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Whyyy haven't sausage rolls taken off in the US? Traveling to the UK and Australia, I love them. So satisfying. Why do we get stuck with... gas station hotdog

Whyyy haven't sausage rolls taken off in the US? Traveling to the UK and Australia, I love them. So satisfying. Why do we get stuck with... gas station hotdogs instead? I genuinely don't get it.

pixl97 6mo ago
Had to look up what was in the article and it's more like something you'd find at a donut shop in the US, but not quite the same. Things like the klobasnek/kolache are popular here in Texas.
- dylan604 6mo ago
  Cannot make the DFW<->AUS run without a Czech Stop
  - lproven 6mo ago
    I've never been to Texas in my life, but I did live in Czechia for 9 years and my wife is Czech. A Czech koláč is always sweet, with no exceptions. I Googled the foods you and the previous comment mention, and I've never seen anything like them. The Czechs do sometimes bake bread rolls with a sausage inside, though – they are very big on sausages – and they're sold cold in supermarkets and bakeries as a savoury snack. I think they're called variants on "bread roll with sausage", though, and I don't think I've ever heard them called "klobasnek" or "klobasnik". Saying that, now we live in the British Isles, my wife has developed a fondness for sausage rolls. Including Gregg's ones when we visit the UK. :-)
    - dylan604 6mo ago
      >I've never been to Texas in my life...and I've never seen anything like them "For decades, Czech Stop has been known far and wide for its world-famous Texas kolaches"[0] You clearly missed the "Texas kolaches" in your searching. Using "Texas" as a qualifier does big things. Texas BBQ or Texas chili is not the same thing as BBQ or chili from other places. Texas kolaches are not the same thing as Czech koláč, nor never claimed to be. At best, inspired by from Czech babis passing down and tweaking recipes since the 1800s [0]https://www.czechstop.net/ https://www.czechstop.net/
      - lproven 6mo ago
        > You clearly missed the "Texas kolaches" Why would you even think that, let alone say it? I didn't miss it. I wasn't talking about Texan food. I clearly said, and you quoted that I've never been to Texas in my life. I was talking about the original stuff from the old country, that inspired this. Nothing else. I thought it might be a bit of fun, something of interest. I should have realised that someone misunderstand and insult me. I mean, it's HN. :-(
        dylan604 6mo ago
        Not sure where the supposed insult is. If one was read, there was none intended. Since you're not familiar with Texas folklore, using the word Texas as a qualifier is part of being Texas. "Everything is bigger in Texas" is a common phrase. In golf, there's "Texas rules". In Texas BBQ, it's understood that if there's a fire in the box, there's a beer in the hand.
        lproven 6mo ago
        I wouldn't know. Like I said: never been there. Not American, never lived in America. (Current location: Douglas, Isle of Man, 4370 miles away.) I specifically said that I was talking of the original Czech foods, and you responded "you clearly missed..." No, I didn't miss. I didn't look. I wasn't talking about that so there is no reason I'd look. I didn't want results about local derived foods as I was specifically talking about the originals, so your "correction" is wrong and your assertion that I missed them is just plain rude.
    - pixl97 6mo ago
      Texas Czech and actual Czech have about 150 years of divergent evolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klob%C3%A1sn%C3%ADk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klob%C3%A1sn%C3%ADk It's very much a Texas thing.
masfuerte 6mo ago
If you start a business do pork pies too.
- jbl0ndie 6mo ago
  And Scotch eggs
  - mc32 6mo ago
    And Jellied eel, why not?
    - tom_ 6mo ago
      Pork pies and scotch eggs are widely-available savoury snacks in the UK, but jellied eels are not?
      - Aromasin 6mo ago
        I want to make clear to the US folks here that there's about 2 or 3 cafes that still sell traditional eels, and it's explicitly a London food, not wider British cuisine. From the number of videos and articles I see about them though, you'd think the country was covered in Eel cafés. Honestly, covering them at all is tabloid ragebait content at this point.
      - lproven 6mo ago
        Correct. Pork pies even have a protected geographic designation now: https://www.mmppa.co.uk/ https://www.mmppa.co.uk/ Scotch eggs are a common, if old fashioned, pub snack and are sold in supermarkets. Jellied eels are a London thing, mainly poor areas of central East London, and very very rare even there now.

