Speaking of sausage, an Australian friend was talking to me about sausage rolls last night and I'm wondering is this just a thing Americans don't have or get, like meat pies? He tried to describe them as almost breakfast calzone? Anyone have experience with these?
Chicken pot pie is the most common and shepard/cottage pie can be found in most British themed restaurants. But for whatever reason they’re just not as popular here.
Criminally, most restaurants dont do a proper double crust for pot pie.
Sausage rolls and meat pies are made from ground meat and have real pastry around them. They’re superb junk food and there’s nothing quite like them in the US
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Sausage rolls and meat pies are made from ground meat and have real pastry around them. They’re superb junk food and there’s nothing quite like them in the US
Nah you just don't live in the right part of the country.
I'll just go down to any of the Runzas around town.
Sausage rolls and meat pies are made from ground meat and have real pastry around them. They’re superb junk food and there’s nothing quite like them in the US
That place has amazing meat pies. They're too good to call them junk food though.
Get up to the Upper Peninsula in Michigan and there are a plethora of options for pasties.
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There are some Haitians at my job that I'll buy homemade beef pasties from a couple times a month. They're flaky outside, dense and filling as hell on the inside with peppers and veggies. Those make a 10+ hour day quite bearable.
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Sausages wrapped in bacon are delicious and the fact that we only really eat them at Christmas is some kind of crime.
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They say the civilisation of Atlantis collapsed when they realised that nothing was stopping them having bacon wrapped sausage every day. Sloth and Gluttony overtook the most advanced people this planet have ever known.
Sausage rolls and meat pies are made from ground meat and have real pastry around them. They’re superb junk food and there’s nothing quite like them in the US
Nah you just don't live in the right part of the country.
I'll just go down to any of the Runzas around town.
Sausage rolls and meat pies are made from ground meat and have real pastry around them. They’re superb junk food and there’s nothing quite like them in the US
Nah you just don't live in the right part of the country.
I'll just go down to any of the Runzas around town.
That's not a sausage roll.
It's a decent fast food interpretation of a meat pie I guess? Obviously not pastry but.
Sausage rolls and meat pies are made from ground meat and have real pastry around them. They’re superb junk food and there’s nothing quite like them in the US
Nah you just don't live in the right part of the country.
I'll just go down to any of the Runzas around town.
Super common in central TX as well. Called Kolaches - Czek in origin?
Edit: to be clear, while the purists in that article are technically correct, sausage & cheese is like the most common kolache available now. Typical for Americans, we just took a name and a vague idea and did our own shit with it lol.
Because I went in knowing it wasn't a burger, I could tell, but if you'd asked me to test blind I probably wouldn't have been able to beyond "huh, this tastes a little funny."
It's expensive, but good! Felt a little...lighter than a normal burger. Definitely lower on the grease front.
Sausage rolls and meat pies are made from ground meat and have real pastry around them. They’re superb junk food and there’s nothing quite like them in the US
Nah you just don't live in the right part of the country.
I'll just go down to any of the Runzas around town.
That's not a sausage roll.
No, it's basically a mince pie in a yeasty-er? shell than a normal one.
It's also got cabbage and spices and it's rull fucking good, top tier drunk food.
Dim sum places often have curry puffs which are flaky pastry with savory curry filling and are amazing
My measure of a dim sum spot is "Do they offer Phoenix talons (chicken feet) and squid shumai?" If yes proceed to scarf down one of everything (even century eggs), if no, find a new place.
Shumai is to a dim sum chef, as tamago is to a proper sushi master.
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The Big New Yorker has been around for something like a decade. It’s not really meant to be the same as pizza from NYC so much as just imply it’s really big.
Because I went in knowing it wasn't a burger, I could tell, but if you'd asked me to test blind I probably wouldn't have been able to beyond "huh, this tastes a little funny."
It's expensive, but good! Felt a little...lighter than a normal burger. Definitely lower on the grease front.
