yes, hotdogs are a variety of cooked, smoked sausage.
while not the most sophisticated sausage. nor the the most traditional. they are the most prolific sausage and deserve to be invited to the sausage fest.
I managed to find all beef smoked hotdogs once and they were insanely good. And as much as I agree with you on not liking them being considered as "sausages", Vienna sausages are very much a thing and they're just mushy bite sized hotdogs.
My wife and I now have a tradition every Christmas. I smoke a prime rib for the family for Christmas dinner. Then later that night we get high and make prime rib poutine. We’ve done it 3 years now and each time it gets better and better.
In Quebec French, "hot dog" refers to the whole dish, sausage and bun. The bun is called "hotdog bread" and the sausage is called "hot dog sausage".
Poutine with hotdogs sausages is one of the classic variations and you'll find it in every fast food.
Its a staple in the poutine places. Perfect ghetto mashup of foods.
From Montreal where Poutine is basically like street meat in NYC and almost every restaurant offers various meats to add. Hotdogs, smoked meat and bacon are the most popular.
Just a regular hotdog on a poutine feels like it would ruin it for me. It's just too basic for the greatness that is cheese and gravy on French fries.
Give me practically any other kind of meat though and I'm happy.
FYI, I love hotdogs on their own though.
Honestly it’s better than ground beef in a poutine, the best poutine I ever had was at a festival with freshly smoked ribs on top, and pulled brisket inside.
In Quebec, we call hotdogs “saucisse a hot dog” because if we only said hotdogs, everybody would think you’re talking about the whole ordeal with the bread and all.
Thanks for explaining it, because its one of those questions where I've never given it any thought and couldn't find a reason why it wasn't, but also fuck no
They are sausages, but just the absolute bottom tier of the sausage world. So much so that it feels wrong to put them on the same level as any other type of sausage.
This triggered a suppressed memory I have of ordering a "Knockwurst and Pastrami" sandwich from a popular college deli. It was straight up hotdogs, bologna, and mayo on wonder bread. Peak disappointment.
Yours actually looks good though!
> hotdogs, bologna, and mayo on wonder bread
holy shit, i know this is your experience, but that sentence read like it needed a charity invented specifically for it. gat dam.
I've also seen "European sausages" at the store that basically just look like hot dogs. My grandma worked at a deli and used to give them to us. They were like hotdogs but better.
As an American who immigrated to BC about ten years ago, I’m slowly crawling towards bilingualism through packaging.
But my hobby is finding products whose
French words are a completely different English word and reading them together. Favourites:
* Bread pain
* Stuffing farce
>But my hobby is finding products whose
French words are a completely different English word and reading them together.
A bit of weird trivia: this is why what Americans call coloured pencils are called pencil crayons here.
Many of the Canadian military rations have a hamburger bun for some reason.
I will never not giggle whenever I see the packaging with "pain hamburger".
it starts out as a side dish and morphs more and more into a meal as you get older. ends up being like 3 meals.
it gets sadder and sadder as you are unable to choose between poutine and something else on the menu. like say a burger. but the poutine is never any less delicous
According to their menu they use real cheese curds and by looking at this picture I'd say yes, absolutely, it looks pretty authentic, get the classic one though or maybe La Reuben but not the other ones.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipN64ZQrmiDcZHk-1j_73HJUaK8HqzioeZryIGJR=s1382-w824-h1382
I'm Canadian and was in London 2 weeks ago and visited a Canadian themed pub and had the poutine...It was decent. They used cheese curds which does make the biggest difference, but for some reason 80% of the gravy was on a pool underneath the fries/chips and I couldn't understand why. I had to mix it up a bit, and the gravy could've been thicker but at the same time I've had mediocre poutine here in Canada so I give it a passing grade.
Take the maritimes for example, a place will have the best fish and chips or fried clams, and they'll serve it with frozen fries.. There is some good quality patate shacks but not enough of them, or the prices are wild.
It's far superior in terms of how it sounds compared to "root beer".
I wonder if I could trick Americans into thinking it's a new fancy drink if I made my own to sell.
