Poutine

The earliest claims of poutine being invented date back to the late 1950s in Quebec. Specifically, one story claims it was invented in 1957 at a restaurant in Warwick, Quebec when a customer requested fries and cheese curds and the owner said it would make a "damn mess". Adding brown gravy to the cheese curds and fries later became standard. By the late 1970s, a version of poutine using gravy and shredded cheese called "disco fries" had made its way to New York and New Jersey. While poutine has many variations today, the traditional Quebec version uses fresh cheese curds and a chicken velouté sauce as its base.