I once watched a man choose a single Pigs in Blanket over an entire plate of gourmet cheeses. He said, “That cheese will still be there tomorrow. This pig? This pig is now.” And he was right. They’re the ephemeral art of the snack world—here for a glorious minute, then gone, leaving only sticky fingers and regret you didn’t buy two packs.
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But be warned: eating them cold is a felony in the court of public opinion. You must suffer the joy of burning your tongue on the first one—it’s a Christmas rite of passage. If you microwave them, you’re a monster. Oven-bake them until the bacon weeps grease, and the neighbors start forming a line outside your door.
The Calorie Deception (And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves)
Here’s a jaw-dropper: each Pigs in Blanket contains roughly 70 calories. That sounds reasonable, right? Until you realize no human has ever eaten just one. You’ll inhale a dozen in under four minutes, and that’s 840 calories—which is basically a full meal. But who’s counting? It’s Christmas, a time when math doesn’t exist and stretchy pants are mandatory.
M&S cleverly packages them in a black tray that screams “premium,” so you feel like a billionaire while eating them. In reality, you’re just a person in Christmas pajamas, licking grease off your fingers like a wild animal. But it’s a classy wild animal, because the tray says “Marks & Spencer” on it.
We tried pigs in blankets from Aldi, Tesco, M&S and more to find our
