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NY Fries - The Breakfast Poutine Wrap

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I used to work at Old Navy doing logistics for them. What that meant was I had to wake up at 4:30am to be at work for 6:30am. I had no problem doing this, until I started school again and I was doing that plus going to classes. All of that transformed the way I slept and evidently made me a morning person. Now everyday I usually wake up around 6:30-7am..Naturally. I had to explain that in case you were wondering, "why goes go New York Fries at 8:30 in the morning?" The answer is obviously being me. Especially since there's no Premier League this weekend =(

Now another question you're probably asking yourself is "New York Fries is open that early?" I don't know about their other locations but this one right by St. George and Bloor is. Their whole menu is available to order during these times too.

If you're not feeling a butter chicken poutine or The Works at 8:30am like myself then they have 2 options for you. Their Breakfast "Poutine" Wrap, comes in Veggie & Bacon. Now I put the Poutine in quotations because lately I feel like there's a bit of confusion to be what a Poutine actually is. *cough* Tim  Horton's *cough* So if you don't know a Poutine is originally fries, gravy and cheese curds.

That's it. No whip cream or chocolate drizzle. Just those 3.

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Now the Breakfast Poutine Wrap has only two of those ingredients, the fries and the cheese curds. What it also has is an omelette with onions & peppers; and a couple strips of bacon. All wrapped up in a whole wheat wrap.

Add a coffee and the total came up to price above.

It's wrapped pretty nicely. It didn't unravel when you bite into it, a nice touch. It's good, other than the super thin pieces of bacon, its a pretty good wrap. Even the coffee wasn't bad! Unfortunately where it fails though is the organization of it. The idea of a breakfast Poutine Wrap is, for sure, an awesome idea. But eating this one it didn't seem like a bunch of flavours coming nicely together, instead it felt like you could taste every layer of it. It's not necessarily a bad thing but you can there's something missing that I think could of been a clincher...

The gravy. It's baffling. How can you call something a Poutine when it's missing the one key ingredient that brings the fries and cheese together in harmony? Now how could you add hot gravy without it being messy? You can't but then again, most wraps that I've had often been messy. It's not like you even have to add a lot to it just enough to spread all over the pita. Another thing that was a little off was the cheese curds. On a poutine they make sense, the gravy melts it making it nice and stringy. There's nothing in the wrap that's that hot to make it melt to gooey goodness. I think shredded cheese or even thin slices would of been more appropriate for a wrap, curds are a bit too thick and doesn't scatter as nicely as shredded does. It's also easier to melt as well.

Maybe I'm just over thinking. Maybe I'm being a bit of an asshole. I don't know. It's not like its a terrible wrap or anything. Especially for the price and the size of it. It's a great value, especially if you're doing a walk of shame. But restaurants please, PLEASE if you're going to have your own variant of Poutine, please have a variant of ALL 3 components in it.

Thank you.

7/10

Ian

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