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Is poutine pizza a thing? It could have Gravy instead of pasta sauce?

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We’ll be stopping by!

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Usually anything that involves potatoes is pretty good. It would have to be made with gnocchi.

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It’s hard to find decent poutine or pizza in the GTA. I found 1 pizza place during the 18 years I lived around there and it closed about a month after I found it. Come to Montreal for both. :slight_smile:

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A few restaurants in Montreal offer various versions, yeah, it’s a thing.

ETA: Though I don’t recommend Pizza Hut generally. There are many places here that make far better pizza.

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One would hope!

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Oddly enough, there’s a food truck in Cambridge UK that does poutine…

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How is it?

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I haven’t tried it yet, and unfortunately, I have no prior experience with poutine, so when I do, my report will just be about it, not comparative.

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It’s technically edible once you wring the grease out of it, i guess. I shudder at the number of folks whose experience of “pizza” is limited to that place.

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Homo Hut for the win!

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I find it mystifying that one of the larger Canadian pizza chains is called Boston Pizza. Boston is not known for their pizza in the US. :woman_shrugging:

@Axolotl: Almost anything can be a pizza sauce or topping if you’re adventurous enough!

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Really. That’s one of the first things I learned when I moved to Boston years ago for a few years.

The pizza really sucked.

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With regard to poutine, I’d have to agree, if the one example I’ve had was any indication. As for pizza, I’ve rarely met a pizza I didn’t like, so it has to be really bad for me to notice. I have no point of comparison, having never been to Montreal. I think the best pizza I ever had was in Ottawa, about 40 years ago, and it was the first time I’d ever had thin crust pizza, and it was melt-in-your mouth crust.

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I think Pizza Nova, Pizza Pizza and Pizza Hut are probably more well known than Boston Pizza. We have a Canadian chain; Pizzaiolo, which is okay.

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When I was there, Ruggles was the only exception to that rule. Sadly, the place is gone now, but here’s an idea of what made it unique:

https://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php?topic=12853.0

NGL, if someone found a recipe, I would try to make it myself. Some of my faves in PA also use cheeses other than mozzarella, like goat, blue, and ricotta.

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Although, does Pizza Hut Canada resemble Pizza Hut USA enough to equate the two? Pizza Hut China is radically different than the US version, and better for it. :man_shrugging:

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I would also recommend provolone and muenster.

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An, I remember the pizza with tuna and black olives over thousand island dressing sauce. Looked unusual, but was delicious!

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