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| - I came in for a smoked meat sandwich, medium fat, traditional style ("more spice, more flavour"). An increase in the price of brisket has sent Schwartz's sandwich price from $5-ish to over $9 in the last few years, but Snowdon's was around $7. It was wonderful, as always. Snowdon's fat spectrum maxes out at medium, so while I do like the fatty option available at Schwartz's, I think that both places should share the "best smoked meat" crown.
This visit, I noticed a plate of smoked meat arriving at the table next to me as I bit into my sandwich. The slices were lightly marbled with fat, glistening, sumptuous, bulging, and I found myself wondering if I too should have ordered the plate -- the better to apply the smoked meat directly to my mouth, with no bread intermediary.
I was floored when the customer complained bitterly about the meat, describing it to the waitress as carelessly sliced and "prepared as if it was dog food". The waitress and another staff member were unflappable, replacing the plate with more uniform slices and explaining simply that if something was not right, they would fix it. No one in any line of work deserves that treatment; I'm not sure what we've all done to earn their tolerance or their beautiful food. But it's there, and you should go eat it if you're the meat-eating kind, and please be nice -- it doesn't get any better than this.
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