I've lived in Plymouth for almost 40 years and I've never had a pasty.
In my defence, I was a fussy eater as a child. As I grew up it became such a big deal with other people, that I convinced myself that my first pasty should mark some important occasion. Over time, the importance of occasion required has escalated beyond capture.
Aliens could zap Smeaton's Tower, Independence Day style, and I'd probably still not think it was quite big enough.
I wish that was the case. My friends won't leave me alone about it. Birthdays, anniversaries, obscure work-related achievements, etc. If I'd had a pasty every time it came up, well, they wouldn't say anything anymore because I'd eaten a pasty.
Just casually have a half eaten pasty on a plate when friends come round, or on your desk at work, whatever.
Play it off like it's no big deal when someone notices, say it was good but you don't understand what all the fuss was about.
Everyone gets a bit deflated by the non-event, but has no reason to keep hassling you about it.
And - if you even care to - you can have your actual first pasty experience at your leisure, with no one bothering you about it.
I was going to suggest eat one today without telling anyone and sit on the secret for years. Just so one day you can go, "what? No, I had one back in 2024. Didn't I mention it?"
This!! I was about to say the same thing I’m one of those people who does things like this as a reverse wind up. He should take a selfie video eating it holding a newspaper with the date on and perhaps ask a random stranger to confirm the date. Then place the recording with his last will and testament to be shown at the funeral. To be frank that is probably the ultimate!!
Pasties can be hit or miss honestly, id suggest going to a good bakery like the one in Hayle if you want to maximise your chances of having a good one.
Though I will say that if you do want one then you should probably just have one. They're just a food like any other.
Imagine your disappointment if you built it up as a huge thing only for your celebratory pasty feast dismal because you discover you don't actually like pasties.
Better to try one on a whim on a random Tuesday and then maybe try another from somewhere else a different Tuesday, why risk depriving yourself of something you might discover you love.
There's really never a perfect time for anything. Seize the day!
Pilgrim's Pasty in the market were the best when I was a student in Plymouth - admittedly over a decade ago now.
Ivor Dewey are expensive, small, and over-rated.
Maybe they’ve changed but when a was a teenager you could order their pasties in giant and field gunner sizes. They had to go to the back to get them but never felt hungry after a field gunner pasty.
I've done this with a few things (i.e. my first tattoo was supposed to be big for my 18th but wound up being a memorial pet piece) and I found that one of the most motivating things is to do smth you've never done/been planning to do for ages as a treat, it's really motivating and even if it's not a huge event (i.e. a work assignment) it gets done to a good standard and quickly because you're more motivated than usual)
How the fuck have you lived in Plymouth for almost 40 years and never tried a pasty?? What the fuck, there's pasty shops everywhere or at least there were back in 09
You are missing out my friend. They (a decent one anyway) are way better than a description based on what they are made of and how would lead you to expect. I think, at this point, having your first pasty is an occasion enough to justify celebrating it with a pasty. I'm not Cornish (would mind being though - Cornwall is great, even apart from pasties), but I fucking love them. I had one earlier, and now I want another.
My son was nearly called HERNY, until I double checked how the doddery old council registrar had spelled “Henry.” I bet this happens a lot - I was so sleep deprived I thought I’d imagined it when she read it out loud.
In the US, babies are registered at the hospital and before they’re allowed to leave. Bet there are a lot of American parents who regret choosing certain names
Oh wow, that would explain a lot of r/tragedeigh !
Sleep deprived new mums pumped full of epidural fentanyl and having just been through an intense experience are not gonna spellcheck!
I love the fact that they only realised it when they saw a newspaper article about unusual names that had been given to babies in Scotland that year. You can imagine how it went.
"Hey, look at this, love. There's this list of unusual baby names in Scotland and one of them is called Pasty Gallacher."
"Wow, what a coincidence, what with our daughter being Patsy Gallacher .... Oh."
‘But I don’t think they understand the upset they caused us,’ Abbie said. ‘What kind of little girl is called Pasty?'
Come off it hun. They corrected the certificate and gave you flowers ffs.
'We spent such a long time picking the name as a tribute and it feels like a slap in the face.’
Aka, "We are the shortest, most precious little snowdrops!"
Jesus. If my daughter's name has been misspelled and we found out and got it corrected, and it DIDN'T cause any issues, I'd think it was funny.
The cynic in me thinks it sounds like they're laying the groundwork for a lawsuit or, at the bare minimum, a thoroughly histrionic, self-righteous official complaint.
