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a meal you can hold, engineered for men who couldn't wash their hands.
means A pasty is a baked pastry case folded around a savoury filling — classically beef, potato, swede and onion — sealed with a thick crimped edge so it can be eaten by hand.
from The name comes from Old French 'paste' (dough, paste), the same root that gives us 'pastry' and 'paste,' ultimately from Latin 'pasta.' The thing itself is forever tied to Cornwall, where the popular story says tin miners ate them underground, gripping the crimped ridge with grubby hands and tossing that crust away to dodge the arsenic on their fingers — a tidy tale, though how literally true the throwing-away part is remains debated.
- miner's lunch
- Cornish miners ate it crust-first, then tossed the dirty handle
- crimp code
- Side-crimped to mark whose lunch was whose
- legal armor
- Cornish pasty has EU protected origin status
- two-course
- Some held savory at one end, sweet at the other
- underground oven
- Thick crust kept the filling hot for hours
cornish pasty — traditional baked pastry from cornwall, england, protected geographical indication since 2011
oggies — cornish pasties sold in shops throughout cornwall, particularly w. paul & co since 1860s
pasties in butte montana — cornish immigrants brought pasties to butte's copper mines in the 1860s, still cultural staple