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nuttinnew wrote: Wed Dec 17, 2025 5:31 pm I fucking hate the term pigs in blankets.

Sausage in a ski suit ?
Meat sock in a scarf ?
Hooded pork ?
Bacon sleeved tubular delight ?
Swine in a smoking jacket ?

Dave!

That's it, a bit of thought and variety.
I can't remember what they were known as before pib became the norm
(No, Pob was something completely different).

nuttinnew wrote: Wed Dec 17, 2025 5:52 pm
I can't remember what they were known as before pib became the norm

But. They’ve always been called pigs in blankets.

nuttinnew wrote: Wed Dec 17, 2025 5:31 pm I fucking hate the term pigs in blankets.

Could be worse and be like the Americans where a pig in a blanket is basically a posh sausage roll

nuttinnew wrote: Wed Dec 17, 2025 5:31 pm I fucking hate the term pigs in blankets.

Pigs on horseback?

V8Granite wrote: Wed Dec 17, 2025 5:20 pm As if by magic!

https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/lif ... ch-5443618

Dave!

Each one uses a specially made sausage. Which looks suspiciously like a normal chippie jumbo sausage...

V8Granite wrote: Wed Dec 17, 2025 1:42 pm

Jimmy Choo wrote: Wed Dec 17, 2025 10:35 am Last weekend I made toads in blankets in the hole. Smoked bacon makes everything better. EVERYTHING!

If I ever get divorced, I'm hunting you out, I'll be the big spoon and you keep making toads in blankets in the hole.

Dave!

That is literally the best offer I've had this week.

nuttinnew wrote: Wed Dec 17, 2025 5:52 pm I can't remember what they were known as before pib became the norm

I agree - to me, Pigs in Blankets is a relatively recent thing - say, the last 20 or 25 years

Edit - AI seems to agree..

When was the term Pigs in Blankets first coined ??

"1990s (UK): Delia Smith's cookbook featuring bacon-wrapped sausages (often called "kilted sausages" before) helped cement "Pigs in Blankets" as the standard British Christmas term, notes The Spectator and Erudus!"

dinny_g wrote: Thu Dec 18, 2025 2:37 pm

nuttinnew wrote: Wed Dec 17, 2025 5:52 pm I can't remember what they were known as before pib became the norm

I agree - to me, Pigs in Blankets is a relatively recent thing - say, the last 20 or 25 years

Interesting how your memory plays tricks on you - if you'd asked me if I had them when I was just a kid, and were they called pigs in blankets, I'd have answered yes to both.

Also: I am reassured that nobody selected the tempting eat-with-shmeeee option. [Although I suspect the result might have been different if I hadn't dissallowed the stabbing....... ]

Ah how, I'm not at the "Trusting AI for information" stage just yet ...

However, my other half was given a cookbook from her Mother in Law when she got married. One of those reference type Books. Looks like it's from the mid 60's to mid 70's and it's just about every recipe you'd ever want.

And there's no mention at all of "Pigs in Blankets" or indeed, any wrapped pork product on their "Cooking the perfect Christmas Lunch Chapter"

Take from that what you will...

Jobbo wrote: Thu Dec 18, 2025 8:14 am

V8Granite wrote: Wed Dec 17, 2025 5:20 pm As if by magic!

https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/lif ... ch-5443618

Dave!

Each one uses a specially made sausage. Which looks suspiciously like a normal chippie jumbo sausage...

It says they’re 80% pork, i imagine a normal chippy sausage is 80% not pork

Now I want a sausage and curry nosh box for tea

We had sausages in bacon with our Christmas roast as children. They were just called sausages in bacon.

Pigs in blankets feels fairly modern and also stupid. I would usually assume it had come from the US of A

Apparently in Scotland they’re called pigs in kilts or kilted sausages.. c’mon @mik ffs!

I’d say it’s definitely an Americanism to call it pigs in blankets

IanF wrote: Thu Dec 18, 2025 6:46 pm Apparently in Scotland they’re called pigs in kilts or kilted sausages.. c’mon @mik ffs!

Naw they urney.

integrale_evo wrote: Thu Dec 18, 2025 6:34 pm We had sausages in bacon with our Christmas roast as children. They were just called sausages in bacon.

Pigs in blankets feels fairly modern and also stupid. I would usually assume it had come from the US of A

This is what 'mericans consider Pigs in Blankets - hotdogs in pastry.

You just know that pastry will be 40% sugar and chemicals.

Americans really shouldn't be allowed food if they're going to do this with it.

You're not wrong - one place we went to in New York offered a Burger with Pulled Pork AND Mac 'n' Cheese.... and bacon, onions, lettuce, tomato, pickles etc etc...

I like the Little Italy area with the 4th generation Italians who produce a god awful 'pie' that would make an actual Italian cry

dinny_g wrote: Thu Dec 18, 2025 3:02 pm Ah how, I'm not at the "Trusting AI for information" stage just yet ...

However, my other half was given a cookbook from her Mother in Law when she got married. One of those reference type Books. Looks like it's from the mid 60's to mid 70's and it's just about every recipe you'd ever want.

And there's no mention at all of "Pigs in Blankets" or indeed, any wrapped pork product on their "Cooking the perfect Christmas Lunch Chapter"

Take from that what you will...

Okay, let's do dig a bit deeper. Earliest mention of Pigs in Blankets I can find is from The Universal Cookery Book published in 1887. It's not the kind of pigs in blankets we're thinking of, but a surf-n-turf style version. Curiously, it specifies English bacon.



The US publication Our Army talked about hot dogs wrapped in bacon in 1942 which is the earliest sausage-wrapped-in-bacon I can find.



The Betty Betz Party Book in 1947 really hit on the pigs in blankets we know today



However, these are all US publications, I've not found any reference to them in UK-published literature prior to the 21st century.