/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>5122492
>Let's serve steak with ketchup

I live in the upper midwest, and growing up my family would go to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to visit my Great Grandma. It was there that I first heard of them, and we would always eat them from local Pasty shops.

Funnily enough, they did say ketchup was common with them, and that's how I and my family always ate them.

Also, I was told it was a mining community, and that originally they were made for miners, as they were basically whole meals all in one convenient bread container.

>The Upper Peninsula of Michigan. In some areas, pasties are a significant tourist attraction, including an annual Pasty Fest in Calumet, Michigan in late June. Pasties in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan have a particularly unusual history, as a small influx of Finnish immigrants followed the Cornish miners in 1864. These Finns (and many other ethnic groups) adopted the pasty for use in the Copper Country copper mines.[47][48] About 30 years later, a much larger flood of Finnish immigrants found their countrymen baking pasties. The pasty has become strongly associated with Finnish culture in this area, and in the culturally similar Iron Range in northern Minnesota.[49]

>Mineral Point, Wisconsin was the site of the first mineral rush in the USA during the 1830s. After lead was discovered in Mineral Point many of the early miners migrated to this south-western Wisconsin area from Cornwall. Those Cornish miners brought their skills working in the deep underground tin mines of Cornwall. They also brought their recipe and appetite for the pasty.[50]

Though, this is just my experience. They are common other places, and certainly not just "Michigan" food.

I haven't had one in forever. My local meat market has them, maybe I'll buy one next time.

Now I also am missing the U.P.