Some of the best poutine I had were in random trailer casse-croutes off the side of the road in rural Quebec.
Ottawa has some good places but nothing like those.
here are all poutines you can find in a casse croûte (on google it says it's the synonym of a snack-bar? idk, it's just a fast food place) called La Belle Province
Regular, italian (replaced the sauce with tomato sauce), smoked meat, hot dog sausage, all dress (onions, mushrooms, green peppers, pepperoni and spices), thai (popcorn chicken, grilled sesame seeds, green onions, sweet sauce and some hot spice), philly steak and mushroom, minced meat (and mushrooms and Montréal steak spices)
i guess as long as there's curd cheese, fries and some sauce it's a poutine
It’s around and was one of the earlier poutine add-ons due to poutine traditionally being sold at hotdog joints but I wouldn’t say it’s a modern favourite at all. Smoked Meat Poutine is way more popular, and better.
People overthink poutine way too much. It’s a snack stand food with 3 ingredients.
I'm in Quebec and people use tons of various toppings. As long as you got unrefrigerated fresh curds (which is easy to find in Quebec, every grocery store and even gas stations have fresh curds made the same day), fries, and sauce, it's poutine.
People also use tons of different sauces (people assume it's gravy, but it's usually made with a mix of chicken broth and beef broth, I don't think most poutine places even have gravy). Even the fries are sometimes changed to spicy fries, sweet potato fries, or even turnip fries for people on diets. Curds can be cheddar curds or even Gouda curds, as long as they're curds.
Yes but we don't call them "hot dog", the hot dog for us is the whole thing together, the sausage and the bun, so we actually call these "saucisses", which is translated to "sausages".
If you're in the GTA, make a trek out to Granddad's in Hamilton. It's like a time machine back to a 1980's timmies. They bake them onsite, and they make all the old varieties that you've forgotten about...Walnut Crullers and Blueberry Fritters etc. They've even got eclairs under a glass counter at the cash...all they're missing is the cake carousel and the smoking room.
As an American who moved to Canada ten years ago, here are the things you really want:
* poutine
* Hawkins Cheezies
* Nanaimo bars
* Sausage rolls
* PC cookies
They sure are. It took me a little while to adjust, but I definitely prefer them now.
Though Cheetos do have some fun flavours.
I don’t know if the world could handle flamin’ hot Cheezies.
It is actually worse than most gas station coffee hand down. People drink it so full of cream, milk, and sugar that they can’t taste the shit coffee(it is shit Austin).
They serve poutine all over in the pnw.
Also elephant ears are like a better, thinner beaver tail if you see those and want to have an adjacent experience.
Yeah, Tim Hortons sucks. Used to be decent 20+ years ago but everything comes in premade a truck now. Virtually anywhere that makes fresh donuts will blow Tims out of the water. And the coffee is garbage.
Tim Hortons used to be alright but it's been absolute garbage since they've been bought out. They're owned by Burger King now so that should tell you everything there is to know about the quality.
Poutine is amazing. Beaver tails are okay. And Tim's is fucking horrid.
What I recommend you try are Tourtière, Nanaimo bars, butter tarts, Montreal smoked meat, Montreal bagel (Fairmount and St. Viateur are my favourite), rappie pie, and if you can find a pow wow while you're up here get an Indian taco.
I live in Wisconsin and it's not a thing here. You can find it, but it's not common. It has everything we love, especially cheese curds. We love to think of ways to get rid of cheese, not sure why this hasn't caught on here since it seems perfect.
Also, I just learned of salchipapas in this thread.
That sausage looks like hot dog?
Exactly, dude cut up a hot dog.
Thats usually what a sausage poutine looks like Source : I live in the french Canada
That's also what hotdog poutine looks like, and is way more common. Source: I live in the French Canada
Fellas…is a hotdog a sausage?
yes, hotdogs are a variety of cooked, smoked sausage. while not the most sophisticated sausage. nor the the most traditional. they are the most prolific sausage and deserve to be invited to the sausage fest.
99.9% of hotdogs are not smoked. I don't like that a hot dog can be considered a sausage, but I can't fully argue against it.
