#but see new vegas is an example of a thoughtfully set game yk it can be done

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Less of an ask here, more of a statement!

The first time I'd ever heard of poutine was when playing Bad Ritual for the first time a few years ago. I looked it up and it sounded absolutely amazing. Flash forward to the state fair (not even in a northern state, we're talking Carolinas baby!) back in October, and to my surprise, they actually had some at the beef stalls! And it was so fucking good! I keep wanting craving poutine now, and every time I do I think of Bad Ritual :)

I think it's SO WILD that America hasn't en masse adopted it. Cheese curds and gravy on fries? Like? Lord! And listen people bully online chefs for not making them correctly and they're valid because famous Americans barely consider Canada a country let alone somewhere distinct from them, but while I will be annoyed every time an American chef is like "well I couldn't find cheese curds so I'm just using Kraft singles" or something stupid (mostly because these are the same people sourcing rattlesnake meat and a rare flower that only blooms on a certain road in China at night when it rains during a full moon, but yeah, cheese curds are too hard 🙄🙄🙄), technically there's no wrong way to do it. It's ubiquitous here but like in high school my cafeteria would give us shredded mozz and dark gravy on fries and that's like, close enough given their budget and time crunch.

Plus you can put stuff on it !! We have an entire restaurant dedicated to putting stuff on it (which listen is it gross? yes. did I help my college friend steal a two pound poutine from them? also yes) so I also hate when the online chefs act like "ik you'll hate me if I put something on it" like girl I was in Quebec getting MSM poutines like it's not that deep.

Anyway I have a lot of feelings about poutine and Canadian food in general. I used to follow so many internet chefs and then had to slowly weed them out, frequently for a variety of reasons but also I don't think it's a coincidence that at this point the only proper food channel that I follow is Sorted, which listen, they're British so it's not more diverse, but they're just not as snobby. I'm glad you think of BR when you infrequently get poutine 😂😂 and glad that I didn't think twice about what kind of food the agent was getting after all was said.