I just saw on another site that sausage rolls are unknown in America?
Really? Wow. A way to eat pork you don't know about!
Really? Wow. A way to eat pork you don't know about!
You've never had a sausage roll?
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Phooey. Anyone who frequents Scottish Games in the US knows about sausage rolls. And there's a little place not far from my house that offers them regularly. I've eaten and enjoyed them there, but on the whole I'd rather have a pasty.
This started because of an article in the NYT describing them to their readers due to them featuring on Brit TV, I think. And this started a whole string of comments from Brits on the NYT site.
Pfft. My Mom used to make something similar from the time I was a kid (and that's a long time ago). Pre cook your sausages, wrap in biscuit (American biscuit) dough, and bake until the biscuit part is done. We called them "pigs in blankets".
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omg. so it's true. canada is overwhelmed by them everywhere and there are none in usa? funny thing, those borders.
Clicked on the link in MrsMig's post and YEP...
...I'd try one of them there lil hand-held pot pies - They look marvelous!
...I'd try one of them there lil hand-held pot pies - They look marvelous!
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You shut your mouth, battery.
I'm sure there are sausage rolls up in the border states, but further south? The good things don't get quite so far. I would imagine it's similar with the south and Mexican/tex-mex food and Mexican cola.
Oops. No one told me! Have been smuggling curds across the border for years to keep my men in poutine.
I've tried making home made sausage rolls but have never been able to get the pastry just right.
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As a Kiwi who moved here, yes they are unknown. Also the standard meat pie. I go back home to visit and eat mass quantities of both.
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Agreed. Keep up the good fight.
I do find it interesting that here we have German bratwurst, Polish sausages and kielbasa, Italian sausage, Mexican chorizo, but no British sausage rolls. Maybe we find them boring and they never caught on.
It is a tricky pastry. Takes quite a lot of fat to make it flaky. It's gorgeous when it works though.
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If one has ever eaten a proper sausage roll, while in possession of functioning tastebuds, one is not bored.
It's also nearly impossible to find anything here that a person from the British Isles would recognize as sausage. Which is why every time we travel to Ireland to visit my in-laws, our first stop on leaving the airport is a chipper, so my husband can get his fix of sausage rolls and chips.