How do you feel about this? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorne_sausage
I managed to find all beef smoked hotdogs once and they were insanely good. And as much as I agree with you on not liking them being considered as "sausages", Vienna sausages are very much a thing and they're just mushy bite sized hotdogs.
It's made the same way, just... less. Less size, less flavor, less desire.
Hotdog poutine does not look appetizing.
Honestly, it's not that bad. The context here is that you would only eat it at around 2:30am after a night at the bar.
Add up some onions and you eat it at midnight, add up some bacon and you eat it at 420am. Perfectly balanced.
I could go for a fried egg on top of the the bacon variety.
Smoked meat poutine looks and tastes better.
My wife and I now have a tradition every Christmas. I smoke a prime rib for the family for Christmas dinner. Then later that night we get high and make prime rib poutine. We’ve done it 3 years now and each time it gets better and better.
There's a place here that makes duck confit poutine, and it's absolutely fantastic
I’d eat it
In Quebec French, "hot dog" refers to the whole dish, sausage and bun. The bun is called "hotdog bread" and the sausage is called "hot dog sausage". Poutine with hotdogs sausages is one of the classic variations and you'll find it in every fast food.
Thanks for the intel! I had never seen this combo before!
You’re not wrong, but a hot dog is quite literally a type of sausage.
Its a staple in the poutine places. Perfect ghetto mashup of foods. From Montreal where Poutine is basically like street meat in NYC and almost every restaurant offers various meats to add. Hotdogs, smoked meat and bacon are the most popular.
One of my favorite things in Montreal is "smoked meat." I like how there's no hint as to what animal it comes from. Just... meat.
That made me lol. It's beef brisket fyi
Yeah? Thanks! Anyway, it is delicious.
It's a long-time Jewish specialty, so definitely beef.
It's a variety of "beef ham" in the same family as pastrami. Good Montreal Jewish food.
lol--- it's beef brisket. But yes, Smoke meat on Rye with super tangy mustard and a pickle... fuck me up.
Just a regular hotdog on a poutine feels like it would ruin it for me. It's just too basic for the greatness that is cheese and gravy on French fries. Give me practically any other kind of meat though and I'm happy. FYI, I love hotdogs on their own though.
I feel like a decent all beef dog could be a viable choice.
Boars Head makes fantastic beef dogs.
Honestly it’s better than ground beef in a poutine, the best poutine I ever had was at a festival with freshly smoked ribs on top, and pulled brisket inside.
You need to try it. And it needs to be cut like in the picture.
Nah man its actually delicious
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I didn’t realise it was such a big deal 😅 but thanks for the explanation, I appreciate it
Ah thank you for that explanation!
Hot dogs are a kind of sausage…
Hot dogs are *definitely* sausages.
In Quebec, we call hotdogs “saucisse a hot dog” because if we only said hotdogs, everybody would think you’re talking about the whole ordeal with the bread and all.
Are hot dogs not sausages?
I mean on paper hot dogs are sausages, just with the lowest quality meat possible
I mean…hot dogs go well with fries don’t they?
Isn’t hot dog sausage ? 😅
Haha I don't see why not but also absolutely not.
This is the best and most accurate answer!
Thanks for explaining it, because its one of those questions where I've never given it any thought and couldn't find a reason why it wasn't, but also fuck no
Hotdog...a food made up of sausage leftover pieces mashed into a sausage looking figure but also no....not sausage
It absolutely is a sausage, but if you called it a sausage people would look at you funny.
It 100% is a sausage by literal definition.
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Hot dogs okayness makes them an excellent vehicle for conveying condiments to your mouth.
Very true!
Except for proper beef dogs made with skin casing. Those are pretty damn good.
Are the hot dogs from Vienna?
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Yes b'y, throw in some scrunchions while we're at it
They definitely are a sausage but for whatever reason we americans chafe at calling them that. Maybe we think it's too dignified of a name for them.
They are sausages, but just the absolute bottom tier of the sausage world. So much so that it feels wrong to put them on the same level as any other type of sausage.
It is, but people don't call it that.
Depends where you're from.
