PGI after the words Cornish Pastie means Protected geographical indication (PGI) PGI. They are allowed to call it a Cornish Pastie because they are promoting and projecting the quality of Cornish Pasties.
As I've said in a previous comment, I'm dubious about this 'promoting and projecting the quality of Cornish Pasties' all the while Ginsters are allowed to call their puff pastry abomination a Cornish pasty. It seems to be the case that as long as they stick the right filling ingredients in and put the factory within a few metres of the boundary of Cornwall then they can be as rubbish as they like.
@@PotatoPirate123 when it comes down to the facts the probably paid a lot of money to be able to call them Cornish Pasties to the relevant authorities otherwise they would be sued.
As a Cornishman, the best pasties are made locally by the many local bakers down here. These have little to none of the additives the Morrisons pasties have. The crimp is a delicious part of the pasty for me too. Another great video Gareth
Im Cornish born and bred, that looks exactly what a Cornish Pasty looks like,the ingredients are spot on, no carrot's, how its so cheap is beyond me, I've just bought one in Town and it cost me £4.45 for one, mine is steak so perhaps its that, but they look a proper job. 👍
If you look up the history of Cornish Pasties being eaten by Minors down the Mines. The Crimp was for the Miners to Hold the Pasty while eating it and as they didnt wash their hands they always threw the Crimp part away as there was a risk of Arsenic or other nasty minerals being digested and the Coal Dust on their hands would not have been to good for them.
Most pastries made for miners and labourers in Europe have a traditional pastry handle to eat it with mucky hands. The Soviets made bread with handles for the same purpose. Hard times and hard workers 👍
@@riddimchef1 If you come down to Devon and Cornwall, there is a living museum called Morwellham Quay, near Tavistock, in Devon, on the banks of the River Tamar, which was an important copper port back in Victorian times. If you take a boat trip from Plymouth and head up the Tamar towards Calstock, you can see the chimneys of the wheelhouses of the copper mines poking up through the trees on the banks, though, it is accessible by road also. As you go around Morwellham Quay, it tells the story of how they extracted copper and tin. Well worth the visit.
Another out and about video with Gareth! What a bloody joy it is to see on a Friday afternoon you can’t beat a good pasty Gareth! Lovely video yet again much appreciated ❤
The part they threw away was said to be for the "knockers". The unseen spirits or beings of the mines who made noises and could kill miners by causing roof falls etc. The bits of pasty were seen as an offering to keep miners safe, besides being a handle for dirty miners fingers.
Cornish pasties are always a little on the dry side for me. They look to have a decent filling mind no giant air pocket. The best way to fight the gremlins is to eat a little dirt occasionally, the old mothers used to say to kids who had a cut ''go get a bit of dirt in it, it will be fine '' .
I used to shop at Morrisons most of the time. But no longer. A bit of my history by way of explanation. I lived as a child in the early 70's in the Victorian terraced houses of Northern Mill Towns. In the mid 70's developers wanted to make money and put pressure on owners of these properties to sell them. The community was damaged as almost daily house after house became boarded up and the feeling of decay and degradation set in. Corner shops closed and community died. So up to date now and when I go into a Morrisons I get that same feeling of decay as product ranges disappear and large gaps in shelves get removed and replaced with empty holes and adverts. Large portions of the freezer isle are just boarded up and the degradation is evident. I cannot help buy feel the lack of choice and general decay cannot bode well for the continuation of Morrisons. I have tried to point this out to senior managers who seem to be in denial. Sorry this is not related to your review but I had to get it off my chest and at least on the record somewhere. I hope nobody really minds. I do hope that things turn around but unfortunately the decay is spreading to other supermarkets.
I was always told that the crusts were never eaten down to what was on their hands. You might need to track down a properly traditional one where one half is savoury (your usual pasty filling) and the other half is sweet (stewed fruit and custard)
The crimping was, as you say, for holding the pasty however, because of the state of their hands the crimp was put on to hold with dirty hands and throw the crimp away. There was usually fruit at one end, as a sort of dinner and pudding. The miners wives used to put an initial on the crust so the miner could recognise their own pasty.
Great video gareth. I usually visit my morrisons early saturday morning, and these pasties will be on my radar for lunch. Not a bad price for 2. Have a great weekend with the family. Karl
I'm in stitches here a middle aged man sitting in a car by himself holding a pasty in each hand talking to himself i wonder what the rest of the shoppers imagine what's going on 😂😂😂😂comedy gold keep up the good work my good sir from joff the trucker
Morrisons used to do a Cornish pasty that had a split half meat and half sweet apple as apparently it provided a meat and a sweet in one pasty and they tasted really good!!
Hey Gareth - the reason for the crimp is because mining tin, it left a poisonous residue on your hands. That resulted in them creating a crimp so that the tin miners could eat the pastie and then throw the crimped pastry away. Keep up the great work and just love all the videos you do! Best wishes - Malcolm
@@briz1965 Aye, i'm 66 years, born n bred in the shire, still ca'nt do 'em !! Our lass could make'm blindfolded. ( Maybe that's why i hav'nt tried for years. )
Point 1. You can’t get a real Cornish pastie in Cornwall for that price. Point 2. A pasty can only classify a pastie as Cornish if it was prepared and cooked below the Tamar river. I’m not Cornish but my first wife was. I lived there for some time and even had a pub there. NOT a good idea as they don’t like “ emmits”. I once had a pub in a place called Eaton Bray near Luton. I used to go sea fishing with my son near Redruth. Overnight fishing and then a fast drive home. A customer asked me to bring him a pasty back. It ended up that I would buy 40 pasties from Portreath pasty shop, get back to the pub about 8pm and be sold out by 10.30pm. The history of pasties goes back to the Tin mines. Due to the conditions that the miners could get arsenic on their hands, wives would put a large crimp on them for holding the pasty and then throw it away. If you wanted to go fully traditional? usually the pasty held the meat at one end and some kind of pudding at the other. I’m the very early 70’s I worked for a few months down South Crofty tin mine as a track layer. NOT an experience I would like to repeat. Sooo deep down and sooo far out under the sea bed in the blackest place I’ve ever been in made N Ireland and other jobs in the Forces a doddle when it comes to fear factor. A great review, as always. The ingredients are not those included in a real pasty. Looked good though. They’re like a real Rolex compared to a snide knock off. I do go on a bit don’t I? 🥴🥴.
