Frozen fries, cheese (curds if your rich) and beef gravy off the shelf got me through college, and to all the Americans saying this is gross. Coming from a country who bathes everything in gravy (including fruit) and live off fries I would think a bit more praise for this stroke of genius is in line for Canada. You only wish you invented this masterpiece of artery clogging art on a dish, which we need to survive up here in the cold lol.
We have a local cafe here with about 12 different kinds of poutines ranging from chillie poutines, the works, perogie poutine, pizza poutine etc.. all these weird poutines which is awesome when you get the munchies.
We take our poutine so seriously I know I get offended when it's even pronouced wrong in public, especially because im french and the only way to pronouce it is "Pou-ti-ne" theres a link between the "ti" and "ne" it's gotta flow. It's not "poo-tine" or "poo-tin" it's not a Russian dictator. lol
Now everyone run to your stores and combine the magical combination of canadian pride lol