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Ambivalence: Let's here your argument against nachos, while we're at it.
What wrong with Nachos?
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Fishbulb30w: Gough: Fishbulb30w: Gough: Fishbulb30w: Gough: I've been spending substantial chunks of time in Northern Ontario starting in the mid-'50s, before the widespread availability of poutine. Based on my culinary experiences there, the addition of cheese curds and gravy doesn't render the fries soggy. In the 65 years that I've been dining there, I can count the number of times that I've had crispy french fries (outside of a McDonald's or Wendy's) on one hand. Almost universally, what I've encountered has been limp, soggy fries.
Being from there you are mostly right but the good restaurants that change their oil regularly you can get good crispy fries.
I'm 55 years old and have never bought potatoes in my life. Don't like'em but I do eat them because just about every entree in small restaurants come with choice of potato so I'll either get fries or mashed with gravy.
Poutine or fries with gravy are soggy and disgusting to me.
To Stibium
It used to be that almost every place had vinegar and salt on the table for fries but I can't really remember seeing it for quite a while now.
Any recommendations in SSM? We're usually in such a hurry to get to the cottage after we've already driven 1900 miles that our only stop in the Soo is at Pino's for porketta and other essentials, but we'd be happy to make an exception.
Muio's downtown if they ever open again. They are take out only from 3-8 now so I don't know what they are like now but when they were open they were very busy and the fries were always fresh.
Harvey's on the east going to the east highway are usually crispy as well.
Fratteli's if you are heading for the north highway.
We missed you guys this summer. Everybody went around at the beginning of summer when we were allowed back in and opened up and cleaned all the Americans cottages we could get into. My friend even put his neighbours dock out thinking they would come eventually. Just before Canadian thanksgiving they went around and winterized and closed them up again.
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I was more of a St Joe's guy but I always get a kick out of telling people that Manitoulin is the largest island on a fresh water lake that has the largest lake on an island in North America. Rachel McAdam's once got in trouble with PETA saying that she killed a chicken on her friends farm there for supper once back on Letterman.
My grandfather built a cabin during the depression back in the 30's on Pine Island.
There are and were a lot of famous people in the area.
My great uncle helped Dan Blocker from Gun Smoke, Angie Dickinson, and the guy from Rockford Files back in the 60's and 70's. They all had their own islands.
Angie was his favourite. She bought and payed for his first telephone. She would call him up and ask if it was OK for her to come out because she wanted the cabin ready. She'd invite him in many times and he so impressed that a white woman would treat this old Indian so respectfully.
That's way cool! Our family cottages are on that lake, Lake Manitou.
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deniable_increlidibity: how about the dutch 'hairdresser' [Fark user image image 850x637]
WTF is that!?
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Axeofjudgement: GreatGlavinsGhost: Sgygus: GreatGlavinsGhost: I am just against foods made crisp by frying them, then sogged back up by drowning them in some sauce or other food stuff that is best served as sandwich innards.
If the main appeal of a french fry is its crispiness, GreatGlavinsGhost, you make a good argument. But most of the smothered french fry dishes leave many still-crispy ends of the potatoes sticking for easy grasping. What about a fry that is dipped in a sauce like tomato or mayo, do you object to that?
Dipping is acceptable, because the eater can control the amount of fry-ruining material that covers the fry AND how long it is on the fry. Thus limiting the anti-crunch shame the fries would be subjected to.
You're as a child that demands the ketchup.
Eventually you will grow up.
The catsup (never ketchup) can be served in a cup on the side of the French fries for dipping.
Never drizzled on top like some Quentin Tarantino movie.
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Tyrone Slothrop: How about kimchi fries?
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The fries are trying to escape!
SET THEM FREE!
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pipboy1388: [external-content.duckduckgo.com image 610x458]
Not sure what is going on here.
But it seems the fries have surrounded the offensive foodstuffs like bees protecting their hive from Murder Hornets.
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McGrits: Anyone getting flashbacks?
[YouTube video: ABC "Don't Drown Your Food" PSA (1985)]
I am much to young to know what that is.
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nanim: Guessing subby has never had poutine potato skins either:
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No.
I have never had ... that.
Regardless, those are not French fries. I will not be responding to non-French fry-related questions.
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So what do I do? I don't order/make them and I allow others to enjoy their food without calling attention to the fact that they are eating something I dont like.
Why? Because even though I'm an asshole, I am not, and I'm quoting here: "100% a dick."
