The pastie I had was filled with diced beef and potato with maybe some
turnip mixed in. The pie crust on the outside made it look delicious.
My taste buds (erroneously) had mental visions of Mexican empanadas
which I truly love. I bit in... and stopped. It wasn't that it tasted
bad... it just didn't taste at all.. it had no salt, no pepper, no spice
no nothing. It was then that I was advised that I needed to douse it in
ketchup for flavor. I decided I'd like to eat something else. I guess
it must be an acquired taste. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
Andrew Fildes wrote:
> I used to go down to Cornwall every year (St Ives) for a week, sleep
> rough on the beach and live on pasties and rough cider. Those
> pictured on that site are very different. As he says, they were mine
> food, designed to be carried down the tin mines as it was too
> tiresome to come up for lunch.
> The traditional 'Tiddy Oggy' is crimped along the top and the pastry
> was the package. The filling was beef or mutton and cheap veggies
> like potato, turnip and swede. It was also much looser filling than
> the one pictured which looks solid, like an English Pork Pie. One
> variation was to put a divider in the middle and put fruit in the
> other compartment, for desert. The pastry is hard, thick and the
> heavy crimped edge acted as a handle, which could be discarded if
> soiled by dirty hands. It was also three times the size of the one in
> the picture (miners get bloody hungry). Well maybe twice - 9-10" long.
> As in the UK, there is a nasty little object here sold under the name
> of Pastie which is small, contains no meat and has to be dowsed in
> ketchup to conceal the fact that it tastes horrible. Most people here
> assume that a pastie is a small, vegetarian sort of pie and even if
> the bakery makes its own and calls it a Cornish Pasty, a question
> like, "What sort of meat has it got in it," is usually met with the
> the kind of look reserved for idiots - I mean, it's vegetarian, right?!
> Here's the source, of course -
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish_pasty
> It's wrong on the Australian data of course. And the idea of 'steak'?
> Pasties, like all pies, used offcuts.
> I do like the look of the Mexican version, Pastes.
>
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 07/04/2009, at 7:14 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>> and don't like "pasties" (that's this type,
>> pronounced past-eez, not the type with the long A :-)
>> <http://kenanderson.net/pasties/michigan.html>
>
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