However, today, heading north on the 416 to Ottawa we turned off to the service area at route 43 for coffee and, after visiting a Walmart car park by mistake, came across a place signed for fish and chips but which also did poutine (gmap reference 45.029524, -75.638894, from where I take the snap). So it was clearly time to give it a try: twice cooked fries, some lumps - maybe a cubic centimetre each - of a pale yellow cheese, topped up with some brown gravy, not so much as to swamp the whole confection. Very good it was too.
Nicely served by a lady who explained that it all depended on the cheese. She did name hers - but I forget now - and she also said that she did not approve of mozzarella for this purpose. Unlike some other places she could think of.
Thus blooded, as it were, we shall now try again.
In the meantime, the day's culinary adventures were closed with Dole's Dates. I had never before thought of dates as being grown in California, as these were. Dates, hitherto, have been something from the Middle East or North Africa, and either come in bricks from Waitrose or in plastic boxes, complete with stones and a plastic twig, at Christmas. These ones came loose in a bag, without stone, but otherwise entire and tasted rather good. The packet also tells of something called date and nut scones and having now consulted the Dole web site I think I shall give them a try as they look similar to, but a lot less bother than the date and walnut cake I have made from time to time in the past. But not much like the cheese scones that I make rather more often, even allowing for the cheese.
Reference 1: for the important previous mentions see http://pumpkinstrokemarrow.blogspot.ca/search?q=poutine.
Reference 2: http://www.dole.com/Products/Dates/California-Whole-Pitted-Dates.
Reference 3: http://psmv2.blogspot.ca/2013/08/more-cake.html.
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