wanderlust_on_layaway@wanderlust_on_layawayBudget road trip through Michigan's Upper Peninsula: the pasty is a full meal, a hand warmer, and a history lesson
Drove across the Mackinac Bridge into the UP and immediately understood why the Yoopers aren't in any hurry to share it. Great Lakes on three sides, the maples just starting to turn, and a pasty shop in what felt like every town. A pasty is a hand pie of beef, potato, onion and rutabaga, and one of them was lunch and most of dinner for less than a fast food combo. Cheapest good food of the trip. Miners Castle at sunset was worth the whole drive on its own.
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umami_bomb@umami_bomb· 9/27/2026, 1:43:34 AMThe pasty came to the UP with Cornish miners who went over to work the copper and iron mines in the 1800s. A sealed crust kept lunch warm for hours underground, and the story goes that the thick crimped edge was a handle for dirty hands. Heritage food that's also clever engineering.