# What Does "Pig-in-a-Blanket" Mean to You? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 12, 2010, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-pig-in-a-blanket-mean-to-you/528738 "2010-02-12T17:50:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-pig-in-a-blanket-mean-to-you/528738/1 "2010-02-12T17:50:51Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-pig-in-a-blanket-mean-to-you/528738/2 "2010-02-12T17:55:43Z")
Either a hotdog or sausage wrapped in pastry dough; or (for breakfast) a sausage/breakfast link wrapped in a pancake. ---
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-pig-in-a-blanket-mean-to-you/528738/3 "2010-02-12T17:56:19Z")
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” 😉 He always says it’s a cabbage roll with pork and rice inside, because he’s a “dirty Albanian” I think he’s nuts 🙂 ETA: I think the sausage/pancake thing sounds divine…I am drooling now. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-pig-in-a-blanket-mean-to-you/528738/4 "2010-02-12T17:56:52Z")
Hot dog or sausage link wrapped in white flour dough. Corn meal dough would make it a corn dog. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-pig-in-a-blanket-mean-to-you/528738/5 "2010-02-12T18:00:48Z")
> [@Sateryn76](#): > > 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” 😉 > He always says it’s a cabbage roll with pork and rice inside, because he’s a “dirty Albanian” > > I think he’s nuts 🙂 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. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-pig-in-a-blanket-mean-to-you/528738/6 "2010-02-12T18:01:38Z")
Back in Texas, it meant a good time on a Saturday night. 😃 Although the local restaurants always insisted it was a hot dog in a pancake. ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-pig-in-a-blanket-mean-to-you/528738/7 "2010-02-12T18:02:55Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-pig-in-a-blanket-mean-to-you/528738/8 "2010-02-12T18:07:06Z")
A picture of your parents in bed. 🙂 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. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-pig-in-a-blanket-mean-to-you/528738/9 "2010-02-12T18:09:43Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-pig-in-a-blanket-mean-to-you/528738/10 "2010-02-12T18:16:30Z")
Where I grew up, the term refers to stuffed cabbage rolls. That’d be galubki to those of you who are [Hunky Culture](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunky_Culture) mavens. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-pig-in-a-blanket-mean-to-you/528738/11 "2010-02-12T18:24:29Z")
I believe the hot dog is supposed to be split and some Velveeta inserted before it is wrapped in dough. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-pig-in-a-blanket-mean-to-you/528738/12 "2010-02-12T18:26:36Z")
Midwestern, Dutch heritage, so best-case it’s a sausage in bread dough ([worstebroodjes](http://thedutchbakersdaughter.blogspot.com/2009/11/worstebroodjes.html)). Otherwise, hot dog in a crescent roll will suffice. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-pig-in-a-blanket-mean-to-you/528738/13 "2010-02-12T18:40:56Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-pig-in-a-blanket-mean-to-you/528738/14 "2010-02-12T18:44:12Z")
Hot dog wrapped in a roll of some kind so that the roll puffs up due to the heat. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-pig-in-a-blanket-mean-to-you/528738/15 "2010-02-12T18:47:09Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > 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. 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 ---
**Author:** ![maladroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@maladroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maladroit)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-pig-in-a-blanket-mean-to-you/528738/16 "2010-02-12T18:50:39Z")
> [@wheresgeorge04](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-pig-in-a-blanket-mean-to-you/528738/17 "2010-02-12T18:56:14Z")
> [@maladroit](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![shellofmyformerself](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@shellofmyformerself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shellofmyformerself)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-pig-in-a-blanket-mean-to-you/528738/18 "2010-02-12T19:00:48Z")
A little smokie wrapped in half a crescent roll… ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-pig-in-a-blanket-mean-to-you/528738/19 "2010-02-12T19:17:13Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-pig-in-a-blanket-mean-to-you/528738/20 "2010-02-12T19:18:22Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Where I grew up, the term refers to stuffed cabbage rolls. This. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-pig-in-a-blanket-mean-to-you/528738.md?page=2)