Wizarding World Fauna and Potions for Muggles

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 79610

> The Sergeant Majorette says
> 
> One of the things I find fascinating about JKR's work is that her 
> invention is so seamlessly interwoven with sometimes odd reality 
that 
> you can't always tell when she's kidding:<snip>
> 
> I also waste a lot of time wondering which of her foods is real 
and 
> which are part of her 'magical' universe. If I didn't know better, 
> I'd think that spotted dick was a joke, and are pumpkin pasties 
just 
> pumpkin pies?
> 
> --JDR

Well, what I know about pasties comes from Lilian Jackson 
Braun's "The Cat Who ..." mysteries, so for what it's worth:

Pasties (pronounced pass-tees in L.J.B.) are apparantly a real food 
consisting of meat, vegetables and gravy wrapped up in a shapeless 
dough and cooked (I forget how).  Think more like a biscuit or 
dumpling rather than a pie crust -- this is filling food for a 
laboror to take for his lunch and eat out of hand, not a dessert.  
It would go good if you were riding on a train all day, too!  ;)

Annemehr