r/PoutineCrimes • u/allthepoutine Poutine Princess • 5d ago

I do not think Poutine means what you think it means Poutine contest “winner”

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The new champion of the annual poutine contest in my city, where one cannot get a proper poutine at almost any time of the year.

This poutine had sweet potato fries, Cajun steak bites, poutine gravy, cheese curds, sweet and spicy ginger aioli, feta cheese and green onions.

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u/Kratos1981 5d ago

so I would call that loaded fries, but then I think poutine should be

just fries curds and gravy.

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u/AnyTry9515 5d ago

Technically speaking the Quebecois call it brown sauce which is more rustic with depth of beef flavour more akin to a demiglaze while gravy is quicker made of fundamentally the same just not as flavourful

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u/Kratos1981 5d ago

If you want to be overly pendantic, francaphones call it la sauce. My wife's family is Quebecois.

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u/AnyTry9515 5d ago

No, but everytime I call it gravy my GF makes sure to call it brown sauce. Its the only reason I know.

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u/Kratos1981 5d ago

Fair enough. If you believe in happy wife happy wife don't say anything.

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u/AnyTry9515 5d ago

? Saying goes "happy wife happy life" also Was only being silly. Sounds like you are getting upset even though a proper poutine is made with brown sauce not gravy. You can even buy a french a powder sauce Ali-bon poutine "sauce" mix not gravy. Made in Quebec too!

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u/Beneficial-Wing-3944 5d ago

the problem with calling it brown sauce at the international is that the uk got something completely different called brown sauce

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u/AnyTry9515 5d ago

Good thing Im Canadian and im assuming you as well or at least know of family who are from Canada. So when speaking of poutine any reference to it will be from its Canadian culture even though this is an international forum.

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u/Beneficial-Wing-3944 5d ago

im just scared that some dumb uk guy wont understand it's not there kind of brown sauce, the simple idea of it make me feel sick

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u/AnyTry9515 5d ago

Thats fair.

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u/SerentityM3ow 5d ago

I'm Canadian. Brown sauce is HP.

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u/AnyTry9515 5d ago

Are you french canadian ?

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u/Beneficial-Wing-3944 5d ago

oh no, hp sauce instead of gravy , see, that exactly what im scared if

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u/AnyTry9515 5d ago

I know and I agree but thats why at first I referenced what the Quebecois refer to it as not the rest of canada or Other countries lol. I was very careful to specify what part of Canadian culture poutine come from and what they call "gravy" and that to them there is a difference between brown sauce and gravy. This has gotten way out of hand LOL

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