Ummm.... dunno what Montreal Smoked meat is really. It's what my sister brings home for Christmas (from Montreal) and we eat on Christmas Eve. And it's what she takes me to a diner to eat when I'm in Montreal - and it has to be served by bossy Jewish waiters wearing white shirts, black bow ties and long white half-aprons, and you have to make like you really want chicken-on-white but you know they're gonna bully you into MSM which is part of the experience and it is very very good when followed by a deli cheesecake.   (OK - maybe not a whole one ...)

Maybe it's akin to corned beef? (but PROPER corned beef - not the tinned stuff) It's all moist and very pink and kinda spicy (not herb-y) and utterly lush. Oh, and you should have a kosher dill with it.

We really need Rick Fielding here ....

sian