I don't know what a Gregg's pasty is - it certainly isn't a Cornish pasty
and I wouldn't want to eat one. I believe that the 'Cornish pasty' is a food
protected by the EU in that it can only be made a certain way and,
preferably, west of the Tamar; as far west as possible. As it is a special
food and must pre-date most if not all of the other hot foods available over
the counter, maybe there is a good argument to drop the VAT on it. We'll
have to wait and see what affect it has on Cornish pasty producers (except
Ginsters, of course).
Pete Joseph in Newlyn
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Subject: Re: The role of the Cornish pasty in mining history
> 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
>
>>----Original Message----
>>From: [log in to unmask]
>>Date: 10/03/2012 13:57
>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>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:
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>>
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>>
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>>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.
>
>>
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>>
>
>>
>
>>Tony Brewis
>
>>
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