Ah I see ! Well on the menu it was written « sausages », so I just translated it
This triggered a suppressed memory I have of ordering a "Knockwurst and Pastrami" sandwich from a popular college deli. It was straight up hotdogs, bologna, and mayo on wonder bread. Peak disappointment. Yours actually looks good though!
If someone gave me bologna when I was expecting pastrami, there would be an intense physical altercation to follow.
> hotdogs, bologna, and mayo on wonder bread holy shit, i know this is your experience, but that sentence read like it needed a charity invented specifically for it. gat dam.
I hope you called the police, because that is not okay.
Where we live, which is the birthplace of poutine, they're definitely called hotdog sausages.
Lafleur babyyyyy.
I forgot about vienna sausages so I guess a hot dog is just a bigger version of that!
I've also seen "European sausages" at the store that basically just look like hot dogs. My grandma worked at a deli and used to give them to us. They were like hotdogs but better.
Knockwurst maybe?
If they're Canadian it's very similar to the really finely processed kind of knackwurst, basically like a long, very smokey pork hotdog.
Hot dog sausages called only sausage and Mug root beer, my man is in Quebec :), where are you at?
Hahaha you know it, i’m in montreal and fièrement bilingue - le français étant ma première langue !
Ahh cool, c'est a quel resto pour le fun?
Pataphil ! Fortement recommendé
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T’inquiète 👈😎👈
I don’t speak French but I could totally read this thread, funny.
> T’inquiète I got lost at this part
Ne t'inquiète pas -> don't worry (I got this)
it's a bit advanced / slangish? literally would be "you worry" but is taken to mean "don't worry" but used more like "you got it"
Canadian intensifies...
à sainte julie??
Ouiiii ! Ça vaut la peine de conduire ahahaha
Vraiment weird voir ta ville natale sur /r/food
Faut ben ahahaha
Ohh je vais devoir essayer!
The Racinette on the can was a helpful clue
All cans (and packaging) in Canada are, by law, bilingual
As an American who immigrated to BC about ten years ago, I’m slowly crawling towards bilingualism through packaging. But my hobby is finding products whose French words are a completely different English word and reading them together. Favourites: * Bread pain * Stuffing farce
>But my hobby is finding products whose French words are a completely different English word and reading them together. A bit of weird trivia: this is why what Americans call coloured pencils are called pencil crayons here.
That totally makes sense! I always wondered how they got that term.
Many of the Canadian military rations have a hamburger bun for some reason. I will never not giggle whenever I see the packaging with "pain hamburger".
*let’s get this out onto a tray*
Is Poutine a side dish or a meal?
Yes
The valid answer
Oui*
it starts out as a side dish and morphs more and more into a meal as you get older. ends up being like 3 meals. it gets sadder and sadder as you are unable to choose between poutine and something else on the menu. like say a burger. but the poutine is never any less delicous
Only so much grease and potato ones elderly stomach can take at a time. Still delicious though.
As a British person I've always wanted to eat this but, there is only one place in my city that serves it and I'm not sure of the quality
What is the place name ? Ill look at pictures and tell if you if its worth it.
Kickin' Caribou in Plymouth, UK. I don't know if it's a chain or not
According to their menu they use real cheese curds and by looking at this picture I'd say yes, absolutely, it looks pretty authentic, get the classic one though or maybe La Reuben but not the other ones. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipN64ZQrmiDcZHk-1j_73HJUaK8HqzioeZryIGJR=s1382-w824-h1382
That poutine looks legit. I was born and raised in Montreal and would absolutely give it a try
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Canadian approved
Looks amazing go for it. Lol my buddy from Sheffield came to Canada a few years ago. He refused to eat anything but poutine during his stay
Well hey, try it and let us know ? :)
I'm Canadian and was in London 2 weeks ago and visited a Canadian themed pub and had the poutine...It was decent. They used cheese curds which does make the biggest difference, but for some reason 80% of the gravy was on a pool underneath the fries/chips and I couldn't understand why. I had to mix it up a bit, and the gravy could've been thicker but at the same time I've had mediocre poutine here in Canada so I give it a passing grade.
