Growing up in New Mexico we have green chile cheese fries instead of poutine. And chile here is not meat and spices, it is a vegetable.

Growing up in New Mexico we have green chile cheese fries instead of poutine. And chile here is not meat and spices, it is a vegetable.

It's been in Quebec, where it's made with squeaky cheese. I had some from a roadside poutine stand there one time. The first time I ever had poutine was in Timmins, Ontario, about 40 years ago. Blew my mind it was so good.
It's literally everything the caveman lizard brain craves in food. Salt, fat, carbs, yummy texture and flavour.
Cheese curds to be more specific and all of Canada, not just Quebec.
Squeaky cheese
This style of cheese originated in the province of Québec in the 1960’s. At the time, local dairy farms had surplus milk, and they needed to use it for something. Cheese-making, it turned out, was the ideal solution.
All cheese is made from curdled milk, and Squeaky Cheese is no different. The main difference between cheese curds and the traditional blocks of cheddar you see in the grocery store is age and whey content.
You guys call it squeaky cheese in your part of Canada?
The standard fare poutine around here is made with curd-like mozzerella I think, its kinda mushy like the fries themselves, its just called "poutine". I've never had poutine with cheese so squeaky like I had that one time in Quebec, it was firm, chewy, and loud. Probably about 15 years ago now. Never had anything like it since.
I live in Saskatchewan, and we are pretty big into poutines here. We even have a guy here that goes to each place and rates their poutines lol.
We ( in my household) love to judge the quality of the cheese used. Curds vs mozza is quite noticeable.
It's my favourite cheese to just eat chunks of, quite satisfying texture.
Where has this been all of my life?
Quebec.
One of us! One of us! 🇨🇦
Its so good. And good for a heart attack!
I have to admit my first choice was the Korma, but this was late on a Sunday and they ran out of rice. They actually offered to serve the Korma over fries, but that’s just wrong
So obviously this is sacrilege and I would never suggest this to a Canadian IRL, but there are so many ways to make a poutine-inspired dish. Roast potatoes (cut into smaller cubes), onion gravy, some kind of sausage and brie (or your cheese of choice). I make it with roast dinner leftovers and it slaps.
Wait are you talking about Lagoon Biergarten?!?! Birria Poutine you say?!
That looks really cool, but very far away.
I went to a small local one in New England run by my local brewer. These guys have some great ideas so I really hope they succeed. They just started running it at a local historical estate.
Unfortunately the day I was there did not have as many customers as they were probably hoping. Maybe sundays are light, I don’t know. It appeared to be the family day as we were the only ones without little kids, so that’s fantastic, but less the half the tables were in use
I'm curious where you live that you have just discovered poutine
Probably somewhere in Canada. It’s rare there, but common elsewhere.
Closer than you’d think. I grew up in upstate New York and have since lived in new England. Quebec is practically next door
Rare in Canada? Quebec is like the home of poutine! You can find it in many restaurants, Costco, A&W come to mind immediately
Did you forget /s
That’s the weird part: New England. So near to Quebec. I’ve met so many visitors from Montreal especially. Ive read so many mentions online.
Heck, my ex-grandmother-in-Law was French Canadian
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