I initially read this as pasties. In fact, I'm gonna keep reading it that way.
Have you ever been to the UP of Michigan? Pasties (pronounced past-eez, not paste-eez) are a big thing up there.....I believe it's an Eastern European thing. Meat, veggies, cheese, are all baked into a pastry crust, kind of like a pie.
But you drive around the towns in the UP and there are signs everywhere saying "Pasties for Sale." The first time I saw this, I thought, "This must be where all the strippers live."

