and say, no, it's definitely for sure one of these people or maybe even someone else.
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