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Article: Cornish pasties origins
- Article from:
- Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
- Article date:
- November 15, 2006
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With all the troubles there are in the world - Iraq, Afghanistan,
global warming and al Quadia terrorists - it is quite incredible that
the origins of the Cornish pasty should make front-page news.
As a Devonian, (although I wasn't born here, my Davy ancestors go
back to at least 1216, and I have a family tree to prove it), I feel
fully entitled to enter the debate. In the 55 years I've lived here,
I have probably eaten nearly 1,000 so-called Cornish pasties. Well,
maybe that is a slight exaggeration, but I must have attended
countless markets, farm shows, sales and farm walks in my time and a
pasty has always been the fast food of the day.
Whatever the number, it is sad to relate that at ...