I never knew Cornish pasty had received protected status from the EU in 2011. It means any product sold as a Cornish pasty must be made in Cornwall, to the genuine recipe. A Cornish pasty must have 12.5% meat and at least 25% vegetable content

Pie and peas are always a meal everyone eats, just 3 of us now but when it was 4 it was the same result, also I do like a Cornish pasty and if I ever get the train at one of the big stations head for there shop and buy several to take home. When I was a teenager, yes long time ago, I remember several of us going on our first holiday without parents to Newquay. I think that was my first Cornish Pasty and even no I remember how much I enjoyed it and maybe it was just that holiday but have never tasted one that tasted as good as they did that week, camping meant no real cooking so pasty's were eaten a lot.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cor ... ting-story

How can you have lived for so long without knowing this?! Shame on you.

There are pasties in Devon, (where it was first made), so this protected status only applies to the word Cornish and the county of origin. Devon pasties or (oggies) are fine my me. Got to try Ron Dewney's oggies in Guzz (Plymouth).

Shame they didn't do the same thing with our various counties' cheeses.
You can even get New Zealand Cheddar...what's that all about?

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

evensteadiereddie wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 4:20 pm

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

KateR wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 4:02 pm

Pie and peas are always a meal everyone eats,

Never had pie and peas.

Ginsters Pasties....best use is on a Plymouth Argyle shirt.

The price of a pasty at a railway station these days (West Cornwall Pasty Co etc) is absolutely scandalous. Makes a Twix on the Turf look like spare change.

Cool FACT... (might not be true)

They have their shape so that coal miners could hold the pastry without getting dirt on their lunch

Claret32yrs wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 4:23 pm

Never had pie and peas.

You been living in a cave?

LS7 wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 4:48 pm

The price of a pasty at a railway station these days (West Cornwall Pasty Co etc) is absolutely scandalous. Makes a Twix on the Turf look like spare change.

I get them at the Services, day light robbery but the Steak & Ale are unreal

Leisure wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 5:01 pm

You been living in a cave?

No I just have never had it. My Mum used to eat mushy peas with a pie and chips many years ago and as a kid it looked horrible. Looked like green slime to me. I only ever eat a pie by itself. Never eaten a pie with anything tbh!

I have to say I DID already know this and I also think it's true that a Melton Mowbray pork pie, HAS to have been made in Melton Mowbray and it's an offence to use that labelling if it hasn't.

Pie and peas is the Food of the Gods. Treat yourself !

Claret32yrs wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 5:04 pm

No I just have never had it. My Mum used to eat mushy peas with a pie and chips many years ago and as a kid it looked horrible. Looked like green slime to me. I only ever eat a pie by itself. Never eaten a pie with anything tbh!

Surely with Gravy & chips?

You’ve never lived if not!

As Peter Kay would say ‘az they nowt moist’

Claret32yrs wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 5:04 pm

No I just have never had it. My Mum used to eat mushy peas with a pie and chips many years ago and as a kid it looked horrible. Looked like green slime to me. I only ever eat a pie by itself. Never eaten a pie with anything tbh!

My mate stopped going on the Turf for a few weeks when they stopped serving peas with his pie, still mentions it every week

Burnley1989 wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 5:08 pm

Surely with Gravy & chips?

You’ve never lived if not!

As Peter Kay would say ‘az they nowt moist’

Gravy yes but I class that as a condiment. If you think I'm weird, my Mrs puts hers on a sandwich with Mayonnaise

Claret32yrs wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 5:10 pm

Gravy yes but I class that as a condiment. If you think I'm weird, my Mrs puts hers on a sandwich with Mayonnaise

what, her pie!!!

never had a pie sandwich

I think it has to be pie and peas tomorrow now, big decision is do I buy or make, never tried to make a Cornish pasty, did make a Fajita Cake on Tuesday for the first time and it was well received!