The crust (crimp) served as a 'handle' - a means of holding the pasty with dirty hands without contaminating the meal. Arsenic commonly accompanies tin within the ore that they were mining so, to avoid arsenic poisoning, the crimp was an essential part of the pasty.
Cheers Gaz I love a good Oggie being stationed most of my career in Devonport just over the Tamar from Cornwall or Kernow as they call it. usually got them delivered to the ships from Ivor or Ron Dewdney's which the Cornishmen hated with a passion but I loved em, steaming hot out of the oven usually and if I'd had a lucky night on the town, I would grab one with a pint of ice cold moo juice and a copy of the Sun to take back on board ship. Ahoy!
Cheers Gaz another high octane tense thriller food review from the best of the rest, plenty of Beef no grief, safe as house's pair of trousers, bang on, spot on the one and only Golden Gaz👌🏻🔝💪😋🏆
That was satisfaction watching you eat that pasty. I can tell it was enjoyable. I often buy at Morrisons through Amazon so I may try one of these. Always good to see your videos before the weekend. I know what to try. Cheers Gareth 😊
Love a pasty me and morrisons bakery is quality (I especially like their sausage rolls)but i've never tried their pasties but after watching that i think I might give one a go!
Bought some when I was in Cornwall - same ingredients . Made in a factory in mid Cornwall. Very tasty pasty. Good value . Palm oil is not a favourite ingredient of mine! Supposed to keep to a low fat diet, so don't eat many these days. Will be checking out my local Morrisons. Ginsters in E Cornwall - can't recommend them! My favourite pasty bakers Rowes, Malcolm Barnecutt, Phelps.
All Morrisons pasties are pretty good to be fair. The Cornish one you had is really good but I think my personal fave is the Jumbo Beef Pasty - you should definitely give them a blast next time you're in Morribobs 😋
Love your videos, Gareth, my favourites are the comparison ones, posh to cheap. !!! Palm oil producers are the main destroyers of the planet, I try to get things which have responsibly sourced palm oil, but very difficult. I think you are brilliant, best wishes from John in Ascot 👍🍺
They do look as if they were well filled and that is the main thing. Look really nice and a good size. I may have a Cornish Pasty what some chips and some little tomatoes for my Tea.
Most Melton Mowbray pork pies these days don’t taste that much different from non-Melton Mowbray ones - original Melton Mowbray pork pies used to ooze all that lovely aspic all over the place and almost tasted like they had been fried - but, thanks to those spoilsports who have decided that aspic tastes horrible and should be removed from food and nothing should ever be fried, I think the only way you could get a decent Melton Mowbray pork pie would be to hop on a train to Melton Mowbray - the place which gave them their name - I am not entirely convinced that you can even get a proper Melton Mowbray pork pie in Melton Mowbray! Challenge, not just for Gareth, but for anyone reading this - take a trip to Melton Mowbray and, if you pass “Go”, collect £200 - er, I mean, see if those spoilsports haven’t managed to exert their influence in their place of origin - in other words, can you still get a proper Melton Mowbray pork pie, made to the original Melton Mowbray recipe in Melton Mowbray?
Hi Gareth. Thanks for posting another excellent review. Hope your family break went well and you all had a good time? Pasties are a great British food and Cornwall and Devon the rightly kings. As for Palm Oil. I cannot understand why British supermarkets and manufacturers use this cheap horrid fat instead of British butter in these items especially pastry! Palm oil is proven to be ecologically poisonous crown in countries where the Palm isn’t even a native species! Plantations are ruining rare natural ecosystems around the world especially in areas of crucial rainforest and mangrove. There should be a worldwide ban on the stuff. Nice to see a hand crimp. Ginsters stopped hand crimping a long time ago and have also cut their pepper and seasoning. A pasty needs pepper!. I’ve eaten pasties with side crimps in Devon loads and I must admit the best pasty I’ve ever eaten was from a shop in Teignmouth which I had to wait around half an hour for it to cool to my preferred temperature before eating on the beach watching the ferry come and go. Amazing food.
At least Butter and rape are UK products. We, as companies and consumers should support UK Farmers at much as possible. UK dairy farmers can produce the best butter because their stock is grass fed - the envy of the world.@@soudley8
As a Cornish maid born and bred Ime cracking up watching the way your eating that pasty 😆😆😆😆us Cornish folk would eat the knobbly bit on the top first and work our way down not eat from the sides but glad you enjoyed it looks an ok pasty
Sounds like a good buy. I have just had 2 Morrisons The Best all butter scones wow absolutely beautiful. I didnt even have butter on one of them, so nice.
Here in Wharton New Jersey USA, there is a shop called Rocky's that use the phrase "Cornish Style Pasties." So they use a non offensive name. They are belly busting good though no matter the name.
I used to work in a pie factory in Sittingbourne, Kent who made a great-tasting Cornish pasty. I now live in Ireland and can't buy them for love nore money near me. I do believe I could buy them in Dublin. I used to buy them in My local Iceland but they are going out of business here in Ireland. So I will either make some myself or take a trip up to Dublin.
