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Mexico’s take on the Cornish pasty

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Re: Mexico’s take on the Cornish pasty

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Post by jenscow »

danburbridge wrote: post #18

One of the less horrible aspects of British colonialism I guess. Being born a Cornishman I remember my father recounting a somewhat apocryphal tale of a grockle* visiting a pub and asking for chips (fries) with his pasty. The landlord looked at him somewhat aghast and asked him if he was sure? The tourist replies that he was hungry and always has chips with his pasty back home. A little while later the landlord retur…

> full of rubbish meat

You're exaggerating the amount of meat in them ;-)

Most pasties from the supermarket appear to be veg seasoned with meat.

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Post by monk_e_boy »

danburbridge wrote: post #18

One of the less horrible aspects of British colonialism I guess. Being born a Cornishman I remember my father recounting a somewhat apocryphal tale of a grockle* visiting a pub and asking for chips (fries) with his pasty. The landlord looked at him somewhat aghast and asked him if he was sure? The tourist replies that he was hungry and always has chips with his pasty back home. A little while later the landlord retur…

Grockle is a Devon term. Emmet is Cornish for ant and slang for tourist.

Re: Mexico’s take on the Cornish pasty

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Post by danburbridge »

monk_e_boy wrote: post #22
danburbridge wrote: post #18

One of the less horrible aspects of British colonialism I guess. Being born a Cornishman I remember my father recounting a somewhat apocryphal tale of a grockle* visiting a pub and asking for chips (fries) with his pasty. The landlord looked at him somewhat aghast and asked him if he was sure? The tourist replies that he was hungry and always has chips with his pasty back home. A little while later the landlord retur…

Grockle is a Devon term. Emmet is Cornish for ant and slang for tourist.

Don't remember ever hearing Emmet growing up on Scilly, but heard grockle plenty.

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Post by danburbridge »

jenscow wrote: post #21
danburbridge wrote: post #18

One of the less horrible aspects of British colonialism I guess. Being born a Cornishman I remember my father recounting a somewhat apocryphal tale of a grockle* visiting a pub and asking for chips (fries) with his pasty. The landlord looked at him somewhat aghast and asked him if he was sure? The tourist replies that he was hungry and always has chips with his pasty back home. A little while later the landlord retur…

> full of rubbish meat You're exaggerating the amount of meat in them ;-) Most pasties from the supermarket appear to be veg seasoned with meat.

In deed, gives the pasty such a bad name.

A homemade pasty and a cup of tea was a Saturday evening ritual after getting back from the beach/out on the boat.

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Post by mattnewport »

lostcolony wrote: post #15
analog31 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every pasty I've ever had, contained rutabaga and/or turnips. Is that a Michigan thing, or more universal?

Universal. Sort of. The 'traditional' cornish pasty includes 'swedes', i.e., rutabaga (which can be mistaken for turnips, since they're both similar looking root vegetables, though they have different tastes and interior coloring). But there are many places that vary it up. If ever in Vegas, Phoenix, or Flagstaff, try one at the Cornish Pasty Company (it's on my to-do list basically every time I go to one of those pl…

For a long time I thought you couldn't get swedes in Canada (for my mum's mashed swede and bacon recipe). Finally figured out that's what rutabaga is.

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Post by always_good »

armandososa wrote: post #17

This is a funny coincidence. I'm eating this today in Guadalajara Mexico. Mine is filled with green mole and pork and my wife's is a mushroom one because she's vegetarian.

I get them once a week here in Santa Tere. Usually ham and cheese because it reminds me of a kolache.

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Post by Reason077 »

danburbridge wrote: post #19
dnrvs wrote: post #11

Come to Cornwall for the pasties, beaches, and (tiny) burgeoning tech community

And scones. And sea food. And coastline. And historic buildings. I love Cornwall, just a shame it's so slow to get to.

The A303 tunnel under Stonehenge should eliminate one significant bottleneck, at least. As well as bury the ugly, noisy road that spoils our world heritage site!

https://highwaysengland.citizenspace.com/cip/a303-stonehenge...

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Post by icebraining »

danburbridge wrote: post #18

One of the less horrible aspects of British colonialism I guess. Being born a Cornishman I remember my father recounting a somewhat apocryphal tale of a grockle* visiting a pub and asking for chips (fries) with his pasty. The landlord looked at him somewhat aghast and asked him if he was sure? The tourist replies that he was hungry and always has chips with his pasty back home. A little while later the landlord retur…

The crimp was originally not eaten as the miners would want to avoid eating the toxic metals

Toxic metals..?

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