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A basket of Mexican pastes sit on a patron's table before they are eated for lunch at the 16th International Paste Festival in Mineral del Monte

Video. How Cornish pasties made their mark on a Mexican mining town

Updated: 16/10/2024 - 13:35 GMT+2

Though their fillings may be a little spicier, the resemblance between the Mexican “paste” and traditional Cornish pasty is uncanny. The story of the somewhat unlikely legacy of the English snack takes us back 200 years, across the Atlantic Ocean, and down a few mines.

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