Anyone who has ever watched Friends will know that meat trifles are an actual thing and not just the product of a lucid dream.
In season six, Rachel unintentionally combined the recipes of a trifle and shepherd’s pie together to make her now-infamous Thanksgiving trifle - it was terrible and wrong on a thousand different levels.
But that hasn't stopped one restaurant from wanting to continue experimenting with the meat trifle by making the UK’s first ever Christmas Dinner Trifle.
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Described as a ‘unique sweet meets savoury’ take on the British dessert, the dish features Cointreau-flavoured cranberry sauce, pigs in blankets, and mash potato.
The ‘weird but wonderful’ (their words, not ours) meal is then topped off with a sprinkling of crumbled candied bacon pieces and pea shoots.
If that sounds tempting to you, you’ll have to make the journey to Bristol -based restaurant Pigsty to give it a go.
The restaurant is set up by independent family-run business The Jolly Hog, which has produced a number of sausage and bacon-based products available at supermarkets nationwide since 2007.
Alongside the Christmas Dinner Trifle, the Pigsty restaurant also has a number of other unique dishes on offer this winter - all based around pigs in blankets.
The menu features a ‘PIB Cocktail’, where the sausage-meets-bacon side is given a twist akin to a Prawn Cocktail, and a ‘Festive Fondue’ featuring baked camembert with pigs in blankets for dipping.
For dessert, they’re also serving ‘Mince PIB Pies’, which promise to throw back to the early Middle Ages recipes, and ‘PIBfiteroles’ featuring bacon-flavoured cream.
If you want a drink with your meal, you could also indulge in the ‘Bucks PIBzz’, which describes itself as a pigs in blankets-inspired take on the Bucks Fizz and we want to hear no more about that.
The Jolly Hog’s Olly Kohn said: “We love hearing how much our customers love our pigs in blankets, and we thought it was high time these porky treats get the attention they deserve in the run up to Christmas.
“Something so delicious shouldn’t be relegated to the side of a plate of turkey and sprouts.
“As well as being packed with PIBs, our chefs have made sure every item on the menu tastes as banging as our bangers, because our customers are used to getting the best!"
The pop-up restaurant at Gaol Ferry Steps in Bristol (BS1 6WE) will be open for just three days, opening its doors from Friday 3 to Sunday 5 December. More info on Pigsty here.
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