American wins world poutine eating championship, Canadians heartbroken

Canadian Broadcasting Company ^ | October 6, 2014 | Lauren O'Neil

[Scoutmaster]

Canada may be known for producing the very best poutine on earth (and for arguing vehemently against anyone who says otherwise!), but it would appear as though we're no match for our neighbours to the south when it comes to eating the stuff.

This was proven amidst a cacophony of curds, gravy and fresh-cut fries on Saturday afternoon during the fifth annual World Poutine Eating Championship in Toronto.

Considered to be the largest eating competition in Canada, the annual Smoke's Poutinerie-sponsored gorge-a-thon drew approximately 1,000 spectators to Toronto's Yonge-Dundas square this weekend — many of them eager to join in on the fun (and eat some free poutine!)

As the . . . results from Major League Eating (the world body that oversees all professional eating contest.) show, it was California native Matt “Megatoad” Stonie who took home the grand cash prize after taking down a whopping 14.75 lbs of poutine in just 10 minutes.

The 22-year-old San Jose college student, currently ranked the #2 competitive eater in the world according to his Twitter profile, replaces reigning champion Joey “Jaws” Chestnut [SM Note: also an American] as the world's top poutine eater.

"All hail Stonie," wrote MLE in a post about the competition. "A new dawn. A new day. A new vision of what the future may look like. Chestnut will wear this one hard. He will learn. His heart will harden. His vision will narrow. In his sights: A slim-hipped prodigy who dares to steal this sunshine."

I just won the biggest trophy ever. Ever," wrote Stonie on Instagram of his new hardware, soliciting hundreds of likes and many congratulatory comments from his fans.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

French fries, cottage cheese and gravy?

Where's the bacon?

[WayneS]

I think I made the same mistake you did...

[WayneS]

...as [probably] did Ted Nugent.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Seriously, it’s the National Dish of Canada

[PROCON]

YUM, Poutine burger...

[Scoutmaster]

I confess. The purpose of this thread has nothing to do with poutine.

A few weeks ago I found out about Canada's legal tender million-dollar coin (imagine: before that I thought toonies and loonies rocked).

I've been waiting for a Canada-themed story to slip in the million-dollar coin.

[PROCON]

That's:

Where's the bacon, eh?

[Squawk 8888]

To all- please ping me to Canadian topics.

Canada Ping!

[catfish1957]

Poun what?

[Squawk 8888]

Poutine was invented in Québec. It consists of french fries, gravy and cheese curds. Chips & gravy has been a Canadian staple for several generations.

[Fightin Whitey]

How about Extra Fancy, Lower Alabama-style, served up by the peerless, R&B jump-music masters..

The Fabulous Treniers

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Cheese curd, NOT cottage cheese! You absolutely HAVE TO have high cholesterol and fat content to get the full benefit.

Quebec's gift to ‘culinary’ excess. Invented by a heart specialist to increase his business in the days before socialized medicine in Canada.

(OK, the last sentence is blatantly false, but poutine is most certainly NOT a health food!)

BTW, the bacon goes with the high sugar content maple syrup on the pancakes!

[optiguy]

You know, in the old days on FR, this thread would have been much more entertaining.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

After I said cottage cheese I looked it up and there is allegedly such a thing as cheddar cheese curd, but I have never seen it in all my days of grocery shopping.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

There is no similarity between the words poutine and ————, you dirty old man.

[ansel12]

Evidently there is, and few Americans have ever heard or seen the word poutine.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Or the word --------, for that matter.

;>P

[Buckeye McFrog]

and few Americans have ever heard or seen the word poutine.

Famously during the 2000 Presidential Campaign a pair of Canadian radio guys from one of those Morning Zoo programs managed to get George W. Bush on the phone and told him that he had just been endorsed by Prime Minister Jean Poutine.

Having never heard of Poutine, Bush politely accepted their endorsement.

He became a laughingstock all over Canada, but later while visiting there, graciously poked fun at himself over this incident.

[dfwgator]

At least Bush, unlike Obama, knows that Canada doesn’t have a President.

[goldstategop]

Its a classic Quebec dish.

Hearty and filling. I love poutine - its a meal in itself but its also a great appetizer.