By some sort of luck, Cindy and are living in Bonnie Doon, which is the French area of Edmonton. The Faculté St-Jean, the French part of the University, is just next-door. We did not choose to live there; it’s just that the end we are subletting was there. Don’t get me wrong: we do not live in Frenchtown. There is just more French speaking person in this area.

There is a restaurant and store called The Cheese Factory near by. They sell all kind of cheese, of course, and we can eat a lot of thing at the restaurant. I guess some home-sick Quebecer leaving near by once asked them to use the cheese curd with gravy to make them a poutine, because it’s the only place in Edmonton that I know of where we can have one. Quebecers in Edmonton seem to know about it, because I heard my first “tabarnack” in Edmonton at this place.

So Cindy and I where there yesterday, to see if Albertan poutine was better than the Ontario one.

Yes, it is. But no, it’s not close to the Ashton’s poutine in Quebec City.

Kind of strange, they missed the easiest part, but the did correctly the hardest part. So the French fries where not really good, nut crusty enough. But the cheese was close to perfect. The gravy was not a real gravy poutine.

Funny enough, you can buy St-Hubert gravy and mix at the store (Famous Quebec restaurant)