What do they call sausage rolls in America?
We have sausage rolls in New York – we can get them at the pizza restaurants. It’s just sausage, onion, peppers wrapped in dough and baked in a pizza oven. The question is, what are sausage rolls like in the UK? Because we sometimes have different words for the same thing – you say torch, we say flashlight. (We have torches, but they have real flames.) So what are sausage rolls like in the UK? We might not have that, or we might have a different word for that. According to Wikipedia, in the UK they use puff pastry, and the sausage meat is blended with onion and egg. So no, we don’t have that in the US. But a frankfurter inside puff pastry is called a “pig in a blanket” sometimes.
Sausage rolls as you know them in the UK are not commonly available in the US. When we do buy them in specialty stores, they’re called sausage rolls or pasties. Stromboli is similar, with an Italian twist, but not the same as the British sausage roll. Pigs in a blanket are a whole different thing altogether.
