In my travels, there has been non-such elegant a dish as poutine. Invented in the fine province of Quebec in 1957 when a bunch of drunk hillbillies decided it would be a good idea to stick random things on fries, poutine has become the national dish of Canada, resting with legends such as Japan's sushi, England's fish and chips, and the States' McDonald's Big Mac. Or it would, if anybody outside of the country cared.

A gourmand such as I would want to taste every instance of this delicious if weird-looking combination of fries, cheese, and gravy, but I will resign myself to merely going to fast food restaurants and asking if they have poutine.

The establishments that did not chase me away with a canoe paddle shall be immortalised here, in this page of reviews.

Let us begin with the dish I am eating right now! Poutine from White Spot, a fairly popular chain of both semi-formal restaurants and burger joints. I don't much like the place, but there is one very close to my house, and I really wanted poutine, okay?

The fries, first of all, are quite unsavoury. They have a strange burnt flavour to them, and I will never forget the day I was at the Pacific National Exhibition and I was sold incredibly expensive chips-and-gravy. They were gross. My grudge will burn until the stars fall from the skies, inciting the destruction of the universe.

Plus, they could stand to lose some weight. There's a reason poutine is usually made with shoestring fries.

The gravy is rather uninspiring. It's good, yes, but not only did the girl at the counter put too little of it, it all got sucked into the potato-y vortex of the overweight fries, without adding the flavour. Also, I just like gravy. All gravy is good to me (within reason).

The cheese, however, is exquisite. It approaches the level of that belonging to New York Fries, which shall be discussed at a later date. The melt is smooth, and it sticks easily to the fries but not the container. The taste collides perfectly with that of the gravy, and is flavourful without being strong. Good show!

Overall, I would give it a 5. The cheese is spectacular, but that is the only thing really good about it, and a connoisseur like myself cannot settle for that. It is merely average. I will probably eat it again due to the convenient location, however I will do so with a dour expression.

Join me next time on The Poutine Connoisseur, wherein I shall tackle another fast-food attempt to lure in hosers.

I see our Evil Forum Moderator has embarked on a journey of grandiose proportions, a quest to quantify the goodness of a potato-y goodie seldom consumed outside the land of the maple leaf! Perhaps further editions of this will help mankind reach the penultimate truth in regards to this important matter.

Someone should sell this stuff at American high school football games, where people consume shameful amounts of chili cheese fries, the Americanized distant cousin of poutine.

Shame you can't find this stuff too often (if at all) in the US. It sounds delicious.

Indeed, this is an experience I must share with the less-fortunate masses.

Wendy's is a chain I am going to assume that you are familiar with, it is well-known only for the fact that their hamburger patties are in the form of quadrilaterals. Recently, it had started an advertising campaign exclaiming "make poutine Canada's national dish", apparently unaware of the fact that it already is.

It's not the most stylish of places, but it has good chili, and occasionally joins forces with Tim Hortons. And when you get the opportunity to have poutine and Timmies in the same place, you do not pass that up.

While my maple doughnuts were exquisite as usual, the sweet maple topping and the weirdly minty inner cream catering wonderfully to my delicate tastes, that is besides the point. This being reviews of poutine, I must now review my poutine.

The fries were a surprise to me. Recently, Wendy's switched to heavily sea-salted fries with the skin of the potato still on, which I found simply inedible. To be rather honest about it, I would sooner chuck those chips into the flaming bowels of Hell than eat them. However, when I recieved my poutine, the fries were as usual for a fast food place. Shoestring cut, with light salt and no skins. It appears that Wendy's promotions only last as long as the blink of an eye.

The gravy was very good, it had a strong taste and there was a good amount of it. It was a deep brown, not the wimpy brown you occasionally get.

The cheese was good, it had a great pull to it, as though it were pizza cheese. But of course, it can't be pizza cheese, as the lack of cheese curds would be a lack of respect for this dish and our great nation, and would disqualify it from being poutine and I would shun it for the rest of my life!

I have the sneaking suspicion that it was not cheese curds.

Besides that, it was quite delicious. I don't go to Wendy's often, but when I enevitably do so again, I know what to order.

Perhaps next time on The Poutine Connoisseur I shall describe my own method of making poutine.

I go to Wendy's quite frequently due to it having some good fast food but IDK if they serve poutine in America or more specifically: The State of Florida?

I am almost completely certain that it is, unfortunately, a Canada-only menu item.

Not so! This eatery, located in a town I've never heard of, professes to serve the best poutine in Florida. There's also a restaurant on the south side of my town that supposedly boasts a menu carrying poutine. While I suspect true citizens of the land of the maple leaf would question the ability of rednecks to prepare such a dish, perhaps further Googling could reveal a poutine joint closer to your neck of the woods.

I've always liked fries with the skin preserved, because I oppose public nudity they're tasty.

I meant "within the vicinity of a Wendy's location". Yes, I know that poutine is avalible elsewhere (New York Fries has locations in Korea, for instance).