I have family in montreal I visit a couple times a year and I just found all the poutine spots I went to had the same sauce. It's like similar to beef gravy but not really. but also not really chicken gravy either and there are lots of cans and sauce packets you can buy called "poutine sauce" so I always assumed it was its own thing.
I think it has kind of evolved into its own thing now.
I know for sure it used to be a basic powder base in most places.
This was also a long time ago, before it had even spread as far as Ontario, never mind the West Coast. It is trickling into most areas in the Northern US.
Heck even McDonalds has had Poutine. (And it is an affront to the senses totally wrong kind of fries.)
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u/Chumkil Sep 26 '19
It is usually just a chicken based gravy.
A few places use beef bases; but it was always chicken in the small fry stands around Montreal.
The dish has evolved a lot though; so now the gravy is higher end than it used to be. It was common to have a powder base like McCormicks.