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ELI5:Why do people treat Beef Wellington as some special "showstopper" of a dish? Pigs in a blanket isn't consider so much more fancy than regular hotdogs?

I mean isn't having a prime cut of beef enough? what purpose does the dough actually serve?
gpt
Beef Wellington isn't just meat wrapped in bread. If made traditionally, it also has layers of pate, usually foie gras, and duxelles (a very fine mince of mushrooms, onions, shallots, and herbs, cooked down in butter). It's expensive, making a proper duxelles is time-consuming, and a completely different thing than just wrapping some dough around a piece of meat.