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[Svetlana]

The true Cornish Pasty has meat and vegetables at one end and fruit at the other (imagine Souvlaki with a banana at one end LOL!).

They were the basic lunch of the Cornish tin miners, who would eat them underground; it provided them with both their main course and dessert, without the need for plates/knives and forks.

Lana

[queenslander]

is this true ?

[joanna]

I think so , but they havent been made that way for years

[Svetlana]

Would I lie to you?

Just found this:

Tradition has it that the original pasties contained meat and vegetables in one end and jam or fruit in the other end, in order to give the hard-working men 'two courses'. Cornish housewives also marked their husband's initials on the left-hand side of the pastry casing, in order to avoid confusion at lunchtime

Lana

[queenslander]

avoid confusion or fights (we all know some women are better cooks than others)

[G.Man]

Would I lie to you?

Just found this:

Tradition has it that the original pasties contained meat and vegetables in one end and jam or fruit in the other end, in order to give the hard-working men 'two courses'. Cornish housewives also marked their husband's initials on the left-hand side of the pastry casing, in order to avoid confusion at lunchtime

Lana

Wikipedia whore

[joanna]

hehe

[bill cobbett]

I'd buy one. Very convenient and healthy fast food. I'm sure you'd do well in the tourist areas but please no carrots.

[zan]

The true Cornish Pasty has meat and vegetables at one end and fruit at the other (imagine Souvlaki with a banana at one end LOL!).

They were the basic lunch of the Cornish tin miners, who would eat them underground; it provided them with both their main course and dessert, without the need for plates/knives and forks.

Lana

Extra bit of information; the way the pastry was folded at the top made that part very thick for holding as handles because the miners had no where to wash their hands. These extra bits would always be thrown away.



£1.00 each in hackney from a jewish bakers(No pork). Often bring home a few and my wife boils a few potatos and some peas, plenty of gravy and they are wonderful. Best one I had was a cheese and onion one in Tintagel in Cornwall.

[Pete_D]

Look its easy to understand, a "Cornish pasty" is obviously a pasty from cornwall!

Simple, eh?

P.S: For those not from the UK, cornwall is this place deep in the southwest where the locals speak funny and drive like nutters, and where the rest of us visit once a year in the summer, except we would if it wasn't for the fact that it only has one road going into the place and that is always stuffed solid with slow-moving caravans