"SWEDISH VALHALLA = PASTIES ! " ("borrowed" from the Cornish miners)

From Dar Hanson

A HANSON TRADITION

Here is an original "pasty" shop on U.S. 41 in Marquette, Michigan- the very road where RUDY'S childhood home was, OTTO & GREAT GRAM KRISTINA'S homestead too... this shop was one of many in Michigan's upper peninsula. Rudy's cousin "Auntie Verle" claims nowdays the best pasties are made at the Lion's Club or the church where the old guard knows what they're doing ( LARD for the crust- crisco for the wimps).. dad's other cousin,"Auntie Leona" is 91 and still drives herself to church during pasty week to do her volunteering- she puts the fresh pasties in a sack for those to go & refers to herself as the "Bag Lady" of pasties. Occasionally my brother Dean will bring me a few from a Cornish family joint up by his place- we make a joke- if he does something particularly good to help his old sister, I say "I **PASTY** love you for that!".....I know this post will make all the Hansons DROOL.."I'll have mine with lotsa 'Stokleys' catsup and whole milk in a jelly glass"........

Click on "pasty shop" or the logo to visit their home page. Some fun pictures there.