How Can That Be ?

[tonyav]

Cornish pasties not invented in Cornwall !
http://metro.co.uk/2015/08/30/sorry-to-break-it-to-you-but-the-cornish-pasty-was-not-invented-in-cornwall-5367807/

[rockyracoon]

There'll be rioting on the streets. ;)

[tonyav]

I know !.

[AB Editor]

Much like "Creme Brule" or as it's more traditionally know, Cambridge Burnt Cream...

In fairness, the article isn't saying that the Cornish Pasty isn't from Cornwall, it's just it's "not the same as it used to be..." (which should make it popular for those of us living on memory lane!)

[tonyav]

Ah so no rioting then Ed ?.

[AB Editor]

... Maybe in Paris when they completely run out of baguettes, and they realise it's called custard rather than "crem du angleterre" ...

http://qz.com/483615/paris-is-running-out-of-baguettes-because-so-many-bakers-are-on-vacation/

Luckily they won't have anything to beat each other to death with as their stale batons will have run out!

[tonyav]

Couldn't the Parisians just go to Subway ?.

[jno]

Panama hats come from Ecuador.

[AB Editor]

Blimey, are your trying to start another revolution? Subway's motto is "have it your way" - not that the french need to be reminded of this...

[DTCwordfan]

what a twonk.......So tell me what is an original Cornish pastie, and we'll take it from there - having written a major treatise on the subject, all of a page and a half, denying Greggs that their excrement is not a Cornish pastie....

[AB Editor]

v. good jno!

[jno]

oh and French fries come from Belgium. The US soldiers who discovered them in WW1 didn't know which country they were in - understandable in wartime as borders went back and forth.

[tonyav]

Apparently DT, an original Cornish pasty was vegetarian and those Londoners added some meat to them.

[marval]

Not from Cornwall? We used to have gorgeous pasties when I was young. They were made by a Cornish lady, I have never had anything close to them since. London pasties just don't sound right.

[marval]

I thought they were savoury one end and sweet the other, for the tin miners to take for their lunch.

[stuey]

I have closely checked all the pasties in our local strip-club, and nary a one was made in Cornwall.

[tonyav]

I have heard the same, marval. Not according to this though.
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/foodanddrink/foodnews/cornish-pasty-was-invented-by-cookery-teachers-in-london/ar-AAdL4do

[stuey]

Marval, that's what I always thought too: two different foods in the same "package".

[DTCwordfan]

fyi, the original Cornish pastie to what those Bedforders devour, but not in a rectangle, half meat (chuck), turnip and tatties and half fruit (like apple) and then wrapped in tarp, as the DT or the Times or Sun hadn't been invented....the tin/copper/nickel/lead miners able to have a warm meal.

The Devonians kneaded them across the top as they were confused and didn't know the difference between night and day - and when it came to cream teas, the burks' cream was so poor that they used it as butter, unlike down here where a cream tea was a treat when the miner surfaced, jam on the scone and then the cream.....an additional treat was 'Thunder and Lightning,' a milk split with treacle and Cornish cream on top......

[tonyav]

Was the kneading along the top so that the miners knew which half was savoury and which half was sweet then, DT ?.

[DTCwordfan]

nah, a bit like the Irish with L and R in their wellies and then realising what C&A stood for when it came to ladies' underwear, tony.....