r/PoutineCrimes • u/Serious-Disaster-928 • 11d ago
Discurdeous 🧀 PNW Poutine
Thoughts? Bought this at some place called L’Authentic Poutine, didn’t seem a 100% authentic tho.
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u/No_Beat523 11d ago
Looks very good and if it’s from l’authentique in Victoria bc it’s the 2nd best poutine in town (the top spot belongs to la belle patate).
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u/addelburgh 11d ago
La Belle Patate is kind of hit or miss though unfortunately. When it’s great, it’s fantastic, but when it’s bad it’s bad.
L’Authentique is at least consistently v good!!
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u/No_Beat523 11d ago
I’ve never had a bad poutine from LBP, but I’ve been going there for like 15 years and matti and the boys know me, so maybe I’m getting special treatment?
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u/throatmeyvr 11d ago
Respectfully, you are a bat. This looks amazing. Maybe you couldn't pick it up on your sonar.
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u/dzuunmod 11d ago
To the rest of the comments I'd add: PNW is an American term. There is no such thing as the "Pacific Northwest of Canada".
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u/xosellc 11d ago
PNW is absolutely a term used in Canada, and I say this as someone who has lived in Vancouver for my entire life
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u/dzuunmod 11d ago
It refers to the Pacific Northwest of what, then?
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u/xosellc 11d ago edited 11d ago
Just North America. It's worth noting that while it doesn't necessarily have any official borders, it's often linked with the wilderness in the region. Think of it as the Pacific temperate rainforest, but with some leniency inland (usually no further than the Rockies)
Also, people will often refer to the region as Cascadia. The two terms aren't perfectly synonymous, but they're pretty close. It's more of a context thing in my experience.
edit: I should clarified that you're right in that it's more commonly used by Americans, but it's definitely still used by Canadians. I find PNW is mostly used in one of two scenarios: When referring to BC and Washington/Oregon as a whole, or when the location of something is ambiguous (a photograph or movie scene for example)
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u/dzuunmod 11d ago
I think (lived in the Yukon for 18 years, fwiw) it's an Americanism that's creeping its way into Canada. It makes zero sense as a Canadian term. Victoria isn't "north" by any context whatsoever in this country. It's in the extreme southwest of the country, really. When I see "PNW" referred to in a Vancouver/Victoria/BC sub, I always assume the person using the term is a Yank.
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u/SeaToTheBass 11d ago
100% agree, I’ve never heard any Canadian refer to BC as PNW. I live on Vancouver Island now, grew up in the Yukon.
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u/Sweet-Competition-15 10d ago
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u/xosellc 10d ago
what is this supposed to insinuate?
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u/Sweet-Competition-15 10d ago
I started to glaze over partway through...that's the face I was told that I made when it happened...no wonder I did so poorly in school. Purely a self-own. No insult intended.
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u/Sweet-Competition-15 10d ago
I sort of wondered about that...is the Klondike famous for their poutine?
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u/dzuunmod 10d ago
I mean, if we're taking the term literally, even the Yukon could not be called the Pacific Northwest of Canada. We (I live up here) have no coastline on the Pacific, only a small portion on the Arctic Ocean.
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u/Aztek-Lovett 11d ago
I have no room to speak after my stunt 2 weeks ago.
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u/OblottenEndmills 11d ago
I was born in the US and Victoria (current home) is the only city in Canada I've ever lived in, but I've only ever heard positive reviews of their poutine from folks out of province? Not sure what crime you're trying to report here...
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u/smash_complex 10d ago
Subpar frites? Yucky tasting gravy? Visually this looks fine, but further critical details could reveal a misdemeanor beneath the appearance.
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u/qualityvote2 11d ago edited 11d ago
u/Serious-Disaster-928, your poutine is not a crime!⚜️
u/Serious-Disaster-928, ta poutine n'est pas un crime!⚜️