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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12550221
Penmarris in an uproar, protest meeting to be held in the church hall (tea and biscuits provided).Samantha wonders how she can get pasties from over the border. David will pray for deliverance. Dotty to lobby her mate the Queen. Soothsayer says I told you so. Katie gets her knickers off for her Captain - oops wrong storyline.
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Pasties
The American South is one place the Cornish pasty got carried to, apparently, except it mutated. A Southern "pasty" is called a fried pie, is usually sweet and is fried instead of baked. These "frahdpahz" are typically a breakfast or dessert thing, and even if they have meat in them, they are almost always sweet.
Where I grew up on the California border, little hole-in-the-wall Mexican food places made a pasty-like savory filled with cheese called a quesadilla especial or special quesadilla, not to be confused with the folded over tortilla version of a quesadilla.
Local specialities are great things to explore and if I ever get to Cornwall, I'm going to try one of the pasties.
Hugs,
Erin
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Pronunciation Guide
Being one of those sorts who never heard the word "pasty" pronounced until I visited the mouldy isles in person, I'm realizing that most Americans will guess incorrectly.
This use of the word "pasty" (and there are others) does not rhyme with "pastry." It rhymes instead with the word "patsy."
Now, is someone who is sold a counterfeit Cornish pasty made somewhere else, say Luton or Swindon, a pasty patsy?
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The first pasty I ever ate was made in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Like the Welsh, the Michigan miners took their meals into the mines with them -- copper, silver, and iron instead of tin.
Michigan pasties are made with cubed beef or hamburger, rutabaga, potato, onion, and maybe a bit of carrot. Now, of course, you can also get chicken pasties, and probably tofu or veggie if you look hard enough.
Some people put gravy on their pasties, but those would be the heretics. ;-)
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