Heh, that got your attention, did it? I'm curious to know if there are other french-canadians on the boards apart from Ofelix and myself. If there are, express yourselves!

I do! I do! I rise! Now where's my weapon and evil scheme to take over BOM? :hmm:

We'll dominate BOM with our unbeleivable number of swear words in our native language and an evil scheme involving poutine infused with some mind-controlling herbs. :evil: Muhahahahaha!


:D

involving poutine infused with some mind-controlling herbs. Muhahahahaha!

Wow talk about evil Don't forget the mayonaise on fries/crips...

Mayonaise? Now *that's* evil. :evil:

Why Mayonais IS good on fries, despite what people say. Anyway with the two of us we won't really do anything shall we? :rolleyes:

That's true. Time to take possession of the poutine infused with these mind controlling herbs (now that I think about it, it reminds me of one of Jan's stories in BG2) and start distributing them all around the world! :evil:

Okay, so, which one of you is Pinky and which one is the Brain? ;) :p

Sounds like I am the brain :evil:

Question: What's worse than a Frenchman?

Answer: A French-Canadian! :shake:

Just kidding. :p

Welcome to the BoM Shadow Scorpion. :rolling:

We're not so terrible! Try one of our famous Poutines, you'll like it... :evil:

:D

Thanks, Kitrax. Good to be part of the family!

We're not so terrible! Try one of our famous Poutines, you'll like it...Agreed, they ARE delicious. Being french canadian myself, I know it. :D

In fact, I happen to live in Montreal as well, Ofelix.

I was never sure how many french-canadians actually read this board. If any others are lurking around, don't hesitate to post! :)

Ah-ha! See, Ofelix? I TOLD you there were some more of our kind on the boards!

But yeah, I mean togheter you have a post count that I could achieve in two days... and as far as I am concerned Nick92's post was his first.

And why should you be the brain? :evil:

(Good, now they're fighting amongst themselves... :evil: )

Umm... What is a poutine? :confused:

I can confirm that mayo on chips is awesome, though. I tried it when I was on an exchange in Hamburg, and have been hooked since. And how I miss Bratwurst and curry sauce... :love: :yum:

Better not tell Barmy about the mayo.

Hi all,

I do not usually post, but I will make an effort for this.
Colour me green and call me froggie for I am French Canadian.

BTW, I thought that our plan to takes over the BoM (and later the world) was secret?

Magpie: Poutine is fries with gravy and cheese. Food fit for gods... ;) .

Gravy & cheese? :nuts:

Northeners are known for having gravy on chips, but gravy & cheese?! :whoa: It sounds like two completely opposite flavours, and not in a good complemetary way, either. :sick:

Still, I should withhold judgement until I try it, I 'spose, but I'm not sure I'd pick it out by choice...

Well, those chips and gravy do not sound very tasty to me...

Chips with lots of salt and mayo or saté are the bomb!

Chips and mayo - ok
Chips and gravy - needs faggots as well
Chips and cheese - I can feel my arteries hardening
Chips, gravy and cheese - I thought the french could cook !!!!!!

Despite how weird it sounds, poutine is *great* stuff. It's even better when topped with smoked meat and BBQ flavoured cheese :love:
Though one of my friends used to topis his with mayo... scary.

Try it, you'll see, it's great :evil:

Ofelix, what, you don't approve my choice of being the brain? I carry the wisdom of age! Respect your elders, young punk! :D

Just kidding.

Well, the combinations of cheese and mayo I can understand, but together with gravy turns my stomache around!

The only thing that should have gravy on it are cooked or mashed potatoes.

maudit tabarnak osti!

marde!

You guys are wierd BBQ-flavoured cheese ??

I'd rather have some nice walnut bread with roquefort, stilton, wensleydale, yarg or chevres and a good bottle of red wine or port

You guys are wierd BBQ-flavoured cheese ??

I'd rather have some nice walnut bread with roquefort, stilton, wensleydale, yarg or chevres and a good bottle of red wine or port


Hehe, well, DarkStrider, I guess you're a fan of fine cuisine, then. Our gastronomy must seem childishly simple.

Yeah! BBQ flavoured cheese :love:

Preparing a poutine is a labor of love, you know! The fries, the gravy, the cheese, the smoked meat, the BBQ flavoured cheese...

And if it sounds weird... I understand. This was a recipe I came up with when stoned. I found smoked meat and BBQ cheese in the fridge and dumped that on the poutine, and that was the beginning of a wonderful love story... or stomach-churning story for you fine cuisine amateurs out there :D

@ Bion: Ah, some swearing in our native language! Sweet!

... you are weird.

But yay for msyo on chips/fries/whatever ya want to call 'ems!

Yes, I am weird, I know. :cry:

No, seriously, withouth my modding it, poutine is fine food, indeed. We should do a BoM bamquet with five services of poutine... bring your own antiacid :D

Mayo is inherently disgusting. It shouldn't be used for anything other than binding a salad or dip together, and then only in the absolute minimum quantity possible and well-doctored with things to disguise its taste.

Gravy on fries, however, is bliss. I'd be will to try a poutine...

