![]() Le Roy Jucep, Drummondville – This drive-in restaurant served french fries with gravy, to which some customers would add a side order of cheese curds.Lachance served this on a plate, and beginning in 1962 added hot gravy to keep it warm. The dish "poutine" appears on the establishment's 1957 menu. Le Lutin qui rit, Warwick – Restaurateur Fernand Lachance of Le Café Ideal (later Le Lutin qui rit ), is said to have exclaimed in 1957, "ça va faire une maudite poutine!" (English: "It will make a damn mess!") when asked by a regular to put a handful of cheese curds in a take-out bag of french fries.: 12–31 Several restaurants in the area claim to be the originators of the dish, but no consensus exists. The dish was created in the Centre-du-Québec area in the late 1950s. Many variations on the original recipe are popular, leading some to suggest that poutine has emerged as a new dish classification in its own right, as with sandwiches and dumplings. It has been called " Canada's national dish", though some believe this labelling represents cultural appropriation of the Québécois or Quebec's national identity. It has long been associated with Quebec cuisine, and its rise in prominence has led to popularity throughout the rest of Canada and in the northern United States.Īnnual poutine celebrations occur in Montreal, Quebec City, and Drummondville, as well as Toronto, Ottawa, New Hampshire, and Chicago. Poutine later became celebrated as a symbol of Québécois culture and the province of Quebec. For many years, it was mocked and used by some to stigmatize Quebec society. It emerged in Quebec, in the late 1950s in the Centre-du-Québec region, though its exact origins are uncertain and there are several competing claims regarding its invention. ![]() ![]() ![]() Poutine ( Quebec French: ( listen)) is a dish of french fries and cheese curds topped with a brown gravy. ![]()
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