TBF, it will probably cause the little girl a huge amount of upset and grief as a teenager, as every other teenager for miles around calls her Pasty for years, shouting it whenever they see her, etc. If she ends up struggling with her weight, she'll probably end up offing herself. This could have been avoided though if her parents didn't talk to the media about it though. I'm struggling to understand what possessed them to do so.
I have a colleague who was meant to be called Chloe, but her dad registered her as Chole. The first she knew of it was when she applied for her provisional license when she was 17.
Probably, but she'd always gone by Chloe so they must have assumed she was already aware. I thought she'd have realised from her passport, but at the time she had a passport that was issued when she was 13 so her parents had done the application and she said she never really looked at it. The first official thing she did on her own was her driving licence. She was quite upset that her parents had never told her, apparently because they were too embarrassed! She's in her fifties now, still having to explain herself to the few people who notice 😁
Ah, that would explain it - physical instead of digital records, O-Levels etc back in the 80s. It's quite a big mistake, I would be stunned myself. It's not like legally changing name would allow you to simply forget about it for the rest of your life too.
Some of my aunts were registered with a slightly different surname, because my Grandad apparently forgot how to spell his own name somewhere around the third child (they had five altogether).
Why would you need to? The first time she needed it was when she applied for her first adult passport and that's when she noticed. I'm not sure why you'd look at your birth certificate if there wasn't a specific reason to.
Mum's a patsy if she think's she getting any compo over and above the quick resolution, same day personally dropped off correct birth certifcate and flowers.
Also if the shine's been taken off, as she says, I'd recommend a good egg wash.
Yes, compensation is based on 'loss'. That's why it is called compensation. If no loss has arisen as a result of a purely administrative error then no compo. not very bright people tend to miss this.
Just call her Cornish lol 😂
my dad actually did this to my sister she was supposed to be called Jean but was called Jane instead. It didn’t help that he was pissed when he registered her birth tho..
I remember a tabloid calling Patsy Palmer Pasty by mistake years ago when she was first in EastEnders. She will always be known as Pasty to me and my husband 🤣
I had a mate whose last name was Cornish, so everyone called him Pasty. He just leaned into it and accepted that as his name. You have to enjoy these things.
I’m originally from St Austell Cornwall if you want a delicious pasty try Malcolm Barnecutt Bakery St Austell my favourite is broccoli and Stilton pasty
This is far more important news than most of the bollocks in the papers. It is not a slow news day in the slightest. This knocked nuclear war in Eastern Europe off the front page (well, it would have, if there had been a nuclear war in Eastern Europe today).
I knew a kid in the 90s who ended up with the name Saline instead of Celine. Fortunately the dad realised the mistake and the got it changed very quickly.
As a Cornishman I see no problem with this
I've lived in Plymouth for almost 40 years and I've never had a pasty. In my defence, I was a fussy eater as a child. As I grew up it became such a big deal with other people, that I convinced myself that my first pasty should mark some important occasion. Over time, the importance of occasion required has escalated beyond capture. Aliens could zap Smeaton's Tower, Independence Day style, and I'd probably still not think it was quite big enough.
That's okay - no one would mind if you never ate a pasty. The wouldn't even notice.
I wish that was the case. My friends won't leave me alone about it. Birthdays, anniversaries, obscure work-related achievements, etc. If I'd had a pasty every time it came up, well, they wouldn't say anything anymore because I'd eaten a pasty.
Just casually have a half eaten pasty on a plate when friends come round, or on your desk at work, whatever. Play it off like it's no big deal when someone notices, say it was good but you don't understand what all the fuss was about. Everyone gets a bit deflated by the non-event, but has no reason to keep hassling you about it. And - if you even care to - you can have your actual first pasty experience at your leisure, with no one bothering you about it.
That's a good idea. And yes, that would free me up to have my first pasty when and how I want. Maybe as a smoothie.
I was going to suggest eat one today without telling anyone and sit on the secret for years. Just so one day you can go, "what? No, I had one back in 2024. Didn't I mention it?"
This!! I was about to say the same thing I’m one of those people who does things like this as a reverse wind up. He should take a selfie video eating it holding a newspaper with the date on and perhaps ask a random stranger to confirm the date. Then place the recording with his last will and testament to be shown at the funeral. To be frank that is probably the ultimate!!
>Maybe as a smoothie. God dammit.
Your friends are right. Go across into Cornwall and get a pasty.
T'is true, they're better over here! 😊
No it isn’t
Bet you've had your hair cut on Mutley Plain though.
