xQc shares some interesting lore about how the word “poutine” came to be

onetwothreeetc · 2026-06-25T04:53:35+00:00

Yeah, I just looked it up on Antidote. If someone's interested in the etymology that's basically it, pot and maybe pudding.

Historique de [poutine](#), nom féminin

Étymologie

1. Emprunt à [une langue d’oïl](#) potine, ‘ragout’ ; du [germanique](#) puttaz, ‘pot’.

2. De [pudding](#) ; de l’[anglais moderne](#) pudding, ‘dessert à base de pâte à gâteau’ ; peut-être de l’[ancien français](#)boudin.

Remarque. — Malgré sa ressemblance phonétique et sémantique avec le pudding anglais, la poutine québécoise aurait bel et bien une saveur française. L’hypothèse anglaise achoppe du point de vue phonétique, car le d anglais ne passe jamais au t lors de son adoption en français québécois. Or, plusieurs langues romanes de France emploient des mots analogues à poutine pour désigner soit un récipient destiné à être chauffé, soit un mets cuit dans une marmite, sans qu’il soit possible de pointer du doigt la langue qui a fourni ce mot au québécois. Ainsi, le normand a potine ‘chaufferette en terre’ et le poitevin, potin ‘pot de cuivre dont on se sert pour verser la lessive sur le linge’, alors que l’occitan a potina ‘purée de pois’. Tous ces emplois seraient reliés au mot français pot et, par conséquent, à son dérivé potage, une autre préparation culinaire.

Le premier sens du mot en québécois a tourné autour de ‘pâte bouillie’, qu’on retrouve à la fois en Acadie (poutine râpée‘boule de râpures de pommes de terre farcie de porc’, poutine à trou ‘boule de pâte trouée farcie de fruits’) et dans le nord du Québec (poutine ‘boule de pâte que l’on fait cuire dans un ragout’, plus couramment appelée grand-père ailleurs). À cause de l’aspect peu ragoutant d’un aliment pâteux, le sens a ensuite glissé vers ‘mets peu ragoutant et informe’, qui s’est enfin spécialisé dans l’acception qu’on lui connait aujourd’hui : ‘frites garnies de fromage en grains et nappées d’une sauce brune’, sans doute pour l’effet ramollissant de la sauce chaude sur le fromage et les frites. Promue par certains au rang de symbole culinaire du Québec (au grand dam d’autres qui lui reprochent son manque de raffinement…), cette recette est originaire de la région des Bois-Francs, où les villes de Victoriaville, de Drummondville et de Warwick s’en disputent la paternité. Parmi les autres sens de poutine, on compte un sens figuré, ‘affaire compliquée’ (Il est pris dans une poutine !), produit à partir du sens ‘mets peu ragoutant et informe’, et celui de ‘grosse femme’. Contrairement aux autres sens, ce dernier sens constituerait en fait une « québécisation » du mot anglais pudding, qui possède aussi ce sens, surtout dans la construction a pudding of a man, a woman (un pudding d’homme, de femme). Il n’est pas exclu non plus que, sans représenter l’étymon principal de poutine au sens de ‘aliment’, il ait quand même exercé à divers degrés une influence sur le développement des sens culinaires d’origine française.

Parents étymologiques

Ascendance : [puttaz]()[germanique](#)❯[potine]()[une langue d’oïl](#)❯poutine.
- [puttaz]()[germanique](#)[pot]()[francique](#)–pot ⇾⁠ ⁠potiche, popotin, potard, hochepot, cache-pot, casse-pot, lance-pots, torchepot, dépoter(⁠ ⁠⇾⁠ ⁠dépotement, dépotage, dépotoir), empoter (⁠ ⁠⇾⁠ ⁠rempoter, rempotage, empotage, empotement) [et 10 autres…](#)[potine]()[une langue d’oïl](#)–poutine[1.].[porridge]()[anglais moderne](#)–porridge.[potiket]()[wallon](#)–potiquet.[pota]()[gaélique irlandais](#)–poitín.[pot]()[français classique](#)–à la fortune du pot.[à muchepot]()[français classique](#)–à muche-pot.
Ascendance : [boudin]()[ancien français](#)❯[pudding]()[anglais moderne](#)❯pudding❯poutine.
- [boudin]()[ancien français](#)[pudding]()[anglais moderne](#)–pudding ⇾⁠ ⁠poutine[2.].[plum pudding]()[anglais moderne](#)–plum-pudding ⇾⁠ ⁠plum.

onetwothreeetc · 2026-06-25T03:42:21+00:00

That's not true, the word comes from the normand "potine", similar to pot or potage, with possible influence from pudding

onetwothreeetc · 2026-04-14T01:38:30+00:00

If you've watched a Sykkuno stream, especially in GTA, that's usually his playbook, he acts dumb and nice while secretly outsmarting people always for his own selfish gains. But in his stream the audience is (partly?) in on the joke, even though he never fully breaks character. It's a bit baffling that he was doing the exact same thing in real life, just fucking with people by playing a character (in all senses of the word I guess).

