Dick_B wrote:
Just slightly off topic but when in Mackinaw City be sure to have one or two of their Pasties; a local staple for the workers when the bridge was being built. Our favorite source is Mackinaw Pastie and Cookie Company on Huron Street. They also have frozen Pasties to take home.
And see the video on how the bridge was built upstairs at Moma Mia's on the main drag in town close to the docks.
Pasties date back to the Cornish miners who immigrated to the UP in the 19th century. A hot pastie wrapped in a cloth stayed warm until lunch time.
Lehto's west of St Ignace is superior, IMHO. But the best pasties are found in the Copper Country area of the northwest UP. The real thing contains rutabagas, btw. And if you put gravy on it, you are revealed as not a Yooper. Real Yoopers put ketchup on their pasties.
