In the light of recent pasty-related political events this topic was
decidely prescient. Had Messrs Milliband and Balls decided to purchase
Cornish pasties rather than sausage rolls in the run-up to the Bradford
West by-election the result could have been very different...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/video/2012/mar/28/ed-miliband-sausage-rolls-greggs-pasty-video?newsfeed=true
regards
John A W Lock
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>Date: 10/03/2012 13:57
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>Subj: The role of the Cornish pasty in mining history
>
>Tony Brewis's interesting comments on the availability of Cornish
pasties
>in Latin America to this day prompts me to wonder what other benefits
the
>Cornish miner bestowed upon the world, particularly in the diaspora
after
>the decline of Cornish mining in the late nineteenth century. I
believe that
>there are more people of Cornish descent in the Americas today than
there
>are in Cornwall.
>
>One suggestion is Methodism. In north Wales, Captain William Vivian,
who
>managed the Llandudno copper mines in the 1850s, was the first to
establish
>English Methodist services in a Welsh-speaking town by holding
English
>services in a Welsh Wesleyan chapel. The Cornish miners at Allihies
in Co Cork,
>Ireland, built themselves a Methodist chapel in the unfruitful soil
of a
>predominantly Roman Catholic area. The building is now the Allihies
Copper
>Mine Museum.
>
>Can anyone add to the list?
>
>Christopher J Williams
>
>
>In a message dated 10/03/2012 12:43:31 GMT Standard Time,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
>
>
>For what it is worth, one might add that Cornish pasties are still
served
>at
>Pachuca, Mexico (where many Cornishmen are buried in the graveyard)
and
>another place I have enjoyed a Cornish pasty was in the canteen at
the
>Andina copper mine, in the Chilean Andes. No doubt Cornish technology
also
>went where the pasties went.
>
>
>
>Tony Brewis
>
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