Montreal Smoked Meat-Deli Sandwich

Okay so you're planning a visit to Montreal. You call your local travel agent for advice and you ask where are the best places to eat in Montreal. The agent asks you to elaborate and maybe narrow it down a bit since there are thousands of restaurants in this vibrant city located in La Belle Province De Quebec. You rub your chin, move in your chair and start to think about what you like to eat. You blurt out, well I have heard from some friends about some kind of meat they serve up between two slices of a rye bread with mustard on both slices and a Dill pickle on the side, what the heck is that all about? And the word smoked comes to mind.

Well here is a lesson on Montreal Smoked Meat sandwiches. Funny you should ask, because my
mouth just started to water thinking about having one. Here on the Prairies you will never find the
real deal. There is ONE and only ONE place on this planet that I am aware of that is famous for it's
smoked meat sandwich. I will let you in on my dirty little secret, are you ready?

I grew up in Montreal and spent 23 glorious years there, almost from birth you are weaned on two
mouth watering foods, that all Quebecrs love.The number one choice is the Montreal smoked
meat sandwich. Second choice steamed hot dog and the newest attraction,poutine.The winner bar
none is the smoked meat sandwich and all visitors to Montreal must have one before they leave, just to experience the wonderful flavor and aroma and mouth watering taste of this deli sandwich. You may even leave with the purchase of a brisket, it's very tempting.Growing up in Montreal, I was often taken uptown by my parents or relatives to two of the old establishments that serve up this fine sandwich. Ben's Deli off St. Catherine's St and Schwartz's in the east end. Ben's use to be open 24 hrs and may still be. It caters to the after hours crowd of shift workers, artists, musicians, poets and those who are leaving the bars with a hunger for MEAT, but not any kind of meat.

When you entered either establishment you were greeted with a warm friendly smile and escorted to a table. The server usually was dressed in white shirt, black bow tie, white apron and a pencil and pad in there hand ready to take your order. So if you didn't already know what you were going to order, you had a glance at the colorful menu.Pictures of different brightly colored smoked meat sandwiches stared back at you in all their splendor crying out choose me choose me. So you choose the house special and the waiter takes your order and asks the magical question, do you want it lean? You look at your partner in bewilderment. Fatty or lean? You leave it to the waiter to decide because your a newbie. The waiter then asks do you want a cherry coke with it? Yep you reply, sure sounds good to me.

In about 10 minutes or less the waiter arrives with your wonderful aromatic dish. Placed delicately down in front of you is a very piled high thick sandwich of this delicious reddish dark spicy meat enclosed by a soft thick rye bread with mustard applied between both slices. Beside this watering deli sandwich is the famous Deli pickle. No sandwich is served without it. If you ordered some french fries or poutine they definitely would be an aside to the sandwich. The sandwich is the KING and takes it's prominent position on your white plate.

You pick up your sandwich with both hands, your mouth approaches it wide open and you delicately chomp down on your very first taste of Montreal smoked meat. Now your are in heaven, your eyes roll, the hair on your arms stand up, you get this delightful tickle in your stomach as the flavorful meat slowly slides down. The taste of the meat is accented and followed up with a loud crunching bite of the pickle. Like I said you can't eat a smoked meat sandwich properly without the added flavor and crunch of the pickle.

So now you have had your first Montreal smoked meat sandwich. Are you happy and content and feel that now you can go back to the city you came from and actually say, I have eaten the famous sandwich of Montreal along with the pickle. Your friends look at you kinda weird, but what, you and only you have discovered the dirty little secret that is held very close to the hearts of all Montrealer's, it's their world renowned smoked meat sandwich. I hope you enjoyed this post, now go find yourself that delicious, mouth watering, aroma filled delectable sandwich. Just remember, the real deal is only to be found in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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