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montreal_medic: west.la.lawyer: [Fark user image image 850x850]
Those are the wrong kind of fries. Poutine goes on dark, fat, greasy fries
Those dark fat greasy fries were the only kind I ever found whenever I was in Quebec, I think they kind of need additions to make them good. My opinion, they're acceptable with mayonnaise, and they're glorious with gravy and curds.
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phaseolus: montreal_medic: west.la.lawyer: [Fark user image image 850x850]
Those are the wrong kind of fries. Poutine goes on dark, fat, greasy fries
Those dark fat greasy fries were the only kind I ever found whenever I was in Quebec, I think they kind of need additions to make them good. My opinion, they're acceptable with mayonnaise, and they're glorious with gravy and curds.
That's kind of my point. The classic "good" fry is white, thin, and crispy. The poutine fry is an entirely different beast, with different goals
Poutine on a white fry is missing the point of both dishes
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NDP2: GreatGlavinsGhost: blender61: GreatGlavinsGhost: There is no argument against nachos
Yes there is.
Civilized people call them tostadas .
Tostados are made on just one tortilla. Nachos utilize many tortillas, thus increasing the amount of crunch/square inch. And you don't look like some animal eating it with your hands.
Tostados also have lettuce, tomatoes, and sometimes guacamole on top. They're basically open-faced tacos and closer to taco salads than nachos.
Tostadas have anything yo put on them and they come with the bonus that you don't have to root around in a pigsty to get what you want.
You assemble then as you see fit.
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wage0048: I don't like fries. I just can't farking stand them.
So what do I do? I don't order/make them and I allow others to enjoy their food without calling attention to the fact that they are eating something I dont like.
Why? Because even though I'm an asshole, I am not, and I'm quoting here: "100% a dick."
Well, yeah, you do that because you're objectively wrong.
/man, I can't believe I forgot about bacon cheese fries. Those are bomb, too, bit the fries that are trapped at the end that are soggy and don't even have cheese or bacon on them might as well just have been thrown in the trash instead of putting them on the plate
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rohar: From my local dive. Brisket poutine:[hotsteamypileofpoutine.files.wordpress.com image 850x1133]
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rohar: From my local dive. Brisket poutine:[hotsteamypileofpoutine.files.wordpress.com image 850x1133]
The dirty fries at my local.
Pulled bbq pork, fried egg, and a harissa sauce.
My cholesterol went up just remembering it. Their onion rings are also delicious
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Bonzo_1116: rohar: From my local dive. Brisket poutine:[hotsteamypileofpoutine.files.wordpress.com image 850x1133]
The dirty fries at my local.
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Pulled bbq pork, fried egg, and a harissa sauce.
My cholesterol went up just remembering it. Their onion rings are also delicious
Same joint as my last pic, they'll put an egg on your brisket poutine.
But only customary gravy, no harissa sauce. It's owned by a Canadian native. He's not a third world savage!
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rohar: Bonzo_1116: rohar: From my local dive. Brisket poutine:[hotsteamypileofpoutine.files.wordpress.com image 850x1133]
The dirty fries at my local.
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Pulled bbq pork, fried egg, and a harissa sauce.
My cholesterol went up just remembering it. Their onion rings are also delicious
Same joint as my last pic, they'll put an egg on your brisket poutine.
But only customary gravy, no harissa sauce. It's owned by a Canadian native. He's not a third world savage!
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Looks tasty, but I tend to want a higher spice level than "brown gravy" on my bar chow. I'd probably give that a few lashings of Tabasco if available, or more black pepper.
I can see the appeal, though.
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Bonzo_1116: rohar: Bonzo_1116: rohar: From my local dive. Brisket poutine:[hotsteamypileofpoutine.files.wordpress.com image 850x1133]
The dirty fries at my local.
[Fark user image 425x566]
Pulled bbq pork, fried egg, and a harissa sauce.
My cholesterol went up just remembering it. Their onion rings are also delicious
Same joint as my last pic, they'll put an egg on your brisket poutine.
But only customary gravy, no harissa sauce. It's owned by a Canadian native. He's not a third world savage!
[hotsteamypileofpoutine.files.wordpress.com image 850x576]
Looks tasty, but I tend to want a higher spice level than "brown gravy" on my bar chow. I'd probably give that a few lashings of Tabasco if available, or more black pepper.
I can see the appeal, though.
Oh, they saw you coming!
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McGrits: Anyone getting flashbacks?
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I...wow...I didn't know that was a thing. It explains my parents' hatred of mayonnaise. Also sauces and condiments in general. Huh.
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Dipping in mayo
A fresh crisps sandwich with garlic aioli perhaps...?
Or anything a 2 year old child would do to them. :-)
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\\\that halal pack looks like shawarma poutine here
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