I'm trying to introduce meat pies and sausage rolls to the US, but it's not working. The one place in the SF Bay Area that you could get 'em (The New Zealander in Alameda) closed down recently.

Luckily I'm on the east coast next week and I hear there's a pie shop in New York City.

The upper peninsula ("U.P.") of Michigan is the place to get pasties in the United States. It's almost the only region of the United States that includes people who know how to pronounce "pasty."

http://kenanderson.net/pasties/michigan.html

http://www.upper-peninsula-now.com/pasties.html

http://www.exploringthenorth.com/foods/north.html

I've had a pasty in the U.P., and I'd be glad for pasties to become more generally available in the United States. As it is, my wife (who is Taiwanese) makes homemade meat pies, to surprisingly good effect from someone who didn't grow up eating them.

I'm trying to figure out the American resistance to meat pies. I mean, we have corn dogs here.

I don't get it. Is it the prejudice against British food? (I love some good fish and chips every once in a while.)Satisfaction with burgers and fries? Lack of imagination? Not enough exposure?

What is it?

You heard right. It's called Tuck Shop and has 3 locations downtown. 1 in chelsea market, 1 on st. marks (8th st) and 1 on 1st st and 1st ave. Really great meat pies.

We recently discovered empanadas (if you're in the Bay Area, buy 'em frozen at the Milk Pail). Surprisingly similar to pasties.