Yeahhhhhh... isn't individual taste a wonderful thing? :) I think Serena has a beautiful smile...
Pasties originated in Cornwall in England... they came to the U.S. with immigrant Cornish iron miners who came to find work in the Upper Michigan and Minnesota iron ranges. Here's a link I found with some pasty recipes and info. I haven't tried any of them out, though...
Do you know how weird it is to come in on the middle of that conversation?
Thanks for the pasty link. I had never heard of them before reading the books, where they're always eating the things, along with all kinds of other great sounding stuff.
I'm definitely making one of those suet and sugar puddings.
That makes two connections with them for me. Cornwall is of course, as a lot of folks forget, one of the Celtic peoples conquered by the Brits, the earliest ones who were not forced to emigrate. Cornwall was originally called South Wales. Since they were working as iron miners in the Upper Great Lakes, likely they ran into my Finnish grandfather, who worked there at the end of the last century. I notice that one of the pasty shops in that link was the Kaleva Pasty Shop, link is not good unfortunately, which might even have Finnish pasty recipes!
I have heard of pasties, and thought the concept interesting. It is too bad that this sort of meal has been replaced by the sandwich, no vegetables in them, except for lettuce and tomatoes. I have saved the link, and look forward to trying a recipe or two.