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The husband and I have been on the road a lot lately, shuffling from nursing home to hospice and back again. This means a decided lack of cooking at Casa River and numerous meals have been eaten out. While I enjoy my favorite haunts and their prodigious cocktail mixing, sometimes you just have to suck it up and go full on diner.
We’ve hit a few good ones, a few bad ones and a few that offered up some extremely odd selections.
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Yes, I live in Maine. Yes, it’s close to Canada.
But no, I have never embraced the regional favorite known as poutine. As for a hunk of barbecue bologna may I just say…
🤢
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I don’t care what you cover them in… no.
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Leave my burger alone poutine!
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Thankfully diner desserts are usually more appealing.
Take this lemon blueberry cake with fresh blueberry lavender compote. It was so huge and rich I took it home and ate it for 3 straight days.
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River's world..... 
There are lots of cheesecurds to be found in Wiscesota/Minnesconsin, too, but nothing like those. I must say, I’d try everything on this post, even if most of them would give me a heart attack. I’m very curious about those maple-glazed cheesecurds. As a born and bred Wisconsinite, I’m required by law to try them. (They hold you to it even if you now live in Minnesota.)
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They’re huge up here as well and getting harder to avoid.
If they start serving them with lobster I might have to move.
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I can’t eat anything like I was able to when I was a teenager, but the Molly Mooberry burger is making me want to give it a try. The vandalized Bologna turns my stomach. Fry it or forget it.
I never cared for blueberries that much until we went to Maine. The restaurant at the Westin hotel in Portland served a blueberry French toast that completely changed my mind.
I like poutine, but I lived in the UK and ate fish and chips as often as I could, so I’m OK with some soggy fries. Bring on the cheese curds. The only part I don’t like is prefab gravy. If you’re cooking meat, then you can make gravy, so no excuses.
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I adore blueberries and have them everyday in a morning smoothie. Bologna and poutine are not on my menu. In any shape or form.
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You and Cathy could enjoy a lovely breakfast with little change in routine. Wyman’s berries are pretty steep around here but you can really tell the difference.
If everyone loved poutine it would cost a fortune. Thank you for your help.
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Happy to help.
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I am from Canada but I’ve never had any desire to try poutine and I really dislike bologna. I may be an outlier on these.
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I’m probably the only person in Maine who doesn’t like them. We should start a club.
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I’m from Texas and in Far East Texas they have BBQ bologna…🤮. Not that I’ve tried it, but it sounds just nasty. Not even fried would I eat it, it’s a plain bologna sandwich or nothing. I’ve also tried poutine and as sacrilegious as soggy fries sound, I liked it surprisingly. Blueberries and lemon is an awesome combo and if that cake took you three days to eat, that’s my kind of cake 🍰🍰.
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I don’t even like it in a regular sandwich. Never did.
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Yeah, my brother never liked it at all. He’s a ham guy, in a sandwich, baked or anyway he could eat it, it’s always ham 🍖.
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I was a weird kid. I didn’t eat bologna, peanut butter or tuna fish sandwiches. Still don’t.
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I’ve never liked tuna fish, okay I ate it as a kid because if mom made it I had to eat it. But as an adult, I’ve never touched the stuff. Peanut butter, every so often.
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Poutine is the food of the gods — if properly made, and as Kenny says, with real meat gravy.
But because it is the food of the gods, it should only be consumed once every year or two. Too much poutine does not a heavenly — or healthy — body make.
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For me once a year is too much. But then I don’t like anything that makes my fries soggy… chili, melted cheese, etc.
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Fries are just potatoes cooked a particular way. A lot of people put gravy on their spuds. Poutine is no different.
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True, but I like my fries crispy.
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I can go either way. As long as they aren’t frozen first. McCains can go out of business anytime, I won’t miss them. We make our own.
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RG has a point. You might well like the flavor if you ate it with some slightly lumpy mashed potatoes. Jesus, I’m hungry.
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Love me some gravy and mashed… no curds required.
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I’ll eat fries either way, but tots have to be crisp. GO AIR FRYER!
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I will slaughter a sweet fuzzy to put proper gravy on my supper. Damn skrait.
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That cake…
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It was fabulous!
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I’m Canadian and I’ve had people look at me as if I have two heads (I don’t) when I’ve told them I have never tasted poutine. I might try it if the world is ending and there is absolutely nothing else to eat. Nothing short of that would make me.
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Sadly, I have tried it.
Once. And that was enough.
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That cake looks amazing!
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It was!
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I have heard of Poutine from cooking shows. I think I would probably like it.
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I’d forego everything except the cake. Blueberries and lavender? Sounds exquisite.
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It was lovely.
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Eww poutine on a burger sounds as bad as fries in general in any sandwhich made 100 times worse. Everything else sounds yummy
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Yum
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Fried baloney is fine. Otherwise/ways – nope.
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Not a curd fan? You’ve gotta be poutine me on…
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We’ll have to agree to disaBrie…
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I’ve never had Poutine, but damn, that cake looks amazing!
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It was!
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