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Did oyu see that the NY times printed an article about a new sort of food? A sausage roll!

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BrendaandEddie · 08/11/2015 16:11

WHO KNEW the Yanks didn't have them!?
APparently we eat them on Boxing day, ..servants... something... Downton shit crap.

BUT THEY DONT HAVE THEM

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BrendaandEddie · 08/11/2015 16:12
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Katedotness1963 · 08/11/2015 16:15

I thought Americans called them pigs in blankets? I know I had something sausage roll like over there.

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BrendaandEddie · 08/11/2015 16:16

no read it - they are ' better than pigs in blankets'

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WhoTheFuckIsSimon · 08/11/2015 16:17

lol at the comment about using kosher salt in sausage rolls.

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ChipsandGuac · 08/11/2015 16:18

Pigs in blankets are available in every grocery store. They're made with kosher hot dogs although I don't know if that's more a NY thing or not.

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BrendaandEddie · 08/11/2015 16:19

BARF

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YoureAllABunchOfBastards · 08/11/2015 17:07

I'm off to New York to open a branch of Greggs - who's with me?

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SquinkiesRule · 08/11/2015 18:45

Theres nothing like a sausage roll in US, I used to make my own from fine ground pork and spices and then had to make puff pastry. I only did it a few times, too much faff when you are used to grabbing them off the shelf at the shop. So my poor children had to make do with pigs in blankets, made from hot dogs, chopped up and rolled in pieces of crescent roll dough and bunged in the oven. They were horrible but the kids liked them.

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patterkiller · 08/11/2015 18:50

Aren't pigs in blankets sausages wrapped in bacon though? A total different food group to sausage rolls.

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x2boys · 08/11/2015 18:56

well that does make sense now why sausage rolls feature heavily on buffets if it started with servants day off buffets!Grini.m with you YoureAllA BunchOfBastards we could introduce them to the delights of meat and potatoe pasties too!!Grin

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MitzyLeFrouf · 08/11/2015 18:57

I'd love to be discovering sausage rolls for the first time. Food of the gods.

Not the cheapo ones though. The gods don't eat them.

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MitzyLeFrouf · 08/11/2015 18:58

Good old 1970s snack taking Manhattan by storm. It's like Working Girl but with meat encased in pastry rather than Melanie Griffith.

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MitzyLeFrouf · 08/11/2015 18:59

(not that Melanie was encased in pastry)

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WhoTheFuckIsSimon · 08/11/2015 20:02

Maybe I should open a Gregs franchise in Manhatten, they would be queuing round the block.

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ButtonLoon · 08/11/2015 20:06

They don't have Scotch Eggs either, the poor dears.

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x2boys · 08/11/2015 20:27

i wonder what other stuff they dont have fish and chips? ,gravy ,vimto?

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HerRoyalNotness · 08/11/2015 20:33

They don't have decent meat pies. Several kiwis and Aussies have opened pie shops and ship all over the US. $35 shipping to Texas from NY sadly, but I might get tempted soon. The expats here all make their own sausage rolls. Easy to get good fish and chips and the various 'English' style pubs here

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HerRoyalNotness · 08/11/2015 20:33

at the

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HerRoyalNotness · 08/11/2015 20:34

... And no pork pies or Cornish pasties Sad

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wowfudge · 08/11/2015 20:37

Ha ha ha - trying to make a sausage roll sound classy!

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2tired2bewitty · 08/11/2015 20:41

Buttonloon I once had to intervene to stop a Jewish South African colleague trying a Scotch Egg at a buffet. He'd never seen them before Grin

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HandsomeGroomGiveHerRoom · 08/11/2015 20:42

I had a black pudding Scotch egg yesterday, it was bloody lovely.

I was in Wiltshire as opposed to Manhattan, which probably makes this less remarkable.

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HandsomeGroomGiveHerRoom · 08/11/2015 20:43

Excuse the pun, btw.

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Hassled · 08/11/2015 20:46

I'm still reeling from the news (thread a few days ago) that the Americans don't really eat lamb. I don't quite understand why it's caused me such astonishment, but it has.

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kelper · 08/11/2015 20:47

My uncle used to live in the states and missed pork pies above everything else.
He now lives in Dubai.......

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