On 29/01/2015 10:12 pm, Michel Boucher wrote:
> Saint George > wrote in news:mae3ja$v2j$1
> @dont-email.me:
>
>> Chips with gravy and cottage cheese plonked on the top...
>
> Not cottage cheese, cheddar curds. Different product entirely.

No, just 'Curds' the same thing entirely...

>
>> Something mundane with a fancy french name...
>
> Fancy French name, wow...you are easily impressed (as Captain Vanik
> said to Captain Archer, Star Trek: Enterprise, Season 1, Episode
> 8). Poutine is not a fancy name by a long shot...it means "a
> mess" which is how its inventor first decribed it. Perhaps we
> should call it "têtes carrées".

"Chips and gravy" originated in Scotland/Northern England about a 100
years ago, it's not a Canadian thing...

>
> And word to the wise, it's never a good idea to express an opinion
> based on no real knowledge of the facts.
>