today is national "pigs in a blanket day"

[backdoorchicken]

already have the stuff for pancakes. now i need to go we some veggie sausage.



http://ow.ly/1CxgA

 

[backdoorchicken]

It's NATIONAL PIGS IN A BLANKET DAY - no "Your Momma" jokes, please; pork products are serious business

Who knew there were so many ways to wrap a weiner?

Called everything from Pigs in the Blanket, Pigs in Blankets, Devils on Horseback, Wiener Winks, Kilted Sausages, Wild Willies, Sausage in the Dough, Moses in the Ark, Sausage Horn and Weiner Horn (source: Wikipedia), diminuative weiners/sausages wrapped in dough is loved world wide:
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In the United States:

- Pigs in Blankets are typically hot dogs (or hot dog pieces), Vienna sausages, cocktail weiners or breakfast sausage links wrapped in biscuit dough or croissant dough and baked, or breakfast sausage links wrapped in pancakes

-Pig in a Pig is typically hot dogs (or hot dog pieces), Vienna sausages, cocktail weiners wrapped in bacon and cooked

In the United Kingdom:

-Pigs in Blankets are usually small sausages wrapped in bacon and cooked, but sometimes prunes or dates wrapped in bacon and cooked or bread dough wrapped around bacon and baked

In Eastern Europe:

-Pigs in Blankets sometimes refers to ground meat and rice wrapped in cabbage leaves and braised, usually in a tomato sauce

 

[Sissy]

I'll put my order in for the cabbages,rice ,etc. pigs in the blanket.
Ummm Love 'm

 

[backdoorchicken]

 

[Why and Dotte]

Might have just given me an idea for dinner

 

[Buff Hooligans]

Hail to the piggies and their blankets, and the people who make them. I love 'em!