Ok after hearing that highpoint of musicality from the UK charts, "We built this city on sausage rolls", it actually made me think what countries have sausage rolls as a common snack/lunch food, as it never occured to me that it asn't just a common thing in every country. I mean here in NZ, Sausage rolls, Filled rolls and various meat pies are or used to be a staple of lunch amongst the workers and I know I have been in a fug for the last 3 or 4 months as my favourite bakery hasn't been making sausage rolls as it is getting a refit, and the ones from other bakeries just don't taste right.

Just to be clear for anyone who is unfamiliar with a sausage roll, it doesn't technically have a sausage in it, its basically puff pastry wrapped around sausage meat then baked till its golden brown and delicious. Google it for a picture, oh and google the song to if you haven't heard it, i am old nough to remember the original

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Are sausage rolls a thing in your country

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oops should add NZ is New Zealand

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We have saucijzen broodjes and worsten broodjes, they are more subtle versions of sausage rolls. That's in the original Zeeland :P

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Those look so much better than corn dogs

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We have snacks in that shape and using the same dough/pastry, but they come with spinach (I may be addicted to those) or sauerkraut&mushroom filling. Never seen a version with meat

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Spinach is life

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spinach was life a year ago or so, here.

my current is life:

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:| maybe just a pleasant experience with artichokes on pizza, but I'm not really fond of it.

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ouch. never tried that way. guessing is not a good match, also.

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Goes pretty well with fish and mussels, but it was weirdly sour or something, could be their mistake.
Haven't tried it any other way, so not like I don't like it, I'm just wary :D

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you'd try a simpler way, like stew these frozen below, add parsley salt and maybe garlic. then let them play with your mouth when you drink some water... :D

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Canned artichoke and fresh do taste quite differently. The simplest way to eat artichoke is to just boil one whole, then when the "leafs" are easy to remove, you just remove it from the boil water. Put in on a plate, and then start removing the leafs one by one, and put a bit of butter on the bottom part, and just eat the fleshy bit that's stuck on those. Once you're nearing the center, and the leafs hardly have anything on them, just remove the entire flowery bit with a spoon or something, and eat the rest of the fleshy bit that's underneath with a spoon.

And that's way too much unsolicited artichoke advice.

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I'm always up for culinary advice :)

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Pizza Pirata
with Artichokes Anchovies olives capture and sweet pepper
is my Favorite Pizza :)

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uuh... i love that

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I just made spanakopita with self-made cheese

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Just had a bacon and cheese one for lunch over the Tasman ;-)

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I really like them in a moderate amount, not very healthy but eh. I've not seen one with veggies yet o.o

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Sausage rols don't generally contain any vegies (apart from onion).
Sometimes you get bakeries who try and be fancy and add bits of other vegies (sparsely) like carrots, etc., but that tends to ruin the purity.

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We have similar snack, but there is an actual sausage used. Also, I had to google it to understand what it is, because of language barrier. You should have added a picture.

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Yup thats exactly what I thought and did

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In our country (Ukraine) sausage rolls is a usual food. You can buy it on the streets like fastfood or in the cafe. By the way corndogs is very similar and tasty but not popular here.

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Stephen's Sausage Roll is a delicious game.

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Closest thing to a breakfast sausage roll is Jimmy Dean's Pancake and Sausage on a Stick and it is disgusting:

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They play that song over tinny speakers where I work so I always heard the lyrics as "we built this city on rock and roll"

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You're hearing the original, and those are the words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1b8AhIsSYQ

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The "sausage rolls" I know here in the US are Italian-American cuisine (and pretty delicious):

https://i2.wp.com/stlcooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/italian_sausage_rolls.jpg?zoom=2.625&w=696&ssl=1

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I've most commonly seen them in places labeling themselves as a "pub" or "Irish bar", as well as at Irish-themed festivals. If you're lucky enough to be in one of the seemingly extremely few places in the States with an actual bakery [hell, just finding a decent donut shop can be a pain], those should also have good odds for it. By virtue of the ingredients involved, any donut shop that carries both meat and pastry products can have some expectation of carrying them as well.

Following those, there'd be some small chance at finding them at any deli, cafe, bar, or Irish/UK themed restaurant.
You may occasionally find them at other festivals [eg, Renaissance] or at street vendors, as well.

Basically, they do exist here in the states with some slight regularity, but you have to put in the effort to hunt them down. :P

I think if you ask yourself "How likely is this place to carry shephard's pie, to have a really good baked good selection, or to specifically cater to giving alcohol-carrying drunks something edible to hold in their free hand that they probably won't be able to make too much of a mess of", then you'd probably get a decent good idea of the odds of the location having sausage rolls.
..really, just start with the drunk thing, and work backwards through those from there.

