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what the bloody hell. explain yourselves.

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poutine">h ... Poutine</a>

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Dang, that sounds friggin good. I've never heard or had it, though.

"Yes I'd like one heart attack please, thank you."

A popular choice for those heading home from a night of heavy drinking. Bar-goers in Halifax generally consume one of four things when intoxicated: pizza, donairs, 24-hour Mcdonald's, or poutine.

I haven't had one in well over a year. Probably since I haven't had any alcohol in a year as of yesterday (weee).

Eric wrote:"Yes I'd like one heart attack please, thank you."

Funny thing is how Americans think that poutine is a heart-attack meal. I laff.

No idea which establishment in NY this is from, but I'd risk the poutine, not this:

Picture hurt my browser!

That, my friend, is an abomination of the classic, delicious fries that we all love. It's like some Frenchie sat up and said:

"Fuck, man, fried potatoes are delicious but I suck cock at making them. They always turn out dry and shitty. But I have a burger joint and I just HAVE to have them. What the hell do I do? Well, I've got this leftover cheese "poop" (commonly referred to as "curds") from making my own homemade cheese and tons of gravy to cover up my crappy-tasting food (taking a page from his British friends). Why don't I just put them together, come up with some BS about how gravy and cheese together are great and see if people buy it?"

And the masses ate it up like a Michael Bay film. Just because people like something en masse don't mean it's good

Poutine is good with the works (added veggies and such). The only way I like fries. I wouldn't recommend eating poutine more than once a month all the same. =P


Oracle's bacon meal, I wouldn't recommend eating at all =P

I think Oracle has linked to us the famous <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_burger">Luther Burger</a>. That bun looks a little bit too glazed to be anything else.

For instance:



My favorite part of that shot is how deliberately grotesque the beef patties are, as if the ENTIRE glazed doughnut on either side of the meat wasn't enough.

Oh shit! I just noticed it was a couple of doughnuts!

Looks like Paula Deen's Lady's Brunch Burger

Every American here has had cheese fries. Some of you have had it with bacon.

Fuck you all, I love cheese fries.

That poutine looks pretty tasty too. Bad for you, but what isn't?

Kupek, don't answer that you skinny motherfucker.

Poutine looks disgusting..but omg..I want cheese fries.

Kupek wrote:Every American here has had cheese fries. Some of you have had it with bacon.

Those are pretty good on occasion. Maybe I'm odd but I actually prefer a good fry/wedge that seasoned well and made with good potatoes with malt vinegar and a little ketchup (or do you Americans call it catsup? :-) over anything.

RentCavalier wrote:That poutine looks pretty tasty too. Bad for you, but what isn't?

Just to ensure there's no misunderstanding: that's not cheese as you know it that's on a poutine. Thems cheese curds which are, for all intents and purposes, cheese fecal matter. It's fucking awful.

To make it even worse, cheese curds should be eaten within 12 hours of manufacture. Even if they're frozen they lose much of their "curdiness". So not only are you getting cheese poop, you're getting stale cheese poop

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese_curds

Seraphina wrote:Looks like Paula Deen's Lady's Brunch Burger

I can't believe they're promoting garbage like that on the Food Network

Blotus wrote:I haven't had one in well over a year. Probably since I haven't had any alcohol in a year as of yesterday (weee).

Is this a choice or intervention?

Shit, I love me some cheese fries. Amazing bar food. There's a place in Blacksburg that serves it with a side of Ranch - although I'm sure many places do that.

I just eat it rarely.

Kupek wrote:Bacon.

Pork.

Kupek wrote:Shit, I love me some cheese fries. Amazing bar food. There's a place in Blacksburg that serves it with a side of Ranch - although I'm sure many places do that.

I just eat it rarely.

And here I thought it was one of the secrets behind the 8-pack :-)

Zeus wrote:Is this a choice or intervention?

Bit of both.

Related: This is Why You're Fat.

I made a deep-fried banana split and submitted some pictures but it never went up.

That looks absolutely spectacular. How was it?

Blotus wrote:Related: This is Why You're Fat.

Oh, my aching, euphoric arteries. This is apparently a Double Cheeseburger Po' Boy:

And, "Spam Fries" (in other words, spam put through a French Fry press and deep-fried.) That's not right.

You all remember Im pregnant right? Why are you trying to torture me? lol

Eff..I still want some cheese fries.

EDIT: Here's my favorite Food Porn site.

Oh, no. No. No, this won't do at all.

Kupek wrote:Shit, I love me some cheese fries. Amazing bar food. There's a place in Blacksburg that serves it with a side of Ranch - although I'm sure many places do that.

I just eat it rarely.

I'm not a ranch topping person (although it is my preferred dressing on salad), but of course I know the place you're talking about and they probably have the best fries in town. The Cellar is getting a frier soon and I'm told that we might have some sort of 'fancy' fries.

And as for Baconnaise - has anyone actually seen someone purchase and use this product regularly? I've only seen it on the Colbert Report and The Daily Show.

As for poutine, the word alone makes me cringe because some dumb ass in my middle school French class used to yell it all the goddamned time for use as a crude method to say vagina. The teacher remained clueless the entire stupid year and it really pissed me off.

Edit: He also didn't pronounce it right

(Not bitter)

Imagine if you poured baconnaise ON a big plate of cheese fries...

Tupac Seekur wrote:

Have you ever tried real, traditional, Scottish-made haggis? It's pretty damned good. I had some at a Scottish pub here for Robert Burns Day and I was damned impressed.

Replay wrote:http://www.baconnaise.com/

No, I get that it exists, I've just never seen anyone buying or using it.

Haggis has always been kind of gross. It's like slimier ground beef.

RentCavalier wrote:Haggis has always been kind of gross. It's like slimier ground beef.

As I was sayin' to Seek, not if it's made properly. It actually tastes like very well-spiced, delicious ground meat +. My friends and I tried it as "one of those things you just gotta try once" type of thing. So we ordered the basic meal that had a small bit of haggis and some other things with it. After spending a minute or two psyching ourselves up to actually eat those very disgusting sounding ingredients, we were surprised at how good it was. So we went up and had a bit more from the "blessed" haggis that was a part of the ceremony and was out there for people to snack on (big ceremony with a blessing written by Burns in Galic is part of the tradition).

Shrinweck wrote:As for poutine, the word alone makes me cringe because some dumb ass in my middle school French class used to yell it all the goddamned time for use as a crude method to say vagina.

Likely got that connection after a) looking at one and b) tasting one