Who doesn’t love a suasage roll? Especially home baked sausage rolls like you can get from The Village Kitchen but did you know the history of the sausage roll?

Well, according to one article on Seven Bites they write that “Wrapping meat in pastry dates back to the Ancient Greeks and Romans, but the modern sausage roll is thought to have originated in 19th Century France.”

Sausage rolls became popular in London around the 1800s as a cheap street food, and soon became a quintessentially British snack.

Sausage rolls became popular in the UK back around 1800 as a cheap street food

Sausage rolls were originally made with shortcrust pastry. According to WI guidelines, only sausage rolls made with flaky pastry should have a seam at the side, otherwise the seam should be underneath the roll.

The Yorkshire Evening Post wrote that ‘The longest sausage roll in the world was made by King Pie in South Africa and measured 111.11 metres.’

The New York Post wrote that “America has claimed it has come up with an amazing new invention called the “puff dog,” a sausage wrapped in pastry.

This has left some Brits wondering if the Americans mean they have “invented” a sausage roll — originally a British savory snack popular throughout Commonwealth nations including Australia.

US supermarket Trader Joe’s just released the puff dogs, which they say is “a twist on the classic dog-meets-dough pairing of the hot dog” and “instead swaddled in a perfectly flaky-when-cooked puff pastry.”

People in the UK are furious their idea has been ripped off.

The British claim the US has already butchered television shows like “The Inbetweeners” and “Fawlty Towers” and now they claim Americans are doing it to the beloved sausage roll.

People have sarcastically thanked America for introducing them to puff dogs and others have said it’s just downright offensive.

If this has got your mouth salivating for a sausage roll then pop in to see us for a freshly baked one hot out of the oven.

Source: Seven Bites The Yorkshire Evening Post The New York Post