Leave our Cornish pasties alone!

I really can't see that filo pastry is that much healthier. I was making samosas last week and folding the layers of filo took loads of butter.

kathsue can you post some virtual ones on here please?

Next time try Ivor Dewdney's Newatthis - a bit difficult to eat because there's so much filling it tends to spill out!

Firstly, can I say that I love Cornish pasties. So I was so excited when, last weekend, I was finally going to visit Cornwall and have just spent a long weekend near Truro. One of the first things I did was to buy a pasty in a shop that boasted '75 years in pasty making! - so I though 'yummy!". However, I was very disappointed. Thick, thick inedible pastry, hardly any filling and a bit tasteless. Not put off I sampled another one in Falmouth, and then again in Mevagissey and both were like the one I bought in Truro - very disappointing!. Not one to give up I gave a final try on the way home at a service station in Devon - delicious pastry, huge amount of very tasty filling. In fact the pasties from our local pasty shop in the north of England are much tastier.

Just going to nip up the road to Ivor Dewdneys. (pasty shop, if you don't know)

Me too!

Snap ! Lemon

I hate this thread, seeing the mere title on the active list makes me want one.A hot, proper Cornish one.

Tabbycat
I was brought up calling them the opposite!

Swede is large and orange
Turnips are smaller and white with a pink blush - fed to cattle

I settled on 'Swede Turnip' eventually when shopping in Devon.

Oh my goodness, all this talk of pasties, well we had one each for lunch today, they were delicious, but so filling!
And, to top it all off, yesterday we had scones, cream and jam.
Salad tonight methinks

Terri823 Your bet is right. She ain't from Cornwall but Yorkshire I think so perhaps she should start dissing Yorkshire fish and chips - but I hope not because I love fish and chips when we go to Yorkshire

And don't even think about starting the cream tea debate! Which goes on first - the jam or the clotted cream?
Luckily for me (and my marriage) I put them on my scone in the correct order when I first ate them in Cornwall at his family's house!

Hello Jalima

It all depends were you're from. I was born in Northumberland and lived in Norther Ireland for a while and turnip in those places is the orange, root vegetable that people eat; swede is white and is fed to cattle and sheep - although we used to get it in school dinners ! My mother-in-law and other Cornish people call them turnips, too.

turnip
Tabbycat having been brought up calling those vegetables 'swede' I was very when I asked for one when I moved to Devon, where they're called turnips!

The orange turnips

My husband is Cornish and my late Mother-in-law used to make the most delicious pasties. I have very happy memories of sitting by the beach eating hot pasties with our two now grown-up daughters when on holiday - but they were made with fresh good quality beef, thinly sliced potatoes, onions and turnip AND her pastry was light as a feather!

I live in pork pie town and a large chunk of the local economy is built on this. No-one here seems bothered about how unhealthy they are. Horrible things.

Oh Glenfinnan,-mealie puddings! So delicious! Not easily available south of the border but I make them occasionally. (my husband's a Scot) Like Tablet, meant to combat the cold Aberdonian winters. Anyone else make Tablet? Not for the fainthearted! We aren't fat as, like Cornish pasties, mealies and tablet are a special treat. As for hospital staff, is it surprising they are overweight, long shifts that overrun, hurried meals in hospital canteens and stress? Many of them have families to look as well as having a full-time job. Recipe for disaster.

Quite agree with these posts. Why do hospitals always use awful white bread. It is impossible to get wholemeal or even brown.

If someone wants to eat more healthily just eat the innards and not the pastry!

It was designed to keep the food inside the pastry clean - savoury one end, apple the other.

Minced beef? No!

Not sure how much healthier filo pastry is anyway. You have to bathe each sheet in oil. Plenty of calories in there. Yes olive oil is meant to healthier. But it’s still fattening! Greece has a massive obesity crisis. It’s not the butter or the oil that you put in something, it’s how much you eat of it and how much you move each day. So, I’m saying stupid advice!

Nurses are advising us to eat butchered Cornish pasties! 'Physician, heal thyself,'

Lovely memories of bridies Maw! I live in England now but originally from Angus. Two main makers of bridies in Forfar Mc Laren and Saddlers. I preferred Saddlers but both lovely! Scottish food not always healthy! tablet, mealie puddings, tunnock tea cakes, fern cakes, square sausage etc etc but delicious!

Leave Cornish pasties alone! They are wholesome delicious and with healthy ingredients and of course should be made in Cornwall.

Making me longing for a pasty, genuine of course.

People dont want to cook ,they want everything NOW,hence the eating while walking along the street.My mother would have been mortified if we'd eaten hot food outside of mealtimes and in the street .Maybe once a year we'd get chips while walking home from the shows (fair) apart from that food was on a table

I don’t think the good people of Cornwall are going to listen that that nonsense