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West coast of Canada, specifically. Also have lived in the prairies and Japan for a reasonable amount of time.

Edited 2014-03-08 01:07 (UTC)

Do you like poutine? If so, how often do you eat it? Any recipes for it?

I like poutine a lot, but most of the time when I go outside Canada I see it done incorrectly. The cheese is critical. It absolutely has to be curd cheese, and it has to be either white cheddar or mozzarella; if the cheese you are using is orange, you have failed miserably.

Unfortunately I really don't know of any good recipes for gravy that I would personally use (having gone vegetarian fairly recently), but that's the other essential component. The default is a beef and onion gravy, but use any gravy recipe that you think tastes good, just don't make it too salty or you'll ruin the whole thing.

Obviously, fresh cut and deep-fried fries are preferable to frozen bagged fries, but you can get away with using those if you absolutely must. Just make sure they're good and crisp.

Assembling poutine is pretty easy, you just take hot fries dump on a good handful of your curd cheese and top with hot gravy. If everything is the right temperature, the cheese should begin to melt and get stringy. Eat with a fork and a good beer as a side.

i live in ontario and there's a local restaurant that has the option of putting shredded cheddar on poutine, it sounds so weird!

Well, that's just kind of going into the alternative toppings idea.

There are also plenty of poutine toppings like smoked beef or chicken or whatever, but those are just extras, imo.

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carma-bee.livejournal.com - 2014-03-08 01:54 (UTC) - Expand

Oh, thank you so much for answering my questions. I wasn't sure what kind of curds to use and since there's so many kinds, I was at a loss. I will have to look around for gravy recipes, but the fries I can do.

Something like these brands would be what you're looking for:

I just want to be clear you do not use cottage cheese or ricotta or other "curd cheeses". It should be something that's specifically large to medium cheese curds. I'm sure amazon will have something.

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(Anonymous) - 2014-03-08 03:25 (UTC) - Expand

The mushroom gravy in the Shepherd's Pie recipe from Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant is awesome on poutine.

How would you feel about Quebec leaving the rest of Canada? I'm assuming that they are still trying to do so.

I wouldn't prefer it for a lot of reasons, mostly having to do with infrastructure and logistics, partly having to do with the fact that I like Canada as a nation of French and English coming together.

For the first point, most Quebec separatists seem to think it would be fine to continue to use the Canadian dollar as well as our infrastructure if they did secede, which makes it less legitimate and more of a pain in the ass for me as a taxpayer. It also makes it idiotic to try to define airspace for another country smack dab in the middle of the nation and to try to route air travel around that would be frightful.

For the second point, I think that a lot of the reason Canada is a nation that not only tolerates but actively embraces the idea of a cultural melting pot (in a way that's much more loving and accepting than the USA tends to be) is because of that heritage and the way we were able to come together despite decades of hostility to form our country. I think Quebec is essential to defining us as Canadians and I really wouldn't want to see it go.

Would you typically have a lot of wildlife where you live? If so, which? And how does the French/English thing work? Are a lot of people bilingual or is it more of a strict divide? Is there sometimes hostility between difference language groups or not?

Oh holy crap yes. Tons of wildlife. It only takes about 15-20 minutes to get out of most of the cities around here and straight into costal rainforest. We have bears, foxes, wolves, cougars, muskrats, birds of prey, rabbits, red squirrels... In the house I used to live in we had bears come into the back yard a few times, as well as raccoons, deer, rabbits, squirrels, and more birds than I can name. It would take way too much time to name all the wildlife we have around here.

Everyone learns French in school here, but there aren't many French speakers on the west coast. Not a lot of people learn it to the point of being fluent, but I still remember enough French to translate recipes, read packaging, read road signs, and understand simple things like hockey games lol. As you might have guessed, most of the French speakers live in Quebec. There are also significant French populations in Manitoba, and on the East coast in Newfoundland/Labrador and PEI.

