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).

Seems no different in concept than lardo, which is all fat, and if you're
Italian you will use in a panino, or maybe eat in smaller amount on
a plate, like any other salumi.

(Perhaps in Jewish as opposed to Italian tradition, there is a propensity
of heaping gigantic amounts of meat on a sandwich, which may make
the all-fat product less suitable...)

Steve