Then there's the poutine that you can use to fill potholes :p .

It's good stuff, albeit artery clogging. And I'm not even French-Canadian. Just Canadian.

Mayonaise is evil. :evil:

maudit tabarnak osti! marde! Okay Bion, you knew it's really bad language did you? Oh the proper spelling is tabernacle and ostie

Chips, gravy and cheese - I thought the french could cook !!!!!! Good thing we ain't French eh? No seriously it's good

No the worst thing I saw was Ketchup with poutine... :eek:

And there's always the italian poutine while despite the name is also french-canadian, you just replace the gravy by tomato sauce, Or just add it ;)

Urgh, Ofelix, your mention of ketchup with poutine reminds me of my ex... she used to ate poutine with ketchup *and* mayonaise. The poutine was a f***** up tint of pink...

Urgh... how disgusting. :bang:

It appears that the invasion is on. I would have been riding zamboni's. Sneaky, very sneaky. :D

Welcome to the board.

Yes... the invasion is on... and we still have our secret weapon. Muhahahaha :evil:

:D

I know cheese fries are heavenly, but I'm a little hesitant to add gravy to the mix. :hmm:

You guys are wierd BBQ-flavoured cheese ?? (Ooh, a cheese question for the Wisconsinite!) It's called smoked cheddar and it's absolutely delicious. :yum:

Uh, Felinoid, while the kind of cheese you talk about is mouth-watering, that isn't exactly what I was talking about. I was plainly and dumbly speaking of gouda curls marinated in a BBQ aroma...

Argh, all this food is making me hungry. Time to order some Domino's.

Another of the French Canadians here. Now mind you, not just any cheese will do to make poutine, you need cheese curds :yum: now we're talking!

Well, now that we've gotten the French-Canadians attention, I'd like to talk to you on behalf of the Newfies here. Let's renegotiate the Churchhill Falls deal, m'kay? And get a *definitive* border between Quebec and Labrador.

I tried poutine and it sucks majorly! :toofar: :p

Ok replies

@shadow scorpion yes I'm a gastromand I like the fine things in life as I can afford them; but even when stoned or another influence I don't cook wierd although once I did cook venison forrestierre fo myself and friends. :D

@Felinoid Smoked cheddar is delicious but here it's smoked using oak which has nothing to do with bbq

And get a *definitive* border between Quebec and Labrador.

Okay give it back then.

Tellement beaucoup de Canadiens français et tous parlent anglais entre eux. :p

@Chev: J'admet que tu as raison... mais écrire en anglais est devenu un réflexe naturel, étant donné qu'on est une minorité...

@Ofelix: Hehe, good one.

@DarkStrider: enjoying the finer things in life is good. What's the point of living if you can't enjoy it's finest?

Hmm, time to light an Al Capone cigar, with a glass of VS cognac on ice.

[ September 24, 2005, 01:22: Message edited by: Shadow Scorpion ]

Tellement beaucoup de Canadiens français et tous parlent anglais entre eux. You are Polish yourself and yet you speak english. But yeah I too find this quite err... strange. Oh and you find three '' tellement beaucoup''? (which is french, but you're not going to hear it from a native... sorry pal ;) )

Isn't this thread going really wayyyy out of subject?

It seems that wherever I tread, anarchy follows. :cry:

Yes, it's going out of topic, but who the hell cares? Think about it, Ofelix, we're slowly establishing our dominion! Muhahaha! :evil:

:D

@ofelix - No, you have enough dogs in Quebec! ;)

/me hides lab puppies

Ahh sweet Quebec. Deficient system, 51% of paychecks chopped... I shall betray you in a few years...

Betray my brethren French-canadian? I'm afraid so. Buisness opportunities are hard to refuse, and harder when they're in California. Nothing personal.

@ofelix - :shake: Please tell me this is in jest, else a side thread on this issue'll have to start up in Lingering Sighs; I got a pack full of Treaties, Acts and judicial decisions clearly defining the Quebec-Newfoundland border; in the end with either tacit or expressed agreement by the government of Quebec. Its own commission in '91 found no legal recourse to reopening determination of the boundry. Apart from the significant movement for Labrador to be an independent province of its own, any re-appropriation of territory to Quebec would have to be at the consent of Newfoundland and Labrador, which leads to the questions:

How much do you want, and what'll ya give us for that? :D

@Scorp - You plead being a minority of three to a single man who represents his ethnicity/nationality alone? :heh:

(@chev - or am I mistaken and have I miscounted other natives of Poland who frequent SP?)

ANYWAY, all this said, I like poutine; I like (most of) the Quebecois spirit.

Vive Quebec; vive humeur; vive passion!

Please tell me this is in jest, else a side thread on this issue'll have to start up in Lingering Sighs; I got a pack full of Treaties, Acts and judicial decisions clearly defining the Quebec-Newfoundland border; in the end with either tacit or expressed agreement by the government of Quebec. Its own commission in '91 found no legal recourse to reopening determination of the boundry. Apart from the significant movement for Labrador to be an independent province of its own, any re-appropriation of territory to Quebec would have to be at the consent of Newfoundland and Labrador, which leads to the questions:

Bah! It's not like it's that good anyway, that piece o' land. :grin:

I don't know but doesn't it seem strange to you that a majority of foreinger has posted this thread despite being labelled for those canadian of french language? It beats me.

those anglo-saxons *stole* labrador from the quebecois. je me souviens!

