Comments on: The Oggie Man

By: Pewter

Pewter — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:29:15 +0000

Must be an imposter Muzza; he’d never show such lack of respect to a lady that’s shown him nothing but kindness.

By: Diana

Diana — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:28:33 +0000

@Muzza: You never know but one thing I am certain of it was not you in one of your many disguises. You would never be so rude.

By: Muzza(NW Surrey-UK)

Muzza(NW Surrey-UK) — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 09:47:37 +0000

@Diana…………..I can’t believe that was the real Reinhard!

By: Diana

Diana — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 06:55:36 +0000

How polite you are this morning Reinhard. Thanks a bundle. I always thought you were a gentleman – how wrong I was!

By: Reinhard

Reinhard — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 04:21:19 +0000

And how is this information pertinent to folk music? Diana, use Facebook or whatever for your silly chatter but please stop bothering us with it here.

By: Diana

Diana — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:28:22 +0000

@Reinhard: My son has just returned from a few days in Berlin and among his photos he has one wih a signpost pointing to “Reinhardtstralze” – fame at last then!

By: Diana

Diana — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 06:52:52 +0000

A rather strange song – but it does help to know what an “oggie” is, or else one would be really baffled by this. Short and sweet!

By: John Biggs (Welsh Marches)

John Biggs (Welsh Marches) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 22:57:03 +0000

On revisiting this song I remembered that in America, pasties are the small, self adhesive circles of tinsel that strippers use as a minimal covering of the breasts. I suddenly had this vision of a strip club in Plymouth where girls wear…..no, let us not go there ! And Simon would probably ban me.

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:15:23 +0000

Nev, check this out, I'm not sure it makes things particularly clear, but this seems to be a particularly Cornish thing. Pasties do seem to be from Cornwall and doubtless crossed the border into Devon but all of the language associated with them seems to be from the South West and Cornwall in particular. I was near Tavistock and went down to Plymouth and there is an Oggy chain down that way, probably leaking across the border. The things are of course ubiquitous fast food these days, but that is very much a C21st development, but most of the branding still tries to link with Cornwall for authenticity by association. I doubt, however, that any self respecting Cornish tin miner ever took a cheese, tomato and basil pasty down pit!! Dare I say it, but at the end of the day they are only pies and they are made in various styles right across the UK.

By: nev perry

nev perry — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 10:38:07 +0000

Thanks for that simon. Yes the link was very informative. Were these ‘oggies’ just ordinary pasties? Sorry to show my ignorance here! I’ve never heard of them. Way back in the mid 70s I would regularly attend the folk club in Portsmouth held in what was then known as the Centre Hotel near to ‘Ladies mile’ Southsea. I remember this song being sung but I can’t remember by who and didn’t really appreciate what the song was about. Does any one know whether these ‘oggie men’ were ever seen outside the east dockyard gate at Portsmouth selling their wares to the dockies and military personel or were they just peculiar to Devon?