Sausage roll row: US 'invents' new summer snack

[cronus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40392410

Sausage roll row: US 'invents' new summer snack

There has been a British outcry on social media after a US chain claimed to have invented a new summer snack that looks suspiciously like a sausage roll.
Supermarket Trader Joe's has called it the "Puff Dog".

Los Angeles-based lifestyle website Hello Giggles said it was "genius"
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However, the UK's The Mirror newspaper was less impressed. "Sausage roll given ridiculous new name," read its headline on Saturday.
Although other European countries also have a centuries-old fondness for meat wrapped in pastry, the UK has made the sausage roll its own.
British bakery chain Greggs sells more than 2.5 million of them every week.

It is typically a pork sausage wrapped in puff pastry, although the Puff Dog has opted to use beef.

(continued, why people doubt the moonlandings...)

[tattuchu]

A hot dog wrapped in pastry like that is called a Pig-in-a-Blanket here. "Puff Dog" is simply Trader Joe's name for their individual product. Regardless, if it doesn't have a sausage in it then it can hardly be called a sausage roll, now can it?

Much ado 'bout nothing

[Rum]

Pigs in blankets here are small sausages wrapped in bacon and then cooked in the oven, most commonly at Christmas as part of a traditional lunch. Often the best part!

[tattuchu]

Pigs in blankets here are small sausages wrapped in bacon and then cooked in the oven, most commonly at Christmas as part of a traditional lunch. Often the best part!

I love sea scallops wrapped in bacon. I don't know if that has a special name. I only know that I love them!

Mushrooms wrapped in bacon are quite nice as well

[Hermit]

Mir ist das alles Wurst

[Tyrannical]

Sausage wrapped in square white bread is an abomination.

[Brian Peacock]

I thought Puff Dog was a gay rapper.

[Collector1337]

Pigs in a blanket is not new... nor is this "news."

Nice slide thread.

[Tyrannical]

I thought Puff Dog was a gay rapper.

Would be dawg. But don't follow rap.

[Brian Peacock]

In Russia rap follows you.

[JimC]

Bron makes sensational home-made sausage rolls, much better than any bought ones...

And remember, it's a long way to the shop of you want a sausage roll!

[Scot Dutchy]

You cant beat a Dutch sauzijnenbroodje:

[laklak]

I make 'em at home all the time with frozen puff pastry sheets and any old sausage.

[Alan B]

Even Black Pudding?

[Brian Peacock]

Racist. You mean 'Pudding of colour'?