• khannie@lemmy.world
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      Not even British and this is such a gross oversimplification. It’s like calling a french bakery full of bread.

      Yorkshire pudding - name of locality of origin included. Generally only served with a “Sunday roast” dinner as a side dish. It is made from a batter and not a pastry.

      Cornish pasty - again name of locality of origin included. Wide range of fillings available nothing even vaguely similar to a Yorkshire despite your poor attempt to lump it in.

      Eccles is a sweet treat. The pastry is nothing like either a Yorkshire or a pasty.

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      Most of the more obvious ones are intended as travel food. Wrap something tasty, nutritious, or expensive in a semi disposable, edible wrapper. It’s a basic stable of most of mankind. England tended to use pastry or batter for this. Battered fish and burgers are other examples. Other as regions might use leaves for the same job.

      If it was in a good state, you could eat it. If it wasn’t, then you could still eat the good bit inside. The crust of a Cornish pasty is intended to be thrown away. Coal miners could take them down the mine, and eat them without washing their hands.

      Other dishes are a thing. They tended to be more family orientated however. The recipes wandered over time, with less stable traditional dishes. Bangers and mash, or a ploughman’s would fall into this sort of category.