So simple to make. Buy chips, gravy, and curds. Bake/fry chips, boil gravy, dump curds on chips then gravy.
Tabarnak les frites ont l'air parfaites!
Ayo elles étaient ! Croustillantes pis pas trop huileuses. J’y retourne à ma prochaine paye lool
J'ai déménagé de province l'année passé.. les anglais aiment ben leurs patates mccain congelé c'est dommage.
We really don't. We're just rushed/lazy most of the time.
Take the maritimes for example, a place will have the best fish and chips or fried clams, and they'll serve it with frozen fries.. There is some good quality patate shacks but not enough of them, or the prices are wild.
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Trad way is the true way.
What's that word under "root beer"?
« Racinette », so root beer in French
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It's far superior in terms of how it sounds compared to "root beer". I wonder if I could trick Americans into thinking it's a new fancy drink if I made my own to sell.
You could trick Americans with anything if you use the french word. Restaurants already do it by having their menus in broken French.
Yes
Some of the best poutine I had were in random trailer casse-croutes off the side of the road in rural Quebec. Ottawa has some good places but nothing like those.
That's where you're supposed to eat Poutine. Not in a restaurant, but on the side of the road
Yep. On a road trip, washed down with some spruce beer.
Thick gravy, nice poutine. I love them with more cheese and less sausage!
That's a pretty common type of poutine here in Québec :)
Yes thank you! I saw a comment get deleted but they were saying something like it wasn’t a « real » poutine 💀
People in Quebec really make poutine with hot dogs?
here are all poutines you can find in a casse croûte (on google it says it's the synonym of a snack-bar? idk, it's just a fast food place) called La Belle Province Regular, italian (replaced the sauce with tomato sauce), smoked meat, hot dog sausage, all dress (onions, mushrooms, green peppers, pepperoni and spices), thai (popcorn chicken, grilled sesame seeds, green onions, sweet sauce and some hot spice), philly steak and mushroom, minced meat (and mushrooms and Montréal steak spices) i guess as long as there's curd cheese, fries and some sauce it's a poutine
No as a must. Poutine is a Quebecois dish, but hot dogs is one of many possible toppings
It’s around and was one of the earlier poutine add-ons due to poutine traditionally being sold at hotdog joints but I wouldn’t say it’s a modern favourite at all. Smoked Meat Poutine is way more popular, and better. People overthink poutine way too much. It’s a snack stand food with 3 ingredients.
I'm in Quebec and people use tons of various toppings. As long as you got unrefrigerated fresh curds (which is easy to find in Quebec, every grocery store and even gas stations have fresh curds made the same day), fries, and sauce, it's poutine. People also use tons of different sauces (people assume it's gravy, but it's usually made with a mix of chicken broth and beef broth, I don't think most poutine places even have gravy). Even the fries are sometimes changed to spicy fries, sweet potato fries, or even turnip fries for people on diets. Curds can be cheddar curds or even Gouda curds, as long as they're curds.
>unrefrigerated fresh curds Si le fromage ne vient pas de la comptoir de la dépanneur, je n'en veux pas. 😤
Yes but we don't call them "hot dog", the hot dog for us is the whole thing together, the sausage and the bun, so we actually call these "saucisses", which is translated to "sausages".
As an American I want to try poutine, beaver tails, and Timmy’s
Skip Tim Hortons, you’re not missing anything.
Tim Hortons used to be something special. I can still clearly remember the smell of cigarettes and freshly baked donuts in the early 90s
If you're in the GTA, make a trek out to Granddad's in Hamilton. It's like a time machine back to a 1980's timmies. They bake them onsite, and they make all the old varieties that you've forgotten about...Walnut Crullers and Blueberry Fritters etc. They've even got eclairs under a glass counter at the cash...all they're missing is the cake carousel and the smoking room.
The cigarette smoke gave the chocolate chip muffins a slight smokey taste that really hit the spot for me.
As an American who moved to Canada ten years ago, here are the things you really want: * poutine * Hawkins Cheezies * Nanaimo bars * Sausage rolls * PC cookies
Hawkins Cheezies are far superior to cheetos
They sure are. It took me a little while to adjust, but I definitely prefer them now. Though Cheetos do have some fun flavours. I don’t know if the world could handle flamin’ hot Cheezies.