Italian places will also carry sausage rolls, but those tend to be rather more like Calzones and Strombollis, in that they're usually also filled with cheese and/or tomato sauce, and accented with italian seasonings. Likewise, those sausage rolls use pizza dough or bread dough, to the style of Calzones and Strombolli; Meanwhile, Irish/Uk sausage rolls utilize puff pastry or shortcrust pastry dough, making them much lighter, and with a less crispy exterior.

If you consider an even broader scope, pigs-in-a-blanket (croissant or biscuit dough, wrapped around hot dog or sausage) would be the easiest option to find in the states, as they're common to find among breakfast-oriented restaurants. If you're in Texas, you'd also want to be keeping an eye out for Kolaches (Technically, you'd actually be looking for Klobasnik, but I never heard anyone ever refer to them by anything other than Kolache). They were quite readily available in any of the multiple cities I lived in, there.

I might possibly have a tendency of checking out all the local bakeries, donut shops, and cafes when I visit a new location. :P
..and I swear I'm only hitting those Irish places 'cause I enjoy the food, okay? Really. :sips beer:

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"pigs-in-a-blanket (croissant or biscuit dough, wrapped around hot dog or sausage)"

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thats the first time ive heard of that done like that. usually its sausage wrapped in bacon for pigs in a blanket.

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We have sausage rolls here in Brazil too.

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Not really a national thing, but puff pastry filled with something sweet or salty is extremely widespread and popular in bakeries and supermarketsin recent years, it's good stuff (albeit relatively heavy on carbs, so not really the fills you up for long - type of food)

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The closest thing I can think of, we call them pigs in a blanket. It's basically just a sausage rolled in crescent or biscuit dough. Some people get fancier with them and add cheese and/or roll them in pretzel dough I haven't had them in years.

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I mean, clearly. After all, a non-idiot would have referred to themself as sandwich filling.
I mean, come on! You're a chef, being precise in how you refer to food is important.
Then again, most chefs probably also don't go around the kitchen wearing the food..

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<3

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in soviet russia, sausage roll eats you

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A Scottish lorne sausage roll with HP sauce is quite something!

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In Germany they are a thing now. Can actually get them freshly made (heated up) from ALDI the last few years.
The decades before that my mum was the only person who regularly made them and never saw them elsewhere.
Although there will probably will have been variations of it.

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It gives them since Dekades in Germany
they are called Würstchen im Schlafrock (Sausages in a dressing gown)
:)

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Ich spüre Denglish also antworte ich auf Deutsch ;)
Gemeint ist nicht ein Würstchen wie Bockwurst oder gar Bratwurst, sondern eher Fleisch (pastete) umhüllt von Blätterteig.
Je nachdem wie mann's macht kann es natürlich aussehen wie ein normales Würtschen, ist aber nicht Bedingung.

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Hungary, we have sausage rolls, but they are filled with hotdog rod instead of actual meat + mustard. I dont particalarly like them, they fill it with the poor quality type hotdogs

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Saucijzenbroodjes (sausage rolls) are pretty big here in the Netherlands.

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It's a long way to the shop if you want a sausage roll.

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Yep we have sausage rolls in the uk. Was so weird when I saw a picture of American's recreating it. They tried at least

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I can definitely imagine, especially since I just saw how Americans tried to put sausage rolls into Italian-American cuisine - being a Northern Italian, I'm seeing things I've never seen before in the whole Europe xD

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I'm Northern Italian and more specifically, I was born between the Appennine mountains and the Po river, so I don't know that much about the cuisine of areas such the borders with Switzerland or Slovenia.. anyways, "sausage rolls" as we know them are a typically English meal that can be found in Commonwealth nations such as Australia and so on, as far as I know.

Though, if we take them in a wider sense, meat wrapped in dough (or directly in pasta) is commonly found in the Roman sources for what concerns Italy. The main point is that the "English sausage rolls" as they are found nowadays, can be only linked to Commonwealth nations. In my mother's family line, coming from the mountains in Northern Italy, they use barely any kind of pasta and meat is consumed alone, like I found in my travels in the Germanic areas of Europe (in Innsbruck some months ago I had found a single meal in a Gasthaus that wasn't made of meat alone!) - on the other hand, my father's family line has a huge history of pasta and meat (everyone knows cuisine from Bologna, Modena and all these cities!).. but we really do not have the habit of wrapping meat in pasta or dough.

