The Cornish pasty is oval or crescent shaped with a stiff, crimped rim, traditionally filled with beef, and swede, although many variations are possible.

Pasty | Cornish pasty

File: Cornish pasty-cut. jpeg | A traditional Cornish pasty filled with steak and vegetables

Tradition holds that the origin of the phrase was as a means for Cornish pasty sellers to communicate to workers that it was lunch time.

The reasoning for this belief is the presumption that ' Oggy ' is from the Cornish hoggan for a pasty.

" Oggy " is a slang term for a Cornish pasty, derived from its Cornish name, " hoggan ", and was used by local Devon & Cornish sailors at the Devonport Dockyard in in reference to pasty sellers who once stood outside the famous gates.

A Cornish pasty.

* Paste ( pasty ), a small Cornish style pastry produced in the Mexican state of Hidalgo

The traditional Cornish pasty, which has Protected Geographical Indication ( PGI ) status in Europe, is filled with beef, sliced or diced potato, swede ( also known as a yellow turnip or rutabaga-referred to in Cornwall as turnip ) and onion, seasoned with salt and pepper, and is baked.

Today, the pasty is the food most associated with Cornwall, it is regarded as the national dish, and it accounts for 6 % of the Cornish food economy.

The pasty is now popular world-wide due to the spread of Cornish miners, and variations can be found in Australia, the United States, Mexico and elsewhere.

However many old photographs show that pasties were wrapped in bags made of paper or muslin and were eaten from end-to-end ; according to the earliest Cornish recipe book, published in 1929, this is " the true Cornish way " to eat a pasty.

Following a nine year campaign by the Cornish Pasty Association, the trade organisation of about 50 pasty makers based in Cornwall, the name " Cornish pasty " was awarded Protected Geographical Indication ( PGI ) status by the European Commission on 20 July 2011.

According to the PGI status a Cornish pasty should be shaped like a ‘ D ’ and crimped on one side, not on the top.

Like the other Brythonic languages, Welsh and Cornish, it is classified as an Insular Celtic language.

Breton is most closely related to Cornish, as both are thought to have evolved from a Southwestern Brythonic protolanguage.

It has been suggested that the town's name comes from an archaic word in the Cornish " bod " ( meaning a dwelling ; the later word is " bos ") and a contraction of " menegh " ( monks ).

Bodmin is one of the oldest towns in Cornwall, and the only large Cornish settlement recorded in the Domesday Book of the late 11th century.

Bodmin Parkway railway station is served by main line trains and is situated on the Cornish Main Line about 3½ miles ( 5½ km ) south-east from the town centre.

The Cornish Guardian is a weekly newspaper: it is published in 7 separate editions, including the Bodmin edition.

Bodmin is also the home of Localfusion ; a community based local business network geared to provide information on Cornish news, events and social groups.

Its Cornish name, Goen Bren, is first recorded in the 12th century.

The village is said to take its name from the " Bold Venture " that it must have appeared to build a farm in this moorland, but this is probably folk etymology, as " Bol -" is a common prefix in Cornish placenames.

Today, the Cornish Nationalist Party is seen as more of a pressure group as they do not put up candidates for any elections, although their visibility and influence within Cornwall is negligible.

Another Indo-European example is star ( English ), str-( Sanskrit ), tara ( Hindi-Urdu ), étoile ( French ), ἀστήρ ( astēr ) ( Greek or ἀστέρι / ἄστρο, asteri / astro in Modern Greek ), stella ( Italian ), aster ( Latin ) stea ( Romanian and Venetian ), stairno ( Gothic ), astl ( Armenian ), Stern ( German ), ster ( Dutch and Afrikaans ), starn ( Scots ), stjerne ( Norwegian and Danish ), stjarna ( Icelandic ), stjärna ( Swedish ), stjørna ( Faroese ), setāre ( Persian ), stoorei ( Pashto ), seren ( Welsh ), steren ( Cornish ), estel ( Catalan ), estrella Spanish, estrella Asturian and Leonese, estrela ( Portuguese and Galician ) and estêre or stêrk ( Kurdish ), from the PIE, " star ".

In Devonshire a local word for a cist in Modern Cornish is kistvaen.

In the Welsh language who's origins, like Cornish is from the ancient British or Brythonic language line, ' Cist ' is also used for such ancient graves, but in modern use, can also mean a chest, a coffer, a box, or even the boot / trunk of a car.

The Dumnonii gave their name to the English county of Devon, and their name is represented in Britain's two extant Brythonic languages as Dewnans in Cornish and Dyfnaint in Welsh.

In the late 15th / early 16th century Middle Cornish play Beunans Ke, Arthur's sword is called Calesvol, which is etymologically an exact Middle Cornish cognate of the Welsh Caledfwlch.

He appears in folklore as a trickster, and in County Mayo thunderstorms were referred to as battles between Lugh and Balor, so he is sometimes considered a storm god: Alexei Kondratiev notes his epithet lonnbeimnech (" fierce striker ") and concludes that " if his name has any relation to ' light ' it more properly means ' lightning-flash ' ( as in Breton luc ' h and Cornish lughes )".

However, some " utility " ( general purpose ) breeds, such as the Cochin, Cornish and Silkie, do regularly go broody, and they make excellent mothers, not only for chicken eggs but also for those of other species — even those with much smaller or larger eggs and different incubation periods, such as quail, pheasants, turkeys or geese.

The waves around the Cornish coastline are created by low pressure systems from the Atlantic Ocean which unleash powerful swells eastwards creating multiple, excellent surfing conditions around Cornwall.

In June 2012, it was announced that Cornish had been signed as director of a future film adaptation of Neal Stephenson's classic 1992 novel, Snow Crash for Paramount Studios.

Rick Rescorla, Chief of Security for Morgan Stanley's World Trade Center office, sang a Cornish adaptation of " Men of Harlech " with a bullhorn, along with other anthems, to keep employee spirits high while they evacuated during the September 11 attacks.

In its first years, the company originated a number of plays of West Country interest, including new historical drama by Jack Emery and an adaptation of the Cornish Passion Play.

In April 2010, Cornish was cast in Limitless, the film adaptation of the novel The Dark Fields, directed by Neil Burger and also starring Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro.

Probably an alteration of Cornish hoggan pastry, pie ( 18th century ), perhaps cognate with Welsh chwiogen muffin, simnel cake ( 1562 ), of unknown origin.

Various meat pies are consumed such as steak and kidney pie, shepherd's pie, cottage pie, Cornish pasty and pork pie, the later of which is consumed cold.

Stargazy pie ( sometimes called starrey gazey pie or other variants ) is a Cornish dish made of baked pilchards, along with eggs and potatoes, covered with a pastry crust.

The chapter, entitled " The Devil's Coits, etc ", reasons that the Devil discovered the Cornish would put anything in a pie and decided to leave before they took a fancy to a " devilly " pie, returning to Devon.

The BBC miniseries Poldark featured Cornish couple Demelza and Ross Poldark eating a stargazy pie.

A meat and potato pie has a similar filling to a Cornish Pasty and differs from a meat pie in that its content is often minced and usually less than 50 % meat.