The Pasty Project

Pasty Maker Questionnaire

Name:

- Shelden Narhi (Festival Foods)

Age:(if you don’t mind answering)

-60

Where did you first learned to make pasties? and from whom?

- Houghton Parkside, from Paul Svon

How long have you been making pasties?

-12 years for Festival Foods, more than that elsewhere (he couldn't

remember)

How many pasties do you think you have made?

- 800 a week * 52 weeks/yr * 12 years = 499,000

What is the greatest number of pasties you have made at one time?

- 1200

How many pasties has one person been able to eat at one sitting?

- 2

Comment on the prices of the pasty(from past to present).

- 12 years ago they were $.99

Do they ever get tired of making/eating the pasties?

- NO!!, I've got discipline, the reason most people that make pasties today are older, is because the younger people don't have the patience for assembly line work. I don't look at it as assembly line work, I try to

think of improvements as I make them.

What do people seem to like to put on their pasty?

- Ketchup

What is the weirdest thing you have ever seen put in/on a pasty?

- Mustard

What would you like to see included in an online information center on the pasty?

- Historic Information