Poutine: The Greatest Canadian Invention

What about insulin? Or Basketball? Or what about an invention created by a Quebec pit-stop owner creating a "bloody mess" truly be the Greatest Canadian Invention? Of course, it's Poutine, the heart-attack in a bowl.

Some people may believe that poutine is a "laughable" invention, unfit to be called more than a recipe for food. However, don't we need food to survive? Sure, there are other (and more healthier) food choices out there, but poutine is different. We have many other types of food out there, but how many others are instantly recognizable to being Canadian? So already we have something that makes people think of Canada. People don't really do that kind of thing with something like basketball, or insulin.

Also, even though it is packed FULL of calories, that could be beneficial to many people out there. Body-builders, for example. A serious body-builder will need to consume roughly about 10,000 calories a day for their demanding lifestyle. Poutine is chocked full of what they need, in a meal not too big for them to finish. It probably doesn't have 10,000 calories in it (what would be horrible), but it has enough for them for one meal at a consumption rate of 10,000 calories per day.

Poutine has many other abilities, such as creating many very enthused poutine enthusiasts, traveling Canada to find Poutine in as many places as possible. You can only see things like this in sports, such as football. There's probably not people out there who go to as many stores as they can, trying to find many different types of UV degradable plastics out there on the market. People buy deep fryers, special fries, imported cheese curds, and grade A brand gravy made with a secret recipe, just to have a delicious bowl of grease.

So, there you have it. Insulin helps diabetes victims, the light bulb helps us see, and the telephone helps us talk to each other from great distances. But can those three inventions instantly be thought of as a Canadian invention? How about a pivotal device for body builders? Or how about having a cult following? No? What if you put them all together? Still not one thing? They're all great inventions in their own respects, but poutine has so much to offer to those to dare to go out on a limb and give it a go, reaping it of it's rewards to the public.