Americans actually think they have just discovered the sausage roll!
https://www.indy100.com/article/puff-dogs-sausage-roll-trader-joes-us-uk-claim-outrage-7807046
This is a step too far.
American supermarket Trader Joe's (it's a bit like Whole Foods but more affordable), are now patting themselves on the back for selling "puffdogs" what they describe as "a twist on the class dog-meets-dough pairing of a hot dog" but "instead swaddled in a perfectly flaky-when-cooked puff pastry".
They add:
this marriage of beefy and buttery is pretty genius.
Sounds pretty familiar right?
Well this is how the Oxford English dictionary defines a sausage roll:
noun, British, a piece of sausage meat wrapped in pastry and baked.
The sausage roll (which, in it's modern version, was actually invented in France) has been a staple of the British diet so long, we've even had political scandals based around them.