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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
Just found this amusing ...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-......ood.html [In] a clumsy attempt to calm criticism of the new ‘pasty tax’ announced in last week’s Budget, David Cameron declared his love of Cornish pasties at a Downing Street press conference. He said he had only recently eaten a delicious one from the West Cornwall Pasty Company on Leeds station. Unfortunately it was later revealed that the shop he claimed to have bought the pasty from closed down five years ago.
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
That's hilarious.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts |
It's making me hungry.
There's an Irish pub here that sells a "Butte Pasty." They say it was a favorite of miners in Butte, Montana.
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
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On 2012-03-29 14:33, critter wrote: I really hope that's pronounced "beaut" as in "beauty."
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts |
It is, sadly. They also pronounce pasty as "pass tea."
So, "Beaut, pass tea," not "butt paystee," which would be much more fun to order.
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Marlin1894 Special user 559 Posts |
Sometimes 5 years ago seems very recent to me as well.
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Woland Special user 680 Posts |
The Prince of Wales (who is also the Duke of Cornwall) sharply criticized the fat content of the "Big Mac," but it was then shown that the Duchy of Cornwall markets a pasty that has even more calories and more fat than that.
The Finns who settled in the Upper Peninsula learned to enjoy a pasty from the Cornish miners with whom they worked extracting iron, and it is still a staple of the restaurant fare there. The best ones have meat and potatoes on one side, and apples and spices on the other, so you have the main course and dessert in one convenient package. |
Marlin1894 Special user 559 Posts |
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On 2012-03-29 15:41, Woland wrote: Bleeech, I hate those kind. We have a little company here that has been making the regular kind forever. They are pretty tatsy. I have heard people rave about the pastys from the UP as well. |
balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
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On 2012-03-29 15:41, Woland wrote: Wow. I've never heard of, or seen, those. Sounds marvellous.
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Woland Special user 680 Posts |
Evidently it is similar to the Bedfordshire Clanger, which I have never even seen.
The adoption of a Cornish food item as a community, almost ethnic characteristic food by a Finnish community is of interest. There are many different foods from many different cultures that have been accepted as typically "American," of course. |
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