KateR wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 5:12 pm

what, her pie!!!

never had a pie sandwich

Yes KateR. She has a routine. Break up pie on sandwich and smear in Mayonnaise. Her preference is steak pie. It makes my stomach turn just thinking about it

KateR wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 5:12 pm

what, her pie!!!

never had a pie sandwich

I think it has to be pie and peas tomorrow now, big decision is do I buy or make, never tried to make a Cornish pasty, did make a Fajita Cake on Tuesday for the first time and it was well received!

Oh I am intrigued. What's a Fajita Cake? I've had a Fajita so this is interesting.

Burnley1989 wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 5:00 pm

Cool FACT... (might not be true)

They have their shape so that coal miners could hold the pastry without getting dirt on their lunch

It's true, the knitted/beaded part where the pastry is joined together was the handle and wasn't eaten.

And a Cornish pasty had the savoury and sweet in the same pasty.

Not a patch on a proper Melton porkie.

Another fact; originally they contained both a meat meal and a sweet. i imagine the two were separated somehow

Burnley1989 wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 5:00 pm

Cool FACT... (might not be true)

They have their shape so that coal miners could hold the pastry without getting dirt on their lunch

I read somewhere, years ago, that the pasty shape was used so the tin miners could put them in their jacket pockets without crushing them as they worked.

Claret32yrs wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 5:20 pm

Oh I am intrigued. What's a Fajita Cake? I've had a Fajita so this is interesting.

Saw it on FB so if you have that just search for it there.

Cook your meat in the oven with other ingredients, my case was chicken with onions, mixed peppers, salsa, add jalapenos if you like spicy, I also added a tin of corn, not fully cooked but close.

Get a cake tin, flour tortilla on the bottom, line this with fajita mix, add on top another flour tortilla, layer again with fajita mix, add tortilla, make as many layers as you like and obviously cake tin size for how many you are going to serve. Put back in the oven and cook 15 minutes, here I was a little wrong as the instructions are to make start to finish, I made my fajita mix early so when I added was cold.

Remove, cover top with sour cream, fajita cake ready to serve, this one was hot but could have done with being a little hotter, no one microwaved to heat up, 3/4 gone for dinner, hubby took remainder for lunch next day.

Everyone agreed a good meal, not to have every week but a nice change.

Let me know if you make and what you think please.

It's in the crimp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMlnMISoYOE

KateR wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 5:59 pm

Saw it on FB so if you have that just search for it there.

Cook your meat in the oven with other ingredients, my case was chicken with onions, mixed peppers, salsa, add jalapenos if you like spicy, I also added a tin of corn, not fully cooked but close.

Get a cake tin, flour tortilla on the bottom, line this with fajita mix, add on top another flour tortilla, layer again with fajita mix, add tortilla, make as many layers as you like and obviously cake tin size for how many you are going to serve. Put back in the oven and cook 15 minutes, here I was a little wrong as the instructions are to make start to finish, I made my fajita mix early so when I added was cold.

Remove, cover top with sour cream, fajita cake ready to serve, this one was hot but could have done with being a little hotter, no one microwaved to heat up, 3/4 gone for dinner, hubby took remainder for lunch next day.

Everyone agreed a good meal, not to have every week but a nice change.

Let me know if you make and what you think please.

Copied and pasted. Shall look for the ingredients this weekend or next. If they're in. Sounds Yummy!

KateR wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 5:59 pm

Saw it on FB so if you have that just search for it there.

Cook your meat in the oven with other ingredients, my case was chicken with onions, mixed peppers, salsa, add jalapenos if you like spicy, I also added a tin of corn, not fully cooked but close.

Get a cake tin, flour tortilla on the bottom, line this with fajita mix, add on top another flour tortilla, layer again with fajita mix, add tortilla, make as many layers as you like and obviously cake tin size for how many you are going to serve. Put back in the oven and cook 15 minutes, here I was a little wrong as the instructions are to make start to finish, I made my fajita mix early so when I added was cold.

Remove, cover top with sour cream, fajita cake ready to serve, this one was hot but could have done with being a little hotter, no one microwaved to heat up, 3/4 gone for dinner, hubby took remainder for lunch next day.