I am full on bandwagon after having them twice. It's not perfect, but it's so fucking close that I think they're actually going to get it down. The beautiful thing is knowing that it's not "fake" meat or something pretending. It's close enough to chemically identical that it makes sense that it would taste and feel the same.
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Sausage rolls and meat pies are made from ground meat and have real pastry around them. They’re superb junk food and there’s nothing quite like them in the US
My experience of American food is that it is perfectly fine, in restaurants, but in supermarkets there it is difficult to find stuff that isn't shite.
Like with everything
It depends on where you go.
Some supermarkets have great food, usually accompanied by a slightly higher pricetag. Some have shit. Some are perfectly fine but you're paying for the name on the front of the store.
And a lot of our restaurants all get the same food from Sysco and just arrange it on plates differently.
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edited June 2019
If I go to HyVee or the butcher shop, I know I'm gonna get something good. I pay a little more for it, but I haven't been let down yet.
Even the difference between the same products, like, I bought a small thing of blackberries at a neighborhood market that's fairly suspect (but cheap!) because it was the same kind as the ones I get at HyVee and the entire middle of the berries had a bloom of mold that you couldn't see just by inspection. HyVee, that doesn't happen. The small neighborhood market, it's happened twice.
HyVee doesn't sell WalMart's awful tomatoes (the somehow dry, wet, squishy, and solid all at the same time ones, you know what I'm talking about.) either.
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The difference in quality between the Giant and Food Lion by me is crazy.
Food Lion is, uh, usually pretty dire in my experience.
They're surviving solely based on their location. Literally in the center of a giant suburb with two or three apartment complexes right next to it, with a school on one side meaning parents are constantly driving past.
Their produce is mediocre at best but when it comes to sundries or junk food, they’re a literal walk in the park from my house.
Knowing people who do it, owning a restaurant is a ROUGH line of work to be in.
Also, full of assholes. Though that's kind of small businesses in general.
I dunno, ~30% margin after all costs including loans, labor, lease, etc. is a healthy business than can afford to absorb the occasional loss.
That actually shows it isn't razor thin at all.
The real issue is that sales fluctuations can make the difference between a wildly profitable business and an unprofitable one because things like rent, loan payments, even employee costs to a degree don't change with how many pizzas you sell
The only Flavortown question that concerns me is who owns Vegetarian Flavortown. Because India has a larger percentage of vegetarians than any other country – 38% – I suspect the answer is India
The difference in quality between the Giant and Food Lion by me is crazy.
Food Lion is, uh, usually pretty dire in my experience.
They're surviving solely based on their location. Literally in the center of a giant suburb with two or three apartment complexes right next to it, with a school on one side meaning parents are constantly driving past.
Their produce is mediocre at best but when it comes to sundries or junk food, they’re a literal walk in the park from my house.
That food Lion is so bad. It's like that with everything in that shopping center. All of those places literally survive because of where they are...Although the Italian place is pretty great.
The only Flavortown question that concerns me is who owns Vegetarian Flavortown. Because India has a larger percentage of vegetarians than any other country – 38% – I suspect the answer is India
Because I went in knowing it wasn't a burger, I could tell, but if you'd asked me to test blind I probably wouldn't have been able to beyond "huh, this tastes a little funny."
It's expensive, but good! Felt a little...lighter than a normal burger. Definitely lower on the grease front.
I am full on bandwagon after having them twice. It's not perfect, but it's so fucking close that I think they're actually going to get it down. The beautiful thing is knowing that it's not "fake" meat or something pretending. It's close enough to chemically identical that it makes sense that it would taste and feel the same.
Yeah, I've had impossible again after that original post, and beyond once, too. The one criticism I'll give: they seem to be much more succeptible to under/over cooking in taste. But I'm limiting myself to one beef meal per week, so options are much appreciated.
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Criminally, most restaurants dont do a proper double crust for pot pie.
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Sausage rolls and meat pies are made from ground meat and have real pastry around them. They’re superb junk food and there’s nothing quite like them in the US
Nah you just don't live in the right part of the country.
