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Butte Pasties.  Once they were a staple, now they are scarce.
Butte Pasties. Once they were a staple, now they are scarce.
Butte Pasties. Once they were a staple, now they are scarce.
Ah, the Butte pasty.  Well, if we're being honest, it's not really ours.  Pasties are English, from Cornwall, England to be exact, but like a lot of things in Butte, true ownership sometimes is claimed by the whole town.  It's pronounced "PASS-tee", as anyone Uptown will tell you, although I had a roommate in college from Billings who insisted on calling it a "PASTE-tee".  Even