Today, there are some 100 pasty businesses in Cornwall together producing around 120 million Cornish pasties a year.

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It means only pasties made in Cornwall can claim to be Cornish pasties, typified by being crimped on the side.

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Labour has condemned the way the government has dealt with planned VAT rises on Cornish pasties and static caravans as a "total shambles", following a reversal of the plans.

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Pasty Presto is another chain, with about 30 locations, mostly in the southwestern peninsula but also as far flung as Cambridge and Stratford-Upon-Avon, whose claim to fame is that all of its gourmet Cornish Pasties are baked in house at each location.

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