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We have a friend who invites a group over to eat pasties. Which are single-serving meat pies. She says she’s ALWAYS having to explain the difference…
In my small hometown 8 decades back, there were 3 churches within a block of each other so they combined their annual bake sales. Talk about a sweet tooth festival. Brought people from miles around and lined them up a block long. For hours all one heard were the sounds of oo’s and aah’s, and the slurping of coffee. And over on the side, former competitors were trading recipes and talking of the times when their moms ruled the kitchen. We kids had a ball that day, stuffing, and maybe messing around, but suffered for it with tummy pains later. A great memory very rarely repeated since.
It depends on what you like about Christmas. If it’s “excitement”, then yes, a church that celebrates Christmas the right way will not rank very high on the scale.
Cactus-Pete over 3 years ago
Uh, this must mean somethat other than what I’d always heard.
GreasyOldTam over 3 years ago
Cornish pasties, or pasties, are a meat hand pie. It was brought from Cornwall by the miners who immigrated to work in the copper mines in the U.P.
Bilan over 3 years ago
How many names are there for a baked pastry with a meat filling? Empanadas.. Samosa.. Calzone.. Pasty, etc..
Concretionist over 3 years ago
We have a friend who invites a group over to eat pasties. Which are single-serving meat pies. She says she’s ALWAYS having to explain the difference…
Wilde Bill over 3 years ago
Oddly enough, when I read the word, “Pasty”, food isn’t what came to my mind.
sappha58 over 3 years ago
Take it from Mr Mallett himself: he means pasties, and they’re from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
https://www.facebook.com/frazzcomic/posts/1955764597917035
stasiewicz1 over 3 years ago
Did I misread that, they’re selling pasties, not pastries!
cervelo over 3 years ago
On another topic, I don’t know if the discussion was had, but how is Frazz pronounced?
Old Girl over 3 years ago
She’ll still have Halloween and Thanksgiving to level out.
Jeffin Premium Member over 3 years ago
I used to make them. Mmmm.
Wilson Lumley over 3 years ago
It’s pronounced with a short a, like past tee. Not like paste.
Now let’s talk about ketchup or gravy or none on your pasty.
Ignatz Premium Member over 3 years ago
It’s October. Maybe the Church wants to keep Christmas at Christmas.
Serial Pedant over 3 years ago
I thought pasties were worn by ecdysistas?
leigh.leclair Premium Member over 3 years ago
Thank you Jef, for the Yooper call out and making me dream of Pasties. Even though I lived in BR – I was born in the UP.
Gandalf over 3 years ago
This must be set in the U.P.; trolls usually don’t eat pasties….
sandpiper over 3 years ago
In my small hometown 8 decades back, there were 3 churches within a block of each other so they combined their annual bake sales. Talk about a sweet tooth festival. Brought people from miles around and lined them up a block long. For hours all one heard were the sounds of oo’s and aah’s, and the slurping of coffee. And over on the side, former competitors were trading recipes and talking of the times when their moms ruled the kitchen. We kids had a ball that day, stuffing, and maybe messing around, but suffered for it with tummy pains later. A great memory very rarely repeated since.
Jefano Premium Member over 3 years ago
At Christmas time the pasties have tassels.
HunterIsACriminal over 3 years ago
What church sells pasties? At my church, all the dancers are naked.
cosman over 3 years ago
if you cant pass a pastie.. https://www.goldbelly.com/search?q=meat+pie
Moonkey Premium Member over 3 years ago
Don’t confuse past-ee with paste-ee. Two entirely different things.
Richard S Russell Premium Member over 3 years ago
“Best not to question” really is kinda the basic operating principle of churches, isn’t it?
dmckrupa over 3 years ago
Sisu!
Tetonbil over 3 years ago
Well good, I learned something new today. Pasty. Hey to the U.P.!A morning without tea and pastries would just be wrong.
gustoons Premium Member over 3 years ago
He’s also wearing a SISU t-shirt, I think it means something like ’’’determination" in Finnish
Nick Danger over 3 years ago
It depends on what you like about Christmas. If it’s “excitement”, then yes, a church that celebrates Christmas the right way will not rank very high on the scale.
https://khad.com/post/196009755/xmas-and-christmas-a-lost-chapter-from-herodotus
Brent Rosenthal Premium Member over 3 years ago
I certainly hope that is a typo!
Bill The Nuke over 3 years ago
If you find pasties more exciting than Christmas, the fault does not lie with the church.
SofaKing Premium Member over 3 years ago
If a church was selling pasties, that might be the only way to get me in one.
moondog42 Premium Member over 3 years ago
I guess when you think about it, churches selling pasties makes sense, as long as they’re not the tasseled kind of pasties…..
Andrew Bosch Premium Member over 3 years ago
And to think that the exciting holiday for a church would be Easter.
doctorwho29 over 3 years ago
There are plenty of goodies at Christmas time as well lol