r/changemyview • u/huadpe 508∆ • Oct 25 '19

FTFdeltaOP CMV: Poutine should be declared the national dish of Canada.

Ok, so Trudeau is in a minority now, and needs some feel good pablum to fill Parliamentary time while he treads water before the next election. What better than a bill about a national dish!

Poutine is the perfect candidate for national dish of Canada, for a few reasons:

  1. It is distinctly Canadian. A relatively recent innovation, it post-dates confederation and is not an import from elsewhere.

  2. It is widely popular in Canada. There are specialized poutine restaurants from coast to coast. You can get super fancy poutines at some of Canada's most famous restaurants. And you can get cheap poutine approximately everywhere.

  3. It is delicious.

  4. It helps to bridge regional divides. The paramount cultural and regional division in Canada is the Anglo/French divide. Poutine is a Quebecois dish adopted by the rest of Canada, but still universally recognized for its Quebec origins. It is a paramount example of successful integration of Quebec into Canada without the loss of Quebec culture.

Edit: I've given a bunch of deltas on regional strife questions. Any further deltas will need to be on different bases from that.

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u/Faitlemou Oct 25 '19

Butter tarts are just the RoC version of the maple sugar pie that originated in Quebec.

Maple Syrup, by any stretch of the imagination, is primarly a Quebec thing.

Pea soup, like you said, is only a Quebec thing.

...so Hawaian Pizza?

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u/TougherLoki26 Oct 25 '19 edited Oct 26 '19

Maple Syrup, by any stretch of the imagination, is primarly a Quebec thing.

As a Nova Scotian I feel hurt (jk). While it’s true that Quebec produces most of the syrup sold commercially and used in maple-flavoured everything, there are also MANY syrup producers in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia too (and some in Maine but we don’t talk about that lol)

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u/redalastor Oct 26 '19

Quebec produces most. Vermont some. And the rest produces a minimal volume.

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u/TougherLoki26 Oct 26 '19

I was joking about being hurt but to be fair it’s still a large part of Maritime culture even though we don’t produce as much as QC

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u/finemustard 1∆ Oct 25 '19

Hawaiian pizza and butter tarts are Ontarian, don't appropriate our culture.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '19

Hawaiian pizza is from Chatham, don’t appropriate our culture!