Do americans have cornish pasties?
Yes, they do have Cornish Pasties. In my family, we had Cornish Pasties for lunch about once a month. I know how to make great Cornish Pasties, both with turnips and without turnips (Read ‘The Cat Who … books to find out the joke to that, okay?). What is ‘odd’ is that there is no Cornish (from Cornwall, in England) in my background … but there is both some Welsh and some Irish, and they both have Pasties, too … just don’t put the name Cornish in front. A pasty, for those who are uninformed, is basically ‘chopped leftovers’ baked into a fully sealed ‘biscuit/bread dough for ease of transport. Men used to take Pasties with them for lunch when they worked in the mines, because they just wrapped them into a piece of cloth or paper and put the pasty into the pocket of their jackets.
Actually, the Cornish pasty was brought over to America by immigrants who settled to work in the mines of the upper peninsula of Michigan, and it has become a regional specialty there. In fact, May 24th is Michigan Pasty day. Also available here in the states are pierogi and Jamaican beef patties, which are both distant cousins to the pasty. Of course, if you want some good home-grown American food, y’all come on down to Alabama and we’ll cook you up some squash casserole, shrimp and grits, and some of the best fried chicken in the world.
i am currently living in Devon but fortunately not for much longer,there are in fact in Devon and Cornwall no actual cornish pasties the whole thing was developed for tin miners the idea was that the food was divided up at one end as food and the other as some type of dessert. the commercial type of thing that is not much more than Styrofoam with bits of fatty gunge in it is what is on sale now, virtually every other shop here in Torquay has some type of rubberised pasty that appear in all sorts of sizes and flavours. when the tourists arrive here and get fleeced something rotten they have no idea that some of the rubberised plastic pasties are in fact not made in the UK! so can you get the real thing, er no, just a commerical type of con, that says its cornish, and made in cornwall but in fact is just slop in a scaly pasty shell that when dried out can prop up your bed, be used as a rugby ball and generally weighs a tonne and seems to have some type of anti-corrosion paint on it! the
