TIL: Today I Learned

[Ferocitus]

TIL that Pigs in Blankets might be in short supply in Britain this Christmas.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50205951

What a terrible choice facing UK voters: next Christmas do they want yummy, traditional Emulsified High-Fat Offal Tubes or repulsive, over-regulated, meaty Euro-Sausages?

 

[Arakhor]

Who'd have thought that seasonal workers would be harder to attract from the EU after Brexit?

 

[Kyriakos]

Why is that abomination even called "pigs in blankets"?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

What a coincidence, I've been on a grilled cheese kick myself for a while now. I had some leftover American cheese from some recipe and decided to use it to make grilled cheese and in the process rediscovered what an amazing melting cheese it is.

TIL - so I already knew that the central valley of California has periodic, massive floods but I recently learned that Irvine (where I live) is in the southernmost extent of that flood zone. I have always kind of looked down on people who choose to live in flood zones but now I'm one of them. In my defense, these floods are more like earthquakes in that while they're periodic, the period is very long between catastrophic events and is mostly unpredictable. So it's not like the people in Southern Illinois or Houston that live in well known yearly flood zones but still.

I am appointing myself as your mentor on all things California. Irvine is in a centennial flood zone similar to the central valley, but if you say the central valley extends to Irvine people are going to quietly shake their heads and then talk about you after you leave the room.

 

[Arakhor]

Why is that abomination even called "pigs in blankets"?

Because they're little piece of pork wrapped in bacon. Why else?

 

[Kyriakos]

Because they're little piece of pork wrapped in bacon. Why else?

That doesn't sound very sensible :/ Isn't it pig covered by pig?

 

[Arakhor]

You'd sound like a prat standing in the supermarket, asking for "pigs covered by pigs".

 

[Syno]

That doesn't sound very sensible :/ Isn't it pig covered by pig?

As a dedicated purveyor of intellectual media and only the most highest of brow content, you should know after watching the Han & Luke scene with the tauntaun that it can be very snug indeed while having another creature wrapped around you.

 

[Arakhor]

Very snug. but not too hot - after all, it was only Luke-warm in the tauntaun.

 

[Kyriakos]

I'll take your word for it, I can't afford to stoop down to have a look cause this corridor is covered by a persian carpet and I will never find my monocle if it falls.

 

[CurtSibling]

Why is that abomination even called "pigs in blankets"?

Better than that dreadful Greek cheese , which looks like blocks of pus.

Feta? More like Fetid!

 

[Kyriakos]

You can't be serious, Curt. It's been how many years now? Keep at it.

 

[CurtSibling]

You can't be serious, Curt. It's been how many years now? Keep at it.

As many years as you, and about as serious.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I also learned people still remember me from the vintage era of spam.

And IIRC, you were the first to reach 20,000 posts.

 

[MaryKB]

Because they're little piece of pork wrapped in bacon. Why else?

I always though pigs in blankets are sausage links wrapped in a pastry?

 

[Zkribbler]

I always though pigs in blankets are sausage links wrapped in a pastry?

...or in a pancake

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I thought they were actually pigs wrapped in blankets. Or knitted Christmas sweaters!

 

[Samson]

I always though pigs in blankets are sausage links wrapped in a pastry?

That is a sausage roll. The story I heard about them is that someone wanted to introduce croissants to England as a breakfast food, but thought that the english would not accept anything without pork products for breakfast, and so the sausage roll was born.

 

[rah]

Growing up, pigs in a blanket were either sausages wrapped in a small pancake or
cocktail wieners wrapped in a pastry.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Yes, "pigs in a blanket" are pork, in some form, wrapped in a breadish like substance.