Posted on 03/02/2022 10:00:01 AM PST by xp38
A Quebec restaurant has removed the word “poutine” from their menu to denounce Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Instead, diners at Le Roy Jucep in Drummondville will have to settle with ordering “la frite fromage sauce” or “fries cheese gravy” when they’re craving the Canadian comfort dish.
“Dear clients and friends,” the Quebec eatery wrote in a Facebook post on Friday. “This evening, the Jucep team has chosen to temporarily remove the word ‘p**tine’ from its trademark in order to express, in its own way, its deep dismay at the situation in Ukraine.”
Le Roy Jucep, which prides itself as the inventor of poutine, subsequently deleted the post due to threatening phone calls, MTL Blog reported.
Despite the hateful messages, the restaurant said they’re happy their tiny gesture has made its way to Ukraine. The restaurant added that the move was not a marketing ploy.
In a Facebook post on Saturday, Le Roy Jucep shared a clip from Radio-Canada television of a Ukrainian thanking them for the gesture. “If we could make someone smile there, that’s already a win! We are with you from the bottom of our hearts,” the restaurant said in the post.
While the Canadian greasy spoon staple has no connection to Putin or Russia, French speakers have chosen to mispronounce the name of the Russian leader because pronouncing his name as it is written in English would sound very close to “putain,” or “whore” in English, according to a 2005 New York Times column.
quebec needs to be putin down the meth pipe-
They will take that as a challenge.
Huh?
Merde.
5.56mm
She claimed she did it "...to bring Mussolini to his knees."
Similar to asking the waitress for a three-way unless you are in a Cincinnati chili restaurant.
Those people are stupid.
I love it. Same way we got rid of French Fries for a while during our stupid 2nd Iraq war. When the Froggies would not allow our military weaponry to transit through their stinky cheese eating nation.
Pictures can't show how good poutine is.
Whatever. I will never touch poutine. I like my fries crisp, hot, salted, dipping them into ketchup one by one. Crisp rules the day. Not drenching them in some bogus Froggy gravy and cheese curds.
Quebec is very cold in the winter, so I suppose poutine is very warming against it. But you need to be a Quebec farmer to work off that artery clogging crap poutine.
Would you like grits with that?
And country ham!
… or you are Chris Dodd and Teddy Kennedy.
I’m off to Denny’s!
This is hugh!
Isn’t it pronounced poo-teen anyway?..
My brides are so upset right now, I almost introduced them to each other.
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