Our 2nd Annual Poutine Dinner With Pat Kiernan

Last night a troupe of brave contest winners made their way to Brooklyn's Mile End to indulge the decedent Canadian dish of poutine, with everyone's favorite newsman Pat Kiernan. Earlier this month, around Canada Day, we held a contest for our 2nd Annual Poutine with Pat dinner (the 1st was at Pommes Frites)—and last night we all congregated around massive amounts of smoked meat, gravy, cheese curd and fries.

And when that was finished, the good people at Mile End brought even more food over—this time in the form of pickles and hot dogs. What better way to top all that off than with beers at the nearby Rock Shop? (Fun fact: people can recognize Pat by only hearing his voice.) While we research gym memberships, check out some photos documenting our night of overindulgence.

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By Jen Carlson in Food on July 16, 2010 1:26 PM

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spnder

Love poutine, but it's winter food. WTF are you doing eating it in heat like this?

Ed

I've never heard anyone describe poutine as pretentious before.

If by "pretentious", you just mean "foreign", OK.

Cannibal

by "pretentious" I really meant "Canadian"

schadenfreudian mensch

Is he bringing the wine and his fucking shoe?

ckl

although that poutine does look overly fancy

Cannibal

overly fancy may also mean pretentious!

GREGORYABUTLER

That looks really disgusting - like home fries garnished with menstrual blood!

And that's the national food of Canada?

John_Matrix

the poutine at la belle province is generally pretty bad.

eller

The rest of the country would like to think that Poutine is theirs but it is only authentic in La Belle Provence.

Nyctini11

I wouldn't do the meat one, but the regular(gravy & cheese) is DELISH!

PS - if you ever see menstrual blood that looks like chunks of meat, somethings wrong

Cannibal

Poutine = pretentious french disco fries

lexicondevil

I have never been to this place 'Mile End' - is the smoked meat any good? I imagine it's similar to a mediocre Montreal place, like Ben's? Obviously I wouldn't expect Schwartz's in Brooklyn. What about the bagels - do they really approach Montreal style?

But the real question is why would anyone voluntarily drink Labatt Blue? The Canadian beer indusry, with the exception of a very few breweries, is generally way behind that of the States.

lexicondevil

Dumb comment. There is absolutely nothing pretentious about casual Quebec (not French) food, and I have no idea what 'disco fries' are, but if they are like most 'cheese fries', they don't use fresh curds and therefore are nothing like poutine.

Cannibal

How do you not know what disco fries are DUMBASS????

Go back to Canada!

ckl

how is it pretentious?

its greasy late night drunk food, just with a different kind of cheese and cut of fry.

Boogie Down

I'd say the people (Jerseys, etc.) who took an idea that already existed (poutine, dating to the '50s) and changed its name are the ones being pretentious.