[arista]

[The new Greggs store, pictured here,
will open in St Nicholas Street, Truro,
on Tuesday, December 6]


A Local Cornish Pasty Maker (on a screen)
making each pasty by hand
was live on Ch5HD AM
he does not want Greggs in Cornwall,



Greggs gave ITN/Ch5HD a Statement
"They make many food items"


In the Studio he had 2 Pasties

Greggs £2:09
Cornwall Style, bought in London £6.19


[Cornish fury at Greggs after sausage roll giant
confirms it will open new shop in
Truro next month - three years after first attempt
to crack the county ended
in humiliating withdrawal dubbed 'Greggxit']


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...uro-month.html

[LeatherTrumpet]

love a Greggs, great value

[Gusto Brunt]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

love a Greggs, great value

Far too expensive in my view. No wonder they make record proflts.

I went in there and bought 3 pasties and barely got any change out of a fiver.

Today I went into Morrisons and bought EIGHT Cornish pasties for £4.44. Heated up in the mircrowave, lovely.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Gusto Brunt

Far too expensive in my view. No wonder they make record proflts.

I went in there and bought 3 pasties and barely got any change out of a fiver.

Today I went into Morrisons and bought EIGHT Cornish pasties for £4.44. Heated up in the mircrowave, lovely.

What in them...never trust a pastie

[Gusto Brunt]

Originally Posted by Cherie

What in them...never trust a pastie

They taste nice and that's all I care about.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Gusto Brunt

Far too expensive in my view. No wonder they make record proflts.

I went in there and bought 3 pasties and barely got any change out of a fiver.

Today I went into Morrisons and bought EIGHT Cornish pasties for £4.44. Heated up in the mircrowave, lovely.

Of Course, Gregg's is not competing
with better value Supermarkets.

[arista]

Greggs last time in Cornwall failed
and closed.

But now,
times are hard
so they may do better


Opens Next Month.

[Zizu]

Sooooo did you know that you weren’t supposed to eat the top crimped part of a Cornish pastie ??

They were made for miners to eat underground and the tough bit was used as a handle then simply discarded …


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The wives of Cornish tin miners would lovingly prepare these all-in-one meals to provide sustenance for their spouses during their gruelling days down the dark, damp mines, working at such depths it wasn’t possible for them to surface at lunchtime. A typical pasty is simply a filling of choice sealed within a circle of pastry, one edge crimped into a thick crust . A good pasty could survive being dropped down a mine shaft! The crust served as a means of holding the pasty with dirty hands without contaminating the meal. Arsenic commonly accompanies tin within the ore that they were mining so, to avoid arsenic poisoning in particular, it was an essential part of the pasty.


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[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Zizu

Sooooo did you know that you weren’t supposed to eat the top crimped part of a Cornish pastie ??

They were made for miners to eat underground and the tough bit was used as a handle then simply discarded …


::

The wives of Cornish tin miners would lovingly prepare these all-in-one meals to provide sustenance for their spouses during their gruelling days down the dark, damp mines, working at such depths it wasn’t possible for them to surface at lunchtime. A typical pasty is simply a filling of choice sealed within a circle of pastry, one edge crimped into a thick crust . A good pasty could survive being dropped down a mine shaft! The crust served as a means of holding the pasty with dirty hands without contaminating the meal. Arsenic commonly accompanies tin within the ore that they were mining so, to avoid arsenic poisoning in particular, it was an essential part of the pasty.


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Interesting!

[MTVN]

Why couldn't they just wrap it in paper and hold that

[MTVN]

A historian has claimed that stories of how miners traditionally ate pasties are 'false'.

That's right. Glyn Hughes, a food history researcher, said tales about Cornish tin miners using the pasty's crust as a handle are completely made up.

He appeared on Gregg Wallace's Inside the Factory tonight (which you can watch on iPlayer here), alongside fellow historian Ruth Goodman, as the team learned about traditional pasties at Callington's Ginsters factory.

Glyn explained that it was previously thought that tin miners used the crimp as a*handle*to hold on to while eating, so that they didn't poison themselves with arsenic or tin oil that might be on their fingers from working.

But he revealed that pictures from as far back as the 1890s - showed that actually, miners ate pasties from cloth bags.

Asked if there was any historical evidence of miners using the crimp as a handle, Glyn added: "We’ve been back through literally thousands and thousands of newspapers and magazines going back to the 18th Century and we can find absolutely no mention of it anywhere."

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/ce...tually-4029003

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Why couldn't they just wrap it in paper and hold that

Maybe paper wasn’t readily available back then .. over 300 years ago or so

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It wasn’t until the 17th and 18th centuries that the pasty was adopted by miners and farm workers in Cornwall as a means for providing themselves with easy, tasty and sustaining meals while they worked. And so the humble Cornish Pasty was born.


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[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Gusto Brunt

Far too expensive in my view. No wonder they make record proflts.

I went in there and bought 3 pasties and barely got any change out of a fiver.

Today I went into Morrisons and bought EIGHT Cornish pasties for £4.44. Heated up in the mircrowave, lovely.

A lot of places will charge a fiver for one pasty. It will be a better pasty tbf but Greggs are cheap compared to their competitors in takeaway hot food

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by MTVN

A lot of places will charge a fiver for one pasty. It will be a better pasty tbf but Greggs are cheap compared to their competitors in takeaway hot food

We have had PoundBakers up here for years .. two pies of your choice for a pound .. until just recently where it’s changed to just ONE slightly bigger pie / pastie .. they always taste better than the ones at Gregs


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[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by MTVN

A lot of places will charge a fiver for one pasty. It will be a better pasty tbf but Greggs are cheap compared to their competitors in takeaway hot food

not in Scotland they dont

[hijaxers]

Greggs know your place ~ its not Cornwall ~ back off ~ you're not wanted.

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by hijaxers

Greggs know your place ~ its not Cornwall ~ back off ~ you're not wanted.

not by the middle class surrey types that dominate cornwall