“Food is an important part of a balanced diet.” ~Fran Lebowitz
Super Poutine
I was searching for a description of poutine and came across a site called this is why you’re fat. It has loads of pictures of high calorie foods that will turn any hardcore foodie off. Twinky Weiner Sandwich. Sausage Egg and Cheese on a chocolate glazed donut. Deep fried coca cola. What? It’s just so unnecessary. So, check it out if you want a cure for your gluttony.
Still, I want to try poutine, which is the Canadian version of Kelly fries, aka french fries with cheese and gravy … a greasy spoon favorite of my youth. Poutine is fries topped with cheese curds and gravy. Yeah, I know. It sounds gross. I still want to try it. I can’t resist regional specialties. I’ve wanted that baguette au saucisson since high school French class. I’m not even exactly sure what saucisson is.
I don’t want to eat fried Oreos. I’m sort-of annoyed that they try to push that garbage at ethnic street festivals. They’re not ethnic nor are they regional specialties. They are “experimenting with the new deep fryer.” You don’t sell that stuff. You reminisce about it along with graveyard soda’s and raw egg shakes you drank after watching the intro to CHiPs. Gah.
Lyd said,
March 23, 2009 at 4:08 pm
(is “friend Oreos” just a happy accident, a friendian slip as they say?!)
I’d heard of poutine before, but not Kelly fries — live and learn, eh? (…as they say in the great white north…)
julieluongo said,
March 23, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Thank you. I’ve been typo lady on this blog. Mmmmm….kelly fries.
messiestobjects said,
March 24, 2009 at 9:29 am
Ugh… this whole frying things in the new deep fryer thing is insane. It’s like people want to die by grease asphyxiation. What ever happened to good old death by lung cancer? Things were so much simpler in olden times.
One thing that really kills me are those ads for Dominoes (or is it Pizza Hut? I can’t tell them apart anymore) Oreo dessert pizzas, with the guy sporting an Oreo cookie beard after chowing down on one. OH. My. God. When I see those commercials, it snaps me into the reality that we’re actually already dead, and this is Hell.
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Gary said,
March 26, 2009 at 8:10 am
I’m going assume that this topic was inspired by the post I did a little back about this:
http://www.porktopia.com/2009/03/porkgasm.html
No need to thank me.
julieluongo said,
March 26, 2009 at 9:24 am
I read that porkgasm story over breakfast… I might have to become vegetarian.
MamaPeg is Watching Out for You said,
March 26, 2009 at 11:35 am
Fried mac’n'cheese. eeeee
julieluongo said,
March 26, 2009 at 10:11 pm
I tried that. Nuggets of mac and cheese, breaded and fried. Not good. I also tried fried corn nuggets. Also, not good. I ate them. Yes. But they were not a culinary wonder. Oh, no. Headache food.
Christy said,
March 30, 2009 at 12:45 pm
There seems to be as many varieties of poutine as there are varieties of curry. Will is obsessed with poutine.
julieluongo said,
March 30, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Really? Does he make it? I’ve never had it. I want to road trip to Canada this summer just for poutine.