A Quebec restaurant is denouncing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in an unusual way: by temporarily removing the word “poutine” from its menu in a jab at Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Famed diner Le Roy Jucep, located in the city of Drummondville east of Montreal, claims to have invented both the dish and the word “poutine” in the 1950s. But the word—which the diner said was an abbreviation for servers to write “cheese, potatoes, sauce”—happens to be the French translation for Putin.
