Are They Phœnician Delicacies?

Mr. John Pollock says ‘In my youth every knowing man and boy put a meat pasty in his pocket when going for a day’s tramp or hunt on Dartmoor. But what of the form of the pasty? Why this; it was not unlike two Phrygian caps put together at their base. In other words it was like a quarter moon with somewhat blunted horns—in fact the emblem of Astarte, goddess of the Phœnicians.’