Pasties are a Welsh “sandwich” (somewhat like a meat and potato filled turnover) that miners took in their lunch bucket. They are popular lunch fare in Michigan and Wisconsin.
Where’s the cinnamon damn it? LOL! Maybe the meant “sin”ammon when referencing pasties.
And they are pronounced “PAHHST ee”, which rhymes with “nasty”.
Which is what the Yoopers become if you go up there and call them “PASTE ees”.
p.s. My grandmother who grew up in northern Michigan learned how to make pasties from her Welsh neighbors. She taught my mother how to make them. My favorite dinner (next to fried chicken) as a child.
Don’t forget the Cornish tin miners — Cousin Jacks. They had a cylinderical lunch bucket with tea in the lower portion and a pasty in the upper section. They would hang the lunch bucket on a timber with a candle holder and candle below so they would have hot tea abd pasty for lunch. There were a lot of Cousin Jacks in western mines, particularly Butte, Grass Valley, Idaho, and Arizona (Jerome and Bisbee).
“Pasties are a Welsh “sandwich” (somewhat like a meat and potato filled turnover) that miners took in their lunch bucket. They are popular lunch fare in Michigan and Wisconsin.”
Close, but I think pasties are more of a Cornish specialty than Welsh. At least the “Cornish pasty” is the one that I’m familiar with. The pastry is not a puff pastry, or a flaky pie-crust type, but something a little sturdier. And yes, made right they are a very satisfying meal.
I suspect the subject of this article should have referenced “pastries” rather than “pasties”.
Cornish.