Yeah, but like Beaver Tails and maple sugar candy, there’s the right time and the wrong time. I can handle poutine about twice a year, and the beginning and middle of winter are those times.
And now that I’m home, I’m going to go curl up in a little ball and whimper for a few hours.
(The poutine is from the Elgin Street Diner, by the way. While I was there, I overheard someone at another table order poutine with double curd and double gravy. You couldn’t see the fries on the plate.)
Gah, you evil evil man. Now I feel incredibly homesick.
On the upside, I did have really fantastic okonomiyaki for lunch. So NYEAH.
I discovered this great okonomiyaki place upstairs from the McDonald’s near work. Boy were they ever surprised to see a white guy walk in—the McDonald’s generally functions amazingly well as a gaijin trap, it seems. But they were very nice and even gave me both editions of the menu: the menu in Japanese, Korean and English; and the menu in Japanese only, with much lower prices and many more items on it.
It’s in the same family as corned beef and pastrami but it’s a bit more heavily seasoned than those, mostly Eastern European Jewish influence. I wonder if a beef brisket would make it across the border OK.
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There’s a season to poutine?
Posted 03 Dec 2004 at 1:19 pm ¶“Winter”, generally. :)
Posted 03 Dec 2004 at 1:21 pm ¶Not in Ottawa. Lots of outdoor chip trucks and chip stands in the summer, all selling that glorious “heart attack on a plate”.
Posted 03 Dec 2004 at 2:08 pm ¶Yeah, but like Beaver Tails and maple sugar candy, there’s the right time and the wrong time. I can handle poutine about twice a year, and the beginning and middle of winter are those times.
And now that I’m home, I’m going to go curl up in a little ball and whimper for a few hours.
(The poutine is from the Elgin Street Diner, by the way. While I was there, I overheard someone at another table order poutine with double curd and double gravy. You couldn’t see the fries on the plate.)
Posted 03 Dec 2004 at 2:22 pm ¶Guauuugggh, poutine. We were not free from its greasy allure in Maine! Somehow, the phone camera (or whatever) suits it.
Posted 03 Dec 2004 at 2:31 pm ¶OMG. NEVER EATING AGAIN. TOO MUCH CURD AND GRAVY.
Posted 03 Dec 2004 at 4:55 pm ¶It’s like you can see it SQUIRM.
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Posted 03 Dec 2004 at 5:41 pm ¶Such a beautiful picture spoiled by thougts of George W. Bush. He confused your Prime Minister with that food once.
Posted 03 Dec 2004 at 6:39 pm ¶Gah, you evil evil man. Now I feel incredibly homesick.
On the upside, I did have really fantastic okonomiyaki for lunch. So NYEAH.
I discovered this great okonomiyaki place upstairs from the McDonald’s near work. Boy were they ever surprised to see a white guy walk in—the McDonald’s generally functions amazingly well as a gaijin trap, it seems. But they were very nice and even gave me both editions of the menu: the menu in Japanese, Korean and English; and the menu in Japanese only, with much lower prices and many more items on it.
Posted 04 Dec 2004 at 12:27 am ¶At the diner last night, I had hash browns smothered in gravy. I’m working my way north- and poutineward!
Posted 04 Dec 2004 at 5:20 am ¶“smoked meat”. it’s a frightening phrase that keeps recurring with you Eastern Canadian types.
Posted 04 Dec 2004 at 7:06 am ¶It’s in the same family as corned beef and pastrami but it’s a bit more heavily seasoned than those, mostly Eastern European Jewish influence. I wonder if a beef brisket would make it across the border OK.
Posted 04 Dec 2004 at 1:18 pm ¶