DCHP-2
smoked meat DCHP-2 (October 2016)
n. & adj. — Food, Quebec, especially Montreal
smoked meat, usually brisket, that is often sliced thin and used in sandwiches.
Type: 4. Culturally Significant — Smoked meat and smoked meat sandwiches have come to be strongly associated with Quebec, and especially Montreal, over the course of the 20th century (see, e.g. the 1955, 1978, 1988, 1996 and 2008 quotations). Although the term is not unique to Canada, its popular association with Quebec cuisine and Montreal in particular makes it a culturally significant term. The term is most prevalent in Quebec (see Chart 1).
See also COD-2, s.v. "smoked meat"(2), which is marked "Cdn (esp. Que. & Ont)".See also: Montreal smoked meat
- 1867 The sufferings from this shocking intrusion into the system is said to be attended with most distressing agonies, and it is feared that many of those affected will pay with their lives for yielding to that peculiar taste for raw, chopped, or insufficiently cooked and smoked meat, so prevalent in this country.
- 1886 POISONING BY PTOMAINES- Two deaths are again recorded, believed to be due to the formation of alkaloidal poison in the arrested putrefaction of smoked meat.
- 1908 A very heavy increase in orders for smoked meats was the feature of the opening of the provision trade after the holiday. Lard was reported in good demand also.
- 1919 One of the commonest and meanest deceptions of the trade, and permitted under enforcement of the Act, is in the curing of smoked meat.
- 1939 With so many varieties of cooked and smoked meats
there is practically no end
of ways to vary meals -
Remember our cooked meats can solve your
problem - Phone TR. 3311.
- 1943 Here are some prices at Erieau: Sausage, per pound, 30c, pork or whatever it is; smoked meat, per pound, 50c; fresh pork, per pound, 55c, from the tail, west, anywhere; beef, bone in, per pound, 40c; roll pork (no bone), per pound, 45c; bacon (no bone), 60c; pensioner can't reach this.
- 1955 In fact, he came to believe that the smoked meat signs in Quebec are as specious as the frequent pizza signs through New York and adjacent states.
- 1964 Cancer could be produced in other organs with smoked meat or fish after very long feeding, but studies of humans in various parts of the country who died from stomach cancer did not reveal that smoked fish played any particular part in its production.
- 1978 Now perhaps I, like a lot of other native Quebeckers, need
brain-washing, for I must admit that with the addition to the list of
excellent Chinese and Italian restaurants, not to mention Kosher corned
beef (familiarly known as smoked meat), I would have thought that the
dizzying hodgepodge is precisely what makes Montreal such an intriguing
and exciting city, in a class with New York, London, Paris and San
Francisco.
- 1988 ''We will not be badgered into selling out,'' says a defiant Irving Kravitz, president of Ben's Delicatessen & Restaurant Corp. ''Ben's will be Ben's as long as smoked meat is a symbol of Montreal.''
- 1994 I have many fond memories of smoked meat, from the days when I lived in Montreal.
Going out for smoked meat was often a late-night activity. A group of us would crowd around at table at one of several establishments in downtown Montreal, happily biting into succulent sandwiches in the inevitably brightly lit restaurant.
For more serious smoked-meat connoisseurs, there was also the Schwartz Hebrew Delicatessen, a.k.a. Schwartz's, on St. Laurent Blvd., a place to which I was introduced by friends who insisted that a pilgimage there was an essential part of life in Montreal.
- 1996 Trying to get a handle on the personality traits that set Montrealers apart is trickier, as precarious as inching down one of the city's winding wrought-iron staircases after an ice storm. It means getting beyond bagels, steamies, smoked meat and bar hopping without ignoring their role in shaping the city's legendary, if down-at-the-heels, joie de vivre.
- 2008 Q Secret indulgence?
A I do insist on a real smoked meat sandwich whenever we pass through Montreal. This is hardly a secret, however.
- 2016 [from the hotel restaurant]
THE CLASSICS (served with french fries and coleslaw) Hot chicken $11,59 Club sandwich $12,99 Smoked meat club $13,89
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Chart 1: Regional Domain Search, 18 Apr. 2013
- 1867 The sufferings from this shocking intrusion into the system is said to be attended with most distressing agonies, and it is feared that many of those affected will pay with their lives for yielding to that peculiar taste for raw, chopped, or insufficiently cooked and smoked meat, so prevalent in this country.