Remember that moment of cultural sharing we had with our American cousins over the concept of a “Cheeky Nando’s”? You know, that time they were all losing their minds trying to work out, a) what a Nando’s actually was, but mainly, b) what made it so cheeky?
Well it looks like we’re in for another instalment of Anglo-American confusion, except this time it’s over the humble sausage roll.
The carnage ensued when the New York Times tweeted a recipe for sausage rolls, labelling them “like pigs in a blanket, but so much better”.
http://twitter.com/nytimes/status/662556073589661696/photo/1
Cue massive confusion on all fronts. The tweet alerted American to the existence of the sausage roll, whilst their reaction alerted Brits to the fact that they aren’t a thing in the states.
Another twist in the tale is what Americans term pigs in blankets. To Americans these are frankfurters wrapped in a harder bread-based pastry, whilst to us these are chipolatas wrapped in bacon. Essentially pigs wrapped in a blanket of pig.
Sausage rolls, as you know, are sausage rolls. Check out the Twitter meltdowns below:
https://twitter.com/higureanghel/status/662563185375989760
https://twitter.com/RossBarbour/status/662557234182955008
A few Brits took it upon themselves to sabotage America’s new swine culinary revelation:
https://twitter.com/Mental_Bear/status/662573279148941312
And finally, the secret baking society that is Greggs was revealed:
What’s next? Grime becoming ‘Americanised’? Too late…
