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Sausage roll recipe causes confusion in America
Along with the meat pie, the humble sausage roll has long been part of Australia's cuisine culture but it appears the pastry wrapped mince meat is something of a novelty in the US.
When the New York Times ran a recipe for sausage rolls, confusion broke out with American readers utterly bewildered by the dish. Perhaps they were misled by the description of sausage rolls, which claimed they were a traditional treat for the British on Boxing Day.
"They are always welcome, especially at holiday time. Boxing Day, a national holiday in Britain, celebrates the traditional post-Christmas servants' day off, when upper-class families were forced to fend for themselves and subsist for a day on a lavish buffet of leftover feasts from the week. Sausage rolls are often part of the spread." Confusion swiftly ensued on both sides of the Atlantic. Just as the Americans were baffled about this previously secret snack, the Brits were equally puzzled to learn that sausage rolls are off the mainstream menu in the US.
@lakehylias whats a sausage roll. is it a rolled sausage
— filthy acts at (@higureanghel) November 6, 2015
As soon as British readers overcame the shock of discovering that sausage rolls are, indeed, not a thing in the US, the sarcasm flowed.
Just as well no one started the tomato sauce versus ketchup conversation otherwise things could have become really messy.
Do the Poms call it "tomato sauce"? I thought I'd heard it called "ketchup" in the UK. Certainly on the Continent it's called "ketchup". The Dutch, for example, call it "ketjap". I personally think "ketchup" is a better name for the tomatoey glop that you squirt over a sausage roll, 'coz tomato sauce, as in a sauce made from tomatoes, it ain't!!
I never tried sausage rolls in the UK but I wouldn't be surprised if they were vastly superior to the excruciatingly awful reflux-inducing Australian version. If your only experience of grab-it-'n'-run food wrapped in pastry is in Australia then the UK has a lot to teach you. Take the humble pasty. Now in Australia I'd never thought much of pasties as a takeaway food of choice. They tend to be factory-made, full of chemicals and wrapped in inferior puff pastry. Then I went to Cornwall and saw shop after shop in Cornish villages displaying the most wonderful looking pasties. It was the pastry that caught my eye first, not puff pastry but a type of shortbread pastry. I went in and asked for a pasty. The guy behind the counter heard my accent and the way I'd said "pahsty" and scoffed: "We don't sell "pahsties", but you should try a genuine Cornish pasty!" He rhymed the /a/ in "pasty" with "cat" and not "cart". I did, and I'll never eat another "pahsty". But back to sausage rolls. They play havoc with my digestive system so I tend not to have them. However because I do some voluntary teaching at the U3A in downtown Adelaide I've discovered a little place in the Hutt Street precinct that actually makes its own sausage rolls. No chemicals! They are delicious. I must try one in the UK when I go there in a few months time. I bet they're better than here.
Sausage roll recipe causes confusion in America
Along with the meat pie, the humble sausage roll has long been part of Australia's cuisine culture but it appears the pastry wrapped mince meat is something of a novelty in the US.
When the New York Times ran a recipe for sausage rolls, confusion broke out with American readers utterly bewildered by the dish. Perhaps they were misled by the description of sausage rolls, which claimed they were a traditional treat for the British on Boxing Day.
"They are always welcome, especially at holiday time. Boxing Day, a national holiday in Britain, celebrates the traditional post-Christmas servants' day off, when upper-class families were forced to fend for themselves and subsist for a day on a lavish buffet of leftover feasts from the week. Sausage rolls are often part of the spread." Confusion swiftly ensued on both sides of the Atlantic. Just as the Americans were baffled about this previously secret snack, the Brits were equally puzzled to learn that sausage rolls are off the mainstream menu in the US.
@lakehylias whats a sausage roll. is it a rolled sausage
— filthy acts at (@higureanghel) November 6, 2015
As soon as British readers overcame the shock of discovering that sausage rolls are, indeed, not a thing in the US, the sarcasm flowed.
Just as well no one started the tomato sauce versus ketchup conversation otherwise things could have become really messy.
Do the Poms call it "tomato sauce"? I thought I'd heard it called "ketchup" in the UK. Certainly on the Continent it's called "ketchup". The Dutch, for example, call it "ketjap". I personally think "ketchup" is a better name for the tomatoey glop that you squirt over a sausage roll, 'coz tomato sauce, as in a sauce made from tomatoes, it ain't!!
I never tried sausage rolls in the UK but I wouldn't be surprised if they were vastly superior to the excruciatingly awful reflux-inducing Australian version. If your only experience of grab-it-'n'-run food wrapped in pastry is in Australia then the UK has a lot to teach you. Take the humble pasty. Now in Australia I'd never thought much of pasties as a takeaway food of choice. They tend to be factory-made, full of chemicals and wrapped in inferior puff pastry. Then I went to Cornwall and saw shop after shop in Cornish villages displaying the most wonderful looking pasties. It was the pastry that caught my eye first, not puff pastry but a type of shortbread pastry. I went in and asked for a pasty. The guy behind the counter heard my accent and the way I'd said "pahsty" and scoffed: "We don't sell "pahsties", but you should try a genuine Cornish pasty!" He rhymed the /a/ in "pasty" with "cat" and not "cart". I did, and I'll never eat another "pahsty". But back to sausage rolls. They play havoc with my digestive system so I tend not to have them. However because I do some voluntary teaching at the U3A in downtown Adelaide I've discovered a little place in the Hutt Street precinct that actually makes its own sausage rolls. No chemicals! They are delicious. I must try one in the UK when I go there in a few months time. I bet they're better than here.
