This week, in honor of Canada Day (July 1), we're presenting our much-anticipated show on poutine, the beloved French Canadian creation that consists of french fries topped with cheese curds, gravy, and often (but not always) some kind of meat. The timing couldn't be better, because I just spent six days in Quebec, where I ate poutine five different times.
Quebec City, 8:42 pm. While Dan explores poutine in Canada, Shannon explains its ideal characteristics: This is a great poutine because it has enough gravy to cover most of the fries and melt the cheese slightly, but not so much to soak all the fries and ruin the crispiness factor. Poutine or otherwise, we want to see what you're eating. Share pics of your
Lucky Dan Pashman is journeying through Quebec, so naturally he's ordering poutine every chance he gets. He'll be reporting more about his french fry, gravy, and cheese curd haze soon. He's also been getting advice from wise Canadians through FB and Twitter. His tweets introduced us to a shadowy and fascinating Twitter account that's propagating poutine content at an alarming
Regardless of how you feel about Subway's sandwiches or the potent disinfectant smell wafting from every branch, lovers of geometry and sandwich structure (like, say, us and Radiolab's Robert Krulwich) can only hail the cheese promise carried by the images above. The copy of this apparent Subway newsletter isn't good, but you'll notice the "New Procedure" sandwich on the left