lighthearted "controversial" topics like pineapple on pizza

Sleeping with socks on or off
Cutting a sandwich in half (straight v. diagonal)
Pop v. soda v. coke

Ketchup on hot dogs

Cold pasties: Ketchup or butter, salt, pepper.
Hot pasties: gravy or ketchup.
If you say ketchup you are wrong.
If you use ketchup, I will never make pasties for you again.

gravy or sauce (red sauce on pasta)

HelenaJole   Did you know that the Pineapple & ham pizza originated in Canada?

Sweet or savory muffins

Cilantro= Good or evil?

How do you pronounce:
creek
coyote
coupon
envelope

Pasties are a thing in the northern parts of Michigan. Especially in the UP. They like a calzone filled with meat. And there’s some sauce involved. Sort of. I’m not a real Michigander, my husband is. 🤣. I didn’t know about them until I met him and he and his family of Yoopers gave me one.

Chocolate or vanilla

Yes! When they told me what the name was I blurted out “booby tassels!” 🤣🤭

Shoes on or off in the house?
Beans in chili, yes or no?
Dark chocolate or milk chocolate?
Crunchy or Creamy PB?
TP over or under?

I should have made this clear.
A butte pastie ( or closely related Cornish pastie), is a hand held meat pie. There is no sauce on the inside. It may be calzone shaped but it is nothing like a calzone. The crust is a special type of biscuit dough and there is no cheese.

Pasties are the food of miners. The original shape was a folded teardrop. The meat and potatoes were in the fat part and the dessert was in the bottom skinny part. When you folded the dough over the mixture, you rolled a thick edge, called the handle. This thick edge was never eaten, since it got dirty from the miner’s hand.

Today there is no dessert and no thick handle and the shape is now calzone shape. The one thing that stayed the same, is there is never ever ever grounded beef( hamburger) in a butte pastie... never ever. And a traditional butte pastie is always beef, potato and onion. And you never ever serve a butte pastie with ketchup. Always beef gravy.

And the pastie shop on diners, drive-ins and dives , is not a good place to go to get a pastie.

Blasphemy! NO Gravy! No no no no no! 

Pasties were made to give to miners. They're handheld pies. One side had savory (meat and vegetables), and the other end had fruit for a dessert. Gravy would make it all gross!

My grandma (also a Michigander) adapted the handheld pie recipe into a whole pie and our family has made it for generations. We only do the meat/veggie part. She was even published in the local newspaper with her recipe <3 There's a photo of her and my 5 year old mom making them. 

Boxers or briefs?

I have a wall quilt that is my Christmas tree.