Cornwall Flag for St Pirans day
Today is St Pirin’s day (or St Piran’s Day) so there’ll no doubt be a proper home made Cornish pasty waiting for my tea.
Rather than the kilted Kernewek revivalists parading in Truro’s cobbled high streets, I’ll post my photo of the Giant Bolster from the St Agnes Carnival last summer.
But can you make a home made Cornish Pasty outside of Cornwall for St Piran’s day now that the EU have granted special Protected Geographical Indication status to the Cornish Pasty?
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“many observers noted the large consumption of alcohol and food during ‘Perrantide’……. The phrase ‘drunk as a perraner’ was used in 19th century Cornwall to describe people who had consumed large quantities of alcohol.”
(wikipedia)
No pasties but perhaps there’s a bottle of St Cuby’s in the fridge. Which is very lucky for you as they are out of stock at the website!
this is the greatist carnival i have ever been to the atmosphere is amazing with children and adults local and tourist gettin in to it what ever the weather. i will be there next year having a great time in one of the pubs
To Dan Herbert from ftorange.com who emailed me asking
Your email return address is broken.
For St Piran’s Day to become a bank holiday in Cornwall there first needs to be an English Parliament for her to decide on giving the Cornish people a referendum/vote on the matter. Also first I want to see St George’s Day to become an official bank holiday for the whole of England before St Piran’s Day for Cornwall…
Where did you get “Pirin” from?! Never heard of that one.
Janus, the powers of the Cornish Stannary Parliament to override Westminster legislation in Cornwall has never been repealed so they could give us a bank holiday. No English parliament required.
Yeah yeah. And some people thought they could use the Stannary Parliament to find a legal way to avoid the Poll Tax rather than joining in the mass campaign of civil disobedience which brought down Thatcher.
The spelling of St Pirin is probably taken phonetically from a common pronunciation, but St Piran and St Perran are probably more often seen.
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