NEWS FLASH from bgb league 09/04/2009

[rebel1963]

You are joking right or dont you know that your as mongrol as the english.

[Giant Reed]

Who did invent the pasty?

[Kern]

no one knows for sure but it was in cornwall from around the 13th century then with the closing of the tin mines in the 17th century it emmigrated around the world . as to one person starting it no one knows

[Giant Reed]

Thanks Kern,now I can sleep easy tonight.

[Kern]

lol eat one giant you will either sleep for a week or need 20 packets of rennies. just dont eat a ginsters

[Big J R]

Am I not right in saying that a proper pasty originated with the Cornish tin-miners ? I believe they had the meat and veg in one end, and you ate through it to find stewed apple or fruit in the other end, for pudding, so to speak !

 

Blige-me ! Is the W&E site now becoming a social history-forum ?

 

[Woody SUFC]

I thought the crusty end was to be used for a handle as the miners hands would be dirty!?

[Hud Hastings]

My ex girlfriend lost a tooth to a pasty in St Ives! And on that very same day I observed, as a Herring Gull the size of a small family car brutally wrestled a pasty from the grasp of a small child. Who could predict two pasty related incidents on the same day!!

[Big J R]

Originally Posted By: Woody WEFC

I thought the crusty end was to be used for a handle as the miners hands would be dirty!?

What did they do when wanting a pee if their hands were dirty ?

[Kern]

big jr and woody are both close

1 the shape was because it was eaten in the dark so they could feel which end had the meat and veg and which had the sweet ie apple or any other fruit .

2 the crust was simply because a by product of tin is arsenic no water to wash it off so you ate the pasty to the crust and threw that away. being from a mining family i still dont eat a crust

[Giant Reed]

Kern,are you saying that,to this day,you still won't eat a crust???

 

Why??

 

Are your hands permanently covered in arsenic??

 

Come on man,get a grip!!!

 

An ancestor of mine was kicked to death by a donkey and yet,far

from fearing donkeys,I have leaned to embrace them,and I feel that I have become a better man for it.

 

There is nothing to fear,Kern,but fear itself.

 

Please remember that,the next time you eat a pasty.

 

[Kern]

lol you tell my gran that i can eat a crust . before you do let me know so i can get a couple hours head start on her . rofl

[Big J R]

You can't beat a good PROPPER Cornish pasty !

[Tomsk]

Heh, what a [****!!****] inbred.

[SiD of WEFC]

"In the 18th century the Giant Pasties roamed the plains of Devon and Cornwall in herds of up to one million crusts. They were hunted by the local tribes (such as the Torkee, the Pez Nance and the Trurioux) who claimed that the pasties provided their every need. Its meat-and-root-vegetable flesh formed the staple of their diet, supplemented by the applesauce found at the rounded end of the beast. The pastry flaps could be eaten at need, but were normally used for making clothes or tents. The hard crust was fashioned into shoes, weapons or ornaments.

After the Great Tin Strike of 1792 when tin was discovered at Camborne, the area was swamped by pioneers, settlers and frontiersmen who hunted the pasty almost to extinction. These days a small number of Giant Pasties survive in captivity and there is a plan to release them back into the wild in the near future.

The Great Pasty Hunt is featured in many classic Westerns such as

[Big J R]

Priceless, SiD