{"id":126,"date":"2005-04-01T02:41:27","date_gmt":"2005-04-01T02:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northgare.net\/blah\/?p=126"},"modified":"2005-04-01T02:41:27","modified_gmt":"2005-04-01T02:41:27","slug":"bill_and_ted_go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/northgare.net\/blog\/2005\/04\/bill_and_ted_go\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill and Ted go to Greggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The whole meat-in-pastry thing continues to baffle and bemuse the New World. My eye having been caught by reference to &#8216;The Pasty Shack&#8217;, a modest emporium of said comestible in Sacramento, in this month&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunset.com\/sunset\/\">Sunset magazine<\/a>, I went a-Googling for a website. I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pastyshack.com\/\">found it<\/a>, only to be somewhat disappointed by its rudimentary nature, but was delighted on the way to find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sactosaurus.com\/sactoscene-goodeats5.shtml\">an enthusiastic review in sactosaurus<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThis place is grub! You gotta check them out! They make these little things called &#8220;pasties&#8221; &#8211; it&#8217;s like meat rolled in bread or flour and then cooked in the oven.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whoa, dude! And those sausage roll deals are like, <em>totally tubular<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/209.63.142.214\/issues\/sacto\/2002-03-21\/fifteen.asp\">According to the Sacramento News &#038; Review<\/a>, the proprietor of The Pasty Shack is himself none-too-clear on the whole pasty heritage:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhere did the pasty come from?<\/p>\n<p>The origin of it is from Cornwall, England. It&#8217;s what the miners would take to work along with their coffee and they&#8217;d go down these mineshafts. The pasty was whatever was left over in their refrigerator put into pie dough.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I do like the idea of those early-nineteenth century tin miners standing in front of the fridge, bathed in the cool glow, pondering which of the leftovers from the previous night&#8217;s dinner party they&#8217;d whip into that day&#8217;s lunch, to be washed down with a frothy vanilla latte perhaps.<\/p>\n<p>They <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agrebooks.co.uk\/pasty.htm\">go way back<\/a>, of course. And I do miss them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The whole meat-in-pastry thing continues to baffle and bemuse the New World. My eye having been caught by reference to &#8216;The Pasty Shack&#8217;, a modest emporium of said comestible in Sacramento, in this month&#8217;s Sunset magazine, I went a-Googling for a website. I found it, only to be somewhat disappointed by its rudimentary nature, but &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/northgare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/northgare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/northgare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/northgare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/northgare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/northgare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/northgare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/northgare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/northgare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}