I just did a quick check on Wikipedia and it seems poutine and I were never meant to be. It hadn't appeared in Montreal by 1970, the year I moved to Toronto to go to law school. Later I became aware of it but had moved to Europe, where needless to say, it was not served on menus in Geneva or Paris at that time. And later, back in North America, I was too set in my tastes to venture a try.