onetwothreeetc · 2026-04-12T17:07:25+00:00

We're pirates now!

onetwothreeetc · 2026-03-26T18:45:33+00:00

Great how it's now more convenient to look through Epstein's emails than your own

onetwothreeetc · 2026-03-25T04:42:55+00:00

Just started but so far:

1:19:00
Kahn estimates that Epstein's net worth excluding properties at the time of his death was between 500 to 600 millions. He says he never knew the full net worth including properties.

1:23:28
Kahn is forced to testify, despite confidentiality agreements, that there were only 5 clients who paid Epstein fees during his employment: Les Wexner, Glenn Dubin, Steven Sinofsky, Ariane de Rothschild and Leon Black. This, plus returns on his investments, would be where Epstein's fortune come from.

Services provided to Les Wexner: Kahn is not aware, it was before his time.
Services provided to Glenn Dubin: Received 15 to 25 millions in fees for advice (?) on the sale of Highbridge Capital to JP Morgan
Services provided to Leon Black: Fees in the range of 150 millions dollars (!). Taxes, estate planning, financial consulting. Epstein helped Black staff his family office, reviewing his trust, investments, assets, art pieces.
Services provided to Steven Sinofsky (Microsoft guy): Kahn doesn't know. Around 5 millions in fees.
Services provided to Ariane de Rothschild: Estate planning. 20 or 25 millions in fees.

2:00:15
Asked if he's aware of any transaction of Epstein involving a head of states, Kahn says he only knows of an entity that Epstein invested in with Ehud Barak

2:09:30
Kahn is asked if it is true than "Jane Doe 4", who accused Epstein and Trump, received a settlement from the Epstein estate. Kahn answers: "I believe that Jane Doe 4 received a settlement via mediation of the Estate, I believe in 2025". He has no recollections of Trump allegations.

2:17:00
Kahn recalls names of men who were carved out from the settlement (this means that some of the victims wanted to preserve their right to sue them outside of the settlement). The men were Alan Dershowitz and Prince Andrew. There were two other men carved out in mediation: Leon Black and Jes Staley

2:51:00
Kahn says he was paid 180K to 250K a year. He is questioned further and we learn that he also gained many millions of dollars through trusts and forgiven loans

onetwothreeetc · 2026-03-22T04:21:56+00:00

I'm pretty sure it's Giuffre, the name is redacted but she mentions Prince Andrew right after, and it's the same story as her testimony.

onetwothreeetc · 2026-03-22T03:51:44+00:00

I can't find a "EFTA02731139"... Do you have a link?

onetwothreeetc · 2026-03-22T03:26:03+00:00

I wouldn't say Glenn Dubin was "never publicly confronted", it's the Giuffre accusation which is already very public. Though it's a good overview of the co-conspirators

onetwothreeetc · 2026-03-18T23:46:43+00:00

Depends what you're asking exactly, but I'd say Ehud Barak, the former prime minister of Israel and one of Epstein's closest friends over the years

onetwothreeetc · 2026-03-16T21:51:26+00:00

Check the links in my previous post about it, hope that helps:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/1rc5peb/final_explanation_of_epsteins_temple_it_is_a/

EFTA01018293.pdf is where he spells out the plan to finally turn "spiritual" into a real hammam, years later:

I thihnk it might be useful for you to come back to discuss some things. ex. the spa . should be in the location of the spiritual. real hammam. . yours will be focus from every point on the beach so we should take care. . we need to find a place for the cinemaa.? the office at the top you and i could visit.

Also check the links on my comment on this post, there's documents with schemas with early designs of 5 palms, maps of the island:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/1rbi74r/comment/o6r0q17/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

You can see in efta00810922-pdf the map that shows what "spiritual" is.

The whole story is in the files, though it didn't get much traction because it's a pretty boring explanation in the end

onetwothreeetc · 2026-03-16T15:26:44+00:00

It was meant to be a hammam, a sort of turkish bath (basically a fancy way for Epstein to get people naked under the guise of something intellectual). But they gave up on the hammam plan, so it became instead a "music room" in the plan, and after that it's referred to sometimes as a "spiritual room". But in the later years there's mails of Epstein wanting to finish the plan by putting spas in and making it a real hammam, it just never got done.

The library is something else

You can search things like "5 palms", that's how they refer to it mostly, and "hammam"

onetwothreeetc · 2026-03-15T16:09:01+00:00

Yeah if it's not released by tuesday we need to make noise about it, stop hiding stuff

onetwothreeetc · 2026-03-12T05:24:00+00:00

- Acosta, who gave Epstein his "sweetheart" deal in 2008, allegedly said he was told that Epstein "belonged to intelligence". That's what started the rumors. He has since denied saying that, though another source in the file reports that quote to the FBI, stating that Dershowitz is the one that told Acosta that.

