Eating poutine, donuts, macaroni and cheese, and Cheetos separately can be an occasional source of calories, and you would get a lot of calories per gram of any of these foods. The need to combine foods into other foods isn’t interesting or creative or a good use of junk food points.
If you are going to eat poutine, eat a really good plate of poutine, not potato wedges, cheese curds, and gravy on a relatively bland donut. If you are going to eat a donut, find one with flavor and real taste.
If you are going to eat macaroni and cheese, make a good quality plate. A good macaroni and cheese does not need Cheetos as a shell.
Tim Hortons offered up a poutine donut on Canada Day (July 1) to Americans to celebrate Canadian independence. Tim Hortons is owned by Burger King, the creators of Mac n' Cheetos, macaroni and cheese with a dusting of Cheetos on the outside.
The poutine donut might celebrate Canada if Canadians somehow would eat a poutine donut, which they would not. They might eat a poutine with donuts, but only if it was really cold outside (not really).
The Canadian chain also offered maple TimBits. The TimBits are the hole of the donut, similar to Munchkins at Dunkin' Donuts. Maple and donuts do speak to Canada. Tim Hortons is offering up the maple TimBits for the rest of July, but the chain should make this a permanent fixture on both sides of the border.
A maple TimBit is indulgent but reasonably so. You get a taste of Canada in the process (pronounced PRO-cess in Canada). If I could find the recipe for the maple bacon shortbread sandwich I had on Canada Day, that would be a nice indulgence with maple bacon filling between a pair of thin shortbread cookies.
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photos credit: Tim Hortons; me
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