Eight in 10 Brits are eating Cornish pasties all wrong – so are you doing it right?

MILLIONS of people are eating their Cornish pasties the wrong way, research shows.

The baked goodies are designed to be held horizontally by the crimped edge, mocking the filling first.

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But almost 90 percent of us prefer to do things differently.

Almost half of pasty lovers – 47 percent – ​​hold them vertically and eat the crimped edge and the main paste together.

Another 14 percent eat the shrunken side first and save the rest for last.

Meanwhile, 25 percent do it in other unconventional ways, including cutting up with a knife and fork.

Only 14 percent got it right, according to a survey of 2,000 British adults by Ginsters.

The vast majority, 94 percent, also did not know that swede, onions and potatoes are used to make a real Cornish pasty.

Half (51 percent) believe carrots are part of the traditional recipe, when this is not the case.

Ginsters’ expert Graham Cornish said: “Back in the day Cornish miners held the pie by the crimp to eat it and threw away the crimped piece when they finished the main pie.

‘Legend has it that mythical fairies known as Cornish Knockers came to eat the tuck when the miners weren’t looking.

“But that’s the right way to eat them: doughy first and the crimped edge last.”

Britons eat 120 million Cornish pasties a year with 19 percent enjoying several per month.