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While pasties are not really extracted from the UP's ore mines, there is a relationship between mining and pasties. Find information on this relationship. What is the relationship and how it might be related to microeconomics?
A pasty is a baked pastry, a traditional variety that is particularly associated with Cornwall, in UK. It is made by placing an uncooked filling, typically meat and vegetables, on the one half of a flat shortcrust pastry circle, folding the pastry in half to wrap the filling in a semicircle and crimping the curved edge to form a seal before baking. Migrating Cornish miners and their families helped to spread this pasties into the rest of the world during the 19th century. As tin mining in Cornwall began to decline, miners took their expertise and traditions to new mining regions around the world. As a result, pasties are now found in many parts of the world. The pasty originally evolved to meet the needs of tin mining. When tin mining started going bad in England during the 1800's the Cornish miners immigrated to America hoping to earn in newly developing mines. Again when the Cornish came to the copper mines of the Upper Peninsula,UP's mines, they brought with a lot of mining knowledge which the other ethnic groups did not have. An interesting fact should be noted that there was a superstition among the Cornish miner's that the initial corner should not be eaten, instead it was dropped on the ground for the mining gremlins to eat. Again the pasty survived the collapse of mining because it became extremely popular with the major ethnic group to remain after the mines closed.