I'm from Cornwall. Did notice that The Cornish Bakery is in Keswick, Windermere and Ambleside. They sell a more authentic pasty. I do not think with the ingredients that Morrisons is a genuine Cornish Pasty. They also sell different flavours of pasty and different types of cakes.
Palm oil for me is a very iffy topic, due to various football sized fields of trees getting cut down on a daily/weekly basis just to produce palm oil on the very cheap basis so that it can be put into near enough everything we eat & wash with (inc dishes & clothing)
I work in the bakery for Co-op and these pasties are made by Rowe's from Cornwall. They are official lol! A guy comes in and asks for them frozen so he can cook them at home. The whole of the back area where I am smells amazing when I cook these bad boys up!
As a child, the Cornish pasties from my Local bakers, were always crimped along the top, recipe was lovely, but would welcome anyones thoughts on what they should have been called? Great video, keep up the great work xx
My Gran was from Cornwall she moved to Lancashire when she married my Grandad and she made the most delicious pasties to the original Cornish recipe no additives just meat potato and Swede and really scrumptious pastry and at least a foot long those were the days
Also, other than having the crust so you could eat it with dirty hands (crust always discarded) the filling itself was meat etc one end, fruit the other as they considered it a FULL meal. Usually split around 75-25 meat/fruit..
Morrisons have a pie bakery in Wakefield, But i am sure they buy these in from Samworth Brotherrs in Cornwall. The buy them oven ready to warm in the shops oven. Samworth Bros own plenty of household food brands, including Ginsters, and The West Cornwall Pasty Co. Morrisons are very, VERY strict about the sourcing of all forms of Meat, meat products and fish. It is beyond belief that they would be circumventing the PGI.
Cheers Gaz, you've just gave me another idea for a meal for my son 👍 I never think when I ask for Cornish pasties, was it made there, I suppose it's like me when I hear people asking for "scotch pie" I'll chirp in and say " it's a Scottish pie, no scotch, because it's no made wae whiskey"😂 ❤
Palm oil has been and continues to be a major driver of deforestation of some of the world's most biodiverse forests, destroying the habitat of already endangered species like the Orangutan, pygmy elephant and Sumatran rhino. We try to avoid. Even sustainable raises problems. Love your channel! ❣
Low beef content 13 percent. Sainsburys 4 for £2.75 520g made by Samworth Bros (Ginsters) have 18 percent. Great with chips and beans, they freeze well.
My 10 week old baby boy has been sat watching you eat that pasty haha.... Morrisons are good I think for pies and cakes and things... Always enjoy your videos Gareth... Xx
Not as some people think in some of the comments is the point of region protection. It's to stop large manufacturers from producing a product at a much cheaper cost and taking away the business from local, more bespoke traditional bakeries that have been there for years. This keep profits and employment within the region rather than greedy corporate enterprises who dont care in the slightest about anything other than profit.
I like Morrison pies and pasties, but the palm oil has addition is problematic , the palm oil industry is systematically destroying old growth rain forest, and wiping out animal such as orangutan , so I think I’ve eaten my last Morrisons pasty
Good point. Why the devil people continue using palm oil is beyond me. There must be alternatives nowadays. I make Cornish pasties and never use palm oil.
Great review Gaz they looked nice and tasty when we saw inside I was shocked not to see it all minced up which is a good sign and nice to see you out and about 👏👏👍👍
Thanks for the good video mate, love pies, do get a Cornish pie now and then, very good. I wolf them down. Can understand those miners, would burn 1000 s of calories, you need a couple. True, when your hungry eat anything.
Don't know where I heard it but didn't miners pasties have savory one end and desert other end or am I wrong on that? They did look delicious though and looked like you enjoyed them.
Hi Gareth. My understanding is that the thick crimped crust was there so that the miners could hold on to that with their dirty coal soiled hands and not contaminate the pasty. I don't think that part was meant tp be eaten then.
@@blackbob3358 givvum a bash, chunks of chicken in a creamy sauce wrapped in flaky pastry...you can thank me later. Usually 2 for £2.50, better than Greggs imo. One of me mates thinks they're too salty...
Pasties are a big thing on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. There used to be a lot of hard rock mining up there, and apparently a lot of Cornish came to work in them.
A Cornish friend of mine told me you have to put a knob of butter on top of the ingredients inside the pastry and plenty of pepper. So I was pleased to hear you say there was lots of pepper inside.
You can have two pasties. It is O.K. The downside is that when you get back you will have to mow & weed the garden & hoover, dust & tidy the house & hang the washing out. That will use some extra calories up.
Yes that about the crust is correct, so that the dirt/coal dust etc. on hands was not in your food.Also some were baked with meat/savoury in one halfe of it and a sweet jam etc. filling in the other half with a pastry wall between the fillings so you had main meal and pudding/afters in one package. Hope you find that informative, keep up the good work with the vids, keeping me going in my spare 5 minutes here and there while nursing my wife with terminal lung cancer, cheers buddy
Had one today .and to be fair it wasnt bad! Hard to get anything like a cornish pasty in midlands! Ginsters with the flaky pastry is in my opinion nothing like a cornish pasty. Ive not realy bothered to study ingrediants before but i may think twice next time.
Cornish woman here who has made a few pastys. That looks like one but the list if ingredients is not at all right. We put skirt steak, potato, onion and swede (turnip as we call them) maybe a little bit of clotted cream to make the gravy. The tale of the handle is a myth, you hold it in a cloth to keep away the dirt of your hands from minimg, and we eat our pasties from end nub to end nub. You were eating it wrong 😅 They put PGI status but s Cornish Pasty should only be called that if its made in Cornwall. It can be cooked anywhere but it needs to be made in the Duchy. You should come to Cornwall and have a proper Cornish Pasty made with steak not minced beef, our pasties taste amazing. Buy from a pasty shop or bakery, in Cornwall not a supermarket for a real treat. Cornwall warmly welcomes you ❤
In Cornwall the best pasty's are homemade( Grans, mums etc) the next best are butchers, bakers and sometimes farm shops that make their own. Lastly is supermarket/ Ginsters that are not much higher on the scale than dog food. I grew up and still live in Penzance( the most westerly main town) so have eaten a few in my time 😂
Morrisons Cornish pasties are banging for the money, bit peppery as you say but that's ok. Always carry a bottle of ketchup in the van and with a dollop of that on top you can't go wrong.
