That's an interesting euphemism, a "bacon and cheese pastry"
It's certainly much more oblique than "strawberry tart", or " muff pie"

See, I've always seen pastry as something sweet.

Apologies, but I've just watched the movie, "Cat Ballou" featuring Lee Marvin in his Oscar winning supporting role, and a young Miss Jane Fonda
My two favourite Jane Fonda movies are Cat Ballou and Barbarella
Jane is almost as spankable as Audrey Hepburn

Hope didn't Boer/Boar/Bore you

Or put an embarrassing spin on any requests for photographs.
There are plenty of other websites for that sort of stuff, so I am told.
Cough cough, nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more....

It's almost like having nigee back...

@ KingCyrus: There are lots of things you can make with pastry that are savoury, not sweet. The British are very fond of savoury meat pies, pasties, and pastries.

The traditional Cornish pastry was both savoury and sweet
One half or slightly more was a savoury vegetable part, maybe with some meat, with an internal pastry divider, the other part had jam, a sweet.toppled with a fold in the pastry so that miners could use that to hold it with grubby fingers
So it had both the savoury and sweet in one pastry

Jamie why don't you and Krellin...err I mean brainbomb get a room already?

What did happen to NigeeBaby

He got mooted

Forever?

Believe so, but it might have been a year. I don't remember.

Nigee was given a permasilence for disrespecting the mods some time ago, only just escaping an outright ban. Something of a low point for the site, in my opinion. He continued being a very active player for quite a while after, but I think he's lost interest in the past few months.

Am I to believe that was not a compliment ?
Octavious, sshhveety, smoochy pie (or pastry ), and I thought you had this sentimental affection towards my good self.
Hey, I did make a genuine contribution with the example of the Cornish Miners traditional pastry or pasty.

The only possible problem with my Cornish Miners traditional pastry is perhaps the British thingy.
I had no intention of offending any Cornish persons by implying they have no culture or cuisine other than "British" culture and cuisine.

See what happens when I take a sabbatical, both Draugnar and Naughty Nigee crash and burn without my calming, soothing, influence for good

Being Cornish I am offended by your implication that the Cornish pasty isn't British. Everything Cornish is British by definition. A better kind of British, certainly, but very much still British.

The sweet and savoury pasty is something of a myth designed to make emmets look foolish, by the way. All you need do for the full effect is earnestly insist that the savoury side was marked with an s so you could tell it apart from the sweet side ;).

And the Nigee thing was a compliment all along...
If only others could share the love like you, Octavious.
Psssssst, Lethologica cited me as a source of good advice in another thread started by Quinn12, something connected with badgers or some similar type of critturs found in Austria.

Well, I cited one singular piece of advice. For all I know, you're the proverbial blind squirrel.

:D

I cannot believe this joke thread has over 20 responses.

I love you guys. Haha.

So what's the difference between a pastie and a pastry?

"Pastry" is a more general term. A pasty (not "pastie") is a type of pastry. The bacon and cheese thing I mentioned in the OP was a kind of pastry turnover.

Example picture here:

http://www.blogbybaby.com/wp-content/uploads/blogger/cheese%2Band%2Bbacon%2Bturnovers.jpg

A "pastie" is what a burlesque or erotic dancer uses to cover her nipple.

Oggy oggy oggy!

Oi Oi Oi!

Bump

That point on spelling
I'm in South Australia, which had a lot of migrants from Germany, fleeing religious persecution in period approx 1840 to 1890, and a lot of Cornish migrants in same time who came to work in copper mines eg at Burra

So commonly its pasty singular, pasties plural for vegetable "pastries"

The German migrants were influential in starting wine industry here, and also legacy in cuisine, cakes and sausages.

@ Jamiet99uk
Thanks for entering my player name in Zultars give away list
I wouldn't have a clue on how to do a cut and pasty on akst like that using this new mobile phone that the fire breathing MemSahib, Her Indoors, gave me as an early Christmas present. That woman was surely sired by the very devil incarnate.

This new phone doesn't have buttons, I had to go to the phone shop to find out how to answer an incoming call, and be shown the "touch and slide" technique.

Anyway I decided not to risk offending Zultar as he is surely a top Archangel type of Almighty Mod, and possibly the mysterious Grand High Inquisitor of WebDiplomacy mythology, so I'm posting this in the pastry thread.

You've been helpful to me and I thank you, but it appears you've also been a naughty blighter by being cheeky to Zultar, so this Christmas you cannot play the Messiah in the traditional Christmas Pantomime.

It's just a bowl of thin gruel for you and no Christmas pudding.

I also posted here go keep this silly thread a going concern.