I’ve always heard it referring to sausage wrapped in a pancake. We also called mini hotdogs wrapped in crescent rolls, “those mini hotdogs in crescent rolls”
where are the cabbage roll people from? in virginia it’s weenies in puff pastry
My go-to emergency snowed-in survival food: cocktail franks wrapped in slices of Pillsbury crescent rolls. (I cut 5 pieces with scissors from each section of a roll of 8 and they make ‘blankets’ for one package of cocktail franks.) The other, of course, is the dreaded Polish grandma dish of hamburg and rice wrapped in limp cabbage leaves and baked in a pan of tomato sauce. “Wait! You take! You take!” Grandma would shout, brandishing a foil packet as you edged out the door, overcome with cabbage fumes…well, better her house than yours.
Crescent rolls? Biscuits? Dang, you kids were privileged!
My sister used to make these for lunch. She slapped down a piece of white Wonder bread, spread mustard on it, slapped a slice of Kraft pasteurized, processed cheese-food-like product on it, wrapped all that around a hot dog, jammed a toothpick in the middle to hold it together and THAT, my friends, is a pig in a blanket.
If you live in a trailer.
Or if your babysitter is your 10 year-old-sister.
This.
My Polish gramma made golabki (sp?), which she also called pigs-in-a-blanket. I never knew there was another meaning (the breakfast sausage one) until maybe 10 years ago. The hot dog one makes no sense to me because hots dogs are beef, not pork. And I never heard of the asparagus thing til today.
ETA: from Chicago.
Just to throw some linguistic chaos into the existing linguistic chaos, “porcupine balls” in our house are meatballs with (cooked) rice in the mixture.
That’s a cheese-dog.
I voted for #1, even though in my experience “pigs in blankets” consist of either regulation size hot dogs or little smokies wrapped in biscuit dough. When I was a kid, the public schools made 'em with full-size wieners heh heh wrapped in some kind of dough. When my mom made them, she usually used those “little smokies” or similar small-size weenies, baked in those biscuits that come in a refrigerated can that she was scared to open herself because they kind of exploded when they popped open.
Any tubular meat product wrapped in a flattened breadproduct, so both of thefirsttwo choices.
On Hallowe’en, our school cafeteria always listed hot dogs as"Frankenstein in acasket."
I grew up in Pittsburgh. Stuffed cabbage rolls are called halupkis (that’s apparently a Slovak term), aka pigs-in-a-blanket. I’m kinda shocked that stuffed cabbage roll isn’t even a choice in the poll! I’ve eaten some of the other foods described, but pigs-in-a-blanket only means stuffed cabbage to me.
When we eat hot dogs like that or hamburgers on white bread we have always called them welfare dogs or welfare burgers. As in, we couldn’t afford the proper buns and considered it our “poor people food.”
Yeah, I know, we weren’t very enlightened but hell, I couldn’t afford buns. Give me a break. 
Well, sure, you upscale types had beef hot dogs. The rabble had pork + filler hot dogs. 
I first read this as “The rabbi had pork” and had to look twice.
Oh, my god…I didn’t know anyone else’s mom did this! Did she make you break the seal because she was scared to death of the thing?
Sorry, but the first thing I thought of in relation to “pig in a blanket” was that woman in the Snuggie ad.
Yeah, hot dogs are pork. The beef things are “beef franks.”
I don’t remember what my mom made that we called “pigs in a blanket”; I think I remember sausage, not hot dogs, but I don’t remember pancakes, nor crescent rolls (not gonna calll that thing a croissant), nor bread. Biscuit dough is a maybe, but I somehow think of tortillas, too. Sausage in tortillas, mmm!
Are you sure they’re pork?
Polish Pittsburgher here. Stuffed cabbage was always called…stuffed cabbage. PiG is always a tiny, little sausage or finger-length tubular meat product wrapped in dough of some kind. I don’t think it’s called “Pig” because of the pork. I think it’s because it’s red/pink and tubular, like a pig.
Well, I picked “something else food-related” because, at my school, Pigs in a Blanket were always hot dogs wrapped in bread dough. Never crescent rolls. I’m sure our school was too poor for any premade Pillsbury products. Accompanied by a huge scoop of ketchup, since that was our vegetable, after all.
Meat wrapped in cabbage, and I didn’t even know that it had any other food-related meaning. Well, maybe wrapped in grape leaves, if it’s Greek, but certainly meat wrapped in some sort of leaf.