Pasties!

[Vombatus]

No, not those kind.

This kind:

13 U.P. Pasties you must try on your next visit

Hat tip to spikechiquet and his Yooper connection that led me down a U.P. rabbit hole to this story.

I had never heard of these. Anyone else have a story about regional food that is not well known?

 

[SpeedTchr]

Cornwall is the place to truly enjoy a good pasty.

 

[User 11148]

Had never heard of kolaches until I moved to Texas. Now, no trip south on 35 is complete without a stop in West for a "Piping Hot Chubby."

 

[SpeedTchr]

Had never heard of kolaches until I moved to Texas. Now, no trip south on 35 is complete without a stop in West for a "Piping Hot Chubby."

OK, Senator Craig

Seriously, The Czech Stop is fabulous.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

Goddammit, I haven't had me a kolache in far too long.

 

[Spartan Squad]

Had a Cornish Pastie in Stratford this last Summer. I wish I was back there eating one now ... well not now as it is 5 am back there but I would be looking forward to lunch of a Pastie nonetheless.

Pro tip: Don't eat one with stilton and go on a three-plus hour car ride right after.

 

[spikechiquet]

No, not those kind.

This kind:

13 U.P. Pasties you must try on your next visit

Hat tip to spikechiquet and his Yooper connection that led me down a U.P. rabbit hole to this story.

I had never heard of these. Anyone else have a story about regional food that is not well known?

I am racking my brain on how you ended up on this LOL ... It's funny you did yesterday since my wife made pasties for dinner on Sunday night.
And ketchup only....effin' trolls and their gravy garbage. Save that for mashed potatoes and fried chicken!

The list is solid. My hometown went 2-3...but I would say Jean Kay's is better IMO.

Another UP-centric food is cudighi. It's an Italian/Yooper sausage that has clove and cinnamon and it's fried like a hamburger patty. There are two ways to serve it: with yellow mustard and white onions or else with marinara and mozz on a hard crusty roll (although I have been known to mix cudighi into my pastie recipe from time to time, eh?)

 

[Vombatus]

I got there from your MLive cheeseburger review link, and saw a pasties review link after the story and just HAD to peek.

 

[spikechiquet]

I got there from your MLive cheeseburger review link, and saw a pasties review link after the story and just HAD to peek.

Ahhhhh. I thought perhaps is was the increase in hockey posts! LOL
I'm still celebrating the 1991 NCAA National Championship for NMU and the 1995 MHSAA State Title for MSHS!

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Pronounced pass-ty in Britain. Don't know about the UP.

 

[SpeedTchr]

I would never in my life think of putting ketchup on a pasty.

Here is what a real one looks like:

 

[spikechiquet]

I would never in my life think of putting ketchup on a pasty.

Here is what a real one looks like:

Only 37.5% of it is food? What's in the rest?! LOL
Turnips would be interesting. My mom's has carrots and rutabagge in addition. She would cube half of the ingredients and then grind the other half together when I was little (with one of those old fashioned clamp to the counter grinders) because I always got mad when my ingredients would fall out.
I believe every Tuesday in elementary school was pasty day. Papa Paul's (another local maker in Marquette) made mini pasties for the kids and sold them to the school.
"7 days for a Yooper without a pasty makes one week." LOL

 

[Vombatus]

I would never in my life think of putting ketchup on a pasty.

Here is what a real one looks like:

I like the little blue and yellow Obama logo.

 

[spikechiquet]

Just for @SpeedTchr!

 

[I Should Coco]

This thread is long overdue! I know I've eaten pasties at Dobber's in Escanaba and Lehto's in St. Ignace. Probably at one of the Marquette places, too.

And my vote is no carrots. Meat, potatoes, onions and/or rutabaga.

As for the other kind of "pasties," the U.P. is lacking in that area.

 

[spikechiquet]

This thread is long overdue! I know I've eaten pasties at Dobber's in Escanaba and Lehto's in St. Ignace. Probably at one of the Marquette places, too.

And my vote is no carrots. Meat, potatoes, onions and/or rutabaga.

As for the other kind of "pasties," the U.P. is lacking in that area.

Haha! No ****! Big Bons in Mcfarland doesn't cut it! For my bachelor party, we were in the basement of the Shamrock (Because "No One Throws a Party like THE ROCK!" LOL) and my buddies pooled together money and found a chick willing to strip for us.
They are still apologizing for that incident! haha

I grew up with carrots, but I don't run away from ones that doesn't have them. My wife dices them and I don't like them as much. Julienned carrots are much better.

A good pasty place is actually in Portland, Ore. A woman from Northern Wisconsin sells them at her craft beer bar/bottle shop called Saraveza. They served it with pickled veggies, which was odd, but good.

 

[SpeedTchr]

Just for @SpeedTchr!

HERETIC!!1!

 

[Vombatus]

Just for @SpeedTchr!

****ing awesome video, spike!

For those who don't know the story, spike (and his brave wife) was the first sj regular who agreed to have a Gathering with me, and lived to tell about it.

And oddly enough, we all met at a bar in the middle of Baltimore, near Hopkins and a local brewery, only a couple of weeks after the riots. Fun times.

One thing to notice in that video: spike has an AWESOME house made out of (I think) pine logs. Look at the ceiling in the background of his video. He calls it the Spikechiquet Lodge, and it's ****ing AWESOME. Log cabin, man. He even has a flagpole out front and flies the US flag. America! PASTIES!!!

 

[Fly]

As someone who spent a lot of time in the UP/Iron Range areas (and spent a wasted year of college in Yooperland) - pasties suck. Inedible crap.

 

[spikechiquet]

As someone who spent a lot of time in the UP/Iron Range areas (and spent a wasted year of college in Yooperland) - pasties suck. Inedible crap.

I'll cut you honkey!