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Personally, I am of the opinion that a Cornish pasty is only a real Cornish pasty if it has huge chunks of steak and potato in it and a crust think and hard enough to batter an unsuspecting Exeter City fan with.

So why is it that almost all commercially available pasties are of the lame puff-pastry and reconstituted mincemeat variety? Where can you get decent proper pasties in London? I am hungry for Cornish meat.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 11:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Destroy Ginsters. With guns.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I noticed the other day that a shop on the hill down to the Covent Garden Piazza claims to have "world famous, award-winning pasties". I am dubious.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 11:37 (twenty-two years ago)

chocolate and banana!
(Portsmouth)

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)

the West Cornwall Pastie Company stalls (located at various large train stations e.g. Marylebone, Euston and Clapham Junction) fare is really good i think - i usually had the excellent Chicken & Veg one - i couldn't give a toss about Cornish authenticity - i'm not in or from Cornwall

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Real pasties include pudding as part of the pasty, ie have jam at one end.

― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Also: swede in Cornish pasties: why?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Taking Sides: Pasties vs Pasties
TS: cornish pasties vs jamaican patties

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

ooh there's a WCPC on Strand too apparently - head there Matt, try a large Trad

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 11:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh just go to Greggs the Bakers, you woos.

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 11:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Greggs is for shit next to the might of WCPC - this is it, Pastie Wars!

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 11:43 (twenty-two years ago)

The Greggs chicken and slime pasties aren't bad for a quick snack, but I want big and chunky here. Nothing else will suffice.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Greggs pasties aren't that great though. Their steak bakes are on point, and I've got a lot of time for their sandwiches and trifles, but pasties? Nah.

Also, why do they only serve weird crisps in Greggs? Squares, ketchup Walkers, etc.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

WCPC are pretty big and chunky - wtf does no-one trust me on this?

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)

CHECK IT

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 12:02 (twenty-two years ago)

we need to FAP there

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 12:02 (twenty-two years ago)

It's all about Sayers. Ormskirk is pastie country, make no mistake. We've got 4 different places in less than 50 yards that all specialise in the making of these things.

Sayers wins most peoples hearts with its veggie and non-veggie sausage rolls. Although some say they've gone downhill since the merger with Hampsons.

Personally, I'm a steak slice man, although Sayers' Cheese and Onion, Meat and Potato and the Xmas-only Turkey and Stuffing are worthy of mentions. My vegetarian friends also speak highly of the vegetable slice (another thing about Sayers - they don't desecrate the pastie by naming things which aren't thus thus). The Chilli Slice also brings in the post-Ladrock demographic. I shit ye not.

Sayers are pretty much the Ormskirk equivalent of streetfood. Whereas you might be in Mexico and sample some tiangus and walk to the Catederal Metropolitana, in Ormskirk you go to Sayers and then stand outside Ormskirk Art and Book Shop shouting through the door how the new Ottakers down the road is BITCHING THEM ON ALL FRONTS.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't forget staring in disbelief at the "Shoppe O' Flies"

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

The more I read about Ormskirk the more convinced I am that it is actually Royston Veysey.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I still want to knw if Jarlr'mai knows MY OLD BOSS who went off to work at Edge Hill... (daft woman).

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Sarah, what is her name?

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

The Shoppe O'Flies is disturbing. It got shut down for health and safety reasons and now if you look through the boarded up windows you can see that the walls are covered completely in insects. It's like a Cronenberg "joint".

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

get lost all of you! as with music, jamaica beats all comers in the meat-filled pastry department. having lived in liverpool, i can adree that sayers' cheese and ham pasties are pretty decent, too, tho

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm suspicious of the cubeyness of the ham. Mind you, I wouldn't want to see the processes involved in making my beloved Steak Slice to closely.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes Dave, the Jamaican pattie is indeed king but there is a place for the good old common pasty in my life as well.

The pitiful Greggs thing I had this afternoon did nothing to satisfy my craving, sadly. WCPC next up.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

get theeself down to peppers and spice immediately - rid your mouth of the taste with a blistering hot beef pattie and a mondo cup of red bean soup

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Greggs are shit. Greggs pasties taste like bricks. Their cheese and onion is the worst for sweaty-sock-syndrome.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I like Greggs cheese and onion pasties in the same way I like Scampi Nik Naks.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Tsk tsk Lynsk, as I have mentioned before, whilst Sayers concoctions are indeed phenomenal they are in no way, shape or form pasties.

Looking at the Shoppe o'flies has now been taken over by worrying over whether or not we'll all be murdered in our beds by the Ormkirk Ripper as being this burg's #1 preoccupation.

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

i had a cornish pasty yesterday for the 1st time in about two years. it was rubbish. i wouldn't even say it was a cornish pasty at all really

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Matt, Matt, Matt - I state upthread that they call them what they are:- "slices". Their actual cornish pastie is ok by northern commercial terms.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Lynsk Lynsk Lynsk, you described Ormskirk as "pastie country" which is incorrect. Had you described it as "slice country" it would be more accurate, if possibly somewhat confusing.

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Colour me corrected, Mr. Tippex.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't make me come over there.

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't that a Buffalo Tom album?

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Mmmmmm saltfish pattie. Spicy and foul-smelling, it's the food of the Caribbean gods. And available in Safeway! At least on Holloway Road. Not Cornish NB.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

"slice country"

With the notorious Ormskirk ripper around "slice country" might be right in more than one way.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Gregg's cheese and onion pasties only cost about 47p and as such are all right in my book. I do wish they'd give you a napkin for all that grease, though.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I am always ambushed by my behavior on the "Pasties vs Pasties" thread.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

well - i'm always astonished at other people's. spicy jamaican baked goods vs soggy englisg ones... no contest

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

A pasty has to be bought warm or hot, fresh cooked. So you can't get ever get a decent one in a packet, so do not even try. I live in Cornwall; we have four great pasty shops in our town of three thousand inhabitants. Mmmm.

Swede is essential, I should say.

― All Bunged Up. (Jake Proudlock), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 00:28 (twenty-two years ago)

at school Dave was teased for 'wishing he was a patty' - WCPC baked goods are not soggy - in fact their only possible flaw is often there's a bit too much pastry at the fold

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 11:14 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.coastaltown.nildram.co.uk/jim/slicecity.jpg

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I love you.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 11:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Ugh! Ugh! We tried to eat a Greggs one in Hull, thinking the North was the land of the Pastie, and it was inedible. Utterly. Whatever happened to Fletchers? They used to have amazing pasties, but seem to be no more.

Cornish Pastie Company is great because it actually offers more than one vegetarian option! Though it would be nice to see a Stilton & Broccoli instead of just plain cheese and broc or stilton and steak...

― The River Kate (kate), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

With respect, how many people would buy a Stilton and Broccoli pasty?

― All Bunged Up. (Jake Proudlock), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

"With respect, how many people would buy a Stilton and Broccoli pasty?"

10.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

The ongoing success of the nation's poncey gastropubs proves that to be nonsense.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

sounds quite nice actually

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

are you calling me a patty man, bumbaclaat!?

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

seven years pass...

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