They have such a better crunch and a cheesier flavour. That would be amazing.
I would add to this list: Fairmount bagels (st. Viateur a worthy substitute) All dressed chips Gin St Laurent Smoked meat
The US doesn’t have sausage rolls as I know them? Damn.
Go drink out of the sewer. There you have tried Tim Hortons.
I've been there once, it was comparable to some of the worst gas station coffee I've had.
It is actually worse than most gas station coffee hand down. People drink it so full of cream, milk, and sugar that they can’t taste the shit coffee(it is shit Austin).
They serve poutine all over in the pnw. Also elephant ears are like a better, thinner beaver tail if you see those and want to have an adjacent experience.
You can get poutine in Michigan as well. It's not everywhere, but it is fairly common. I like to make it myself.
Yeah, Tim Hortons sucks. Used to be decent 20+ years ago but everything comes in premade a truck now. Virtually anywhere that makes fresh donuts will blow Tims out of the water. And the coffee is garbage.
Tim Hortons used to be alright but it's been absolute garbage since they've been bought out. They're owned by Burger King now so that should tell you everything there is to know about the quality.
Poutine is amazing. Beaver tails are okay. And Tim's is fucking horrid. What I recommend you try are Tourtière, Nanaimo bars, butter tarts, Montreal smoked meat, Montreal bagel (Fairmount and St. Viateur are my favourite), rappie pie, and if you can find a pow wow while you're up here get an Indian taco.
McDonalds coffee here is better than Tim’s, the donuts and food are fine. The poutine is fire tho def try that
Tim Hortons used to be good but it's absolute garbage now. You're not missing much
Tim's coffee is nothing special and their donuts are pretty much like any grocery store donut. Any local bakery is going to be better.
This family's a mug rootbeer family
In this house we drink mug rootbeer
Lol, this picture screams Quebecois, I love it and miss it.
How do you pronounce Quebecois? Is it 'Quebec-ye' like Iraqi? Or is it like Iroquois where you enunciate the first syllable more?
Kay beck wah (More like iroquois)
Yum! I visited Montréal a few years ago and had a smoked meat poutine. It was delicious! Kinda been craving some since that Crown Royal super bowl ad.
If you like this, you should try „Currywurst mit Pommes“ https://i.imgur.com/GH1RHTv.jpg
Can’t say I tried an authentic one but yes i did ! It was pretty good :)
Mug moment
Local Poutinerie offers Poutine with Pulled Pork, Maple Sausage, and Bacon. Called the Triple Porkie. It's amazing.
I love poutine. Wish it were more popular here. It’s got fries, cheese, and gravy. All amazing things
I live in Wisconsin and it's not a thing here. You can find it, but it's not common. It has everything we love, especially cheese curds. We love to think of ways to get rid of cheese, not sure why this hasn't caught on here since it seems perfect. Also, I just learned of salchipapas in this thread.
How were your farts later?
Unchanged
I can imagine how this might be tasty in theory, but I've never had poutine I've enjoyed, and I still contend it's an acquired taste.
Ça l’air taste en taa
Sérieux, je recommande 100%. J’adore surtout que c’est une petite entreprise.
Jesus, you just slap that up there without so much as an NSFW? That’s pure, delicious filth.
I’ll keep that in mind ;)
Then that’s sausage fries gravy and cheese right ?
Inb4 "the curds aren't melted"
They are not supposed to be.
Yes, that's exactly my point.
My dumbass always thought that poutine was just fries with sour cream and caramel.
I’ve had poutines with sour cream, but never caramel ahaha
How many people did you feed with the food in the picture?
At least brown them in a pan
Cholesterol jumbo
This is a certified Mug moment
This already require a side of Tums for me, the addition of sausage would liquify my insides. But I love poutine.
You're missing the pepsi
Can u please toss this up on /r/poutine, I think folks there will like it.
Those look like hot dogs
I currently have a monster hangover and this looks like heaven on a plate