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

Sausage roll and salad? You're having a laugh! What madness is that?

I knew the yanks were weirdos

Top tip: Co-op's sausage rolls (the "fresh ones") are nearly as my Grandma's were.

I love sausage rolls and cheese scones.

The gravy you have with biscuits and gravy is properly made with sausage in it. My guess is that if you like sausage rolls, you would like biscuits and gravy, a staple of Southern cuisine.

Biscuits and gravy is rank.

Nasty scone thing in a weird white sauce.

And nothing like a sausage roll!!!!

Yy to using favourite sausages in sausage rolls, just deskin them first

I think blackcurrents would probably be hard to grow here. The climate is very different here compared to the UK. Here on the east coast its very hot and humid over the summer months. Not great for berries and its why strawberries here often taste of nothing. They grow to quick!

When I lived in NY, my flatmate used to treat us to a sausage roll from Myers if she was feeling flush. They were more expensive than a packet of fags. Outrageous.

You can't really buy different flavours of cordial/squash/diluting juice/whatever over there and we missed that loads. You could get Ribena in Chinatown, though, or in the Asian aisle of our local supermarket.

Blackcurrants were banned in many stars until about 10 yrs ago. It was to do with a disease that killed loads of pine trees, IIRC, that spread via blackcurrant to tree. Previous to that, they had been banned for well over a century, so there is no real blackcurrant heritage or cultivation or nostalgia, like we have here.

States. As in US States. Not stars.

I don't think the article is claiming they're new.

Biscuits and gravy are nice when homemade (actually they are a bit similar to the taste of sausage rolls in a way) my American friend made them for us and said homemade tastes totally different to restaurant bought versions.

I guess it makes sense that sausagerolls aren't that much of a thing since sausages can be tricky to get hold of too.

I was once asked to supply sausage rolls for a vair vair posh cricket tea.
I laid out my offerings from Asda on a silver platter.
One of the players wives came and asked for my recipe for the lovely sausage rolls and how did I make them.
She was when I said they were shop bought
you could tell she had never bought a sausage roll in her life

Or she was taking the piss?

R.e. the cheese conment above, I was once helping out with a summer school for students from a pretty provincial US university. They went to an open-air theatre production and got to take picnic food. One of the boys had bought a block of medium white cheese from Saintsbury's, nothing special. He went on for ages about how amazingly flavourful it was.

My MIL asked my DH what breakfast foods I liked when we went for a visit. She ended up having to buy Marmite from the 'foreign foods' section of the supermarket.

That said, American Philadelphia is the most amazing thing ever. It's like British Philly on illegal steroids.

brenda no she definitely wasn't taking the piss
she had hand baked croissants and served them with homemade strawberry jam and she had chocolate dipped strawberries and a gold plate (to be fair not real gold!!) For each player
I was a bit

My friend in Arkansas eats weird stuff and she thinks I eat weird stuff so we constantly end up emailing things like What the Hell is X? She eats catfish and - wait for it- Squirrel.
She also can't spell doughnuts correctly

Provisionally I like your authentic use of the word 'flavourful' as opposed to y'know, just 'tasty'. Crops up a lot when watching 'Triple D' on food network!

You can get excellent cheese at any of our local supermarkets. It isn't cheap but it is there. Americans are a lot more price sensitive to food compared to Brits. It's hard for them to spend £3 on what looks like a small piece of cheese compared to the huge block of cheddar they can get from the dairy aisle.

I also think the US doesn't have squash (as in the dilute Robinsons orange, not the veg). Obviously no Ribena with the blackcurrant/squash double whammy.

We had some American friends who came to visit. We took them out for a cream tea, and they were a bit surprised by what was served them; they'd tried to make their own before coming to get them in the English mood, and thought it was just a cup of tea made with cream rather than milk .

They were pleasantly surprised by the real thing.

I've just begun seeing "Fruit Shoot" in the kiddlie drinks aisle and after seeing it mentioned on here I'm sorely tempted to grab a handful. Or would that be a bit too much like a grownup drinking juice boxes?

are you in america Proginoskes have you never had fruitshoot? dont expect it to taste anything like the fruit it is supposed to be its very sweet but you might like it!