{"id":256,"date":"2007-05-25T14:50:31","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T14:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=256"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:01:55","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:01:55","slug":"poutine-makes-the-ny-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"Poutine makes the NY Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nFrom the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/23\/dining\/23pout.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\">NY Times of May 23<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"color:#408000;\"><em>DURING the 2000 presidential campaign, the candidate from Texas fielded a question from Canada: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Prime Minister Jean Poutine said you look like the man who should lead the free world into the 21st century. What do you think about that?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>When George W. Bush pledged to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153work closely together\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with Mr. Poutine, Montrealers fell off their chairs laughing. It wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t so much that the Canadian leader was, in fact, Jean Chr\u00c3\u00a9tien, but that the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153reporter\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Rick Mercer, a television comedian \u00e2\u20ac\u201d had invoked the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s emblematic, problematic, comedic junk food dish: poutine.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/span>The article details how a handful of New York restaurants have started serving poutine. It ends by mentioning how poutine placed in the top ten of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/inventions\/\">CBC&#8217;s Greatest Canadian Inventions<\/a> show last year. (Follow that link to see the top 50)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"color:#008000;\"><em>Whether Montreal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s embarrassing but adored junk food does take root in New York, it may never attain the status it achieved earlier this year when the CBC revealed the results of a viewer poll on the greatest Canadian inventions of all time. Granted, poutine came in only at No. 10. But it beat, among other things, the electron microscope, the BlackBerry, the paint roller and the caulking gun, lacrosse, plexiglass, radio voice transmission and basketball.<\/em><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n(Found via the always worthwhile <a href=\"http:\/\/w5.montreal.com\/mtlweblog\/index.html\">Montreal City Weblog<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the NY Times of May 23: DURING the 2000 presidential campaign, the candidate from Texas fielded a question from Canada: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Prime Minister Jean Poutine said you look like the man who should lead the free world into the 21st century. What do you think about that?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d When George W. Bush pledged to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153work closely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,19,22,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada-eh","category-canadian-culture","category-food","category-us-of-eh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}