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.
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.
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. :-)
> I haven't lived in Liverpool for 25 years now, but sad to hear Sayers is no more.
Same, except it's just over 50 years for me.
This story was quite a nostalgia trip for me – I immediately remembered trips to Sayers bakeries with my mum when I was little, although as a little lad I was more interested in the cakes than the sausage rolls myself.
goddamnit, read for a solid 5 minutes until I realised the rest is paywalled, sigh. No pasty facts isn’t worth another subscription. I have many other interesting things to do
I’m just going say this, what’s shown in the illustration is clearly NOT a pasty.
Pasties are pretty serious grub.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasty
Important not to confuse it with the Pastie, used to cover nipples
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasties
> I have nothing against Greggs.
I do. This man is benefitting from your custom: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-39443585
Bizarre, but welcome, to see this article wholly unrelated to hackerdom on the front page.
My take is that Sayers quality just wasn’t good enough and still isn’t, and that all the buyouts gutted the heart out of the business.
As a scouser I choose Greggs over Sayers any day.
> My take is that Sayers quality just wasn’t good enough
If I'm thinking quality, Greggs isn't my first suggestion...
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.
If you start a business do pork pies too.
And Scotch eggs
And Jellied eel, why not?
Pork pies and scotch eggs are widely-available savoury snacks in the UK, but jellied eels are not?
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.
Correct.
Pork pies even have a protected geographic designation now:
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.
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.
Cannot make the DFW<->AUS run without a Czech Stop
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. :-)
I used to love my Sayers sausage roll as a kid. I haven't lived in Liverpool for 25 years now, but sad to hear Sayers is no more.
Obligatory dad joke.
How do you make a sausage roll?
Push it down a hill.
> I haven't lived in Liverpool for 25 years now, but sad to hear Sayers is no more.
Same, except it's just over 50 years for me.
This story was quite a nostalgia trip for me – I immediately remembered trips to Sayers bakeries with my mum when I was little, although as a little lad I was more interested in the cakes than the sausage rolls myself.
goddamnit, read for a solid 5 minutes until I realised the rest is paywalled, sigh. No pasty facts isn’t worth another subscription. I have many other interesting things to do