User:Lilpisomojado/Jamaican patty

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A Jamaican patty is a semicircular pastry that contains various fillings and spices baked inside a flaky shell, often tinted golden yellow with an egg yolk mixture or turmeric. It is made like a turnover as it is formed by folding over the circular dough cutout over the chosen filling, but is more savoury and filled with ground meat. In restaurants' attempt to appeal to certain audiences, the patty has extended its composition to include soy, vegetables, and low-fat, whole wheat crusts.

Contemporary Usage
The Jamaican patty has undergone a shift in its audience over time. Chain food restaurants and brands such as Golden Krust are responsible the increased popularity of the patty in different countries other than Jamaica, such as the United States. Golden Krusts are primarily prevelant in Caribbean neighborhoods in New York City, but they extend to other states such as Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina. They were cited in 2015 to make 190,000 patties a day and more than 45 million a year. Other companies, such as the Tastee and Juici patty companies capitalized on the commercializaiton of the patty as well. Presently, patties can be found in non-traditional Jamaican restaurants such as pizzerias and even in public school-provided lunches. In fact, the New York public school system distributed more than three million patties throughout the 2016 fiscal year. Golden Krust patties are served in supermarkets and prisons as well as city schools.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal in 2015, the President and Chief Executive Lowell Hawthorne states that he desired to make the patty, among other Jamaican "fast foods" as popular as the burrito within mainstream society by 2020. In its nascent stages, the familial founders of Golden Krust faced struggles as Jamaican families tend to be very secretive about their respective patty recipes. The patties are made by machines and are no longer handmade. This shift in production further represents the commodification and commercialization of the patty as it enters the mainstream sphere.