
My former in-laws were from West Cornwall and my then mother-in-law (God rest her) like most Cornish women, regularly made her own pasties which were great. Mine overlapped the plate by inches on either side and swiftly became forever known as a Bismarck, despite my father in law (GRH) having been in the battle to sink the Bismarck in WW2 as a young sailor on the Prince of Wales.