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quebec poutine

The Société québécoise du cannabis (SQDC) is now selling a cannabis-infused poutine sauce and things could not get more Quebecois.

While the SQDC has expanded its reach with cannabis-infused products including drinks, edibles and extracts, the cannabis retailer is now upping the ante with a new product inspired after a classic Quebec dish…poutine.

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La Poutine Week is officially back.

The week-long poutine festival has returned to Canada and will run from February 1 to 7, 2024 across all 10 provinces in cities including Montreal, Calgary, Toronto, Vancouver, Halifax, and Winnipeg, to name a few.

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Montreal restaurants are collecting foodie accolades left and right.

The city of Montreal is known to be a culinary hotspot across the world, and there really is no denying how astounding our food scene is. After including two Montreal restaurants in its list of Most Legendary Restaurants, TasteAtlas would agree.

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Google unveiled a Quebec poutine-themed doodle in Canada on Friday, May 19, to mark the ninth* anniversary of the entrance of the word "poutine" in the English Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

The doodle depicts a steaming bowl of fries, gravy and cheese curds in front of a redesigned Google logo evoking the folky font of a roadside casse-croûte. A smiling, dancing fork clutching a single, gravy-soaked French fry replaces the 'L' in "Google."

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At the world's end, when nothing remains but dust and rubble, when the land lies grey and fallow and the birds don't dare to sing, what will become of Quebec's culinary legacy? What will we remember of the province that once stood so tall? Poutine, duh.

Here's everything you need to know about poutine, the classic québécois comfort food dish — what it is, where it comes from and where to get it (and not get it).

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2023's edition of the Festival de la Poutine is bringing some high-tier francophone musical celebs to Drummondville this summer, all for a weekend price of $45 (plus however much it costs to douse yourself in poutine gravy).

The event, which will take place in late August, has headliners including Montreal-born rapper FouKi and québécoise singer Roxane Bruneau, alongside iconic Les Cowboys Fringants and Les Louanges.

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On Valentine's Day, the nation's greatest contest ended for the 11th time. Now, La Poutine Week has unveiled its best-in-show, from publicly voted-upon to privately judged poutines.

Four of the five La Poutine Week concoctions that topped the people's choice list are from Montreal.

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POU-teen? Pou-TEEN? Pou-TZIN? The only thing more divisive than the classic Quebec poutine might be the pronunciation of its name. And some fun new data proves it.

The site WordTips has put together a ranking of the "most mispronounced food and drinks from every country" by compiling a list of national or popular dishes and checking the pronunciation reference site Forvo to see which had the most searches.

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The clicking heels of your favourite waitress, Marie-Angélique, herald its arrival. She swoops in from behind just as you impatiently turn your head to behold it. A novice's folly. You're blinded by the pungent steam. The aroma stings your eyes. It's a good sting, like the hot prick of divine inspiration. The fog clears. A tear falls. Before you: a tantalizing mound of crispy fries, viscous gravy and cheese curds. "Bienvenue," Marie-Angélique proclaims. Welcome to paradise. You have ordered a classic Quebec poutine.

Most Quebecers may only experience this rapture once... a month. Twice if they're lucky. But for seven joyful days, this was one TikToker's whole life.

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Le Grand Poutinefest, an annual celebration of the staple québécois dish, is launching its 2022 edition with a first stop in Montreal's Saint-Laurent borough starting April 28. The festival will feature 17 takes on the traditional pile of fries, gravy and cheese curds — many of them a bit eccentric.

They include a pulled pork poutine, a piri-piri chicken poutine, a double bacon cheeseburger poutine, a General Tao chicken poutine, and a fried dumpling poutine — as well as a classic poutine for the poutine purists.

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The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine has caused quite a lot of controversy for Quebec's prized dish, the poutine! Many restaurants have even gone as far as taking the dish name off their menu completely, despite poutine having absolutely nothing to do with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.

Well, it seems as if Frite Alors, the popular Montreal chain restaurant specializing in Belgian fries, has hopped onto the bandwagon. Frite Alors changed the name of one of their poutines, 'La Vladimir,' named after Putin, to 'La Volodymyr,' named after the Ukrainian president.

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A poutine restaurant chain in France took to social media to clarify that it is not linked to "the Russian regime and its leader." It says it has received "calls of insults and even threats" given that the "Russian dictator, Vladimir Putin, has been at the centre of a chilling news story" over the past few days.

Vladimir Putin translates to Vladimir Poutine in French, as both spellings were adapted from the Cyrillic Russian spelling.

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