Sausage rolls

Ok. So I’m not 100% sure about the euphemistic power of the words ’sausage rolls’ and take this shirt absolutely literally because it comes from Aberdeen, Scotland. It already says ’sex and drugs’ so the scope for euphemistic flexibility is limited. I’m pretty sure it actually means a sausage pastry.

If you’ve ever been to Aberdeen you’ll know that in addition to claiming to be the oil capital of Europe, it also has reasonable claim to be the sausage roll capital of Europe. Not on quality grounds - far from it - but on grounds of consumption. In the early naughties the fine Aberdonians decided that the rowie / buttery was an inappropriate breakfast snack due to its high fat and salt content (quick recipe - one cup salt, one cup lard, one cup butter, half cup flour, water to mix = rowie mix).

So they replaced it with sausage rolls. Every morning across Aberdeenshire white vans approach newsagents, the youngest passenger jumps out and says “2 suns, a star, 2 rowies and 4 sausage rolls”*. If they smoke they also get some smokes. But this is new healthy Aberdeen we’re talking about - so only about 80% of them smoke.

Anyway - sweet shirt from Regal clothing in Aberdeen.

* these numbers will vary depending on number of people in the van.

January 9, 2009 | Filed Under funny, shirt sites 

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4 Responses to “Sausage rolls”

  1. thomas romer on January 9th, 2009 5:56 am

    i did laugh when i saw that on their site.

  2. matt on January 9th, 2009 6:14 am

    Seems this already exists
    http://www.blueinc.co.uk/Product/21203_Sex,_Drugs__and__Sausage_Rolls_Tee.aspx

  3. Kevin on January 14th, 2009 1:23 pm

    That is very amusing. I got a big kick out of it.

  4. Chuck on January 25th, 2009 1:58 pm

    That is the title of a book by Robert Rankin

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