Proper Pasties by Billy Deakin

Author:Billy Deakin [Deakin, Billy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-11-21T05:00:00+00:00

Mythology of the Crimp

There are whole plethora of stories about the pasty, and in particular about the crimp. Like most stories, they appear to be grounded in truth, but over the years they have become myths and as such should be taken with a rather large pinch of salt.

The first one being that the purpose of the crimp is as a “handle” for miners to hold their pasties by while eating them, so that their dirty hands wouldn't touch the part of the pasty they are eating (since they would throw the crimp away – more on that in a minute).

Well, lets take a closer look at this idea and see if it holds up. On the face of it, it seems very logical. Miners hands are going to be dirty, and you don't want dirt on your food do you? In fact, worse than “dirt” is arsenic which is notoriously toxic and as a by product of tin and copper mining would have been on the miner's hands a lot of the time (in the late nineteenth century, Cornish mines were producing more than 50% of the World's arsenic!), so avoiding arsenic contamination of their food would have been important.

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