Here in New York you can walk into any (non-chain) pizzeria and order a Jamaican beef patty. Ask them nice and they’ll open it up and put some mozzarella on it. Then I visited Boston and asked for a beef patty and the guy there pointed out, quite reasonably, that I was in an Italian restaurant and not a Jamaican one.
Is this another “buttered roll” situation where, when you leave your hometown, common food request is totally unheard of?
I went with No but had to look up what one was to make sure it wasn’t just a different name for something I knew. It wasn’t. I had to look up the “buttered roll” thread too.
Some of them at least.
Some donut shops, too.
Dammit, now I want one…
[Edit - to be clear, it’s not a ‘pizzaria’ thing, they can be found in food shops of all types…but not all of the ones of a given type.]
How is a Jamaican Beef Patty different from a ground beef calzone?
BTW, while a number of pizzerias in my area do make calzones, I don’t think any make them with just ground beef.
Yes, but they call them “meatballs”.
Completely different crust.
And the insides taste totally different too.
Northern California.
While some local pizza restaurants have an expanded menu that includes burgers, sandwiches and pasta, I have never seen anything like the Jamaican Beef Patty, nor even heard of such a thing before today. Looks good, though.
Not around here.
I’m excited to learn that Domino’s Pizza has more on its menu than just pizza, however.
Never heard of it, and wouldn’t ask for one even if I had. Looks wrong. But then, I don’t like calzone either.
Wouldn’t know…have never had a ground beef calzone. (Actually, I’ve only had a couple calzones in my life at all.)
Though…yeah, I would expect they’d taste different…the spices would seem rather out of place.
Before opening this thread, I had only ever encountered the phrase “beef patty” to mean the meat part of a hamburger (as in “two all-beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun”). Then I read the OP and came across the phrase “open it up” and I thought, WTF? 
Down here, we go to Jamaican restaurants for stuff like that. I just checked our most popular local non-chain, and no patties.
This.
It’s like, I recognize all these words, but given the context, I’m not sure if we are speaking the same language.
That’s not a “patty.” That’s a “pasty.” Except edible.
No, it’s a patty.
Jamaican patties are DEAD TO ME since Christie’s on Flatbush Avenue closed, about six months back. After FORTY EIGHT years, too.
How can you eat those pre-frozen abominations they sell at pizzerias once you have tasted the delight of a fresh Christie’s beef patty?
Even their steam table stuff was delicious. Did you ever try their brown chicken stew?
See, if I want homemade patties I can go to any varies ‘Yardies’ type restaurants run by Jamaicans all along Long Island from Queens to Suffolk. But even hard core Jamaicans have a place in their hearts for commercial island Tower or Golden Krust
Me too. But then I looked at the link and realized that I’m familiar with this food item, but by a different name. I can’t recall what those are called here, but it’s not a patty.
