pasty
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Real del Monte also hosts the annual International Pasty Festival, which has been held in the town since 2009, and a pasty museum.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
Watching Will Ferrell in prison booty shorts showing off his pasty white legs feels like a crazy way to soothe the Sunday scaries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2025
And, of course, the town still cherishes and serves up the pasty.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
Add coffee and and a dash of aminos or soy sauce and cook until pasty and the mushrooms have softened.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2023
Her face was a pasty white with twin spots of rouge on the cheeks.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
He adds that Pachuca and Real del Monte still have shops selling pasties, or pastes as they are known in Mexico, with Cornish flags visible in the most traditional stores in Real del Monte.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
These are pasties, crescent-shaped hand pies that originated as a lunch food for miners in Cornwall, England, and have become a mainstay in Grass Valley, 60 miles northeast of Sacramento.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
She’s interested in adding regular savories such as pasties and sausage rolls, and maybe bringing new treats such as trifles or Eton Messes to her roster.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024
Cloake enjoys hers alongside summer berries and even adds a spoonful to her Cornish pasties, for "a touch of luxury."
From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2022
“So’s my stomach,” replied Rio, who’d stopped in front of a takeaway stall with a display case full of pasties.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
Beyond Meat starts off a bit mushier and pastier, but once it starts cooking, it breaks up and browns just fine.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2020
In the comics, he has at times been reconfigured as a heroic vigilante, not unlike Batman with distinctly pastier colouring, a thirst for bad-guy blood, and actual chiropteran superpowers.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 5, 2018
Viewers also have watched the various stages of transformation from human victim to full-fledged bloodsucker, with characters getting pastier, hungrier and scarier by the moment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2014
Every day the flabby cheeks grew pastier and the pouches under the eyebrows heavier.
From The Last Shot by Frederick Palmer
Years ago, in my earliest and pastiest days as a would-be writer, I once read a new story aloud to S. and Boo Boo.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
