A Twitter thread by me today:
If it's October, it must be… Christmas? @SonyMovieUK has just launched the Sony Movies Christmas channel in the UK (Freeview 50/Sky 319/Virgin 424/Freesat 303), showing Christmas movies 24/7 till January. Because 2020. #SonyChristmas
— MaryAnn Johanson (@maryannjohanson) October 1, 2020
In honor of the launch of Sony Movies Christmas, chocolatier @paul_a_young has created pigs-in-blanket flavored chocolates. They'll be available for sale for one month only, so stock up now if you want some for Christmas morning. https://t.co/hIhrq2SvxY
— MaryAnn Johanson (@maryannjohanson) October 1, 2020
I have sampled the @paul_a_young pigs-in-blanket chocolates, and I'd say they are, perhaps, as much an acquired taste as Christmas movies in October are. 2020 gonna 2020. https://t.co/hIhrq2SvxY pic.twitter.com/ZJFcc8Tx9Q
— MaryAnn Johanson (@maryannjohanson) October 1, 2020
Anyway, when I tuned into @SonyMovieUK's #SonyChristmas channel to check it out the other day, it was playing #SantaWithMuscles, which truly does have to be seen to be believed. I reviewed it way back in 1999, and it's… really something. Merry October! https://t.co/7PB71pHpks pic.twitter.com/iTIVSeQS8y
— MaryAnn Johanson (@maryannjohanson) October 1, 2020
For my American readers: @paul_a_young pigs-in-blanket chocolates ape British-style pigs in blankets, little sausages wrapped in bacon [https://t.co/mMHEAmbHaO], not American-style ones, cocktail weiners wrapped in pastry [https://t.co/mIDGEcrUfJ]. pic.twitter.com/gu3N8EQ71D
— MaryAnn Johanson (@maryannjohanson) October 1, 2020
The @paul_a_young chocolates DO look like little sausages wrapped in bacon… and they kinda taste like it, too. Your appreciation of this may vary from mine. pic.twitter.com/2qyyHdS01y
— MaryAnn Johanson (@maryannjohanson) October 1, 2020
Actually, here in Texas, a hot dog wrapped in pastry is more often than not sold under the name “kolache” although technically most Europeans would more properly call it a klobasnek.
Given the popularity of bacon in the contemporary American fast food industry, I’m kinda surprised that the British version of pigs-in-a-blanket is so rare on this side of the Atlantic. You would think that a state like Texas –where tourists are encouraged to enjoy such dubious treats as fried Twinkies — would be selling such items all over the place…
Honestly, I like the British version better. Pork wrapped in pork? Yes please!
Hallmark channel here did a month of christmas “movies” (their own “original productions” which are their own particular brand of schmaltz) for the whole month of JULY! i believe they are doing this again… as for pigs in a blanket. i love them. but prefer they not be chocolate. some sort of puff pastry with a nifty bit of hot dog… party food only.
At least once, the Hallmark Channel ran an entire week of Thanksgiving movies, as a lead-in to Christmas month. That same year, their website had a Countdown to Christmas that started more than 200 days before the holiday. These are just a few of the reasons other countries hate the U.S.
well, nobody *makes* them watch those shows… i know i don’t watch them. and i live here.
I’m not sure I’ve watched anything on the Hallmark Channel, and yet I’m very aware of their holiday countdown, because I’m an American, goddammit.
If it weren’t for the fact that my mother watches the channel on a regular basis, I’m not sure I’d be aware that the Hallmark Channel even exists which is just as well since it’s not exactly my cup of tea.
That said, I can think of things on TV that irritate me far more than their Christmas Countdown but I prefer to save that list for another time if for no other reason than the fact that I go into Lloyd Vogel mode often enough as it is.
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