Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 16, 2021

The rule at our house was “Eat or talk, not both”. Some of us took that as this young person does. Some of us took it as Frazz does. Sixty years later, more or less, the ones in category ‘A’ are thinner than the ones in category ‘B’. Wonder how that happened! ;)

Between chatter and IG, hot food may be unknown to one gender.

Changing the name doesn’t change the taste.

Is a hot dog a sandwich?

Wars have been fought over less.

Less talk. More eat.

Ain’t no yeast in a pasty…..

I moved out of Michigan about 10 years ago and haven’t found a pasty since. They are good.

The difference between a pasty and a pizza or a calzone is pasties don’t have sauce, they have gravy you pour on.

Swedish flag Tee, in honor of the pastries?

Now here’s the question that begins wars: catsup or gravy?

It’s a calzone.

If you can call something “pizza” that has ham and eggs but no sauce, you can call it a “calzone” if it has potatoes and onions.

Tomorrow is Sunday. Wonder what enlightening subject will take up the next arc? Sure hope it’s not another food theme.

sugar

Looks like a big perogie

Must be an East Coast thing. In most places, “pasties” are what exotic dancers glue over their nipples, not a pastry.

Jef has got to be from Western MIchigan,,,,home of more churches selling pasties, than anywhere else. Even if the pasty came from Cornwall to the UP>

our pasty place has breakfast ones now!!!!

There used to be a very good pasty shop in Palo Alto, CA that has since moved to Ely, NV. I was heartbroken, but after moving up here, pasty shops are all over. Maybe not that abundant, but more so than in The SF Bay Area.

Calzoni and pasties differ in that the former is basically a pizza turnover, the latter is more like a pot pie (meat, vegetables, gravy). Calzoni are supposedly made with leavened dough but I don’t believe that’s true of pasties.

Haven’t had pasties, but from this metropolitan point of view, what they’re eating looks an awful lot like either empanadas (Latino) or “patties” (Jamaican). Both great.

Hope to sample pasties someday and find out the difference.

As something of connoisseur of such things … a pasty has a pie crust vs a pizza that has a more bread or cracker type of crust. Of course a pizza is open face, where a pasty is sealed. A Calzone uses the pizza crust to form a sealed item which is still different from a pasty which uses a pie crust. A traditional pasty would typically have something more like a stew center stabilized with flour, where a Calzone would typically have more of a filling similar to those on a pizza. An open faced pasty would be interesting – it would be something like a flat pie with toppings. Some forms of Shepard’s pie are like this.

Or at least, that is how I would answer her questions. After I had eaten my pasty hot. :-)

The question about the open-faced pasty and rutabaga pizza raises an interesting philosophical question: What’s the difference between any two things that don’t exist?

Kinda like a runza I used to get when I lived in Nebraska. Can’t get ‘em in Chicago, I’ve looked.

Ha! A pasty with a rutabaga has to be a Michigan pasty, unlike a Pennsylvania or even a South Dakota pasty.

It’s meat pie! British or Aussie.

No love for stromboli.

I’ve never had rutabaga in a pasty. Carrots, though.

They’re the same in that reading about them makes me hungry.

A lot of the names are based upon the country of origin of the idea. The English language has more words than other languages as we tend to make more distinctions. For instance Gravy and Sauce are based on synonymous words from different languages.