The crimped side would serve as a sort of handle, meaning that the miners could hold onto their lunch without getting the rest of the pasty dirtied with mud and grime from working in the mines.

Negaunee Elks Lodge #1116 held a pasty sale on April 12, partnering with the Negaunee Knight of Columbus. The Knights members ...

However, there was one item that managed to survive, from the early Cornish mining days through the collapse of mining in the U.P., and is in many ways is the symbol of this region—the pasty.

Before it reigned in the Midwest, however, the pasty was a convenient lunch for 19th century British miners, who ate the filling then discarded the crusts as an offering to spirits they believed could ...

The truth is, pasties were being eaten by working people all over the country. It probably wasn’t until the tin mining industry took off in Cornwall that the county came to adopt the food stuff ...