On 07/10/2012 3:37 PM, Michel Boucher wrote:
> Sqwertz > wrote in
> :
>
>>> Except for the big 'ol honking tail of fat with no meat
>>> attached to it trying to crawl away.
>>
>> I just now read te part that says they have a version of it
>> that is pure fat - no meat at all - just fat. Figures those
>> Canadians would find some way to tarnish an other otherwise
>> fine sandwich tradition.
>
> If fat is part of the tradition, in what way does it tarnish said
> tradition? And it's not "Canadians", it's members of the Montreal
> Jewish community who own and operate these establshments (although
> most of the employees now working at Schwartz's are Portuguese).
>


You were responding to someone who is full of crap. I have been to the
Montreal delis who made that stuff popular and my son, who lived in
Montreal for 10 years, frequently brought some of the smoked meat when
he came to visit. There was never much fat on it at all.