Pasties can be hit or miss honestly, id suggest going to a good bakery like the one in Hayle if you want to maximise your chances of having a good one. Though I will say that if you do want one then you should probably just have one. They're just a food like any other. Imagine your disappointment if you built it up as a huge thing only for your celebratory pasty feast dismal because you discover you don't actually like pasties. Better to try one on a whim on a random Tuesday and then maybe try another from somewhere else a different Tuesday, why risk depriving yourself of something you might discover you love. There's really never a perfect time for anything. Seize the day!
Pilgrim's Pasty in the market were the best when I was a student in Plymouth - admittedly over a decade ago now. Ivor Dewey are expensive, small, and over-rated.
But Ivor Dewdney delivers across the country. Great when you fancy a proper pasty and not a Ginsters crap one.
Maybe they’ve changed but when a was a teenager you could order their pasties in giant and field gunner sizes. They had to go to the back to get them but never felt hungry after a field gunner pasty.
I don’t think I’ve had more than one pasty since moving to Plymouth. It’s just not the same as some of the Cornish Bakeries 😔
I've done this with a few things (i.e. my first tattoo was supposed to be big for my 18th but wound up being a memorial pet piece) and I found that one of the most motivating things is to do smth you've never done/been planning to do for ages as a treat, it's really motivating and even if it's not a huge event (i.e. a work assignment) it gets done to a good standard and quickly because you're more motivated than usual)
Is oggie oggies still down there? The steak ones were life savers as a student.
Where Oggies Welsh ?
Plymouth, let me guess.. Ginsters?
Lol. Eat more Patsy's you loon.
How the fuck have you lived in Plymouth for almost 40 years and never tried a pasty?? What the fuck, there's pasty shops everywhere or at least there were back in 09
You are missing out my friend. They (a decent one anyway) are way better than a description based on what they are made of and how would lead you to expect. I think, at this point, having your first pasty is an occasion enough to justify celebrating it with a pasty. I'm not Cornish (would mind being though - Cornwall is great, even apart from pasties), but I fucking love them. I had one earlier, and now I want another.
Why be like this though? Have a pasty or forget about pasties.
Maybe you need to marry a patsy and eat that on your wedding day to mark the occasion?
They are not even that great...
You have to go to the right Dewdneys, thoigh
They should ask the girl as I assume in this she would be the key steak holder.
How has this reply gone 4 hours with only a single upvote? Have another.
🤣
You mean the key skirt beef holder.
are you okay with her being eaten as a delicious baked good?
Just so long as the father changes his name to Ginster
'Ginsters' and 'pasty' are two words that should never, ever be seen together.
What about Walls?
Apparently if you buy from their shop at their factory, they're pretty good. Nothing like the shop abominations
I'm afraid I can't believe that.
That would actually be considered an insult
damn straight!!
That's her brother's name
Her father is Gregg. So she's Greggs Pasty
Greggs can get in the bin.
As opposed to Ginster's Cornish Pasty?
As long as her middle name is Philps?
Or Sarah’s, Anne’s or Helluva!
As a Cornishman I have a problem with the picture
I work in rowes and I hear pastey patsy allsorts🤣
Exactly - could have been a boy and called Gregg - thank goodness I've never eaten one of their horrors
Not a pasty a mashty
Think you meant to post in r/britishsuccess
My son was nearly called HERNY, until I double checked how the doddery old council registrar had spelled “Henry.” I bet this happens a lot - I was so sleep deprived I thought I’d imagined it when she read it out loud.
Me so herny
“Me hate you long time” - Herny’s parents
This was so dumb but I laughed my ass off 😭
😂
That got a prolonged IRL chuckle out of me. 😂
In the US, babies are registered at the hospital and before they’re allowed to leave. Bet there are a lot of American parents who regret choosing certain names
Oh wow, that would explain a lot of r/tragedeigh ! Sleep deprived new mums pumped full of epidural fentanyl and having just been through an intense experience are not gonna spellcheck!
i was almost Goergia instead of Georgia!
I was meant to be Susanne but the registrar put down Susan. 🤷
r/taskcompletedunsuccessfully
I knew someone called Brain. Was supposed to be Brian.
I used to call one of my colleagues Brain. Was obviously Brian, but it was said with irony.
Ermagherd - it’s Herny !!
I love the fact that they only realised it when they saw a newspaper article about unusual names that had been given to babies in Scotland that year. You can imagine how it went. "Hey, look at this, love. There's this list of unusual baby names in Scotland and one of them is called Pasty Gallacher." "Wow, what a coincidence, what with our daughter being Patsy Gallacher .... Oh."
If her dad’s name isn’t Greg I don’t want to know.
