I thought of that as a possibility but it doesn t make sense The Cornish word for pig is indeed hogh pl hoghes so we only have a narrow similarity with the word hoggan and anyway the dialect word is oggy or oggin The second point I may be wrong on this but I certainly never have heard of or eaten a pork pasty Variants on traditional pasties include lamb mutton fish or no meat and just potato swede and onion but not pork I found a recipe for a Pork and Apple pasty at but I doubt that this is a traditional recipe Pastied were the food of poorer people and usually had little meat in them at all why then the pork connection