On poutine.

[randomness]

This Buzzfeed post has been making the rounds. The comment thread that followed was pretty epic. Two questions I had after reading the thread:

Is the poutine at Saus in downtown Boston any good?

Have the Belgians learned to make poutine with their excellent frites, and if so where can one try them?

I can answer the first question fairly easily and inexpensively, and intend to go over there myself.

For the second, there is the internet. Four years ago, someone asked "Ou en Belgique peut on manger de la Poutine, LE plat québécois par excellence?" on Yahoo! Answers France, but all they got was a recipe. (Other Google hits are mostly about Vladimir Putin in Belgium, not helpful.)

So perhaps not.

Comments

[merlinofchaos]

My understanding from the Belgians and Canadians I work with in the Drupal community is that Belgium doesn't understand poutine. I don't recall seeing poutine in restaurants when I was there in 2006, but that's been quite some time now, and they *do* try to be cosmopolitan.

What I do remember was a Belgian moving to Canada and commenting specifically on the poutine. So my guess is the answer is, or at least was a few years ago, no.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Yeah, one of the few poutine-related sites I found obviously based in Europe was http://lapoutine.fr/, which actually sells poutine kits to customers in Metropolitan France and Europe. From this I infer restaurants which make the stuff aren't common, because if there were there probably wouldn't be enough of a market for a kit you make at home to support a site like that.

It's too bad, because the Belgians really do a great job making frites.