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

[BrendaandEddie]

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

cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017083-sausage-rolls?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

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

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

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

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.

BARF

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

(not that Melanie was encased in pastry)

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

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

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

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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... And no pork pies or Cornish pasties

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

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

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.

Excuse the pun, btw.

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.

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