I'll point out that there are Montrealers who read my LJ...
Honestly, it is revelatory to have a Montreal bagel in one hand and a New York bagel in the other. I refuse to say that one is better than the other (c'mon, guys, if I take a position on that, SOMEONE among my friends is going to shank me). I WILL say that they are both extremely good and very different.
And I can point you to places around me who make good pastrami, and places that make good bagels. At least one of the sausage makers makes a pastrami (not kosher, but good), and there's a place on Rte 1 that I drive past taking Lis to work that does nothing but bagels, with a proper kettle and all.
Am I going to say that this pastrami is as good as Katz's? Maybe, maybe not, but if you had it, you would definitely admit that it actually IS pastrami, not just some sort of fake pastrami-ish sliced lunch meat.
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I'll point out that there are Montrealers who read my LJ...
Honestly, it is revelatory to have a Montreal bagel in one hand and a New York bagel in the other. I refuse to say that one is better than the other (c'mon, guys, if I take a position on that, SOMEONE among my friends is going to shank me). I WILL say that they are both extremely good and very different.
And I can point you to places around me who make good pastrami, and places that make good bagels. At least one of the sausage makers makes a pastrami (not kosher, but good), and there's a place on Rte 1 that I drive past taking Lis to work that does nothing but bagels, with a proper kettle and all.
Am I going to say that this pastrami is as good as Katz's? Maybe, maybe not, but if you had it, you would definitely admit that it actually IS pastrami, not just some sort of fake pastrami-ish sliced lunch meat.