{"id":10272,"date":"2010-04-24T02:36:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T07:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=10272"},"modified":"2010-03-30T13:27:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T18:27:30","slug":"jackson-rob-editor-the-pasty-anthology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=10272","title":{"rendered":"Jackson, Rob (editor) – The Pasty Anthology"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Pasty Anthology (edited by Rob Jackson)
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A note to the American readers who have never watched any tv shows or read anything from the UK: pasties look like calzones, but with (I’m guessing here) fruits and cheeses inside.\u00c2\u00a0 They look to be a bit much for a breakfast food, assuming that’s all they are, but what do I know?\u00c2\u00a0 This is an anthology, with all of the stories theoretically dealing with pasties.\u00c2\u00a0 First up is\u00c2\u00a0 a story by Steve Butler which relates a conversation between two friends.\u00c2\u00a0 One of them is going to get a pasty, the other has been told by his girlfriend that he has to lose some weight so goes off to get something healthier.\u00c2\u00a0 Without giving anything away, it has an excellent ending.\u00c2\u00a0 Next up is a piece by Francesca Cassavetti about… chewing gum.\u00c2\u00a0 Nope, no pasties in that one.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s still a great story, dealing with being told as a child that swallowed gum always stays in your stomach and eventually kills you.\u00c2\u00a0 Jim Medway is next with a unique perspective, as he has a week in the life of a pasty clerk told through the faces of the recurring customers.\u00c2\u00a0 The next piece by Dave Hughes deals with an obsessive young man, making his pasty and having everything planned out just so, only to have it all ruined by gravity.\u00c2\u00a0 Our hero Rob Jackson has the central piece in the comic, dealing with the Greggs and their role in inventing and then improving pasties over the years.\u00c2\u00a0 As I have no idea how much of this is historical I’m just going to leave it alone, but it’s an excellent story either way.\u00c2\u00a0 Next is… hey, who put a text piece in here?\u00c2\u00a0 There’s a three page story by Anthony Mercer called Devil in a Blue Tabard and, as a sucker for the hard-boiled stuff, I loved it.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s all about a pasty shop, a missing young woman, a grimy detective and a very shiny worker.\u00c2\u00a0 Dave Hughes has another piece next, this time dealing with a pasty festival, a pasty eating contest and the effect this contest has on the wife of one of the contestants.\u00c2\u00a0 Finally there’s another text piece, this time by Matt Badham, dealing with the Japanese equivalent of the pasty (sort of), the natto.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It took me a second after reading this to get the catch of the story, and it’s wonderful in an anthology like this, so there’s no way I’m going to ruin it.\u00c2\u00a0 Good stuff all around, which is more than you can ask for from anthologies.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I think it should also come with a free pasty so we can get an idea of exactly what they’re like, but I have no idea how that would work in the real world.\u00c2\u00a0 No price, but I’m guessing it’s around $4.<\/p>\n

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Website The Pasty Anthology (edited by Rob Jackson) A note to the American readers who have never watched any tv shows or read anything from the UK: pasties look like calzones, but with (I’m guessing here) fruits and cheeses inside.\u00c2\u00a0 They look to be a bit much for a breakfast food, assuming that’s all they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2960,2951,2957,2959,2961,2949,2958,1344],"class_list":["post-10272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-anthony-mercer","tag-dave-hughes","tag-francesca-cassaveti","tag-jim-medway","tag-matt-badham","tag-rob-jackson","tag-steve-butler","tag-the-pasty-anthology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10289,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10272\/revisions\/10289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}