Eyesight... growing dim..
Feb. 9th, 2007 04:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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pyat did the kindness of taking me out for lunch today. We stopped by neighbourhood joint Chubby's Fish & Chips, although neither of us has fish or straight chips, opting for burgers & poutine (mine, standard, his w/ feta).
Delightful food, of course, and the same for company.
Except... You know, the concept of a banquet burger is pretty universal. A cheeseburger with some bacon on it. Tasty, right?
Oh, God. I wish. This banquet burger had four pieces of back bacon on it. Four THICK pieces of back bacon. Oh, lord.
Chubby's poutine is also a hefty meal. Big plate of fries with shredded cheddar (not curds, but nobody's perfect) and loads of gravy. I think I'm gonna die.
It's amusing really, that I'd be poisoned by poutine and back bacon. I feel like my country is turning against me. It's the gastronomical equivalent of a Conservative election.
pyat did the kindness of taking me out for lunch today. We stopped by neighbourhood joint Chubby's Fish & Chips, although neither of us has fish or straight chips, opting for burgers & poutine (mine, standard, his w/ feta). Delightful food, of course, and the same for company.
Except... You know, the concept of a banquet burger is pretty universal. A cheeseburger with some bacon on it. Tasty, right?
Oh, God. I wish. This banquet burger had four pieces of back bacon on it. Four THICK pieces of back bacon. Oh, lord.
Chubby's poutine is also a hefty meal. Big plate of fries with shredded cheddar (not curds, but nobody's perfect) and loads of gravy. I think I'm gonna die.
It's amusing really, that I'd be poisoned by poutine and back bacon. I feel like my country is turning against me. It's the gastronomical equivalent of a Conservative election.
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Date: 2007-02-09 09:08 pm (UTC)I think it was a warning more than a brand. Kinda like a Dodge Truck. Its advice.
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Date: 2007-02-10 01:49 am (UTC)They're primarily a fish n' chips place.
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Date: 2007-02-09 09:14 pm (UTC)Ever risked Dangerous Dan's (http://www.dangerousdansdiner.com/)? Alex and I got their Coronary Burger specials once... ONCE. /Danny Vermin
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Date: 2007-02-10 12:30 am (UTC)Mmmm, the Coronary Burger sounds good.
What's "peameal" and why would I want that on a burger? (Oh, ok, it's bacon. Ne'er you mind.)
But, yeah, Coronary Burger sounds deliciously overwhelming.
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Date: 2007-02-10 12:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-10 12:46 am (UTC)Grassy ass.
Dangerous Dan's
Date: 2007-02-10 03:51 am (UTC)BTW, bitterguy, DD's is not far from my place if you ever have a hankering for a gorging of epic proportions.
Re: Dangerous Dan's
Date: 2007-02-10 03:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-09 09:21 pm (UTC)It's only a wah-fair thin meent!
Date: 2007-02-10 12:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-09 09:34 pm (UTC)Mike: Hey, wait, Canadians?
Servo: Oh, come on, Mike! This movie's ripe with the stench of back bacon! Geez!
Mike: If you say so ..."
-MST3K, Space Mutinty
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Date: 2007-02-10 01:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-09 10:11 pm (UTC)What's back bacon? is that what we call bacon? The long strips of crispy stuff, as opposed to what we call Canadian bacon, which is the flat disks of pink hammish stuff?
Oh, and what's with you guys hogging all the ketchup chips? Cuz the one time I went to Canada and discovered them, they were about good enough to emmigrate for! Ketchupy and burgundy! All in one snack food!
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Date: 2007-02-09 10:16 pm (UTC)More or less like so:
And yes, "back bacon" (or "peameal bacon") is what you decadent Southrons called "Canadian bacon."
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Date: 2007-02-09 10:57 pm (UTC)My first encounter with poutine was in Montreal
(there to deliver a medical talk) about 10 years, where I enjoyed a tray from a street vendor after a night of boozing on the town when the bars all closed.
I took it back the the hotel room, and peeling off the foil, there was a heavenly smell. And then eating it...it was FAN-TAASTIC.
However, since returning to Ontario, I've never had it again the proper way, with cheese curds rather than simple shredded cheese.
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Date: 2007-02-10 01:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-10 03:32 am (UTC)(splutter)
Anything closer to Hamilton (where I sorta live)? And not Harvey's?
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Date: 2007-02-10 04:14 am (UTC)There's a place on Dundas in Mississauga that's got good poutine. I haven't been there in years, so I can't remember the name.
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Date: 2007-02-10 07:30 am (UTC)I get them to make me onion ring poutine. If you like onion rings, and you like poutine, this is like seeing g-d. Or, y'know, brings that experience closer, faster! Same diff.
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Date: 2007-02-10 05:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-10 05:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-09 10:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-10 12:00 am (UTC)Ketchup chips? o.O
One day I wanna try Poutine. Wonder if anyone in America makes it, b/c I kinda doubt I'll see Canuckistania.
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Date: 2007-02-10 04:11 am (UTC)On the other hand, with the thousands of snowbirds down there, it seems unlikely you can't find it down there.
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Date: 2007-02-10 09:06 pm (UTC)This Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poutine) says it's generally only found seasonally or by request; in the 35 years I've lived in FL, I've never seen it, come across it (hell, I didn't even know what it was until a year or two ago, when I saw one of you Canuckislavians talking about it on LJ).
(Yes, I know, Wikipedia is hardly the final word on anything, but at least it's not a pay to read article like the nytimes one.)
And we do have a fair amount of "We're not The Mounties" come down for snowbird season... but maybe I just don't go to the same places they do for grubbage.