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===Origins=== The dish was created in the [[Centre-du-Québec]] area in the late 1950s.<ref name="poutinedynamics" /><ref name="mauditepoutine"/>{{rp|12–31}} Several restaurants in the area claim to be the originators of the dish, but no consensus exists.<ref name="mauditepoutine"/>{{rp|12–31}}<ref name="PostMany"/><ref name="KaneWar"/> *Le Lutin qui rit, [[Warwick, Quebec|Warwick]] {{anchor|Le Lutin qui rit, Warwick|Le Lutin qui rit}} – {{Not a typo|Restaurateur}} Fernand Lachance of Le Café Idéal (later Le Lutin qui rit<ref name="OxfordCompanion"/>), is said to have exclaimed in 1957, "{{lang|fr|italic=no|ça va faire une maudite poutine!}}" ({{langx|en|"It will make a damn mess!"}}) when asked by a regular <!--Eddy Lainesse--> to put a handful of cheese curds in a take-out bag of french fries.<ref name="HutchinsonHistory"/><ref name="foodrepublic.com"/><ref name="CBCDrummondville"/><ref name="WoodsTreasure"/> The dish "poutine" appears on the establishment's 1957 menu.<ref name="VermaSticky"/> Lachance served this on a plate, and beginning in 1962 added hot gravy to keep it warm.<ref name="WoodsTreasure"/><ref name="PostMany"/> *[[File:Poutine-Restaurant.jpg|alt=Restaurant with signs on front wall saying "le roy jucep" and "poutine"|thumb|Le Roy Jucep in 2018]] Le Roy Jucep, [[Drummondville]] {{anchor|Le Roy Jucep, Drummondville|Le Roy Jucep}} – This drive-in restaurant served french fries with gravy, to which some customers would add a side order of cheese curds.<ref name="PostMany" /> Owner Jean-Paul Roy began serving the combination in 1958 and added it to the menu in 1964 as "{{lang|fr|italic=no|fromage-patate-sauce}}".<ref name="PostMany" /><ref name="OxfordCompanion" /> Felt to be too long a name, this was later changed to ''poutine'' for a cook nicknamed "Ti-Pout" and a slang word for "pudding".{{efn |name=a |The dish was originally called ''fromage-patate-sauce'' (cheese-fries-gravy) but this proved too long to put on the menu.<ref name="PostMany"/><ref name="VermaSticky"/> According to Renée Brousseau, the general manager of Le Roy Jucep, the drive-in's servers demanded a name for the popular dish to facilitate taking orders from curbside to kitchen. They said "Ti-Pout makes the pudding", using the nickname of a cook and ''pouding'', the slang word they used for strange combinations of food. Brousseau stated that this was how they came up with 'poutine'.<ref name="WoodsTreasure"/><ref name="PostMany"/> }}<ref name="PostMany" /><ref name="KaneWar" /><ref name="VermaSticky" /> The restaurant displays a copyright registration certificate, issued by the [[Canadian Intellectual Property Office]], which alludes to Roy having invented poutine.<ref name="VermaSticky" /> * La Petite Vache, [[Princeville, Quebec|Princeville]] {{anchor|La Petite Vache, Princeville|La Petite Vache}} – Customers would mix cheese curds with their fries, a combination which was added to the menu. One option included gravy and was called the "Mixte".<ref name="PostMany" /><!--not in source: a reference to the mixture of 50% fries and 50% cheese.--> According to Canadian food researcher [[Sylvain Charlebois]], while [[Warwick, Quebec|Warwick]] is the birthplace of poutine, [[Drummondville]]'s Jean-Paul Roy is the true inventor since Le Roy Jucep was the first to sell poutine with three combined ingredients, in 1964.<ref>{{cite book |title=Poutine nation: la glorieuse ascension d'un plat sans prétention |trans-title=Poutine Nation: the glorious rise of an unpretentious dish |first=Sylvain |last=Charlebois |authorlink=Sylvain Charlebois |year=2021 |publisher=Fides |location=Montreal, Quebec |isbn=978-2-76-214412-3 |language=fr |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X7J8zgEACAAJ |access-date=12 October 2022 |archive-date=17 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231017191841/https://books.google.com/books?id=X7J8zgEACAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> ''The Oxford Companion to Cheese'' takes a different perspective, stating that the inventors were not chefs but the customers who chose to add cheese curds to their fries.<ref name="OxfordCompanion" />
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