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When did pigs in blankets become a thing?

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Apolloanddaphne · 17/12/2019 09:40

When I was growing up (in the 60's and 70's, east of Scotland) we had chipolatas and streaky bacon rolls but they were never wrapped together, they were cooked separately. Then suddenly they seemed to be wrapped together and called pigs in blankets. When did this transition happen? Was it always there and my family just missed the memo back in the day?

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Squigean · 17/12/2019 11:15

Always had them here too. Loved them as a child, made Christmas for me.

melonhead · 17/12/2019 11:19

Can't help re dates, but if you're at a loss over the festive season, may I suggest singing 'we're pigs in blankets' to the tune of 'Lost in music'?

caperplips · 17/12/2019 11:20

We never had them growing up in Ireland. In fact sausage nor bacon featured in my childhood Christmas dinners and still don't now. I can;t stand stuffing with sauagemeat in it. We make stuffing with breadcrumbs, melted butter, fresh mixed herbs and onion, salt and pepper and it is DELICIOUS!

I have never had 'pigs in blankets' and I never will on a Christmas dinner.

We have a full cooked breakfast featuring sausages and bacon on christmas morning and eat dinner in the evening so it would be doubling up those things in one day, and I really wouldn't fancy that.

We LOVE devils on horseback - streaky smoked bacon wrapped around prunes and baked till crispy, salty, smokey and sweet - amazing. But they are nibbles with drinks and never on Christmas day.

Squigean · 17/12/2019 11:21

Should add, don't recall if we called them 'pigs in blankets', recall it was something 'on horseback' possible my mum erroneously referred to them as devils on horseback (she has been know to make a few changers which she has upheld for a lifetime!!)

sarahjconnor · 17/12/2019 11:24

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tellmewhenthespaceshiplandscoz · 17/12/2019 11:27

Melon that's brilliant.

wendywoopywoo222 · 17/12/2019 11:29

Born 65 and always had them albeit not called pigs in blankets.

Our local chip shop is this year selling battered pigs in blankets. Oh my so naughty but so so nice.

frogsbreath · 17/12/2019 11:36

I was born in the 80s and we had them, but called them kilted sausages Grin

Aethelthryth · 17/12/2019 11:39

I still do separate bacon rolls and sausages, probably because I can't bring myself to use the twee name for the combination

ivykaty44 · 17/12/2019 12:17

Hmm. So no clear answer there. I am seeing my DM later. I will ask her if she recalls when the transition happened.

Sat asking my dad and he’s a Londoner - doesn’t remember them until the 1960

ethelredonagoodday · 17/12/2019 12:24

I'm in my 40s and we have always had them as far as I can remember!

ethelredonagoodday · 17/12/2019 12:26

But we just called them sausage wrapped in bacon... catchy hey?! 🤣

CaptainMyCaptain · 17/12/2019 12:27

I'm pretty sure I can remember them from my childhood (born 1955). There was also something called Devils on Horseback but I can't remember what they were.

Hovverry · 17/12/2019 13:11

They weren’t around when I was young, when sausages were the cheapest “meat” available. Supposed to be made from minced snouts and sawdust, you wouldn’t have had them on any festive menu.
The bacon was streaky rashers put across the turkey breast keep it moist. Necessary when my mother cooked the bird for 12 hours overnight.

burritofan · 17/12/2019 13:24

Agreed. We've always had separate sausages then the bacon done on top of the turkey towards the end.

Bacon wrapped around sausages is grim, the sausages don't get browned on the outside and the bacon isn't crispy inside. Don't understand the appeal.

Likethebattle · 17/12/2019 13:45

We always had them, I grew up in Scotland in the 80’s. Think the dog was the biggest fan, her favourite food wrapped in her other favourite food!

IHaveBrilloHair · 17/12/2019 13:47

My Mum did the bacon rolls and chipolatas separately too.
I do a meat based stuffing wrapped in bacon in chipolata shapes instead.

IHaveBrilloHair · 17/12/2019 13:48

I was born in 77 btw.

FightForYourRightToPourTea · 17/12/2019 13:49

We always had them, but my mum definitely called them either angels on horseback or devils on horseback...

Pilipilihoho · 17/12/2019 13:50

My mother has always made toad in the hole like this - sausage, mustard, wrap in bacon and then into the oven for a bit before the batter. Still doesn't call them pigs in blankets though!

SlightlyStaleCocoPops · 17/12/2019 13:56

I'm Scottish and I've never eaten one!

RightOnTheEdge · 17/12/2019 13:57

Devil's on horseback are prunes wrapped in bacon.
Angels on horseback are oysters wrapped in bacon.
I've never tried either as they both sound revolting.

SenecaFalls · 17/12/2019 13:57

In America pigs in blankets are hotdogs in dough, like a weird and wrong sausage roll.

Also little cocktail sausages wrapped in pastry are pigs in blankets in the US. It's odd to think of bacon as a blanket. More like pig wrapped in pig.

backouch · 17/12/2019 13:58

Since the 70's mum says. I had them on the 80's.

backouch · 17/12/2019 13:59

Called devils on horseback Smile