A party pastie is an Australian term for a miniature pastie — a small, crimped pastry parcel filled with meat and vegetables, bite-sized and intended for serving at parties as finger food.
A party pastie is an Australian term for a miniature pastie — a small, crimped pastry parcel filled with meat and vegetables, bite-sized and intended for serving at parties as finger food. Where a regular pastie is a meal in itself, a party pastie is the canapé version: two bites, pass the plate. A staple of Aussie barbecues and casual gatherings.
She put out a tray of party pasties and they were gone before she got back to the kitchen.
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(Australia) A small meat pie intended as a party snack.
(Australia) A small sausage roll intended as a party snack.
(informal, UK) A 2012 British controversy around taxation of hot snacks such as pasties, where Conservative ministers were said to be out of touch with the eating habits of ordinary people.
(UK, informal) The British tax on hot snacks, proposed in 2012, that led to the Pastygate controversy.
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(AU) A small pastie intended as a party snack.
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