[afraidfortherepublic]

There is a Welsh variant of the Italian calzone that includes a bread "handle". The miners handled only that "handle" when eating the stew stuffed bread, then tossed away the "handle". Even then they were quite aware of the consequence of consuming lead.

And would that be called a "pastie"? A very popular food in Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula, thought to have been brought here by Welsh miners.

[Myrddin]

The Welsh call them "oggies". The ones I've seen had a bigger crimp. In Cornwall, the tin miners referred to them as pasties. Tin mines often contain arsenic, thus the same pattern of holding the crimped edge and discarding it was employed.