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i am still slightly puzzled at the notion of Cornish "pirates" surely these dudes were really smugglers and the kind of dudes who beat shipwrecked sailors to death on the beach trying to cash in on the modern "gosh aren't pirates cool/hilarious" internet horror?

i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:43 (twelve years ago) link

I am not going to get into a historical discussion of seafaring practices and pirates vs smugglers vs wreckers (the first two may have some overlap, but you're talking about wreckers, who were generally uncommon, historically, in seafaring communities) on a thread about fast food, especially with someone who is just trying so hard to be cynical about everything.

The only thing I find weird about the logo use of the pirate, is that pasties are actually associated so heavily with tin-mining, rather than seafaring. But whatevs.

Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:49 (twelve years ago) link

aww you're no fun. and i'm the least cynical person i know.

i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:51 (twelve years ago) link

I'd be a lot more fun if I were sitting on Falmouth Docks, eating a pasty. But I'm cranky when I'm in pasty withdrawal.

Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:53 (twelve years ago) link

also tbh when i come home from a long day of being endlessly patient and professional there's nothing more satisfying than having a pop at over-priced pies. the posh pasty shop in Hull shut in under a month is all i'm sayin

i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:54 (twelve years ago) link

OMG Portreath Bakeries delivers.

http://www.portreathbakery.co.uk/

Only the meat ones, unfortunately (which is a damn shame as their cheese and onion pasty was one of the best pasties I have had in my LIFE) but god DAMN. Want.

Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:57 (twelve years ago) link

you'd think they'd offer clotted cream as a side tbh if i'm gonna order half a gross of scones

i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:59 (twelve years ago) link

roffling at cocktail pasties, idk why

r|t|c, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:59 (twelve years ago) link

gentrification of real man tin-miner food is the joek mainly i guess

i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link

like you're supposed to throw away the handle, not gonna happen with one of those is it?

i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 21:01 (twelve years ago) link

why would they only offer delivery for the meat varieties?

dell (del), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 21:01 (twelve years ago) link

i am pondering the idea of some kind of savoury surprise booze pasty now tho

i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 21:01 (twelve years ago) link

feel like somewhere in the vicinity of Port Vale somebody is opening a doomed gourmet oatcake shop as we speak

i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 21:03 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah, it's actually odd that they don't do the cream-tea-to-takeaway thing, I've certainly seen that in other bakeries.

Cocktail pasties is such a delightful oxymoron, isn't it?

Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 21:04 (twelve years ago) link

fuck i had no idea you were supposed to chuck the handle

southern softies dolefully chewing away

r|t|c, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link

originally it was designed because the miners' hands would be dirty so they held it by the seam and chucked it when they'd finished. also believe they could be made partitioned with a savoury filling in one half and a pudding in the other?

i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 21:06 (twelve years ago) link

You're only supposed to throw the knob away if you've been digging all day in an arsenic rich tin seam. Soft Sowsneks (Cornwall is further south than you!) are allowed to eat the crust.

Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link

tbh the crust isn't much fun unless you've got brown sauce handy tho

i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 21:09 (twelve years ago) link

Due to a local colloquialism, swede can be referred to and advertised as turnip whilst in a pasty, but only swede may appear in a pasty.[6]

r|t|c, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 21:11 (twelve years ago) link

Whatever you do, BEWARE THE CORNISH PASTY INSPECTOR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZnutkySWi4

Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 21:14 (twelve years ago) link

pasty wiki has been thoroughly illuminating and will enrich my weekly reduced ginsters from tesco after football experience no end

r|t|c, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 21:14 (twelve years ago) link

Ginsters are only actual Cornish Pasties on a technicality.

Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 21:16 (twelve years ago) link

I wonder if they'd send a box of pasties to canada.

fields of salmon, Thursday, 4 August 2011 00:03 (twelve years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Sunday, 21 August 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Monday, 22 August 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link

Greggs near my work just had a refit and now offers eating in facilities if I am prepared to pay VAT on my mexican bandito baguette. Also they now put some doughnuts etc on shelves within reach of the grasping public, so that we can put it into a paper bag ourselves (i.e. it has gone delice de france style posh).

oppet, Monday, 22 August 2011 23:24 (twelve years ago) link


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