Posted on 10/09/2014 11:06:18 AM PDT by 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.
that just makes me proud to be an American
So good. I could make a bowl of it disappear now.
Both sound GREAT! Personally I add onions or onion rings and mozzarella cheese.
I love the stuff.
I’ve had that poutaine stuff.
I’ll stick with chilli cheese fries. At least chilli has some body (and actual flavor) to it.
Actually, good homemade chilli poured over a heap of homefries with melted cheese over it all is a great “stick to your ribs”, keep you motivated and energized all day long sort of breakfast.
That photo is of Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti of Chicago. He won the first and second World Poutine Eating Championships.
My spurtle’s in the shop. CV joint, I think.
I beg to differ.
Decades ago, I worked in downtown Ottawa, Ontario. At the time, there were dozens of ‘chip trucks’ (predecessors of today’s food trucks that appear in most cities) serving fa(s)t food at noon, including poutine and ‘Pogos’ (aka corndogs in the US). I tried poutine and a Pogo and found them very tasty. I went back to the office, remarking how ‘tasty’ I found the poutine.
Most of my fellow workers were French Canadian and picked up quickly when I pronounced ‘poutine’ as “Pee-tun” rather than “Pooh-teen” (phonetic spelling). They had a great laugh at that and asked if I had gone to a strip club for lunch. I didn’t get it. Eventually, after plenty of comments in French and much laughter had by all (but me), a young French lady explained as delicately as possible, that a “Pee-tun” (putain) had certain anatomical features that I did not!
I was mortified at what I had said, to the point that for years, I would not say ‘poutine’, for fear of mispronouncing the word. Instead, I referring to it as “french fries with cheese curds and gravy”.
If you have not yet guessed the word that I spoke, you may find it quickly using translation software. Please make sure you are not drinking any liquids when you do this as I am not prepared to pay for a new keyboard for you!
I was referring to that word. :>}
And they probably plug up the plumbing.
FYI, it’s “Canadian Broadcasting Corporation”, a bastion of uber-leftist so-called journalists, also affectionately known as the “Canadian Broadcorping Castration”.
Thanks you for the clarification.
The origin of the name is said to have originated with a reply of a Montreal fast food restaurateur who said, when the customer asked that cheese curds be added to an order of chips 'n gravy:
“ça va faire une maudite poutine”
The term "une maudite poutine” was Quebec slang for "a damned mess'. The term caught on and the rest is history.
As you can see from the following picture, condiments can be added, such as ketchup, but I prefer it in its original form.
Canadian grocery stores sell packets of poutine gravy mis which is essentially brown gravy lightly spiced.
MacDonalds in Canada serves what it calls "poutine" but I found it to be too bland for my taste. This is a cultural variance, no doubt, such as, for example, the Yank manner of serving tea. I have learned to specify, when ordering tea, that the tea bag be put in first and that the water be at a full rolling boil, otherwise I would get lukewarm weak tea. I think that this may have something to do with Boston Harbour.
French is such an elegant, graceful language, that even when you say a harsh statement as “a damned mess!” it sounds like a ‘very nice’ remark. Une Maudite Poutine, quite accurately describes Obola’s Presidency, N’es Pas?
... Une Maudite Poutine, quite accurately describes Obola’s Presidency, N’es Pas?
Oui c'est vrai!
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