First for all my non-Canadian readers, I'll have to inform you what a poutine in. From my understanding this is a purely Canadian delicacy!
It is French Fries, with cheese and gravy. The hot gravy melt's the cheese on the fries and the whole thing turns into a goopy mess.
We'll in small town Northern Ontario we have a whole festival dedicated towards it! It's honestly not much of a festival. There really wasn't much going on. Just a few food trucks serving poutine and some music at night in the amphitheater.
The great thing about the location of our hospital is that it's on prime real estate just across the street from a large lake and huge park where they host all the events most weekends in the summer. It's about 15 minute walk to the main entertaining area so you can usually sneak up there on your lunches to check these things out. Which is exactly what I did today.
Here's a couple shots I took of the venue today, like I said really not much to show.
I know what you really want to see though is my meal. Of course I had to try the more gourmet versions of the traditional poutine.
This one was topped with pulled pork and BBQ sauce instead of gravy, but it still had all the glorious cheese.
I also tried this buffalo chicken version, which was topped with chicken and some sort of sauce, in lieu of gravy but did once again contain the cheese.
Both we're excellent, I think I liked the pulled pork one the best, and in case your curious I didn't eat them all myself and brought some back to work for my coworkers to eat.