There really isn't any overt hostility between any racial, linguistic, or religious groups here, for the most part. The part of Canada I live in would be more likely to gang up on a person for spewing hate language than they would be to ignore it or join in. There's relatively little homophobia as well, though that does still exist and is a lot worse when you get into the prairie provinces.

I find that fascinating. Here a squirrel is pretty much the most exotic things you'd see. There's foxes and boars on the other side of the country, but I wouldn't see those in normal circumstances. Bears in the back yards sounds surreal to me.

If you go out into the woods here and it's not a popular park or hiking trail you really do have to be prepared and carry bear spray and hang your food and bury leftovers far from camp and all those extra precautions.

It's also not likely to happen, but young cougars will occasionally attack dogs and hikers even on some of the more popular trails, especially during the spring and fall months.

There's lot of very deep, secluded wilderness around here, and caution is just part of having the privilege of living here.

I have been calling Canadian soybean and corn farmers at work. They are *so amazingly nice* and friendly and helpful and upbeat. Nothing like the surly son's of bitches that i was calling last week, the American corn farmer. Jayzus.

That's... actually just a true stereotype. Canadians really are polite as a people. With the exception of Japan, every other country I've visited seems rude by comparison.

I usually don't like saying stereotypes about Canada are true, but yeah that's just how things are done around here. You say thank you and you're welcome and you hold doors and try to be helpful, or you're probably not going to have a good time interacting with people.

Usually, if we call and someone is retired, or they rent out (sharecrop) their farm, we ask if we could have the name/number of the person who is now the 'decision maker' for the farm. Most American farmers are like 'no', with a side dish of utter paranoia. They also won't let you finish a sentence and one guy yelled at my fellow phone monkey to 'get a job!!'.

The Canadian farmers are just totally happy to give out the info, chat about it, tell you it's Farm Show week, commiserate on the weather.... It's so nice, not to have people hang up on you. :)

I say - embrace the stereotype! 'Ugly American' is all too true, and i wish it weren't.

I try to be a nice when I'm on the phone with someone who is talking to me in a professional capacity. You got any tips other than being forthcoming with information and saying hello/please/thank you for your service?

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(Anonymous) - 2014-03-09 09:06 (UTC) - Expand

Canadians aren't saints (because people are usually assholes no matter where they live, it's a fact), but I do feel like there is a higher level of ingrained politeness up here. Do people in other countries shout out 'thank you' to the bus driver when they're getting off the bus? I feel like it must just be such a stereotypical Canadian thing.

Haha no I hope it didn't sound like I was claiming we were. Canadians are certainly assholes about some things, as a rule. Compared to some parts of the USA we completely suck at driving too.

I've never heard anyone else do it anywhere, but I'll shout thank you to the bus driver if he or she said hello to me when I got on.

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applemagpie - 2014-03-08 02:35 (UTC) - Expand

Here where I live that happens (south of Brazil). There are some special lines where you get on and off through the front door and they don't have a guy to collect money, so you interact with the driver. It's pretty usual to thank and/or wish the driver a good day when leaving. Also very usual in buses that go from city to city.

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applemagpie - 2014-03-08 02:51 (UTC) - Expand

Oh my god, I forgot about the thanking bus drivers thing. I was out of Canada way too long.

I say thank you to the bus driver, but I'm also in Western NY, so practically Canada anyway. :P

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othellia - 2014-03-08 09:17 (UTC) - Expand

I assume you're in BC? :) I'm living in Vancouver right now! Born in Quebec, though. What are the prairies like? I've only been to BC, Ontario and Quebec.

Yep, I am indeed in BC.

The prairies are boring, isolated, flat, and full of idiots, as well as either hot and shitty in the summer or cold as balls in the winter. Probably the only fun thing to do is go to the Calgary Stampede. West Edmonton Mall is terrible and only interesting for a few hours.

The only other good thing about them is you can often drive far enough north in Alberta and Saskatchewan to see aurora borealis during the summer solar flares.

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