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Drummondville, Que., diner Le Roy Jucep announced last week on Facebook it was temporarily removing the word B次元官网网址減outineB次元官网网址� from some of its online branding to express its B次元官网网址渄eep dismayB次元官网网址� over the Russian armyB次元官网网址檚 invasion of Ukraine.

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In French, Russian President Vladimir PutinB次元官网网址檚 last name is written and pronounced B次元官网网址淧outineB次元官网网址� B次元官网网址� the same as QuebecB次元官网网址檚 signature dish.

The restaurant has since deleted the post, but its Facebook page still describes it as the inventor of the B次元官网网址渇ries cheese gravyB次元官网网址� rather than poutine.

While the move has drawn both positive and negative reactions online, the diner shared a video on its Facebook page of a woman in Ukraine who appeared on Radio-Canada and thanked the restaurant for the gesture.

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The restaurant did not respond for a request for comment on Wednesday.

Poutine was invented in Quebec in the 1950s or 1960s, and the founder of Le Roy Jucep is among those who claim to have created the fast-food staple.

Sylvain Charlebois, director of Dalhousie UniversityB次元官网网址檚 agri-food analytics lab and author of the book B次元官网网址淧outine Nation,B次元官网网址� said that while the word B次元官网网址減outineB次元官网网址� originated in Warwick, Que., in the late 1950s, it was Jean-Paul Roy of Le Roy Jucep who first mixed gravy into the dish.

In an interview on Wednesday, Charlebois said itB次元官网网址檚 unclear how poutine first got its name. One legend suggests it was a trucker who asked the restaurant to B次元官网网址減ut inB次元官网网址� the cheese with the fries, he said, while another suggests itB次元官网网址檚 a take on B次元官网网址減uddingB次元官网网址� because it is a mixture of ingredients. Other dishes in France and Acadia also bear the name, he added.

While poutineB次元官网网址檚 name clearly has nothing to do with Vladimir Putin, Charlebois said they both became internationally famous at around the same time, and he thinks the Russian president may have at least helped some people learn how to say the dishB次元官网网址檚 name properly.

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B次元官网网址擬organ Lowrie,The Canadian Press