National Sausage Roll Day and an American Translation

Depending on where you grew up, this photograph may not look like a sausage roll at all.

In the United Kingdom, a sausage roll is typically made with sausage wrapped in puff pastry and baked until golden brown. In the United States, most people looking at this photograph would probably call them pigs in a blanket.

Different names, similar idea.

Today’s photograph features a pile of pigs in a blanket from my Commercial Food Photography collection.

National Sausage Roll Day originated in the United Kingdom, which explains the name. Since my collection didn’t include a traditional British sausage roll, pigs in a blanket seemed like the closest American relative.

Whether you call them sausage rolls or pigs in a blanket depends largely on where you happen to be standing when you order them.

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