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April 18, 2006

Hey New York Fries! Up yours!

Posted by bopuc at April 18, 2006 08:28 AM

New York Fries, which offers poutine on it's menu, has the incredible balls and audacity to claim:

"Invented in Quebec and perfected by New York Fries. A delicious marriage of New York Fries, fresh cheese curds and our signature gravy."

Excuse me? What?!? PERFECTED? Mon oeuil osti d'ciboire de tabarnac, calisse!

I HATE marketing SO much. ;)

I miss poutine. :p

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ok, next time i'm in MTL, let's go for some *real* poutine. y'know, if you're not in Japan or something.

Posted by: James Walker at April 18, 2006 08:17 AM

for sure man!

Posted by: Boris Anthony at April 18, 2006 08:28 AM

New Yorkers are just bitter that we've stolen the Bagel and Smoked Meat crowns from them.

Posted by: Steven Mansour at April 18, 2006 08:52 AM

Stolen schmolen! Both of those come from Montreal too!!
Smoked Meat ("pastrami")
Montreal style bagel (new york style bagel)

Nobody does it like we do, my friend. Nobody.

Posted by: Boris Anthony at April 18, 2006 09:05 AM

The irony, of course, is that New York Fries has no outlets in New York at all (or even, for that matter, anywhere in the US at all...).

Posted by: Frankenstein at April 18, 2006 10:27 AM

no way!!! aaaaaaahahahahahaa funny :)
even more insulting then! to both of us!
thanks Paul :)

Posted by: Boris Anthony at April 18, 2006 10:33 AM

Boris, today you are my best friend.

Posted by: julien Smith at April 18, 2006 11:25 AM

"perfected by New York Fries" - cough, cough. I can only imagine what their definition of "perfected" is. Oh yeah, it means taking a perfectly good meal and converting it into a monstrous inedible tasteless version of itself. Much like the dumplings I had at a "famous" dumpling house in Chinatown in NYC. Just had a revelation, food in NYC is what makes me miss Montreal and want to come back home.

"Perfected". - geez. That's the kind of insult that makes me want to open up a Quebecois poutine stand on the sidewalk in front of their restaurant and give away steaming hot poutine for free.

Posted by: caroline at April 18, 2006 04:34 PM

Worse, in Japan there's a burger chain called Becker's that serves poutine (not as good as back home of course, but still notable), and their menu used to said that "poutine came from New York"!! I guess some Canadians complained, as it has been corrected a while ago.

Posted by: Patrick at April 18, 2006 09:20 PM

All this poutine talk must have given me olfactive hallucinations, as I can now smell poutine in my office! Non-sense.

Posted by: Patrick at April 18, 2006 09:44 PM

* Oldest Saint Patrick in North-America, Montreal too.

* At least there is something Québec has not created and had even forgotten the recipe crossing the ocean… is Apple Cider.

Posted by: karl at April 19, 2006 01:21 AM

Oh better resource for the Cidre

Posted by: karl at April 19, 2006 01:24 AM

Posted by: soli at April 24, 2006 12:20 PM

http://montrealpoutine.com/

all the poutine you'll ever want.
enjoy ; )

Posted by: littleone at April 24, 2006 06:10 PM