By: Aimee Katz
What’s a hard roll? A pasty? Aimee Katz discovers how much Wisconsinites know about some of the state’s finest hyperlocal eats.
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Curb asks: What’s a hard roll?
Person 1: “Is that like a dinner roll, that is hard?”
Person 2: “Bread? Is that what it is?”
Person 3: “A bread roll that’s too old?”
Text Slides: You can find a hard roll in Sheboygan. Similar to a Kaiser roll, hard rolls have a super crispy flour-dusted top, and are durable for meaty sandwiches. What about a Kringle?
Person 4: “It has fruit in it. And bread crumbs.”
Person 5: “It’s like a Danish, but better.”
Person 6: “It’s like a long, like jelly spread, like a flat jelly doughnut.”
Person 7: “Whenever my aunt and uncle come to visit they bring us Kringle from Racine and it just reminds me of family.”
Text slide: A pasty?
Person 8: “I’m fairly confident it’s an adhesive, circular thing, used to cover up a nipple, but I’m not 100% sure.”
Person 9: “A pasty or a ‘pasty’ is a pocket pie that originated with the cornwalls and the Cornish people. They would make them for their men when they snuck them down in the mine. They would be crescent shaped and they would stuff them in their pockets and when it came time for lunch, they’d take em out and eat em. Can be stuffed with meat, vegetables, um, don’t know if there’s cheese or not, but that’s a pasty or a ‘pasty’ if I ever heard one.”
Text slide: One last chance: describe an oostburger.
Person 10: “Ostrich.”
Person 11: “An oostburger is awesome. It’s a burger with a split open brat on it. It’s like a marriage of my two favorite meat products. Besides bacon.”
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