Cassie would love this
After strolling past a bunch of closed stores in the Rows, we did come upon a little shop selling pasties. I had known about these little meat pies mainly because a shop back home in the Slate Belt advertised that they made authentic Welsh pasties. The ad stated that the poor miners couldn't afford to pack a lot of stuff to take into the mines for lunch so they instead made big loafs of dough stuffed with meat and veggies to eat while they worked. I decided to try a genuine English pastie for breakfast. I was starving. I nibbled on my pastie as we headed down another street into a restored arcade which now served as a shopping mall.
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