While there was ultimately no truth to the rumour that Zane Caplansky had sold the recipe for his Toronto-style smoked meat to Sysco Foods who planned negotiations with Porter Airlines to offer this noble sandwich on their Toronto-Montreal service in order to foment some kind of misguided cross-border brisket rivalry, it is true no single sandwich has stirred as much collective controversy as the humble smoked meat on rye at Caplansky's.

Read the whole just-in-time-for-Passover (but not open today!) profile of Caplansky's Deli in our restaurant section.