The Pasty and the Scotch Egg

[Ein Heldenleben]

If an Ivor Dewdney large pasty is not a substantial meal then I would like to know what is . I defy any govt minister to eat one with chips . I would also recommend Berrymans and the pasties from the Cabin Cafe in Crackington Haven...

[jayne lee wilson]

I suppose if prohibition was ever to return, it just had to be in condition of plague under a dumbfounded rightwing Tory Government...

[Ein Heldenleben]

It went down very well in Cornwall as it showed the real Cornwall and not just the beauty spots and the Camborne food bank which was featured has subsequently benefited from this. You may also have seen the series on Fishing in Cornwall earlier in the year which again highlighted how tough an industry it is. These were a good contrast to some programmes eg the series fronted by Caroline Quentin some years ago which was rich tourist biased!

https://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/18873417.don-gardner-foodbank-donations-spike-camborne-cornwall/

I wouldn’t worry too much about a Cornish independence vote - we never get anything from Westminster - we got more from the EU and even then it was interfered with.

Didn’t see the film but I’ve heard good reports from Cornish colleagues . If the featured food bank was the one run in the Methodist chapel I had the pleasure of filming there a couple of years ago . I hadn’t been much to Redruth Camborne since South Crofty closed. Have to say I was shocked that things seemed in some ways worse than in the 90’s though visits like mine are only snapshots. It struck me as a very a valuable place though I did hear it had to shut in the first lockdown ...

[Serial_Apologist]

I suppose if prohibition was ever to return, it just had to be in condition of plague under a dumbfounded

... pasty-faced...

rightwing Tory Government...

[kernelbogey]

...I hadn’t been much to Redruth Camborne since South Crofty closed. Have to say I was shocked that things seemed in some ways worse than in the 90’s though visits like mine are only snapshots....

I feel irritated by SR's presentation, so initially avoided these two programmes; but then allowed curiosity to overcome my prejudice and watched both. I thought them very lightweight and he has a talent for presenting a series of cliches or the bleedin' obvious as though a breathlessly encountered new idea....

Re Heldenleben's comment on South Crofty: we had a school visit when I lived in Falmouth, when it was still a working mine (c. 1960) though I don't think we went very deep (obviously). SR's programme made no mention of what ore was expected to be found. However, I have gathered from somewhere that there is hope - with possibly some evidence - of very high value minerals of the type used in electronics (see Tom Lehrer's song for more detail, possibly ).

[Ein Heldenleben]

I feel irritated by SR's presentation, so initially avoided these two programmes; but then allowed curiosity to overcome my prejudice and watched both. I thought them very lightweight and he has a talent for presenting a series of cliches or the bleedin' obvious as though a breathlessly encountered new idea....

Re Heldenleben's comment on South Crofty: we had a school visit when I lived in Falmouth, when it was still a working mine (c. 1960) though I don't think we went very deep (obviously). SR's programme made no mention of what ore was expected to be found. However, I have gathered from somewhere that there is hope - with possibly some evidence - of very high value minerals of the type used in electronics (see Tom Lehrer's song for more detail, possibly ).

I went down South Crofty in the nineties right down to the mining - one of the most memorable things I’ve ever done. Left me with a lot of respect for the miners - that is a hard way of earning a living . Also very tiring : a long soggy walk to the tin lodes, lots of ladders , and a very dodgy conveyor belt ride at the end . Also unbelievably loud when they are drilling . You could smoke though ....unlike a coal mine. Just as in the Orwell mine essay very hard physical work - there were no overweight miners. They were well paid but it’s all gone. Maybe Lithium will take off but there have been so many false starts at South Crofty and indeed with the Tungsten workings on Dartmoor .

[vinteuil]

Re Heldenleben's comment on South Crofty: we had a school visit when I lived in Falmouth, when it was still a working mine (c. 1960) though I don't think we went very deep (obviously). SR's programme made no mention of what ore was expected to be found. However, I have gathered from somewhere that there is hope - with possibly some evidence - of very high value minerals of the type used in electronics (see Tom Lehrer's song for more detail, possibly ).

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/sep/17/significant-lithium-find-spurs-hopes-of-cornwall-regeneration

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[kernelbogey]

https://www.theguardian.com/business...l-regeneration.

Thanks Vints: that is probably the source I was thinking of - I did read it at the time. (Interesting that the Mayor of Redruth is called Reeve: odd coincidence .)
IIRC there was also a proposal, a few years ago, to reprocess the spoil tips from C19 mining, on the basis that tin might be now be extractable, given superior technology; but I never heard or read more about that.

[gradus]

When we visit family in Cornwall we return with frozen pasties (Barnecutts, of course) and that superb delicacy, the Cinnamon Bun (in multiples), from Da Bara. I haven't yet found the Cornish equivalent of the Scotch Egg though.

[eighthobstruction]

https://www.theguardian.com/business...l-regeneration

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.....well lets hope for every x tonne of Lithium....they build an affordable house....

[kernelbogey]

When we visit family in Cornwall we return with frozen pasties (Barnecutts, of course) and that superb delicacy, the Cinnamon Bun (in multiples), from Da Bara. I haven't yet found the Cornish equivalent of the Scotch Egg though.

Are they in Penzance, Gradus?

[gradus]

Are they in Penzance, Gradus?

Newquay and St Columb Major respectively. De Bara bakery is a great stop off the A30 for sandwiches and cinnamon buns for the return trip home.

[Keraulophone]

that superb delicacy, the Cinnamon Bun (in multiples), from Da Bara

That swirl of ecstatic sugaryness.

Our favourite Cornish pasties are made by Gylly Beach Bakery, Falmouth. Ivor Dewdney's are made in Plymouth - not Cornish enough!

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[kernelbogey]

Newquay and St Columb Major respectively. De Bara bakery is a great stop off the A30 for sandwiches and cinnamon buns for the return trip home.

Thanks! I have had a good experience of Aunt Avice's Pasty Shop, St Kew Highway, Bodmin PL30 3ED: also relatively convenient for the departing Cousin Jack (or Emmet) though not actually on the A30. Proper job.

[kernelbogey]

... Ivor Dewdney's are made in Plymouth - not Cornish enough...!.

My mother, who was not Cornish, made her (excellent) pasties with the crimping along the top.

Much later I was told that the 'true' Cornish pasty has the crimping along one side; and (rather darkly) that my mother's crimping style was the sign of 'a Devon Pasty'!