Calling all Trolls & Yoopers! Where are the best pasties?

[GoinThisAway]

Well, it's been a few years since our initial visit to Michican. I'm thinking it might be time to return to see if that Lake Michigan water is really as blue as I remember it ... and, yes, to try some of those pasties now that I know they're not something one wears :W Any recommendations on where to find good pasties?

We're definitely going to explore the northwest portion of the lower peninsula and will go from there as time allows. Was looking at Ludington State Park and would like to go back to Sleeping Bear Dunes and Wilderness State Park. We like natural areas with opportunity for photography, hiking, and tranquility. We also like places with historical interest. The DB may join us and he likes to do some more remote travel with his TC, boondocking, and maybe do some dune/beach camping if there is anyplace one can do this there. I got some good ideas from you all last time that I'll revisit but thought you might have some more ideas knowing our interests and the particular area we'll be visiting.

[Rollin]

This is great hearing about a particular dish that I enjoyed at my aunt and uncles house in Bessemer (10 miles west of Wakefield) in my youth. My dad grew up there (Bessemer) and his dad worked in the mines after arriving from Austria. I've heard about the large enclave of Welch folks in Nevada City and Placerville and couple of real nice pasty shops there. My brother and I want to return to Bessemer and visit some old areas around there and of course drop into a pasty shop. Sadly, my dad and aunt and uncle have passed on long ago.

[travelnutz]

Pretty smart we are being Trolls living down here in the lower peninsula and sometimes adding goodies of our choice on our pasties, right?

[DandSW]

travelnutz wrote:
stevenal,Your pasty link pic is going to get someone SHOT. It has gravy on it! OOHHH NOOOO!

That's cause those are made and sold in the lower peninsular.....we use gravy down here and sometimes ketchup too. :W

[travelnutz]

stevenal,

Your pasty link pic is going to get someone SHOT. It has gravy on it! OOHHH NOOOO!

But, it sure looks good

[stevenal]

http://www.mackinawpastie.com/

[GoinThisAway]

Bedlam, maybe your friends just didn’t want to see you cry when it was time to leave the UP 😄 Ishpeming sure is way up there, JoeChiOhki, but if I make it that far I’ll definitely give Lawry’s a try. Well, FreeLanceing, I did get to see the OUTSIDE of the Whitefish Point Museum on our first trip to MI as we were there before it opened for the season. It would be nice to see the INSIDE for a change. Now I never think of a dish like pasties when I think of CA, jefe_4x4, but I guess a few miners DID find their way there some years ago :W I agree, Sherrifdoug, there’s nothing like good homestyle food after being far away from home for a spell. Now all I need is some smell-a-vision, rvten! Wowee! Wakefield is REALLY far up there BamaFire_Joe. But Helena AL is a lot closer so how about I just swing by your place after I leave from rvten’s :B

[BamaFire_Joe]

On our last trip to the UP we went to Randalls (sp?) Bakery in Wakefield. Hmmmmm good. Just like the wife makes.

[rvten]

http://i463.photobucket.com/albums/qq355/RVTEN/Yooper/Pastie.jpg

http://i463.photobucket.com/albums/qq355/RVTEN/Yooper/Pastieopen.jpg

Here is a sample of what a Pastie looks like.

[Sheriffdoug]

Bindoon Bakery, 70kms north of Perth, Western Australia

Pastry and Vegetable, we're so fresh, you could taste, individual flavours, wrapped in beautiful flaky pastry, Mmmmm!

Monday, on the way home, from long weekend away in Calingiri, Western Australia.

[jefe_4x4]

Since 1850 with the influx of Welch miners, Nevada City, CA, in the heart of Gold Country, has been the Pastie capital of the West. They're everywhere. More pastie places than Mcdonalds around these parts, pardiner. They are like old sourdough starter, they have a timeless style all their own.
regards, as always, jefe

[mike_mck]

Bubtoofat wrote:
Da Yoopers make the best. Gotta cross the bridge.
Mike

Couldn't agree more my grandmother in Hancock Mi made the best. Taught my mom.

[FreeLanceing]

Mr Oswald is a retired firefighter from I believe the Detroit area. He started the bear ranch as a rescure operation for orfans and nuciance bears. the bears roam free in large open pens of about 5 acres. You humans can walk all around to observe. When my son and I used to go it was 10 bucks a car load. You could go inside a pen and mr Oswald would let you hold and play with a bear cub. I think they quit that because to many people complained the bear cub scratched them, believe that! I havent been in a few years kids are grown now but it was great experiance to be so close to these amazing creatures. Another cant miss is the museum at whitefish point, see the bell from the mighty fitz. Hit the falls on the way. Its a great place to visit in the summer if you love the outdoors. Best pasties I've seen were probably at the Parkway Tropics in downtown GR. Been a few years for that too.

[JoeChiOhki]

Lawry's Pasty Shop
2381 U.S. 41, Ishpeming, MI

past-MIdirector wrote:
As I've learned from the Da Yoopers. The original real pasties are made only in the U.P. of Michigan. You can be shot or hung for putting gravy or catchup on a pasty up there. If you are coming from the south you must cross the The Big Mack before you can truly buy a real pasty.

There's a shop in Soo St. Marie right by the locks that does exactly that, giant plate size pasties that are too thin and crumbly to hold and eat properly, and served smothered in gravy.

Lawry's makes a good hand held pasty :).

rvten wrote:
Trolls do not eat pasties. That's why there trolls.
Best ones when I lived up in Iron MT. We're the ones made by my aunt.
I make my own. Even my DW likes the ones I make.

Damn, and I drove right through Iron Mountain when I was headed north this past fall, too :p.

[rvten]

Remember the miners ate these things down in the mine. With there bare hands.
No gravy down there. My uncle was Welch and my Italian aunt learned to make them from his mother.