Your Favorite Fast Food Restaurant

Square Pie: Geri Halliwell

yeah i heard that rumour too

Chicken Cottage: George Michael

NV i will rep for the satisfaction of a gregg's pasty in certain circumstances but it might as well be a different food to what you get at the west cornwall outfit. yeah it's £3 but so are most lunches and that's for the large.

tbh I kvetch but it's partially comedy class prejudice and partly cos the only "gourmet" pasty i had from one of these kinda shops was pretty underwhelming for the cash.

I've never had a cornish pasty that's tasted a tenth as good as the ones i remember from devon and cornwall when i was a kid. modern pasties are totally under-peppered

good Greggs pasties = sausage, beans and cheese; the chicken fajita one they sometimes do, and the christmas one

Of that lot, West Cornwall Pasty Company by a nautical mile.

Yes, it is not as good as proper pasties and they are not fit to even dice, say, Portreath Bakery's potatoes, but it is good food, effective, easily found, satisfying, tasty and not actually hugely pricey if you get a vegetarian option.

Though, had it been on offer, I would probably have picked Pasty Presto as my preferred fast food pasty source of choice, though I know this inspires cries of "abomination!" and "heresy!" because they put carrots in some of their pasties. But in a spicy Moroccan chickpea curry pasty, they can put carrots in if they like and I'm not going to complain. If they ever open a branch in London, I'm in trouble, because OMG their Rhubarb and Custard pasty is some kind of next level deliciousness I could easily become addicted to.

Also, WCPC because of the pirate on their logo. Like, either that is the hugest pasty ever made, or the pirates in West Cornwall are really really REAAAALLLY small.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

roffling at cocktail pasties, idk why

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

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

why would they only offer delivery for the meat varieties?

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

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

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?

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

southern softies dolefully chewing away

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?

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.

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

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]

Whatever you do, BEWARE THE CORNISH PASTY INSPECTOR

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

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

Ginsters are only actual Cornish Pasties on a technicality.

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

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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).