Whyyy haven't sausage rolls taken off in the US? Traveling to the UK and Australia, I love them. So satisfying. Why do we get stuck with... gas station hotdogs instead? I genuinely don't get it.

pixl97 6mo ago

Had to look up what was in the article and it's more like something you'd find at a donut shop in the US, but not quite the same. Things like the klobasnek/kolache are popular here in Texas.

dylan604 6mo ago
Cannot make the DFW<->AUS run without a Czech Stop
- lproven 6mo ago
  I've never been to Texas in my life, but I did live in Czechia for 9 years and my wife is Czech. A Czech koláč is always sweet, with no exceptions. I Googled the foods you and the previous comment mention, and I've never seen anything like them. The Czechs do sometimes bake bread rolls with a sausage inside, though – they are very big on sausages – and they're sold cold in supermarkets and bakeries as a savoury snack. I think they're called variants on "bread roll with sausage", though, and I don't think I've ever heard them called "klobasnek" or "klobasnik". Saying that, now we live in the British Isles, my wife has developed a fondness for sausage rolls. Including Gregg's ones when we visit the UK. :-)
  - dylan604 6mo ago
    >I've never been to Texas in my life...and I've never seen anything like them "For decades, Czech Stop has been known far and wide for its world-famous Texas kolaches"[0] You clearly missed the "Texas kolaches" in your searching. Using "Texas" as a qualifier does big things. Texas BBQ or Texas chili is not the same thing as BBQ or chili from other places. Texas kolaches are not the same thing as Czech koláč, nor never claimed to be. At best, inspired by from Czech babis passing down and tweaking recipes since the 1800s [0]https://www.czechstop.net/ https://www.czechstop.net/
    - lproven 6mo ago
      > You clearly missed the "Texas kolaches" Why would you even think that, let alone say it? I didn't miss it. I wasn't talking about Texan food. I clearly said, and you quoted that I've never been to Texas in my life. I was talking about the original stuff from the old country, that inspired this. Nothing else. I thought it might be a bit of fun, something of interest. I should have realised that someone misunderstand and insult me. I mean, it's HN. :-(
      - dylan604 6mo ago
        Not sure where the supposed insult is. If one was read, there was none intended. Since you're not familiar with Texas folklore, using the word Texas as a qualifier is part of being Texas. "Everything is bigger in Texas" is a common phrase. In golf, there's "Texas rules". In Texas BBQ, it's understood that if there's a fire in the box, there's a beer in the hand.
        lproven 6mo ago
        I wouldn't know. Like I said: never been there. Not American, never lived in America. (Current location: Douglas, Isle of Man, 4370 miles away.) I specifically said that I was talking of the original Czech foods, and you responded "you clearly missed..." No, I didn't miss. I didn't look. I wasn't talking about that so there is no reason I'd look. I didn't want results about local derived foods as I was specifically talking about the originals, so your "correction" is wrong and your assertion that I missed them is just plain rude.
  - pixl97 6mo ago
    Texas Czech and actual Czech have about 150 years of divergent evolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klob%C3%A1sn%C3%ADk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klob%C3%A1sn%C3%ADk It's very much a Texas thing.

masfuerte 6mo ago

If you start a business do pork pies too.

jbl0ndie 6mo ago
And Scotch eggs
- mc32 6mo ago
  And Jellied eel, why not?
  - tom_ 6mo ago
    Pork pies and scotch eggs are widely-available savoury snacks in the UK, but jellied eels are not?
    - Aromasin 6mo ago
      I want to make clear to the US folks here that there's about 2 or 3 cafes that still sell traditional eels, and it's explicitly a London food, not wider British cuisine. From the number of videos and articles I see about them though, you'd think the country was covered in Eel cafés. Honestly, covering them at all is tabloid ragebait content at this point.
    - lproven 6mo ago
      Correct. Pork pies even have a protected geographic designation now: https://www.mmppa.co.uk/ https://www.mmppa.co.uk/ Scotch eggs are a common, if old fashioned, pub snack and are sold in supermarkets. Jellied eels are a London thing, mainly poor areas of central East London, and very very rare even there now.