Welcome to JayPo’s Penalty Boxed Lunch, where we explore food from around the country! This week’s 32nd official entry is for those folks who feel a little disconnected from the mainland and prefer an upper (peninsula) class “sandwich” hailing from Michigan. Is the pasty a sandwich? Does it matter anymore?
Food History!
The history of the pasty doesn’t even originate in The Land of the Free, but rather our original oppressors across the pond, England. There isn’t an official date, but mentions of the pasty date back to as early as the 1300’s. In England the Cornish Pasty (as it is called there) was traditionally stuffed with beef, onion, potato and swede in large chunks.