Roy's Pasties & Bakery
Just a passing observation on reading the reviews of
Roy's Pasties & Bakery (and feel free to pass my sentiments on to Roy's):
I see several reviewers have expressed their disappointment on learning that Roy's adamantly
refuses to serve gravy with their pasties, because
"that's not traditional".
What a helluva imperious, arrogant sumbitch!
Perhaps they've never heard that "the customer is always right," and the way to succeed in business is to give the customer what they want, not "It's our way or the highway".
Furthermore, in several of the tacky responses to customer reviews, one of Roy's representatives has used the term "
pastie" (singular). (I could excuse this on the part of an unknowledgeable visitor from da hinterlands outside da Yoop.) But from Roy's themselves? Hello?
And they wanna talk "traditional"? Did they just fall off the turnip truck? It's "
pasty" (singular) and "
pasties" (plural), fer god's sake. If yer lookin' for a "
pastie", maybe you need to visit Hurley, WI.
Being a pasty traditionalist[SUP]1[/SUP] myself, I would have to agree that gravy with pasties is almost sacrilegious, yet I have to wonder if perhaps Roy's is the Yooper equivalent of
Seinfeld's (click →)
"Soup Nazi".
Paging (click →)
Gordon Ramsay (Kitchen Nightmares)!
[SUP][1[/SUP] In spite of being a pasty traditionalist, and desperately craving pasty out in da Airyzony desert (In years past I've had to resort to making my own!) , in addition to the traditional pasty I've found some incredibly delicious variations (slight shudder at the thought) at the
Cornish Pasty Co. in Tempe, AZ (now also in Mesa, Scottsdale, and even Las Vegas!) Check out their menu! Yummy, perhaps, but I struggle to call them "pasties". They sure ain't "my grandma's pasties"! But this serves as a shining example of how to keep and honor "tradition" while also
giving the customers what they want — and smiling all the way to the bank!
Heed the example, Roy's!]
