Pasties!

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CornishJon

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Ok, i don't know how many pasty lovers there are out there, but I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction for a decent pasty, because after spending alot of time searching this great town for a pasty i still can't find any.
 
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Sofa said:
Erm, I think that's Stoke, isn't it?
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are you serious??

they're called "staffordshire oatcakes", not "stoke oatcakes".. they're for sale all over stafford, and are the food of gods..

(edit: i realise historically they might have more to do with stoke/the potteries, but i'm pretty sure they've been prevalent in all of staff's for centuries now).
 
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babycakes

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Cornish - I think you have found a new market, as the pie thread proved there are a lot of pastry/meat fans in Stafford we just need to find a good pastie maker and we coudl make a packet!
 
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Sofa

I'm a Staffooooooordian
Oatcakes are a Staffordshire delight, but I have always thought of their spiritual home as being Stoke. Does anyone else feel that way, too, or it just me?
 
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Sofa said:
Oatcakes are a Staffordshire delight, but I have always thought of their spiritual home as being Stoke. Does anyone else feel that way, too, or it just me?
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i have never associated oatcakes with stoke, tbh - i always just thought "oh, they're a staffordshire thing".. as i say, i think historically they were associated heavily with the potteries, but in modern times that has expanded to all of our fair county.. i don't think they've ever been called "stoke oatcakes"..

monquey often said he thought about finding a distributor and setting up an oatcake stand in the big smoke (which is where he lives when he's not off on national lampoon's world vacations, like he is now).. you get all sorts of cultural delights down there, but no-one is selling the best of all - lovely, cheese n bacony, staffordshire oatcakes..
 
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gota quid

sir dog of doggington
i think during the war, which one i can not remember, the staffordshire regiment was based in india. where they enjoyed the unlevened bread when they got home they still wanted this tasty treat and the local bakers came up with the staffordshire oatcake,
 
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gota quid said:
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an urban myth, apparently:

BBC Stoke & Staffordshire said:
One popular myth links the origin of the oatcake to the times of British Colonial India - that the oatcake is a distant cousin of the flat breads/poppadoms of the Asian subcontinent.

Some claim that local soldiers took such a liking to poppadoms so much that they tried to emulate them on their return to Staffordshire. Of course, they had to use local ingredients and the oatcake was the result!

However, other historical evidence dates the humble oatcake much earlier. There are in fact records as early as the 17th Century of the oatcake in Staffordshire and other central and northern counties of England.
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gota quid

sir dog of doggington
i stand corrected, many thanks for improving my oaty knowledge, i could murder a proper bacon cheese and oat cake now. o well roast beef will have to do
 
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Doctor

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The best pasties can be bought from Upper Crust on Mill Street. they have a full range of 'traditional' pasties available hot at lunchtime.

The Potteries seem to be a much bigger market for oatcakes and there are still little oatcake hatches here and there in Newcastle and the 6 towns but there are far less than there used to be. I'm not aware of Stafford ever having one of these holes in the wall that serve hot oaty goodness.
 
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Sofa

I'm a Staffooooooordian
look - if everyone on the forum chips in twenty squids, I'll hire a van and nip down to Cornwall...
 
Joxer Brady's

Joxer Brady's

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if you love pasties that much you should come down to Joxer Bradys and try the pie, they are much better that pasties, i promise!!!!!
 
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cookie_monster

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4 quid!

what was in them, rare imported or illegal meat? judging by the sticker, i hope it actually was dragon at that price!

how big were they?

4 pound for a pasty- and i thought our canteen was a rip off.


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ps. they do look good though. :pie:
 
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