[1] 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,[2] through a mixture of documentary footage and satirical dramatic reenactments performed by actor Orville Cummings.
[1] The film premiered February 17, 2022, on CBC Gem and YouTube.
[3] It was also later screened at the 2022 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, and the 2022 Vancouver International Film Festival.
[4] The film won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Short Documentary at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023.
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