What is a pastie - they are often mentioned in my favorite British mysteries?

it's a pastry, kind of pocket size, filled with meat and vegetables. if i remember correctly, they are of scottish decent. they are shaped like a half moon so laborers could stick them in their pocket and take it to work. or, take it when it's still warm so they'd have a warm meal. something like that.

now i'm going to have to wikipedia it to see how right i am, lol. anyway, the're really good. they sold them at an english pub i worked at. now i make them myself!

added - cool, i was close!!!! wikipedia says.....

The origins of the pasty are largely unknown. It is generally accepted that the pasty (as we know it today), originates from Cornwall. It was here that they evolved to meet the needs of Cornish tin miners. Tradition claims that the pasty was originally made as lunch ('croust' or 'crib' in the Cornish language) for Cornish miners who were unable to return to the surface to eat. The story goes that, covered in dirt from head to foot (including some arsenic often found with tin), they could hold the pasty by the folded crust and eat the rest of the pasty without touching it, discarding the dirty pastry. The pastry they threw away was supposed to appease the knockers, capricious spirits in the mines who might otherwise lead miners into danger. A related tradition holds that it is bad luck for fishermen to take pasties to sea. Due to the high energy content, pasties were also popular as a meal eaten by farmers and other labourers.

The pasty's dense, folded pastry could stay warm for 8 to 10 hours and, when carried close to the body, could help the miners stay warm.

ohh, and btw, it's pronounced pah -stee. not to be confused with the pae - stees strippers wear on their nips ;)

A pasty is like the Italian "calzone", but filled with many different things. They are rather inexpensive, most costing between 1 to 3 pound range.

My favourite is "Onion, Cheese, and Potato". They are usually premade, and put out in a pastry case and then warmed up if they are not fresh out of the oven.

It's pronounced "pa-s-tea" not "pay-s-ty", which is the thing a woman uses to cover her nipples.

Kind of a Meat Filled Turnover. I eat them at the Scottish Games here in the States.

Yowee for secret, replaced into there an author to the interest of clue? ok forgive that, the guy who wrote the Sherlock memories, and Agatha, yet too who defines "secret"? I take exhilaration in Alice Sebold, nevertheless she won't be seen in writing the beautiful bones? i assume it relies upon, for me a minimum of, what are existence's mysteries?

pastie, I thought that was the little piece of nothing that covers a womans nippets (see Lil' Kim pics) I'm assuming you already know what a pastry is.

pastie is used to cover women's nipples, and partially breasts, when wearing dresses that dont allow for bras