Wow, French fries, you'd never know it if... You get your Poutines Canned, as my grandparents used to. In case you're worrying about canned fries, don't. It's even worse. These, the Poutines Rapee, are mutant poutines that end up like the pierogie or the chinese dumpling. Compressed (often in a cheesecloth wrapper) cooked mass of potato with a caloric mass in the center, usually something like pork, but it could be anything sufficiently gross. The idea with poutine, je pense, is that it supplies maximum calories to help a person to survive tha Canadian winter. The bottom of this page talks about this mutant http://www.co-opsonline.com/basics/e/local_products.htm "the greyish colour and gluey texture of the poutines makes them appear somewhat unappetizing..." http://www.mega-zine.com/kitchen/vegetables_and_potatoes/recipe188.html Serve with Moosehead (the beer, not the animal part). John A.