Your Cornish pasties, @galenkp, are like the homemade chicken and noodles my mother used to make. Very tasty, made less frequently than I would have preferred, and lots of fond memories associated with them.

While my mom is still living, she doesn't do much cooking anymore, so those days are long gone. My wife has made some on occasion, but ends up using packaged noodles which come close, but are not the same.

I'm not sure if they were an all day thing, but the noodles were definitely a labor of love, made from scratch, rolled out, cut into strips and then cut again. And then everything ended up in a pot with chicken and gravy.

I think there is quite a bit to be said about food and heritage, simply because different peoples in different times ate different things, most of it out of necessity. Now we can almost eat what we want since either someone makes it nearby or we can find the ingredients and online recipe.

So, going forward, it will probably be the traditions of that past that continue on with food and other things to mark ancestry and a specific way of life, as for years now, there's been more of a blending. Not a bad thing, just not as unique perhaps.

I guess we can look back in thirty years and see what's become of the food and traditions at that point.