This may be something that went on from the Greek and Roman times in Central-Southern Italy, or in other parts of the country.. but here we don't have anything comparable to the English sausage rolls. Here, meat is mainly consumed as ragout or stew, with any kind of pasta (I think some "Bolognese" stuff is known outside Italy..) or, for what concerns tortellini and similar kinds of pasta, it's still minced/chopped meat put inside small pasta "containers". We rarely eat steaks alone (they come from Tuscany or other areas near my native region, mostly) and we eat sausages too, but as substitutes of second dishes - they are never thought as "street food". Just hot dogs and little else are seen as street food here, but of course they belong to other cultures.

The main point is that we don't have any kind of street food here. In Sicily, where my girlfriend was born, they have street food at every single corner when you walk in the cities and it's so common for them to eat there.. but if you visit our cities, you won't find a single shop selling street food - be it meat or anything else. We come from a society of farmers and knights, that united themselves into autonomous cities during the Middle Ages and every single city formed a territory of its own. Farmers ate what they produced, citizens went to shops and used to buy everything there and cook or have them cooked if they were nobles or clergymen.

Street food really has no links to my Northern Italian culture, so sausage rolls as they are intended in the Commonwealth/British sense are definitely never eaten here. There are surely other kinds of meat wrapped in pasta or dough, but I'd bet that almost anyone born here has ever heard of "sausage rolls" before :P (I over-simplified tons of things of course, I'm a medievalist and I tried to give a simple picture of the situation here!)

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there is definitely street food in Italy! these are the 1st ones that come to my mind:

caldarroste
mozzarella in carrozza
arancini
bomboloni
gnocchi fritti
galani
frittelle
cocco e altra frutta preparata
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IL GELATO DA PASSEGGIO!

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sì, infatti io cercavo di fare un discorso più legato alla mia terra.. alcune cose come "galani" non li ho mai sentiti nemmeno nominare xD e arancine, panelle, crocchette e tutte queste cose qui come dicevo si trovano dovunque in sicilia.. qui da me non è mai esistito lo street food, e quel poco che si trova ora è sempre etnico o comunque allogeno.. per motivi storici più che altro che ho cercato di riassumere, infatti la mia ragazza (di palermo città) qui ancora si trova straniata a passeggiare per città intere senza nemmeno una persona fuori a vendere qualsiasi tipo di cibo, da lei solo nella sua strada ce ne saranno 10 xD poi naturalmente non parlo magari dello stand che sta fuori a vendere kebab o piadine all'estragon.. =P ho riassunto un po' male la situazione di questa zona qui che conosco bene ahah

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:)
per curiosità qual'é la tua zona?
io sono originario del nordest.
i galani sono dei dolci veneziani del periodo di carnevale, così come le frittelle.
comunque sto Natale mi son preso una mozzarella in carrozza fatta nel tipico furgone ambulante a Mestre, la più cara che abbia mai comprato

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ah ecco, infatti ogni volta cerco anche di specificare più o meno da che parte vengo, anche se qui gran parte degli utenti sono americani o russi e non sanno granché di geografia xD
non conoscevo proprio quelle cose venete, io sono tra le province di modena e bologna e qui proprio non c'è la concezione di street food, volevo evitare di fare discorsi storici noiosi e lunghi anche se nessuno mi legge xD Comunque qui abbiamo anche piatti come le tigelle e il gnocco ma si mangiano solo a casa o ai ristoranti, non trovi da nessuna parte bancarelle tipo in sicilia, o in altre zone come immagino sicuramente anche più a nord (infatti dicevo che non posso parlare per le alpi o il friuli xD)
al massimo qui trovi tipo kebabbari o a volte in qualche posto vendono piadine (che è roba romagnola e molto distante da qui xD) che però sono sempre come i cinesi che aprono i ristoranti giapponesi, cioè gente di qua/del sud che vende piadine e simili a caso per strada, là è una roba super turistica.. qui puoi passeggiare per modena e bologna per chilometri senza trovare un singolo venditore di cibo in strada mentre a palermo ce n'è uno ogni cinque metri xD
sono di un paese che steam per qualche motivo non ha quindi ho lasciato solo la regione ahah presto però passo per venezia e non vedo l'ora, la mia ragazza studia a ferrara e siamo venuti a padova qualche settimana fa, tutto un altro mondo =P

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ma non è una fatica immensa pronunciare IL gnocco?

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no assolutamente, ne parlavo ieri sera mentre rispondevo con la mia ragazza ahah xD è che in dialetto noi abbiamo un solo articolo determinativo singolare maschile, in pratica non esiste "lo", quindi le cose più nostrane tipo il gnocco in dialetto si dicono appunto "il gnocco" e ci viene naturale pronunciarle e scriverle così xD non esiste un corrispettivo di "lo" perché ogni parola che in italiano ha "lo" noi in dialetto la diciamo con "il" xD quindi faccio tutti questi errori ormai senza pensarci apposta perché credo che la lingua debba sempre cambiare e adattarsi ahah

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