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I LOVE A pie as much as the next man — as long as that man isn’t Simple Simon — however, the bakery item that has most frequently taken my hard-earned cash is the pasty.

Why? For starters, I love the smell of a good pasty. There’s something honest about the filling, too. You can see all the bits of vegetables and meat as it’s not cloaked in a robe of gravy like the contents of a pie.

They are heaps

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