Your Guide to Authentic Regional Eats
Snowdon Deli, off the main strip of Queen Mary is a full service delicatessen where we ate some great sandwiches, and to which we long to return for hot meals, smoked fish sandwiches, and desserts. Our primary reason for going was to sample smoked meat, a Montreal delicacy that is similar to pastrami. Snowdon offers corned beef in addition to regular smoked meat, and if you get the latter you have a choice of regular or old-fashioned. Old-fashioned is radiant with exotic spice. After choosing your meat, you have another important decision to make: fatty, medium or lean. Lean is too lean and lacks the succulence that is smoked meat's allure. Fatty is virtually all fat, available only when the meat cutter can gather enough on his block while carving the other kinds. When we told the woman behind the counter that we like ours pretty fatty but don't cotton to the idea of a total fat sandwich, she suggested yet another option: "extra medium." With a straight face, she explained that extra medium is more fatty than regular medium.
