"I'll have the comfortable cops."

"The what?"

"The sausages wrapped in pancakes."

"The pigs-in-a-blanket?"

"Oh, *that's* how you say that regionalism."

@LexYeen We're not familiar with a version wrapped in pancakes! always wraapped in pastry for us
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@Felthry Every IHOP I've ever been to on the Pacific coast, as well as several independently-owned truck stops and diners, uses pancakes for the wrapping. Granted, these pancakes are rarely more than 1.5cm thick, which makes rolling them around a sausage much easier.

@LexYeen we didn't know ihop had them, makes sense that they specifically would do a version with breakfast sausage and pancakes

growing up for us it was always croissant dough (the premade stuff from pilsbury or store-brand equivalent) wrapped around halved hot dogs
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@Felthry Oooo, you had the *fancy* version. Nice!

@LexYeen that was just what our mom made occasionally!
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@Felthry And there's nothin' sayin' homemade can't be fancier than a chain restaurant's.

@LexYeen of course! i just mean that it doesn't feel fancy when it's like. The thing you'd get home from school and ask your mom to make for dinner when you're twelve

more comfort food than fancy!
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@Felthry If you ever make 'em for yourself? Consider adding your favorite cheese to the wrap as you're rolling it. Just remember to account for the possibility of dripping cheese while cooking.

Edit: And now that I've thought a bit more about it? To me, fancy ain't about how *pretty* something is, or how much *money* it cost. Fancy is how much effort and care was put into producing it - not any objective *amount* of effort and care, but simply more than "enough to stay employed as a line cook." in the case of food.

@LexYeen i have some problems with that definition of fancy, i think? because we like barbecue a lot and one of the big Things about barbecue is that it's Not Fancy--the best barbecue is served on paper or styrofoam plates, often with store-brand white bread

a lot of barbecue restaurants seem to go out of their way to not look fancy, either out of tradition (the whole cuisine kinda started from, and largely still is, a community of poor people) or just because if you walk into a barbecue restaurant and it looks fancy, that just *screams* gentrification
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@Felthry If it helps illuminate my perspective any better? I consider the *cheapest* of community BBQs or other shared-meals to be fancier than *any* restaurant fare, simply because the people involved give enough of a damn to get together, plan, and cook (or at least spend their own money to purchase delivery) food for everyone else who shows up. And I do consider "too fancy" to be a thing, too - you said it exactly right, something that's too fancy just *screams* gentrification.

@LexYeen (oh, when i say barbecue here i mean the actual cuisine barbecue, smoked pulled pork or chicken or brisket with barbecue sauce--i'm not thinking about the community cooking kind of barbecue which is something we personally don't have great associations with as we grew up in the suburbs around a bunch of middle-class white people. the proper barbecue i'm talking about kind of has to be a restaurant thing in the modern world, smoking meats properly like that isn't easy and results in way too much food for a small gathering)
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@Felthry Same general concept applies to both forms, as far as I'm concerned. There's a "fanciness peak," as it were - and for me, with BBQ, that peak *starts* at "here's your paper bowl of shredded meat-in-sauce, bread and forks are over there.", and only falls off once restaurant seating starts being involved. ​💙

@LexYeen i'm okay with restaurant seating if it's like, full moon barbecue (order at the front, get a number to put on your table) or dreamland barbecue (more traditional restaurant but with the feeling of a bed and breakfast being run out of someone's house, if you can understand what we mean), but jim and nicks gets a little ehhh (a proper sit-down restuarant with fancy menus and stuff????) and beyond that is just, why are you even doing barbecue if you're going to do it like *that*
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@Felthry Okay, yeah, when granularized (screw off spellcheck, granularized is a word, I just coined it, you're not my supervisor) like that I can *definitely* say that I'm with you on all counts here. Sit-down restaurants *can offer* BBQ, sure, but if the BBQ is the restaurant's main attraction it's Too Fancy By Far to have like, fancy menus and booths and (I'm going a little overboard to illustrate my point) a live musician on piano or harp or violin or whatever.

@LexYeen your granularized thing made me just have to do this
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