For those few who wouldn't know otherwise, "pasties" is NOT PAY-stees, but PASS-tees.

As to rutabaga, I can't stand rutabaga in anything except pasties. In pasties it's got enough other flavors that the pure rutabaga flavor is sort of balanced away.

When I was a kid, my grandmother, with whom we lived, knew she would make me cry by serving mashed rutabaga. I knew I would be required to eat some, which seemed like poison to me. And it would today, too, I think. Everyone else in the house thought it a treat, for some unfathomable reason.

Dave Oesterreich