There was a time when I thought that the meap pie stood alone as the lone savory pastry in a world of sweet fruit fillings. Okay, well, that's not true, but you try getting empanadas in australia. Today, I was proven wrong. you see, the australians have this thing called a sausage roll. Given the peculiar taxonomy of australian food (a salad roll is apparently a vegitable sandwhich), I had expected some sort of delicious sausage in a bun, I have since discovered that this is a "Sausage S'wich". Oh no, the sausage roll is something completely different. Imagine, if you will, turkey stuffing, like what you eat on thanksgiving, all bread, and ground meats, and spices. now wrap that in a roll of flaky pastry, and you have a sausage roll. a lunch so unhealthy that Bob Carr, Premier of New South Wales went on record as saying that raising your children on a diet of sausage rolls and chicko rolls was akin to child cruelty. I don't even know what chicko rolls are. the wikipedia article on them starts of with
"The Chiko Roll or CHIKO Roll is an Australian savoury snack developed by Frank McEncroe, a boilermaker from Bendigo, and first appeared at the Wagga Wagga Show in 1951."
There is so very much I do not understand here. I am truly a stranger in a strange land, grasping for familiarity on my culinary travels.
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I want one of everything
1951 was a year. It came after 1950, and before 1952.
It was the year that they dropped an atomic bomb on Las Vegas, oral contraceptives were invented, and British people started hating Iran.
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