Pigs in a blanket a blanket" functions as both the singular and the plural for the food. To match speakers' and listeners' notions formed by other experience with the English language, sometimes a single roll is found to be referred to as a "pig in a blanket" or the plural occurs as "pigs in blankets". In the United Kingdom, "pigs in blankets" refers to small sausages (usually chipolatas) wrapped in bacon. They are a traditional accompaniment to roast turkey in a Christmas dinner. The naming of this food (sausage wrapped in bacon) as Pigs In Blankets in the UK is relatively recent, with first
Israeli cuisine the first to produce a vegetarian schnitzel from a soya meat-substitute. Various types of sausage are part of Sephardi and Mizrahi cuisine in Israel. Jews from Tunisia make a sausage, called "osban", with a filling of ground meat or liver, rice, chopped spinach, and a blend of herbs and spices. Jews from Syria make smaller sausages, called "gheh", with a different spice blend while Jews from Iraq make the sausages, called "mumbar", with chopped meat and liver, rice, and their traditional mix of spices. Moussaka is an oven-baked layer dish ground meat and eggplant casserole that, unlike its Levantine rivals,