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I believe the pasty was basically a working man's lunch, with a full meal wrapped neatly inside the pasty. The big crimped bit was a handle for holding your lunch with grubby hands, whilst keeping the meal clean.
 
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Ok as Mr Pea has jumped in, I'll add ho his correct answer, it was so the ores on their grubby hands such as alum, coper, tin, lead, arsenic and any number of heavy metals did not transfer and poison them by consuming them. The miners would throw the crust into the shadows to feed the Bucca or Knockers, the spirits living in the tunnels (thought to be their old mates and ancestors who had died in previous accidents)...
 
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Mr Pea has the gist of it and Newton that's the complete answer. It was used as a handle so they could eat from one end to the other of the pasties without the food getting contaminated with minerals and dust from their hands from which ever mine they were working in.

The pasties as Mr Pea said were a complete meal. Savoury at one end and could then be sweet at the other. The crust being discarded at the end of the meal as Newton described to feed the Bucca or Knockers.

Mr Pea over to you for the next question. Newton that is the most complete answer I have ever had when I have asked the same question. Great knowledge :)
 
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spkennyuk said:
Mr Pea has the gist of it and Newton that's the complete answer. It was used as a handle so they could eat from one end to the other of the pasties without the food getting contaminated with minerals and dust from their hands from which ever mine they were working in.

The pasties as Mr Pea said were a complete meal. Savoury at one end and could then be sweet at the other. The crust being discarded at the end of the meal as Newton described to feed the Bucca or Knockers.

Mr Pea over to you for the next question. Newton that is the most complete answer I have ever had when I have asked the same question. Great knowledge :)
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I need to hand this over to Newton as I'm very limited with interweb access for the next few days.
 
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Ok:

This idea was subject to a joint patent in 1968 (GDR) but the first useful proof of concept prototype was not produced until 1974, the development into commercial use was 1976 and by 1978 over 1,200 patents were held by one man for its use. His commercial product was known as CP8.

None of us bat an eyelid at using it/them today but what is it known as?
 
StuartW

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I know that there is a type of carriage pallet called a CP8 but surely that has been around for longer than that?
 
BennyD

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I think transistors took off in the 60s so I'll guess that it's something else at the start of the computer age, such as the first processor or computer chip.
 
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Warmer Benny... Been a divergence in more recent times but the original common use you will all have at least one, the divergent use you will likely have several and may well have many....
 
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