What Does "Pig-in-a-Blanket" Mean to You?

I posted a Facebook status that stated Mrs. Homie and I were having pigs-in-a-blanket, reminiscent of our elementary school lunches. My friends (from different parts of the country, I hasten to add) all professed shock that we were having what they thought was pig-in-a-blanket for lunch.

So what does the term mean to you?

Either a hotdog or sausage wrapped in pastry dough; or (for breakfast) a sausage/breakfast link wrapped in a pancake.

My husband and I have this argument all the time…

I voted “Hot dog in a crescent roll” as I am an “A-mer-ican” :wink:
He always says it’s a cabbage roll with pork and rice inside, because he’s a “dirty Albanian”

I think he’s nuts :slight_smile:

ETA: I think the sausage/pancake thing sounds divine…I am drooling now.

Hot dog or sausage link wrapped in white flour dough. Corn meal dough would make it a corn dog.

My mom used to make those cabbage rolls (she hasn’t made any in a while due to being deceased). The official name in our household was ‘porcupine balls’.

It just now occurred to me that such a name may sound unappetizing to some.

Back in Texas, it meant a good time on a Saturday night. :smiley:

Although the local restaurants always insisted it was a hot dog in a pancake.

A hot dog wrapped in a roll.

I’ve heard the sausauge-in-a-pancake called a pig in a blanket, but it’s not the first thing I would think of.

A picture of your parents in bed. :slight_smile:

I keed I keed.

I think breakfast sausages rolled up in pancakes.

I think I just invented something that may go down in history as the most awesomest thing ever.

Breakfast sausage and BACON rolled up in pancakes. Ooooh I’m going to make some this weekend.

Never heard of it to mean anything except sausage wrapped in pancake. And I’ve lived East Coast, West Coast, and Midwest. Live and learn.

Where I grew up, the term refers to stuffed cabbage rolls. That’d be galubki to those of you who are Hunky Culture mavens.

I believe the hot dog is supposed to be split and some Velveeta inserted before it is wrapped in dough.

Midwestern, Dutch heritage, so best-case it’s a sausage in bread dough (worstebroodjes). Otherwise, hot dog in a crescent roll will suffice.

Something else food-related: Please specify. A pig-in-a-blanket is a hotdog baked into a biscuit. I was raised in north-central Ohio.

Hot dog wrapped in a roll of some kind so that the roll puffs up due to the heat.

I would say that this is the same as option 1. Hot dog in a crescent roll is pretty close to hot dog in a biscuit.

Joe

I have to disagree. Crescent rolls and biscuits are no more alike than any of the other meat/bread choices listed.

Yes. Rolls are yeast-risen and fluffy. Biscuits are heavier and flaky. And the biscuits I form around the hotdog are not crescent-shaped in the least.

A little smokie wrapped in half a crescent roll…

Bacon wrapped around asparagus? What the heck? Who would call that pig in a blanket?

I would, however, choose the name pig-on-a-pole for that dish.

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