Good choice of store Gareth,as I said when you reviewed the naked bacon I work for Morrisons and all our bakers are excellent and make those from scratch along with most of the bakery produce,cornish pastie is the style of pastie,you don't need to go to Scotland to buy a scotch pie or Germany to by a Volkswagon,I think sometimes we take this political correctness too far,I was a motor mechanics and used to take my break and eat my sandwiches with oily fingerprints,another enjoyable video big pal
Originally, I think they had like stewed apple in one end and the meaty section at the other. I don't know if they're genuine CORNISH pasties at Morrisons but I have to agree with your Dad and say Morrison pies and hot counter in general is pretty good. Especially against Greggs which I find more and more biege and boring. Greggs, used to be pretty good, but it's all pasty bland beige dullness nowadays. They don't even do those iced fingers anymore. But yeah you can generally pick up some decent hot food from Morrisons, the full cooked chicken is great to make sarnies with for instance.
Certainly love Morrisons fresh baked in store cheese & onion pasties the flakey pastry is very light can't be that full of calories. Scotch pies are great too.
PGI after the words Cornish Pastie means Protected geographical indication (PGI) PGI.
They are allowed to call it a Cornish Pastie because they are promoting and projecting the quality of Cornish Pasties.
If they aren't made in Cornwall then they can't call them Cornish pasties, even for promotional purposes.
Thanks for that Dude I always wondered about that.👻
@@acheface there you are wrong they have a PGI permission to call them Cornish Pasties
As I've said in a previous comment, I'm dubious about this 'promoting and projecting the quality of Cornish Pasties' all the while Ginsters are allowed to call their puff pastry abomination a Cornish pasty. It seems to be the case that as long as they stick the right filling ingredients in and put the factory within a few metres of the boundary of Cornwall then they can be as rubbish as they like.
@@PotatoPirate123 when it comes down to the facts the probably paid a lot of money to be able to call them Cornish Pasties to the relevant authorities otherwise they would be sued.
As a Cornishman, the best pasties are made locally by the many local bakers down here. These have little to none of the additives the Morrisons pasties have. The crimp is a delicious part of the pasty for me too. Another great video Gareth
With chunks of skirt of chuck steak in them, not minced beef.
Im Cornish born and bred, that looks exactly what a Cornish Pasty looks like,the ingredients are spot on, no carrot's, how its so cheap is beyond me, I've just bought one in Town and it cost me £4.45 for one, mine is steak so perhaps its that, but they look a proper job. 👍
Cheers Mark
Is Palm Oil a traditional ingredient?
@@WhiskeyChaser-q3q And rape seed oil. I don't think so.
@@solidstateresistor2485think they meant no fillers
Yours wasn’t a Cornish pasty. Just reading the spec and it says it must not contain any meat other than beef
If you look up the history of Cornish Pasties being eaten by Minors down the Mines. The Crimp was for the Miners to Hold the Pasty while eating it and as they didnt wash their hands they always threw the Crimp part away as there was a risk of Arsenic or other nasty minerals being digested and the Coal Dust on their hands would not have been to good for them.
Fun fact, if you didn’t know, they were half savoury and half sweet.
@@riddimchef1 In Cornwall they mined for Tin and Lead. Tin is antimony and it is very poisonous, hence the crimp edge which was discarded.
Most pastries made for miners and labourers in Europe have a traditional pastry handle to eat it with mucky hands.
The Soviets made bread with handles for the same purpose. Hard times and hard workers 👍
@@riddimchef1 Tin and copper mines, actually. It's well-known that where you find tin and copper deposits, you'll find arsenic.
@@riddimchef1 If you come down to Devon and Cornwall, there is a living museum called Morwellham Quay, near Tavistock, in Devon, on the banks of the River Tamar, which was an important copper port back in Victorian times. If you take a boat trip from Plymouth and head up the Tamar towards Calstock, you can see the chimneys of the wheelhouses of the copper mines poking up through the trees on the banks, though, it is accessible by road also. As you go around Morwellham Quay, it tells the story of how they extracted copper and tin. Well worth the visit.
Another out and about video with Gareth! What a bloody joy it is to see on a Friday afternoon you can’t beat a good pasty Gareth! Lovely video yet again much appreciated ❤
Glad you enjoyed it
The part they threw away was said to be for the "knockers". The unseen spirits or beings of the mines who made noises and could kill miners by causing roof falls etc. The bits of pasty were seen as an offering to keep miners safe, besides being a handle for dirty miners fingers.
Cheers pal
Cornish pasties are always a little on the dry side for me. They look to have a decent filling mind no giant air pocket. The best way to fight the gremlins is to eat a little dirt occasionally, the old mothers used to say to kids who had a cut ''go get a bit of dirt in it, it will be fine '' .
I used to shop at Morrisons most of the time. But no longer. A bit of my history by way of explanation. I lived as a child in the early 70's in the Victorian terraced houses of Northern Mill Towns. In the mid 70's developers wanted to make money and put pressure on owners of these properties to sell them. The community was damaged as almost daily house after house became boarded up and the feeling of decay and degradation set in. Corner shops closed and community died. So up to date now and when I go into a Morrisons I get that same feeling of decay as product ranges disappear and large gaps in shelves get removed and replaced with empty holes and adverts. Large portions of the freezer isle are just boarded up and the degradation is evident. I cannot help buy feel the lack of choice and general decay cannot bode well for the continuation of Morrisons. I have tried to point this out to senior managers who seem to be in denial. Sorry this is not related to your review but I had to get it off my chest and at least on the record somewhere. I hope nobody really minds. I do hope that things turn around but unfortunately the decay is spreading to other supermarkets.
