# Jamaican beef patties

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamaican-beef-patties/977889>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** food-cooking\
**Created:** [January 8, 2023, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamaican-beef-patties/977889 "2023-01-08T19:49:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 21, 2023, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamaican-beef-patties/977889/61 "2023-01-21T15:00:23Z")

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Despite the fact that my experiment making Jamaican beef patties turned out merely ok (which may have been my fault somehow, though I followed the recipe very closely), I now have a hankering for a good old-fashioned beef pastie: traditional lunch of the old Cornish miners who brought their recipe with them when they emigrated to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and worked the copper mines.

I used to camp up in the U.P. a lot, and on the way or coming home from the campsite I’d make a point to stop at a mom & pop roadside diner and get a pastie smothered with beef gravy. Yum. Been years since I had one.

> **[Pastie History](https://www.lehtospasties.com/pages/pastie-history)**
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> Few meals have roots as deep as the Cornish pasty, a hand-held meat-and-vegetable pie developed as a lunch for workers in the ancient English tin mining region of Cornwall. With its characteristic semicircular shape and an insulating crust that does...

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