Originally Posted by
robow
axolotl, what was it about miners and pasties ? The story I heard was that all the older Northern European immigrant wives would stick a pasty in their man's lunch box every morning before he headed off to the iron ore mines in northern Minnesota and the UP.
Cheap and easy to make. Easy to eat as well. Anywhere there has been hardrock mining (as opposed to placer mining) you are likely to find pasties because anywhere you have hardrock mining you usually found Cornish miners.
But, honestly, the ones in Wisconsin and the UP aren’t all that good. Kind of bland. We have a pasty shop here in Denver called The Pasty Republic that makes all kind of different ones that are excellent.