Careful, I heard that God does not want you wrapping your stuff in fig leaves from the tree in the garden. 
Oh gawd yes. But booth are a boon to dentists.
There’s good and bad. You can certainly get crappy normal sliced bread here. but it’s usually better than the version of sliced bread you’d get in Belgium and Germany. However, they do things completely different there, the baguettes in Belgium are wonderful, are freshly baked, but do not last long, so you buy them and use them immediately. They turn into baseball bats overnight. Germany has bread shops EVERYWHERE and sell all sorts of stuff (weirdly I never tried their product, I wasn’t eating bread much when I lived there, and, erm, kebab shops got my custom).
UK bread is by no means perfection, it’s stuffed to the gills with salt and preservative, and probably uses hybrid grain for quick proving, so it probably barely resembles bread of thirty years ago at all. However, it can be really nice, some of them.
One of the weekend lunch staples when I was a kid was ‘gravy bread’ - left over brown gravy (usually beef) on plain white bread. As kids, we thought it was the bomb.
My Slovak mother-in-law taught my wife to make these (I always assumed it was spelled “halufki”) - when the first Hispanic families moved into the neighborhood MIL switched out whatever tomato product she’d been using for a red enchilada sauce to marvelous effect.
You totally with the thread with that one! Tres awesome.
I’ve had the garlic ice cream and it’s quite lovely.
The “shameful” Israeli foods I can think of aren’t bad, just weird fusions between very different cultures. Stuff like kibbeh in borscht, or chicken-breast schnitzel with fries and hummus in a baguette. Weird, but yummy.
In Slovak, it’s halupki. In Hungarian, it’s töltött káposzta. In Ukrainian, it’s holubtsi. In Russian, galubtsi. (Transliterated on the last two.) Germans have kohlrouladen. South Slavs usually something like sarma. They’re everywhere in that area.
That does sound yummy!
Aldi sells it…maybe only occasionally though.
Chicken (or turkey) schnitzel is THE Israeli protein. McDonald’s here even has the McShnitzel, which isn’t half bad.
Re: Pigs in a blanket.
Did no one else grow up with that meaning,
Hot dog - split open
Appropriately sized slice of cheddar cheese
Spoonful of Heinz chili sauce
Wrap it all in bacon
Under the broiler until the bacon is crispy
???
No. Pig in a Blanket is a hot dog wrapped in some kind of dough or pastry.
No. Pigs in the blanket has at least three meanings:
- What you said
- Breakfast links rolled up in pancakes (this is what I grew up with knowing as the term)
- Stuffed cabbage rolls
What crowmanyclouds describes sounds a bit like what I would call a francheezie, though we put it on a bun. Wikipedia tells me this is a Chicago term, though – I had thought it was more widely known than that, but apparently not.
No. A full-size hot dog? Never. It’s a cocktail sausage, such as lil’ smokies, wrapped in pastry dough (and perhaps those other things too, but I’ve never heard of them).
Wikipedia says that’s called a “francheezie” and/or “Texas Tommy”.
This nails it,
The Texas Tommy is a common dish in Philadelphia, the Delaware Valley, and South Jersey,
Central, New Jersey her entire life.
in the 1950s and was a popular dish among 1950s housewives.
My mother grew up eating them but somehow didn’t call them by their correct name either.
Why my grandmother called them “Pigs in a Blanket” is now a mystery that only the dead can explain.
Hot dogs wrapped in bacon and cooked on a grill are commonly sold as street food in Russia. They can be on a stick or served in a bun with mayo and usually topped with those canned fried onion crisps. These lunch stands may be owned an operated by Russians, but they originated in Denmark, I think—I can’t recall the name the name of the company right offhand.
Has anybody ever heard of hot dog sauce? I’m not talking here about things like chili or roast onion relish—I mean actual hot dogs ground in a food processor and used to top other things. I once stumbled upon several recipes on YouTube while I was looking for Coney Island chili, but I can’t find them now. It looked ghastly to me, but hey—what do I know about food?
IIRC, the videos mentioned it was a Southern or Southwestern thing, maybe served on the street and at State Fairs. I had never heard of it before.
Yeah, that’s the only kind I’d ever known about until I checked the Wikipedia entry linked upthread.
I don’t really consider pigs in blankets, in any form, to be shameful or even gross, just a little too close to being full-blown junk food. Even classic hot dogs give me pause, unless they’re made Chicago style, with all the “salad” up top. Even then, it’s just a hankering that I’ll get once or twice a year, and I’m not proud of it. 
What I do find shameful and disgusting are faux hot dogs (which I’m guessing many of us have eaten more than once, making it a national dish, IMO) made with cheap franfurters and white bread and topped with fake cheese (individually plastic-wrapped slices) and ketchup. Extra points (and sympathy) if you had to eat it uncooked/cold.
Never heard of such a sauce. Sounds revolting. The Los Angeles Danger Dog may be unique in that it includes mayo.