twina49

I was looking at some information for the West Cornwall Pasty Company and another travel site said that pasty does not rhyme with tasty. Now I'm curious about the correct way to say pasty. (They sound delicious, whichever way it's pronounced!)

ira

Hi T,

Pass tee

Patrick

Correct. It rhymes with "nasty". But they aren't.

PatrickLondon

Hmm - that probably works for American accents, but to avoid any confusion, I'd rhyme it with with lass-tea.

Robespierre

There was an episode on Mystery! a few years back that concerned a shopkeeper in Penzance who set up a rival to be accused of a crime he didn't commit.

I wrote to Dame Diana Rigg suggesting they should re-title the piece A Cornish Patsy, but I never heard back.

dsm22

Yep, rhymes with "nasty" but anyway you say it they still taste delicious!

I got my best friend hooked! He never saw it coming, all wrapped up in that innocent looking pastry dough.

He has a standing order for me to make them once a month. He freezes them and takes them to lunch.

payant

I was born and raised in Iron Mountain, Michigan. The town's first wave of immigrant labor for the mines came from Cornwall which had similar geology with "wet" hard rock mines. In the UP the Welsh were nicknamed "cousin Jacks" because when a job opened at the mine, a miner would ask then to wait a day for my cousin jack to arrive.
Pasties were a dough crust (lard-based in the French style} around a filling of potatoes, onions and whatever meat scraps the wife had. The miners could heat them up on the boiler fire for the steam pump which kept the water level low in the diggings.
Pasties (rhymes with nasty in the UP} were mainly available at ski jumping meets and other events when the baker in Iron Mountain bought his pasty wagon. You wrapped them in wax paper, bit open the end, poured in catsup and warmed your stomach.

twina49

Thanks for the assistance on how to pronounce "pasty." I'll be sure to try some when I'm in the U.K. Other than West Cornwall Pasty Company, any other suggestions for where to buy particularly good pasties?

Robespierre

I asked the same question last spring:

http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...2&tid=34505708

flawley

The westcountry past company makes amazing pasties and you should try them here is the link to their website http://www.westcountry-pasty-company.co.uk
http://www.wholesale-pasties.com
http://www.wholesale-pasties.co.uk

ThinGorjus

My mother's mother was a coal miner's daughter from Merthr Tydfil, Wales. She made pasties once a week, usually on Friday night and we would have them with takeout pizza.

I haven't had a pasty since she died in 2004. I really miss her and those pasties.

Thin

Otzi

Too much dough. I'll take a stromboli or calzone any day over a pasty.

Hooameye

"Too much dough. I'll take a stromboli or calzone any day over a pasty."

You don't have to eat the thick crust on the edge of the pasty, the crust was so you could eat the pasty with dirty hands (no place to wash them down the mines).

Regards.

PatrickLondon

>>My mother's mother was a coal miner's daughter from Merthr Tydfil, Wales. She made pasties once a week, usually on Friday night and we would have them with takeout pizza.