| http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090524/cleisure/cleisure1.html - n the mid-1980s, Jamaica and Canada nearly came to blows, figuratively
that is, over patties, or more specifically, when a patty is, or is
not, a patty. According to the Canadians, a Jamaican patty, a light
baked crust with a meat-filled centre, was really a pie. So, Jamaicans
in Canada who made a business of baking and selling the iconic Jamaican
patty could not call it such, they were told. A pie, perhaps! The
matter was settled in a quietly jovial "summit" between the then
Jamaican prime minister, Edward Seaga and his Canadian counterpart,
Brian Mulroney, in the margins of a Canada-Caribbean Community
(Caricom) summit in Kingston - the same one at which Mr Mulroney
unveiled his plan for the CaribCan trade agreement. Nearly a quarter of
a century on, shingles abound across Canada of bakeries producing and
selling Jamaican patties.
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