- Pasties were the Tin Miners lunch box with both sweet and savoury fillings.
- Miners would hold the pasty by the crimp as a handle to avoid arsenic poisoning, and then leave the crimp for the knockers, the spirits believed to inhabited the mines
- Housewives sometimes marked their husband's initials on the left-hand side of their pastry casing, in order to avoid confusion at lunchtime.
- When the Cornish rugby team plays an important match, a giant Cornish pasty is symbolically hoisted over the bar before the start of the game.
- It was once said the devil would never dare to cross the River Tamar into Cornwall for fear of ending up as a filling in a Cornish pasty.
- The Cornish term for a pasty is “oggy” or “oggie”, derived from its Cornish name, hoggan.
- The word pasty comes from a middle English word meaning made of paste (pastry).
- The Cornish language has had a revival since the Government officially recognised it again in 2002.
- Next time you are in Cornwall, perhaps you should say 'Me a venjacafushuggan' - I would like to have a pasty.
- The earliest reference to a pasty comes in the 13th century, and it is believed Henry VIII's wife, Jane Seymour, enjoyed a tasty pasty on several occasions.