(btw, does anyone on this thread have "hockey hair"? Just curious... :shake: )

But you and Shadow looked so *lonely* playing in this thread all by your lonesomes! When you mentioned poutine, (well, you know how food attracts people like flies) I thought this was a kitchen party and you can't have one of those without a Newfie around.

/me breaks out mandolin and plays Great Big Sea songs

@Bion - now-now; "stole"? You seem to be forgetting the Treaties of Utrecht & Paris that His Most Christian Majesty *gave* Her Britannic Majesty (and His BM in the latter Treaty's case) Labrador, Anticosti, the Magdalene Islands, etc.

Through acts of the Britsh throne in 1809 and 1825, these lands were divvied up between Newfoundland (now "Newfoundland and Labrador") and Lower Canada (now Quebec), reaffirmed by a decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in 1927 which was asked for and accepted by the two relevant parties Nfld & Canada (at the behest of its member province Quebec), and confirmed again when Newfoundland entered confederation with Canada in 1949.

The only parties involved in the disbursement of this land that were not represented are the original inhabitants, whose culture sadly did not emphasize ownership of land - because they were willing to share, they got pushed out of the way. :(

And before anyone starts, NO I do not have a grudge against Quebec or its government over the Upper Churchill Falls hydroelectric development deal - it was a FAIR deal...at the time. (c'mon; who knew an energy crisis would cause the price of electricity to jump just a few years later?!? :) Lucky for Quebec & unlucky for Newfoundland *shrug* )

Anyway, enough of dealing with that one; on to happier things:

@ofelix - bien, la raison que nous des anglos barbares ;) trainons est NOUS VOUS AIMENT ! :D C'est un fil interessant et different, et sans compter que - car j'ai dit - I *comme* le poutine! :yum:

(And my apologies now for the probably awkward and likely Parisian french, as well as the lack of diacritics; it's been over a decade since I've used my government-mandated bilingual education this much...)

@apathic: hehe, yeah, but this thread begun as a search for some more of us. We have managed to get a few out of the shadows, but this thread has went waaaaaaaaay out of line. Oh well, at least, we're having fun, aren't we?

Indeed, Well I think I can speak for the (mostly) majority of Québécois.

Ahem: What the queen of England says we couldn't care less For most of us she was never and will never be queen of Québec. We're a democraty not a monarchy.

Just a quick post to increase our minority count! And God knows how minorities are important in Québec!

On the subject of poutine, Italian poutine is not only made of tomato sauce, but with spaghetti meat sauce. Much better..... :D

Now time to go catch the plane to visit some distant cousins: nos amis les Belges.

À bientôt!

Since when have the words "French-canadians, rise and shine!" ever translated to "Let's all randomly babble outside of the random babbling thread!" ?

I'm certain it doesn't translate that way in English, and though my French is rusty, I'm pretty sure it doesn't translate that way in French either.

@Blackthorne: heh, you're not totally wrong. This thread begun as a search for more french-canadians on the board, and it drifted into some random babbling. Well, at least we're having fun, aren't we?

Je dirai que oui! Et il y a juste une sorte de poutine qui compte, et c'est le nôtre! Et si tu n'aime pas la poutine, garde ça secret S.V.P., je veux pas l'entendre :p (Pardonez moi si mon français écrite n'est pas si bon, l'écriture na jamais été ma force :) )

tu semble quand même te débrouiller pas trop mal.

La poutine c'est la bouffe des dieux (alias nous autre!) :D

I really hate to be a party-pooper, but here we have more rules violations. This is an English only board.

We've shown considerable latitude here, precisely because we don't like to rain on a parade unless we really have to. But if this horsing around keeps carrying on, we'll end up closing this thread.

consider the source

Okay, wel'll consider it Beren. Eck I wonder why it took so many time before an admin tell us to to stop french! :lol:

Anyway I think the thread lost it's purpose anyway.... I think we find out who they were by this time.

Eh, yeah that's true, I had forgotten that rule. Apologies to everyone offensed.

I can't believe you guys started this without me!

I'm a proud Québécois too, although expatriated to Ontario, 'sti... only two hours away from Montréal, though, which isn't so bad. Besides, Ottawa isn't as boring a town as Quebeckers tend to believe.

"I'm a Frog, you're a Frog, kiss me... and I'll turn into a prince suddenly..."

Hey Can't believe I forgot Djief! :aaa:

\me hide away in shame

I should really post more than once a month... ;)

Edit: Guess I just did!

Some more french-canadians? Good! The topic may not be that way off, then...

Y'know, we're kinda like in Asterix: we're a small band of french who still survives english invasion :D

Wouldn't it be called Freedom-Canadians? :D

Hmm... yeah, that could work too :D

Did the poor topic died...? :cry:

We shall not admit defeat! :flaming:

:D

That's enough of that.

I was just kidding.