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My grandfather was born in Butte. Both of his parents were Irish. He married my grandmother, who was born in Butte. Her parents were Welsh. Since his father and father-in-law were both killed young mining in Butte, my grandfather fled Butte to the Bay Area twice, once in the 20s and again during WW II. He always used ketchup on his pasties, something that disgusted my mother who, in her teens, would spend Sunday afternoons after church with the Welsh side of the family making pasties. I inherited my grandfather's preference of ketchup on pasties.