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When is a Cornish Pasty not a Cornish Pasty? When it’s made any where else but Cornwall.
This is the latest food product to receive PGI (Protected Geographical Indication) status. This famous pasty can now only be made to a specific recipe, method and of course produced only in Cornwall. The Cornish pasty now joins the likes of others, such as Champagne, Melton Mowbray, Roquefort, Parmigiano –Reggiano etc. This leaves us mere mortals to rename our ‘Cornish pasty’ to another, ‘Traditional’. After all we have been producing our version of ‘Cornish Pasty’ for over 40 years, which has become a firm family favourite. Please be reassured our recipe will not be changing and our ‘Traditional pasty’ will still taste every bit as good as it’s always been.
One wonders if the 11th Earl of Sandwich will to be applying for PGI status, after all his ancestor the 4th Earl of Sandwich developed this world famous snack back in 1762 when he didn’t want to interrupt his game of cards and asked his servants to bring him slices of meat between two pieces of bread so his hands didn’t become greasy. This became popular amongst his card playing friends and thus the sandwich was born.... allegedly!
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