How To Eat A Cornish Pasty

The 1929 book produced by the Women’s Institute, Cornish Recipes – Ancient and Modern, has this definitive statement on how to eat a Cornish pasty:

“When the pasties are being made, each member of the family has his or hers marked at one corner with the initial of the prospective owner. In this way, each person’s tastes can be catered for. The true Cornish way to eat a pasty is to hold it in the hand, and begin to bite it from opposite end to the initial, so that, should any of it be uneaten, it may be consumed later by its rightful owner. And woe betide anyone who takes another person’s corner!”