Please can someone clear this up?
Is this pronounced Day-ta or Dar-ta?
Similarly is it Pass-ta or Pars-ta
How about Pass-tee or Pars-tee.
Don’t bother with Pastry, there’s only one way to say it apparently?
I can conclusively clear this bit up as outside Pinocchios on the Welly road, the sign said..
Donta walka pasta.
As for pasties, if you have ever worked in Cornwall, mess rooms or canteens are called crib rooms. When I was first asked "are you coming for crib?" I thought great, we're on for a game of cards, sadly no cards only lunch!
The crib is the crimped edge of the pasty and this is what they would hold when eating their pasty in the mine with dirty hands, they would then throw the crib on the floor as an offering for good luck, hence the room where they used for eat was full of "cribs."
Bit of useless trivia for all you planning to go to Cornwall instead of Thailand this summer.