Talk:Stargazy pie

Served with clotted cream?
I have serious doubts about this. I just asked my Cornish friend Gail whether she'd ever heard of this, and she didn't stop laughing for several minutes. Her opinion: "Clotted cream goes on scones, and that's about it. I think someone's having someone on here." So - reputable citation, please! Kay Dekker (talk) 11:37, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Is your friend really Cornish or does she just live in Cornwall? To say that "clotted cream goes on scones and that's about it" demonstrates that she knows next to nothing about Cornish food and its history. Using the traditional method, clotted cream takes about 36 hours to make; do we really think that our forebears would go to all that time and effort to prepare something just to smear on a scone? By the way of course, the traditional cream tea used splits not scones, scones being a more recent variant as they are quicker and easier to make than splits which are basically a soft, slightly sweet bread roll. In less heath-conscious times, clotted cream was extensively used in Cornish cookery, not just as a topping for pies, tarts and puddings, but as an ingredient in pasties and pies. Additionally, people did put cream onto food in ways that we would now find unpalatable; my grandfather always put a spoonful of cream on a pasty and an uncle always put a dollop onto his breakfast fried eggs...in farmhouse kitchens such as my grandmother's, there was almost always a bowl of clotted cream on the table at meal times and everyone had their favourite way of eating it. We should not forget that the past is definitely "another country" and they did do things differently there; we should be aware that they did not, for a variety of reasons, share our prejudices and practices about food. Personally I would not eat stargazy pie with or without clotted cream (and it was in any case more of a celebratory or festival dish than an everyday meal, but we cannot state with any certainty that nobody ever put clotted cream on a helping of stargazy pie, just because we in the 21st century find the idea disgusting. (Maryjane22 (talk) 11:22, 4 March 2014 (UTC))

Yuck?
Honestly I feel as if the "opinion" presented in that NY news article is wholly misguided. They have Stargazy pie on the same list as scorpion on a stick and deep-fried river frog - perhaps someone forgot to mention to our dear American cousins that you don't actually eat the heads (well some might). Does this opinion belong in the article at all? I can also think of plenty more disgusting foods than what's on the list. They even listed a totally normal-looking squid. --Porthenys (talk) 14:55, 26 March 2013 (UTC)


 * One urban legend, if the term can be applied to Cornwall, has it that the dish is just an elaborate practical joke inflicted by the locals on unsuspecting tourists, and that no self-respecting Cornish type would actually eat it themselves, except as the result of a drunken wager. Mr Larrington (talk) 22:39, 13 May 2022 (UTC)