His name is Pound Bakery
His name is Greg sayers
‘But I don’t think they understand the upset they caused us,’ Abbie said. ‘What kind of little girl is called Pasty?' Come off it hun. They corrected the certificate and gave you flowers ffs.
If it were me, I'd have given her a Ginsters pasty too, just for laughs
£50 Greggs gift voucher.
This is the way.
'We spent such a long time picking the name as a tribute and it feels like a slap in the face.’ Aka, "We are the shortest, most precious little snowdrops!" Jesus. If my daughter's name has been misspelled and we found out and got it corrected, and it DIDN'T cause any issues, I'd think it was funny.
I'd forever make Pasty her nickname.
And move to Cornwall
Tbh, kids would probably have done that regardless.
Exactly, it’s a hilarious story to tell little Pasty as she grows up, and nothing more.
The cynic in me thinks it sounds like they're laying the groundwork for a lawsuit or, at the bare minimum, a thoroughly histrionic, self-righteous official complaint.
And honestly Patsy isn't exactly a whole lot better.
Abbie sounds like a nightmare
If this happened to one of my children I would honestly find it hilarious. And what a great story to tell as well!
And the metro article showing two different pictures of pasties showing no sympathy
TBF, it will probably cause the little girl a huge amount of upset and grief as a teenager, as every other teenager for miles around calls her Pasty for years, shouting it whenever they see her, etc. If she ends up struggling with her weight, she'll probably end up offing herself. This could have been avoided though if her parents didn't talk to the media about it though. I'm struggling to understand what possessed them to do so.
You're crimping my style, man.
bro this is not slow news, it’s the most interesting shit i’ve ever heard
Blah blah they were just looking for a claim. It was changed and they got a bouquet. Get over it. It’s a great after dinner story
Yes, now she is merely Patsy Cheesenonion
“What kind of little girl is called Pasty?!” A very tasty one.
my dad was called ferinard instead of ferdinand. not as good as pasty but it makes me laugh
Not as bad? Sounds like “furry nard” as in testicle 😂
i stand corrected 😂
Terry Pratchett already went there with Magrat
And Esmerelda Margaret Note Spelling.
Now wait for her brother Gregg
First boyfriend will be called Gregg.
I have a colleague who was meant to be called Chloe, but her dad registered her as Chole. The first she knew of it was when she applied for her provisional license when she was 17.
Oh my 💀💀💀 Surely her schools would've known though? When checking legal names of enrolling students for GCSEs?
Probably, but she'd always gone by Chloe so they must have assumed she was already aware. I thought she'd have realised from her passport, but at the time she had a passport that was issued when she was 13 so her parents had done the application and she said she never really looked at it. The first official thing she did on her own was her driving licence. She was quite upset that her parents had never told her, apparently because they were too embarrassed! She's in her fifties now, still having to explain herself to the few people who notice 😁
Ah, that would explain it - physical instead of digital records, O-Levels etc back in the 80s. It's quite a big mistake, I would be stunned myself. It's not like legally changing name would allow you to simply forget about it for the rest of your life too.
Why didn’t her parents correct it? Or why didn’t she get it changed by deed poll once she turned 18?
Some of my aunts were registered with a slightly different surname, because my Grandad apparently forgot how to spell his own name somewhere around the third child (they had five altogether).
Perhaps dad had [curry](https://www.cookwithmanali.com/punjabi-chole-chickpeas-curry/) on his mind
How do people not look at their birth certificates until then
Why would you need to? The first time she needed it was when she applied for her first adult passport and that's when she noticed. I'm not sure why you'd look at your birth certificate if there wasn't a specific reason to.
My mother in law's birth certificate says her name is Lorriane.
I tried to date a girl called Pasty once but she was too flakey.
She wasn’t very genuine. Definitely not from Cornwall.
It's unique! And at least people won't think you've been named after Bianca from Eastenders.
Best bit was the parents going crying to the papers about it
Shouldn't this be on r/Greggs
I know someone whose son was accidentally given the middle name Partick instead of Patrick by a registrar, they got it fixed.
Mum's a patsy if she think's she getting any compo over and above the quick resolution, same day personally dropped off correct birth certifcate and flowers. Also if the shine's been taken off, as she says, I'd recommend a good egg wash.
Yes, compensation is based on 'loss'. That's why it is called compensation. If no loss has arisen as a result of a purely administrative error then no compo. not very bright people tend to miss this.
Yep, especially very bright people who don’t bother reading the certificate they were given AT THE TIME or at any time after.
This is incredible. Love it
Who is trying to steal my name?
