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Nothing like a pastie...
I have some friends who live in Cornwall, England, thereabouts, who told me about pasties. Meat pasties. Apparently this is about as popular as tacos are in Texas. The filling in a pastie is about as interchangeable as fillings are in a taco in our neck of the woods. She told me her husband was addicted to eating these pasties. Imagine her surprise when I explained that pasties, here in the U.S., are the very minimal coverings a dancer wears on her upper torso when she works for her wage in a strip club. She replied with a resounding LOL ("laughing out loud" in e-terms). She said her husband is only allowed to eat meat pasties in England. No pasties for him "across the pond." I suppose eating a meat pastie is better than eating some of the other foods the British eat. Some of it is very good but I think I'll play it safe and stick to hot tea.
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posted by
rholm
on Oct 24, 2007 at 01:14 PM
Past-ees not paste-ees... they're really popular in Michigan, especially the northern parts. They're similar to calzones, but with meat an potatoes usually and lots of gravy.
posted by
oldconservative
on Oct 23, 2007 at 10:33 PM
My Grandfather was of English descent, and so my Grandmother made him pasties when I was a boy. She filled them with cubed chunks of beef and potato with some diced onion, placed a bit of butter in with that, folded the crust over, did that number you do with the edge of a pie crust and baked them. They looked like about half of a football. My mouth is watering just remembering!
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