Cheers Mark, no apologies needed great story pal thank you 😊
Love honesty if he thinks it’s bad he says it how it is well done sir
I was always told that the crusts were never eaten down to what was on their hands. You might need to track down a properly traditional one where one half is savoury (your usual pasty filling) and the other half is sweet (stewed fruit and custard)
Yes. Often substituted with mince now but originally beef skirt was used potato, onion and swede and made in Cornwall!
The crimping was, as you say, for holding the pasty however, because of the state of their hands the crimp was put on to hold with dirty hands and throw the crimp away. There was usually fruit at one end, as a sort of dinner and pudding. The miners wives used to put an initial on the crust so the miner could recognise their own pasty.
Great video gareth. I usually visit my morrisons early saturday morning, and these pasties will be on my radar for lunch. Not a bad price for 2. Have a great weekend with the family. Karl
You're welcome 😊
Hi Gareth , great vid , yes Morrisons pies are lovely the pastry is to die for , that pastie look nice. Regards mark
Cheers Mark
I'm in stitches here a middle aged man sitting in a car by himself holding a pasty in each hand talking to himself i wonder what the rest of the shoppers imagine what's going on 😂😂😂😂comedy gold keep up the good work my good sir from joff the trucker
My thoughts exactly haha 😄
Morrisons used to do a Cornish pasty that had a split half meat and half sweet apple as apparently it provided a meat and a sweet in one pasty and they tasted really good!!
That's for the Birmingham navy who plaugue our shoreline
Hey Gareth - the reason for the crimp is because mining tin, it left a poisonous residue on your hands. That resulted in them creating a crimp so that the tin miners could eat the pastie and then throw the crimped pastry away. Keep up the great work and just love all the videos you do! Best wishes - Malcolm
Thanks for the info!
I love Morriston Corris pasties and their pies aswell, they used to do a chunky steak pie, it was the best.
Great review as always Gareth ❤😊
As a Yorkie, I'm quite happy for other counties to make Yorkshire Puddings and call them such!
a lot more tricky to make than pasties too
Thats very nice of you
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@@briz1965 Aye, i'm 66 years, born n bred in the shire, still ca'nt do 'em !! Our lass could make'm blindfolded. ( Maybe that's why i hav'nt tried for years. )
I'm from Yorkshire too. Took me a while but I nailed em eventually
Point 1. You can’t get a real Cornish pastie in Cornwall for that price. Point 2. A pasty can only classify a pastie as Cornish if it was prepared and cooked below the Tamar river. I’m not Cornish but my first wife was. I lived there for some time and even had a pub there. NOT a good idea as they don’t like “ emmits”. I once had a pub in a place called Eaton Bray near Luton. I used to go sea fishing with my son near Redruth. Overnight fishing and then a fast drive home. A customer asked me to bring him a pasty back. It ended up that I would buy 40 pasties from Portreath pasty shop, get back to the pub about 8pm and be sold out by 10.30pm.
The history of pasties goes back to the Tin mines. Due to the conditions that the miners could get arsenic on their hands, wives would put a large crimp on them for holding the pasty and then throw it away. If you wanted to go fully traditional? usually the pasty held the meat at one end and some kind of pudding at the other. I’m the very early 70’s I worked for a few months down South Crofty tin mine as a track layer. NOT an experience I would like to repeat. Sooo deep down and sooo far out under the sea bed in the blackest place I’ve ever been in made N Ireland and other jobs in the Forces a doddle when it comes to fear factor.
A great review, as always. The ingredients are not those included in a real pasty. Looked good though. They’re like a real Rolex compared to a snide knock off.
I do go on a bit don’t I? 🥴🥴.
Haha people say I go on abit too lol cheers pal. 😊
Love a good Cornish pasty Gareth.
Enjoy the decent weather while we can.😃
Cheers Ian
I do like Morrisons cheese and onion pasties served cold. Sometimes could do with adding some salt though.
The crust (crimp) served as a 'handle' - a means of holding the pasty with dirty hands without contaminating the meal. Arsenic commonly accompanies tin within the ore that they were mining so, to avoid arsenic poisoning, the crimp was an essential part of the pasty.
That's fuckin interesting that is ❤
Interesting to read that Paul.
Yep, 1981, a bit of old fat with a wick in, and a Canary. IF YOU WERE LUCKY !!
Cheers Gaz I love a good Oggie being stationed most of my career in Devonport just over the Tamar from Cornwall or Kernow as they call it. usually got them delivered to the ships from Ivor or Ron Dewdney's which the Cornishmen hated with a passion but I loved em, steaming hot out of the oven usually and if I'd had a lucky night on the town, I would grab one with a pint of ice cold moo juice and a copy of the Sun to take back on board ship. Ahoy!
You're welcome 😊
Cheers Gaz another high octane tense thriller food review from the best of the rest, plenty of Beef no grief, safe as house's pair of trousers, bang on, spot on the one and only Golden Gaz👌🏻🔝💪😋🏆
Cheers Tim
Lived in Cornwall most of my youth and lived on pasties, love a Rowes pork and apple pasty or the ones from Chokes in Falmouth.
When I lived in England I had a Morrison's near me and loved the pasties and pies,I'm jealous of you gaz they looked as good as I remember
That was satisfaction watching you eat that pasty. I can tell it was enjoyable. I often buy at Morrisons through Amazon so I may try one of these. Always good to see your videos before the weekend. I know what to try. Cheers Gareth 😊
Cheers Steve, yes very tasty.