I'll just go down to any of the Runzas around town.
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http://www.pleasanthousepub.com/
That place has amazing meat pies. They're too good to call them junk food though.
Get up to the Upper Peninsula in Michigan and there are a plethora of options for pasties.
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That's not a sausage roll.
It's a decent fast food interpretation of a meat pie I guess? Obviously not pastry but.
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Edit: to be clear, while the purists in that article are technically correct, sausage & cheese is like the most common kolache available now. Typical for Americans, we just took a name and a vague idea and did our own shit with it lol.
Because I went in knowing it wasn't a burger, I could tell, but if you'd asked me to test blind I probably wouldn't have been able to beyond "huh, this tastes a little funny."
It's expensive, but good! Felt a little...lighter than a normal burger. Definitely lower on the grease front.
No, it's basically a mince pie in a yeasty-er? shell than a normal one.
It's also got cabbage and spices and it's rull fucking good, top tier drunk food.
My measure of a dim sum spot is "Do they offer Phoenix talons (chicken feet) and squid shumai?" If yes proceed to scarf down one of everything (even century eggs), if no, find a new place.
Shumai is to a dim sum chef, as tamago is to a proper sushi master.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
On the other hand, I wont begrudge them doing something silly.
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Also I love reading through the quote. 1 pie is 3000kcals. And you can get bacon or salami as an additional topping.
I am full on bandwagon after having them twice. It's not perfect, but it's so fucking close that I think they're actually going to get it down. The beautiful thing is knowing that it's not "fake" meat or something pretending. It's close enough to chemically identical that it makes sense that it would taste and feel the same.
https://manpies.com/
https://kellsirish.com/seattle/menu/
Although Kell's isn't really fast food I love going to Man Pies after shows up in Bellingham.
Like with everything
It depends on where you go.
Some supermarkets have great food, usually accompanied by a slightly higher pricetag. Some have shit. Some are perfectly fine but you're paying for the name on the front of the store.
And a lot of our restaurants all get the same food from Sysco and just arrange it on plates differently.
Food Lion is, uh, usually pretty dire in my experience.
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Even the difference between the same products, like, I bought a small thing of blackberries at a neighborhood market that's fairly suspect (but cheap!) because it was the same kind as the ones I get at HyVee and the entire middle of the berries had a bloom of mold that you couldn't see just by inspection. HyVee, that doesn't happen. The small neighborhood market, it's happened twice.
HyVee doesn't sell WalMart's awful tomatoes (the somehow dry, wet, squishy, and solid all at the same time ones, you know what I'm talking about.) either.
Food Lion is fucking rough.
It used to be half decent, but I went back there after being gone from the coast for 15 years and my goodness
They're surviving solely based on their location. Literally in the center of a giant suburb with two or three apartment complexes right next to it, with a school on one side meaning parents are constantly driving past.
Their produce is mediocre at best but when it comes to sundries or junk food, they’re a literal walk in the park from my house.
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In conclusion: Support your good local pizzerias.
Brining and oiling, cooking at 450 for 17 minutes (or until 165) and then just let set for 10 minutes.
Mein gott that was delicious.
Knowing people who do it, owning a restaurant is a ROUGH line of work to be in.
Also, full of assholes. Though that's kind of small businesses in general.
I dunno, ~30% margin after all costs including loans, labor, lease, etc. is a healthy business than can afford to absorb the occasional loss.
That actually shows it isn't razor thin at all.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
The real issue is that sales fluctuations can make the difference between a wildly profitable business and an unprofitable one because things like rent, loan payments, even employee costs to a degree don't change with how many pizzas you sell
It's just a bad metric without sales numbers
I am willing to concede this, yes.
Yeah, I've had impossible again after that original post, and beyond once, too. The one criticism I'll give: they seem to be much more succeptible to under/over cooking in taste. But I'm limiting myself to one beef meal per week, so options are much appreciated.