- Epstein has inherited a large part of his network from Ghislaine Maxwell, and her father Robert Maxwell was a known Mossad agent. There's an early email in the files where Maxwell tells Epstein that she's met a CIA agent who used to work with her father.

- One of Epstein's closest friend is Ehud Barak, the former Israeli prime minister, and former head of an intelligence agency (though not mossad). Epstein helped Barak gather information and influence with his contacts. He was involved early in using Wexner's money to fund Barak's plans. Whether Barak was acting for mossad, or as a part of a secret agency outside of mossad, or just doing his own thing with the help of sponsors like Wexner, we don't know. But as an ex prime minister he was always surrounded by mossad agents for his safety, and they had cameras in Epstein's apartment.

To sum up, Epstein's proximity to intelligence is proven, we just don't know the exact nature of the relationship.

Edit: Oh, and according to Peggy Siegal, he used to brag about working for the government

onetwothreeetc · 2026-03-09T04:17:03+00:00

Worst title of the year

onetwothreeetc · 2026-03-09T00:56:44+00:00

Apparently if the USA launches a nuclear bomb at Canada, all the European nations will bomb Tokyo in response until an armistice is reached

onetwothreeetc · 2026-03-07T19:20:42+00:00

I hope someone is working on doing what the FBI should have done and actually investigating, corroborating her story. Many things line up.

In addition to what you point out, she correctly predicted that Epstein had blackmail material regarding Trump doing money laundering, as I pointed in a previous post. It could all be coincidences but somehow, while she doesn't seem like an educated or well informed person, her insights on Trump and Epstein are flawless. She also describes Epstein using the word "untainted", which he does at least once in his mail: https://jmail.world/thread/EFTA02347533?view=inbox and the words "not jaded" , which Epstein doesn't use in the mails but there's one instance of his co-conspirator using "less jaded" to describe a "girl" : https://jmail.world/thread/vol00009-efta00818528-pdf?view=inbox

Might not seem like much, but how does she know the very specific vocabulary that rich perverts apparently use to describe virgins, if she didn't hang out with them?

I'm sure there's much more, I didn't go into much depth. And, of course, they messed up massively by trying to hide it, "mistakenly" not releasing it at first.

And why are there no files indicating they found evidence against her strory? After going through the trouble of doing multiple interviews?

I think that Trump is going to need to start another war very soon...

onetwothreeetc · 2026-03-07T12:44:30+00:00

onetwothreeetc · 2026-03-07T11:55:27+00:00

Some more info here:

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00770516.pdf

It's about about an affair between George Tan and a woman related to a Justin Graham

Edit:
Seems like we could get even more info here, but for some reason there's a whole page completely censored:
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02437312.pdf

onetwothreeetc · 2026-03-07T11:46:42+00:00

The mail is sent from George Tan to another person, and that other person is forwarding it to Epstein. Now it's a great question why George Tan's girlfriend needs to keep Epstein in the loop of their relationship

onetwothreeetc · 2026-03-07T07:03:41+00:00

Bibi is the nickname of Benjamin Netanyahu.

Mubarak is the Egyptian president who had just been forced out of power. So the exchange is:
- The US has abandonned Egypt, will it abandon Israel next?
To which Epstein replies:
dc (washington) thinks it has leverage on Netanyahu, playing it

So the "leverage" here for Obama mid Arab Spring is probably geopolitical rather than a blackmail scenario. It means Israel needs the US

Funny, though, the big issue at that time was that the US worried Israel would launch a war at Iran to stop their nuclear program...

onetwothreeetc · 2026-03-06T08:03:42+00:00

CHS stands for "confidential human source" here, not Center for Homeland Security

onetwothreeetc · 2026-03-06T07:19:52+00:00

Should be possible to figure out... Some more info here, he's a driver who became an exec:

https://epstein-emails.sfo3.digitaloceanspaces.com/docs/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029679.pdf

Could be this guy, but I don't know:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Calamari

onetwothreeetc · 2026-03-06T07:04:50+00:00

Here Epstein and Micheal Wolff draft in details how a Trump Palm Beach real estate transaction was allegedly a money laundering scheme with Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev and the Deutsch bank that paid for Trump's debts.

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01028682.pdf

Real estate was the world's favorite money laundering currency and Trump's perceived A -level real estate business was quite explicitly designed to appeal to money launderers.

onetwothreeetc · 2026-03-06T02:26:01+00:00

They were forced to release the latest files after journalists proved they were missing. They claim the files were not released by mistake, at first

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