“How do you make a sausage roll?”/“Push it.”
A sausage roll riddle is:
Q: How do you make a sausage roll?
A: Push it.
The joke has been cited in print since at least 1925 and 1978.
“How do you make an egg roll?”/“Push it,” “How do you make a spring roll?”/“Push it” and “How do you make a Swiss roll?”/“Push him down a hill” are similar “roll” riddles.
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Music Hall Nights
By Dion Clayton Calthrop
London, UK: John Lane
1925
Pg. 101:
He tells stories concerning ladies’ night attire during a fire, and has been known to relate how to make a sausage roll. (You take it to the top of the stairs and push it with your foot.)
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The Crack-a-Joke Book
Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books
1978
Pg. 56:
How do you make a sausage roll?
Push it.
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food
Hugo Burke
4/30/91
How do you make a sausage roll?
Push it down a hill.
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The Father Christmas It’s a Blooming Terrible Joke Book
By Raymond Briggs
London, UK: Puffin Books
1994
Pg. 70:
How do you make a sausage roll?
Push it.
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Sausage Roll Recipe
Longhair
5/13/96
Q. How do you make a sausage roll?
A. Push it!
Twitter
Ian B
@TheAdmiral
Can anyone tell me some good Q/A jokes? Like… how do you make a sausage roll? Roll it down a hill. (That’s not a very funny one… cry)
8:19 AM - 8 Dec 2008
Twitter
David Day
@DDayLanding
How do you make a sausage roll? ... push it
5:41 AM - 12 Jun 2009
Twitter
Shit Jokes
@ShitJokes
How do you make a sausage roll?
Push it down a hill 🙈
1:19 AM - 20 Sep 2015
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The Bolds on Vacation
By Julian Clary
Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Books
2017
Pg. 310:
How do you make a sausage roll?
Push it downhill!
Reddit—Dad Jokes
How do you make a Sausage Roll? (self.dadjokes)
submitted September 18, 2017 by Jordanknowsyou
Push it down a hill
Reddit—Jokes
How do you make a Sausage Roll?
submitted January 16, 2018 by MeenaBeti
Push it down a hill.