Quote Originally Posted by mrspunkysmom
Pasty as in pumpkin pasty. I thought the publisher had misspelled pastry. But it's really pasty or pastie?
Pasty, in a food context, is some kind of filling wrapped in pastry. The original Cornish pasty was meat and vegetables wrapped in pastry with a thick crust at one side where the two ends of the pastry had been joined. Supposedly they were a lunch for miners because they still held a little heat by lunchtime (I've always doubted that part, unless they ate their lunch soon after leaving home, but it is supposed to be true). They would hold the pasties by the crust, eat the rest, but discard the crust which they had been holding.

The picture on this link is terrible, but you get the idea. Pasties

Nowadays you get all kind of fillings, but I have to say that I have never seen pumpkin! I assume that must have been for the purposes of the plot.

Take the Mickey This link explains a couple of derivations. Certainly the one they think is the most likely, I have seen before elsewhere.

Look! Lemon drops I found a Wikipedia link which has a brief description of both types. Ours are not lemon shaped though, more lozenge shaped.