Patty vs. Patty (2022)
Tender, seasoned ground beef, wrapped in golden, crispy, bureaucracy.
Patty vs. Patty tells the story of Toronto’s bizarre 1985 “patty wars,” when Jamaican-Canadian bakers went head-to-head with the federal government over the name of their beloved beef patty.
- Date of release
- 2022-04-28
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 19m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Chris Strikes
Casting
- Michael Davidson — Himself
- Orville Cummings — Michael Davidson
- Alma Sarai — Shirlin Kolinsky
- Brian Dunstan — Lloyd Perry
Interesting facts
Patty vs. Patty is a 2022 Canadian short documentary film, directed by Chris Strikes. The film recounts the true story of the "patty wars" of 1985, when restaurants in Toronto which served Jamaican patties had to fight a bureaucratic edict that they could not call their product a "patty", on the grounds that consumers might confuse them with hamburger patties, through a mixture of documentary footage and satirical dramatic reenactments performed by actor Orville Cummings.
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