I've never had a pasty,Cornish or otherwise,but that looks delicious. Great review 👍
Thank you 😋
Where do you live?
Cheers Gareth, I had one the other day . Warmed it up in air fryer 10 minutes 300 absolutely beautiful. Cheers Gareth.
Sounds great! Cheers Steven
Apparently, they're prepared in Cornwall and distributed around the country for in store baking.
Cheers pal
What about the 11+ shops The Cornish Pasty Co have in America, surely thay aren't flown in daily from Cornwall
@@Twobee-sf4ml They'll be flown over in bulk. I bet they cost a bloody fortune.
i messed up the other day - i thought i'd scored some discount cornish pasties but they were corned beef pasties! 😂
I would have been mortified, Billy boy. I've sampled both !
Love a pasty me and morrisons bakery is quality (I especially like their sausage rolls)but i've never tried their pasties but after watching that i think I might give one a go!
Bought some when I was in Cornwall - same ingredients . Made in a factory in mid Cornwall. Very tasty pasty. Good value . Palm oil is not a favourite ingredient of mine! Supposed to keep to a low fat diet, so don't eat many these days. Will be checking out my local Morrisons. Ginsters in E Cornwall - can't recommend them! My favourite pasty bakers Rowes, Malcolm Barnecutt, Phelps.
Cheers Clive, I'm on a diet lol
Looks lovely and filling, maybe have one of these instead of an evening meal to save some money! And give the other one to the cat 🙀 😅
I like a true cornish pastie and we have a Morrisons so i am going to give these a try. Thankyou Gareth 🥟😋
Cheers John
All Morrisons pasties are pretty good to be fair. The Cornish one you had is really good but I think my personal fave is the Jumbo Beef Pasty - you should definitely give them a blast next time you're in Morribobs 😋
Cheers pal
Love your videos, Gareth, my favourites are the comparison ones, posh to cheap. !!! Palm oil producers are the main destroyers of the planet, I try to get things which have responsibly sourced palm oil, but very difficult. I think you are brilliant, best wishes from John in Ascot 👍🍺
You're welcome 😊
Can't be called a Cornish pasty if not made in Cornwall. However doesn't have to be cooked there.
I think that only applied when we were members of the EU.
@@markjeffery7319 Still applies.
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Nah mate it's protected same as Melton mowbray pork pies.
It's a fairly meaningless rule while Ginsters are allowed to make their crap 'cornish pasty'
@@PotatoPirate123 no one eats them in Cornwall, bit like carlslberg made to go lol
They do look as if they were well filled and that is the main thing. Look really nice and a good size. I may have a Cornish Pasty what some chips and some little tomatoes for my Tea.
As long as they are made in Cornwall they can be frozen and shipped anywhere for cooking. Same with Melton Mobray pork pies etc.
Most Melton Mowbray pork pies these days don’t taste that much different from non-Melton Mowbray ones - original Melton Mowbray pork pies used to ooze all that lovely aspic all over the place and almost tasted like they had been fried - but, thanks to those spoilsports who have decided that aspic tastes horrible and should be removed from food and nothing should ever be fried, I think the only way you could get a decent Melton Mowbray pork pie would be to hop on a train to Melton Mowbray - the place which gave them their name - I am not entirely convinced that you can even get a proper Melton Mowbray pork pie in Melton Mowbray!
Challenge, not just for Gareth, but for anyone reading this - take a trip to Melton Mowbray and, if you pass “Go”, collect £200 - er, I mean, see if those spoilsports haven’t managed to exert their influence in their place of origin - in other words, can you still get a proper Melton Mowbray pork pie, made to the original Melton Mowbray recipe in Melton Mowbray?
I just love watching you eat, it gives me a real appetite. ;)
Thank you 😋
Hi Gareth. Thanks for posting another excellent review. Hope your family break went well and you all had a good time? Pasties are a great British food and Cornwall and Devon the rightly kings. As for Palm Oil. I cannot understand why British supermarkets and manufacturers use this cheap horrid fat instead of British butter in these items especially pastry! Palm oil is proven to be ecologically poisonous crown in countries where the Palm isn’t even a native species! Plantations are ruining rare natural ecosystems around the world especially in areas of crucial rainforest and mangrove. There should be a worldwide ban on the stuff. Nice to see a hand crimp. Ginsters stopped hand crimping a long time ago and have also cut their pepper and seasoning. A pasty needs pepper!. I’ve eaten pasties with side crimps in Devon loads and I must admit the best pasty I’ve ever eaten was from a shop in Teignmouth which I had to wait around half an hour for it to cool to my preferred temperature before eating on the beach watching the ferry come and go. Amazing food.
Agree with everything you say re palm oil. Why use it ? It can't be that much cheaper , and it's certainly not healthier than rapeseed.
At least Butter and rape are UK products. We, as companies and consumers should support UK Farmers at much as possible. UK dairy farmers can produce the best butter because their stock is grass fed - the envy of the world.@@soudley8
Cheers, you're welcome 😊
As a Cornish maid born and bred Ime cracking up watching the way your eating that pasty 😆😆😆😆us Cornish folk would eat the knobbly bit on the top first and work our way down not eat from the sides but glad you enjoyed it looks an ok pasty
Glad you enjoyed it
As a Cornish man born and bred I thought the same, you see Emmet's eating them like that, funny 😂
You’re correct about how to hold it apparently they didn’t like the side effects of the arsenic on their hands 😅 they would throw the crust away
Sounds like a good buy. I have just had 2 Morrisons The Best all butter scones wow absolutely beautiful. I didnt even have butter on one of them, so nice.
Sounds great!
You see these pasties at small motorway services.I think they are called west country pastor company.They are £4.50 for one but I really enjoyed it.
