Posted on 12/28/2013 7:37:04 AM PST by Olog-hai
Greggs the baker is being forced to change the name of its best-selling Cornish pasty under new EU laws because the product contains peas and carrots.
The new rules mean manufacturers must follow the traditional recipe of beef, potatoes, onions, swede and seasoning, if they wish to use the name. […]
Cornish pasties were awarded Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) status in 2011 after a lengthy campaign by the Cornish Pasty Association to see their delicacy’s name protected.
Protected Geographical Indication status prevents anything that is made outside the designated region from using the traditional name. …
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Right, did not mean to slight Wisconsin. I also understand that they can be found in a few of the old coal mining / steel regions of Pennsylvania, most notably the Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton region, but I have personally never seen one there.
You can also buy them in the Gold Country of California... where a lot of Cornish miners brought their food likes with them in the Gold Rush.
I like both versions, the mostly meat and the meat and veggie ones.
My mother used to make a dish with turnips and potatoes mashed together. She called it (phonetically) root-a-moose.
On two separate trips to Britain, that's pretty much what I ate most of the time. Stayed a week in Cornwall last year, and of course sampled the delicious pasties. Devon, the country next to Cornwall, is also known for its pasties, and I'll have to try one of theirs sometime. But fish and chips is usually excellent anywhere in Britain from my experience. Next time try shepherd's pie.
Mineral Point, in southwest Wisc. has shops that sell pasties. The region had a lot of Welsh miners in it’s beginnings.
Wish we could do that for presidents.
Sounds awful, but is actually lovely, esp with custard.
They are available in the area of Wisconsin that abuts the UP region of Michigan too. I have a friend who makes them — part of their family tradition, and I’ve even tried them on the menu of the occasional Milwaukee restaurant.
Actually, the PGI concept is part of the 1883 "Paris Convention for the Protection of Intellectual Property" - which was adopted by the US in 1887 (and most of the civilized countries around that time).
The posted article is little more that the usual attempt of some UK tabloid to blame the EU for something that's been around since before WW I. (I do not endorse the EU - but let's keep the facts straight.)
They’re ubiquitous throughout the UP and adjacent Wisc. areas. My wife and I were traveling through the UP some years ago, and we stopped in Marquette, Michigan. As we were talking to the hotel clerk who was checking us into our room, I asked her where we could find a place that had great pasties. She mentioned a particular restaurant that had good ones, and then she added that while she had grown up in the UP, she HATED!!!! pasties. My wife and I still laugh about that incident.
Greggs forced to rename their Cornish pasties by the EU because they contain peas and carrots
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