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Michel Boucher[_3_] Michel Boucher[_3_] is offline
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Sqwertz > wrote in
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>>>> 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 hope you're not suggesting that I should let him get away
>> with being a fathead. There are things that are worth
>> addressing, like blatant stereotypes.

>
> He says as he just disenfranchised the whole Montreal-Jewish
> community as "not Canadians".


Reading not your forte? I didn't say anywhere that they weren't
Canadian (or that they were for that matter) but I was making a
proper attribution, unlike your uninformative stereotype.

> You're not exactly a role model for Canadians, Michel. Either
> is Dave. You both have a lot in common - you never post about
> cooking, just hover around and pounce on those non-food topics
> and arguments (which is why this was so easy).


Totally untrue and I think Dave will back me up when I say "****
you, you weasely little ponce".

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Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected
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