Cheers pal
You cant go wrong with Morrisons pies and pasties, Asda sometimes sell Rowe's hot cornish pasties for £1.60 and they're pretty good also, worth a look
Here in Wharton New Jersey USA, there is a shop called Rocky's that use the phrase "Cornish Style Pasties." So they use a non offensive name. They are belly busting good though no matter the name.
Cheers pal, I had the other for my tea 😊
I used to work in a pie factory in Sittingbourne, Kent who made a great-tasting Cornish pasty. I now live in Ireland and can't buy them for love nore money near me. I do believe I could buy them in Dublin. I used to buy them in My local Iceland but they are going out of business here in Ireland. So I will either make some myself or take a trip up to Dublin.
Thanks for sharing Rory
Lived in Kernow once upon a time and often visited the Pasty shop in Snozzle - their pasties were the DB's moy ansome.
They do look nice. Nearest Morrisons to me is about 20 miles way. Good review mate
Nice one
I'm from Cornwall. Did notice that The Cornish Bakery is in Keswick, Windermere and Ambleside. They sell a more authentic pasty. I do not think with the ingredients that Morrisons is a genuine Cornish Pasty. They also sell different flavours of pasty and different types of cakes.
I reviewed one from Bowness. Save size cost me nearly a fiver lol road trip playlist it will be. 😊
Palm oil for me is a very iffy topic,
due to various football sized fields of trees getting cut down on a daily/weekly basis just to produce palm oil on the very cheap basis so that it can be put into near enough everything we eat & wash with (inc dishes & clothing)
I work in the bakery for Co-op and these pasties are made by Rowe's from Cornwall. They are official lol! A guy comes in and asks for them frozen so he can cook them at home. The whole of the back area where I am smells amazing when I cook these bad boys up!
Thanks for the info!
They look very nice. While they can obviously be eaten cold, personally I'd prefer them warmed up.
Looked very tasty enjoyed watching
Best wishes Gareth
Many thanks Kizzy
As a child, the Cornish pasties from my Local bakers, were always crimped along the top, recipe was lovely, but would welcome anyones thoughts on what they should have been called? Great video, keep up the great work xx
Cheers Harry
My Gran was from Cornwall she moved to Lancashire when she married my Grandad and she made the most delicious pasties to the original Cornish recipe no additives just meat potato and Swede and really scrumptious pastry and at least a foot long those were the days
That would be skirt beef, my Grandmother ditto.
Also, other than having the crust so you could eat it with dirty hands (crust always discarded) the filling itself was meat etc one end, fruit the other as they considered it a FULL meal. Usually split around 75-25 meat/fruit..
i think years ago Cornish pasties often had half savoury/half sweet fillings for the workers grafting each day, Bet they were delicious!...Cheers Gaz
Cheers Nige, hope you're well pal 👍had the other four my tea with chips and peas lol
Ohhh I've not had one from Morrisons for years. I used to love the Lincolnshire sausage and mash pie but I don't think they do them now TFS 👍
Morrisons have a pie bakery in Wakefield, But i am sure they buy these in from Samworth Brotherrs in Cornwall. The buy them oven ready to warm in the shops oven. Samworth Bros own plenty of household food brands, including Ginsters, and The West Cornwall Pasty Co. Morrisons are very, VERY strict about the sourcing of all forms of Meat, meat products and fish. It is beyond belief that they would be circumventing the PGI.
Thanks for the info!
Cheers Gaz, you've just gave me another idea for a meal for my son 👍 I never think when I ask for Cornish pasties, was it made there, I suppose it's like me when I hear people asking for "scotch pie" I'll chirp in and say " it's a Scottish pie, no scotch, because it's no made wae whiskey"😂 ❤
You're welcome 😊
Palm oil has been and continues to be a major driver of deforestation of some of the world's most biodiverse forests, destroying the habitat of already endangered species like the Orangutan, pygmy elephant and Sumatran rhino. We try to avoid. Even sustainable raises problems. Love your channel! ❣
Low beef content 13 percent. Sainsburys 4 for £2.75 520g made by Samworth Bros (Ginsters) have 18 percent. Great with chips and beans, they freeze well.
My 10 week old baby boy has been sat watching you eat that pasty haha.... Morrisons are good I think for pies and cakes and things... Always enjoy your videos Gareth... Xx
Haha bless him Sam xx
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Try the bacon sausage rolls from that range. Super super tasty.
Sounds good!
Not as some people think in some of the comments is the point of region protection. It's to stop large manufacturers from producing a product at a much cheaper cost and taking away the business from local, more bespoke traditional bakeries that have been there for years. This keep profits and employment within the region rather than greedy corporate enterprises who dont care in the slightest about anything other than profit.
Same in France and Italy, protecting local markets, it's good! 😊
Morrisons sausage rolls are nice from the bakery should try them when warm
Cheers will do
Thanks for another honest review 💜💜💜
You are so welcome!
Ginsters are in Cornwall (where I met the wife) and they make pasties for other companies.
I buy Ginster cornish pasties, they are based in Cornwall. I get mine from Tesco in Cambridgeshire.
I like Morrison pies and pasties, but the palm oil has addition is problematic , the palm oil industry is systematically destroying old growth rain forest, and wiping out animal such as orangutan , so I think I’ve eaten my last Morrisons pasty
Good point. Why the devil people continue using palm oil is beyond me. There must be alternatives nowadays. I make Cornish pasties and never use palm oil.
Great review Gaz they looked nice and tasty when we saw inside I was shocked not to see it all minced up which is a good sign and nice to see you out and about 👏👏👍👍
Cheers Peter
Thanks for the good video mate, love pies, do get a Cornish pie now and then, very good. I wolf them down. Can understand those miners, would burn 1000 s of calories, you need a couple. True, when your hungry eat anything.