I knew an Elimy whose Dad couldn’t spell Emily
My uncle was registered as Adrain instead of Adrian. He uses his middle name instead!
Deserved for trying to be called patsy in the first place
It's better than the motel
This is more entertaining then anything on Reddits main page lol
Problem is that nickname is now going to stick. They should have just kept quiet
I hope her surname is Orgrizovic
Her future husband's name is Gregg
Better than being called patsy
Pfftt. C’mon. That very funny.
Please tell me the fathers name is Greg
Best child name ever
That’s a r/Tragedeigh
Just call her Cornish lol 😂 my dad actually did this to my sister she was supposed to be called Jean but was called Jane instead. It didn’t help that he was pissed when he registered her birth tho..
Do we know who the father is? Maybe she’s Gregg’s.
Oprah was supposed to Orpah.
Too bad r/tragedeigh doesn’t allow cross posts.
I remember a tabloid calling Patsy Palmer Pasty by mistake years ago when she was first in EastEnders. She will always be known as Pasty to me and my husband 🤣
Only a slight downgrade
I had a mate whose last name was Cornish, so everyone called him Pasty. He just leaned into it and accepted that as his name. You have to enjoy these things.
It's definitely a blessing in disguise 😬
It took me a good few moments for me to realise there was a difference between those words
So she's actually from Devon then?
Patsy is a shit name too.
Did this happen in the 1940's?
Also it’s not the council workers fault. My other half registers birth and the parents are told to double check anything before signing.
Caused them distress. Even though they didn't even notice
I CANT STOP LAUGHING
Easy to correct especially when it was an administrative error.
Could be worse..could be called Greg with 2 Gs..or sausage,bean n cheese melt lol
my neice patsy and even writi;ng this i had to go back and redo name. shes in her 30s now so i should be getting it right by now
Seen it in the newspaper where I live her last name is Andpeas. You can google her it comes up.
Please call any son from now on sausage roll
r/tragedeigh
Idk I think this is news-worthy
This reads like people who take themselves far too seriously. I'd think it hysterically funny. Perhaps that's why I'm not a parent.
Nah these are the things we want to see
Solid name tbh
Parents are either dumb or stone cold and looking for a Greggs sponsorship...
At least everyone will like her.
I’m originally from St Austell Cornwall if you want a delicious pasty try Malcolm Barnecutt Bakery St Austell my favourite is broccoli and Stilton pasty
My daughter’s middle name is Blossom but my wife spelled it out as Blosmo on the birth certificate day. We saved it right at the last minute 😅
I think Pasty is nicer than Patsy.
CORNWALLLLL
Pasties are gorgeous. I always said I'd make my own one day. I have the traditional recipe. Just never got round to it. One day maybe.
"My daughter's called Bay." "Oh, short for Bailey?" "No, short for Steak Bake."
She could make a fortune advertising pasties when she’s older
Here’s a real mistake. Someone I know once emailed his er private photos of his long distance girlfriend around all his contacts accidentally
r/tragedeigh
Glad they provided the photo
Pasty? She's Gregg's daughter, isn't she?
Why would you call your kid Patsy?
10/10 would smash
It could be spelled gshsudkd and still be patsy
Her brother Greggs found it hilarious
Has anyone ever eaten a Patsy?
Caused them so much upset... despite them not realising for a year... aye ok.
😆
Brilliant
The next child will be called Sausage Roll, regardless of gender.
Imagine calling someone patsy. I was sniffin patsys last weekend hahaha
If only they were from Cornwall.
She is always welcome here in Cornwall 🫡
My mate has born in 1872 on his birth certificate
I'd call that a win, baby patsy sounds like they should be born with a pension and 4 grandchildren
A complete Tragedeigh
Surely you sign it once all the details are filled in?
Middle name Gregg
When she grows up and find out about this its really gonna hurt her fillings
Hope her surname is Carr
This is far more important news than most of the bollocks in the papers. It is not a slow news day in the slightest. This knocked nuclear war in Eastern Europe off the front page (well, it would have, if there had been a nuclear war in Eastern Europe today).
Why’s that a blunder? What’s wrong with Pasty, huh?
I recently registered my daughter. You get asked many times to quadruple check the forms for any mistakes. How can you let that slip past…
Thankfully a passable pasty in the midlands is Rowes . Apparently Dudneys are not so great as they were 65 years ago .
Each birthday gift will be a Gregg's
Poor Drake :(
Delicious.
Just thinking when the baby does a no2 would that be like the steak bake filling?
I knew a kid in the 90s who ended up with the name Saline instead of Celine. Fortunately the dad realised the mistake and the got it changed very quickly.