There is outrage in Britain at the claim that the American
grocery store chain, Trader Joe's, has invented a new food product. As
their website says;
"Trader
Joe’s…. takes this classic dog-meets-dough pairing to the next
level: each uncured, all-beef dog is instead swaddled in a perfectly
flaky-when-cooked puff pastry". Trader Joe's calls their new invention
"the Puff Dog".
British people will recognise this as a sausage roll. Available
in every bakers and very much a staple food here. The sausage roll
became popular in this country during the Napoleonic Wars so over two hundred
years before Trader Joe's "invented" it.
My good lady works in the town of Kilmarnock and once told
me that that she saw a baby in a pram there eating a Gregg's sausage roll by holding
it above itself supporting the roll with its hands
and feet!
Talk about creative liberties.
ReplyDeleteWe used to eat sausage rolls all the time in British Columbia. One of my favorites. But to just use a hot dog and not a real sausage, blasphemy in itself. Those "puff dogs" look like a poor substitute - and that is coming from a Trader Joes fan.