Thanks 👍
Don't know where I heard it but didn't miners pasties have savory one end and desert other end or am I wrong on that? They did look delicious though and looked like you enjoyed them.
Hi Gareth. My understanding is that the thick crimped crust was there so that the miners could hold on to that with their dirty coal soiled hands and not contaminate the pasty. I don't think that part was meant tp be eaten then.
Thats exactly what he said
@@Twobee-sf4ml Not exactly, Gareth suggested that they would also eat the crust.
@@markriley5863 get invited to many parties
Can't really go wrong with anything from Morrisons bakery...their chicken bakes are one of my favs.
Never heard of them, mr Filter. Gonna have to have a "butchers". They "sound" nice.
@@blackbob3358 givvum a bash, chunks of chicken in a creamy sauce wrapped in flaky pastry...you can thank me later. Usually 2 for £2.50, better than Greggs imo. One of me mates thinks they're too salty...
I like the cornish pasties from the poundbakery, there pretty small but tasty for £1 🥧
Thanks for a great review, Gaz.
Why on earth do they need to add Palm Oil to a "Cornish" pastie? I won't be buying any.
Because some odd folk wouldn't buy it with lard in.....
Pasties are a big thing on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. There used to be a lot of hard rock mining up there, and apparently a lot of Cornish came to work in them.
Btw, I first encountered pasties when my family lived in Plymouth (I know, it's not in Cornwall, but it's close) for 8 months in 1978.
Cheers Ryan, all the best 👍
I've had them from Morrisons, they are cooked in store, they are ok but, go to bakery in Cornwall, a village bakery, they are amazing !
A Cornish friend of mine told me you have to put a knob of butter on top of the ingredients inside the pastry and plenty of pepper. So I was pleased to hear you say there was lots of pepper inside.
Cheers Mary, butter is good lol
You can have two pasties. It is O.K. The downside is that when you get back you will have to mow & weed the garden & hoover, dust & tidy the house & hang the washing out. That will use some extra calories up.
Yes that about the crust is correct, so that the dirt/coal dust etc. on hands was not in your food.Also some were baked with meat/savoury in one halfe of it and a sweet jam etc. filling in the other half with a pastry wall between the fillings so you had main meal and pudding/afters in one package. Hope you find that informative, keep up the good work with the vids, keeping me going in my spare 5 minutes here and there while nursing my wife with terminal lung cancer, cheers buddy
I feel for you my wife passed last year!
Oh dear mate, I'm so sorry. 😢
Sorry Peter
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Had one today .and to be fair it wasnt bad! Hard to get anything like a cornish pasty in midlands! Ginsters with the flaky pastry is in my opinion nothing like a cornish pasty. Ive not realy bothered to study ingrediants before but i may think twice next time.
Cornish woman here who has made a few pastys. That looks like one but the list if ingredients is not at all right. We put skirt steak, potato, onion and swede (turnip as we call them) maybe a little bit of clotted cream to make the gravy. The tale of the handle is a myth, you hold it in a cloth to keep away the dirt of your hands from minimg, and we eat our pasties from end nub to end nub. You were eating it wrong 😅 They put PGI status but s Cornish Pasty should only be called that if its made in Cornwall. It can be cooked anywhere but it needs to be made in the Duchy. You should come to Cornwall and have a proper Cornish Pasty made with steak not minced beef, our pasties taste amazing. Buy from a pasty shop or bakery, in Cornwall not a supermarket for a real treat. Cornwall warmly welcomes you ❤
You're welcome 😊
Another epic review from Gaz👊🏻
Thank you kindly
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In morrisons they sell a ginsters cornish pasty and they are made in Cornwall and very nice
In Cornwall the best pasty's are homemade( Grans, mums etc) the next best are butchers, bakers and sometimes farm shops that make their own. Lastly is supermarket/ Ginsters that are not much higher on the scale than dog food. I grew up and still live in Penzance( the most westerly main town) so have eaten a few in my time 😂
i got a Cornish paste in Tesco in Thailand was very nice
nice one garath
Cheers
Morrisons Cornish pasties are banging for the money, bit peppery as you say but that's ok. Always carry a bottle of ketchup in the van and with a dollop of that on top you can't go wrong.
Good choice of store Gareth,as I said when you reviewed the naked bacon I work for Morrisons and all our bakers are excellent and make those from scratch along with most of the bakery produce,cornish pastie is the style of pastie,you don't need to go to Scotland to buy a scotch pie or Germany to by a Volkswagon,I think sometimes we take this political correctness too far,I was a motor mechanics and used to take my break and eat my sandwiches with oily fingerprints,another enjoyable video big pal
Cheers yes, I like them and thought you would also too.
@@BaldFoodieGuy Definitely going to try them now,haven't had a Cornish Pastie for years when we were on holiday in Newquay
Originally, I think they had like stewed apple in one end and the meaty section at the other. I don't know if they're genuine CORNISH pasties at Morrisons but I have to agree with your Dad and say Morrison pies and hot counter in general is pretty good. Especially against Greggs which I find more and more biege and boring. Greggs, used to be pretty good, but it's all pasty bland beige dullness nowadays. They don't even do those iced fingers anymore. But yeah you can generally pick up some decent hot food from Morrisons, the full cooked chicken is great to make sarnies with for instance.
Cheers for the information 👍
Certainly love Morrisons fresh baked in store cheese & onion pasties the flakey pastry is very light can't be that full of calories. Scotch pies are great too.
You can not beat a Cornish pastie very nice Cornwall is the place to be to find the best pasties palm oil is not good for you
A very convenient food is a pasty.
I like their small steak pies. Sometimes love at the end of day when all of it gets reduced , even cheaper , yay xx
Hi got some good filling in them enjoy
Cheers pal