Everyone agreed a good meal, not to have every week but a nice change.

Let me know if you make and what you think please.

We have Fajitas every other weekend so will definitely try it

LeadBelly wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:08 pm

It's in the crimp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMlnMISoYOE

Love it, look so good mmmmmmmmmmmm

boatshed bill wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 4:29 pm

Ginsters Pasties....best use is on a Plymouth Argyle shirt.

Rubbish. I’ve spent many a happy hour on a mountain top with a couple of Ginsters.

Claret32yrs wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 5:15 pm

Yes KateR. She has a routine. Break up pie on sandwich and smear in Mayonnaise. Her preference is steak pie. It makes my stomach turn just thinking about it

Done it with HP, thumbs up from me

Burnley1989 wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:35 pm

Done it with HP, thumbs up from me

You're both weird!

Tricky Trevor wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:33 pm

Rubbish. I’ve spent many a happy hour on a mountain top with a couple of Ginsters.

Ginsters or Gingers?

Cheese and onion pie on an oven bottom with ketchup, heaven.

Burnley1989 wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 5:02 pm

I get them at the Services, day light robbery but the Steak & Ale are unreal

I always walk past. Not because of the price. But because of the heartburn and lethargy I’d suffer. But you’ve just sold it to me for my next stop.

Volvoclaret wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 7:17 pm

Ginsters or Gingers?

Both to be fair.

Last time we played Argyle away there was a lor of local hot pasty vans selling tasty pasties near the ground
Happy memories of playing Argyle not least our playoff semi win there

cricketfieldclarets wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:25 pm

I always walk past. Not because of the price. But because of the heartburn and lethargy I’d suffer. But you’ve just sold it to me for my next stop.

Always make the same mistake and try driving in the fast lane whilst eating a molten Pasty, covered in flakes of pastry and 3rd degree mouth burns

Woodleyclaret wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:29 pm

Last time we played Argyle away there was a lor of local hot pasty vans selling tasty pasties near the ground
Happy memories of playing Argyle not least our playoff semi win there

Happy memories of when we were nearly as bad as them
Have you ever bought a pasty at Home Park? Aweful!

Stalbansclaret wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 5:08 pm

Pie and peas is the Food of the Gods. Treat yourself !

What are peas ?

KateR wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 5:12 pm

what, her pie!!!

never had a pie sandwich

Where the egg chasers live, a pie sandwich has got to be the staple diet, but with Mayonnaise that must be a Culinary Masterpiece.

It's times these I realise there's so much more to life than watching the Clarets; perhaps exploring the delights of alternate eating experiences is something I'll do now that my Saturdays have been freed up. Or I might wash the car.

Used to love a Lancashire pasty, much nicer than a Cornish Pasty. As sold in ‘Prices’ and other local bakeries.

Claret32yrs wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 5:04 pm

No I just have never had it. My Mum used to eat mushy peas with a pie and chips many years ago and as a kid it looked horrible. Looked like green slime to me. I only ever eat a pie by itself. Never eaten a pie with anything tbh!

Have you never had a potato pie sandwich????

rob63 wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 9:24 pm

Have you never had a potato pie sandwich????

Erm no!

rob63 wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 9:24 pm

Have you never had a potato pie sandwich????

Otherwise known as a Wigan kebab.

Stalbansclaret wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 5:08 pm

Pie and peas is the Food of the Gods. Treat yourself !

Two Hollands little babbys heads(puddings) with mushy peas poured over is the food of the gods. Pies ‘n’ peas is a close second.

Claret32yrs wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 10:08 pm

Erm no!

We used to have them when I was at school, a flat potato pie- saucer type, on a teacake/barm cake.....sometimes as a special treat, dairylea cheese spread on teacake too!

Claret32yrs wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 10:08 pm

Erm no!

But you've had a crisp sandwich of course?

Preferably cheese & onion

rob63 wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 10:31 pm

But you've had a crisp sandwich of course?

Preferably cheese & onion

I have.....many years ago. They were Cheese n Onion, my fave.