[Sca-cooks] Cornish Pasties Was Meat Mixtures

[SilverR0se at aol.com]

Since Selene brought up pasties...

I was watching "Globe Trekker" the other night and they were in Cornwall and 
ordered pasties. They said that the reason they (the pasties) has suh a thick 
crimped edge is so the poisonous tin on the miners' hand did not have to touch 
the food; one would eat down to the edge, then toss the edge away.

Does anyone know if this is true?

(They also had a giant pasty made for them, enough to feed a small village. 
The dough was about 3 feet in diameter before they folded it over.)

Renata