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Hee hee to be honest, Prob123, I wouldn't know what a "Poutine" is either
Well, as the great Robespierre Burns put it:
"Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o' the poutine-race!"
I can't help wondering if "poutine" isn't in some way related to "butty" (both vowel sounds are identical - we don't pronounce it "bUti", but more like "bOOtee".) The archetype is, of course, the chip butty (anything else is a mere sandwich. Even the next-noblest bacon only constitutes a sarnie.)
The chippies round here always offer gravy and grated cheese, so it does make me think there might be a connection.
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prob123
16 years ago
16 years ago
Not at all, we just sit around in our Nation Igloo and sing to the moose. It's funny
http://nerdnirvana.org/2008/01/20/this-hour-has-22-minutes-canadas-national-igloo/
http://nerdnirvana.org/2008/01/20/this-hour-has-22-minutes-canadas-national-igloo/
psimagus
16 years ago
16 years ago
hahaha!
I particularly liked "Congratulations Canada on becoming part of North America!" - I hesitate to speculate where it's been hiding all these years if it's only just newly arrived on the continent!

I particularly liked "Congratulations Canada on becoming part of North America!" - I hesitate to speculate where it's been hiding all these years if it's only just newly arrived on the continent!
prob123
16 years ago
16 years ago
Yes, it's been going on for 16 seasons
This is what we do to our leaders
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CptXVdqprE
And this is why we miss Cretien
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFeLQYudSNk&feature=related
This is what we do to our leaders
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CptXVdqprE
And this is why we miss Cretien
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFeLQYudSNk&feature=related
Bev
16 years ago
16 years ago
Hee hee Pretty funny. You do realize they picked Arkansas to represent the US, a state which elected Huckabee and just voted to ban adoptions by non married couples (because orphaned children don't want real families instead of underfunded state agencies if the family isn't exactly like the one on "Leave it to Beaver"). The video did make me laugh though.
I would like you to send that woman (Marge?) to interview Prescient Bush as he leaves office. Have you got the clout to swing that for me? Please?
I would like you to send that woman (Marge?) to interview Prescient Bush as he leaves office. Have you got the clout to swing that for me? Please?
prob123
16 years ago
16 years ago
There was one with Bush when he was first elected, but I can't find it.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2000/03/02/bushpoutine000302.html
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2000/03/02/bushpoutine000302.html
Bev
16 years ago
16 years ago
Hee hee to be honest, Prob123, I wouldn't know what a "Poutine" is either, and I probably wouldn't correct a reporter if he told me your PM was Mr. T because a mic and a camera give the speaker assumed authority-- like a white lab coat and a "doctor" used to do. Funny all the same.
prob123
16 years ago
16 years ago
Well, here is one for anyone that didn't think Sarah Palin was the feminist choice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWRsQoF2b50
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWRsQoF2b50
psimagus
16 years ago
16 years ago
Well, as the great Robespierre Burns put it:
"Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o' the poutine-race!"
I can't help wondering if "poutine" isn't in some way related to "butty" (both vowel sounds are identical - we don't pronounce it "bUti", but more like "bOOtee".) The archetype is, of course, the chip butty (anything else is a mere sandwich. Even the next-noblest bacon only constitutes a sarnie.)
The chippies round here always offer gravy and grated cheese, so it does make me think there might be a connection.
prob123
16 years ago
16 years ago
There would have to be a connection what are the odds of the recipe and name being the same!
There has to be a love of cholesterol that has been passed down though out the generations. I rather picture Homer Simpson going "Yummm..gravy and cheese...on french fries.."
There has to be a love of cholesterol that has been passed down though out the generations. I rather picture Homer Simpson going "Yummm..gravy and cheese...on french fries.."
psimagus
16 years ago
16 years ago
For really eye-watering cholesterol consumption you have to go to Scotland of course. Not content with deep frying battered mars bars and whole takeaway pizzas, I gather they're now deep frying entire Indian takeaway meals (like an average chicken tikka doesn't already have enough fat in it to clog your arteries in less time than it takes to eat!)
I wonder if deep-fried poutine would catch on?
I wonder if deep-fried poutine would catch on?
Bev
16 years ago
16 years ago
Psi, now that you have committed such words to the Net, I do think it probable that deep fried poutine will be sold next year at Milwaukee fest (a US party in a US city known for cheese soup and butter burgers).
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