"Christopher M." > wrote in message
...
> I folded a slice of pizza around a piece of ham, and around a piece of
> chicken. It was pretty good.
>
> Folding pizza is new to me. Could someone explain the history of folded
> pizza to this pizza noob?

I can't help about the pizza but on a similar theme, Cornish pasties
originated as food for miners to take to work.

"Around the 18th or 19th century the cornish pasty came into existance. With
the development of tin and copper mining in Cornwall, the miners who worked
long hours in terrible conditions, needed a nutritious yet portable meal to
last them through the day.

The traditional cornish pasty contained beef mixed with potatoes onion and
turnip. Pasties could even have a savoury end and a sweet end, rather like a
two course meal. The pastie was filling and easy to carry. The crimp or
crust made it easy to hold in the fingers whilst eating the filling and then
discarding the crust. This was very important, the miners fingers were dirty
and worse, where there is tin there is often arsenic which is a highly
poisonous substance."

http://www.porthleven-online.com/gpage7.html

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