In Australia, a hot dog sausage on a stick, deep-fried in batter, is known as a Dagwood Dog, Pluto Pup, or Dippy Dog, depending on region.
Snag = Sausage or Hot Dog
Australians love barbies. Therefore, snags are an Australian staple.
Now before we kick off any arguments across Australia we must also acknowledge that the Dagwood Dog is also known as a Pluto Pup or a Dippy Dog. The Dagwood Dog is hot dog sausage on a stick, covered in deep fried batter and topped with your choice of sauce for a crunchy meaty snack.
hot dog, also called frankfurter or wiener, sausage, of disputed but probable German origin, that has become internationally popular, especially in the United States.
Hot dogs are made from trimmings of meat left over after cutting steaks and pork chips, which are then ground to resemble mince. Processed chicken trimmings are added to this mixture, along with salt, starch and flavourings.
Why do Australians call sausages snags? The Australian National Dictionary Centre suggests that snag as slang for "sausage" most likely derives from the earlier British slang for "light meal", although it makes no comment on how it came to be specifically applied to sausages.
Qld = cherios, NSW = cocktail franks, VIC = Little Boys: "We had cherios with tomato sauce to eat at her birthday party."
Hot dogs come from the German Frankfurter, which was originally sausage. In the U.S., hot dogs tend to be all beef or a mixture of meat trimmings from beef and/or pork. The main differences between a hot dog and the pork frank are the production process and flavors. Hot dogs are a subset of a pork frank.
The name “frankfurter” comes from the fact that a popular hot dog-like sausage was originally made in Frankfurt Germany (Frankfurter meaning “of Frankfurt”). The name was brought over to America sometime in the late 19th century from German immigrants who were familiar with the Frankfurter sausage.
German immigrants brought not only the sausage with them in the late 1800s, but also dachshund dogs. Kraig says the name hot dog probably began as a joke about the Germans' small, long, thin dogs.
A hot dog is a processed pork and/or beef sausage.
There's just something about slapping a boring ol' sausage into a bread roll that really elevates the struggle meal. Depending on where you are in the world, the name for a hotdog changes too. In Australia, we call them a sausage sizzle, in Germany they go by wiener and online, they're now known as a “Glizzy”.
The Sausage Sizzle sandwich is made of a sausage -- or snag, as the Aussies call them -- wrapped in bread, with onions typically placed along the top.
"Barbie" is Australian slang for barbecue and the phrase "slip a shrimp on the barbie" often evokes images of a fun social gathering under the sun. Australians, however, invariably use the word prawn rather than shrimp.
5. Sheila = Girl. Yes, that is the Australian slang for girl.
Icy-pole: Ice cream or popsicle. Jumper: Sweater—but can be both knit or jersey.
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Today, however, Germans refer to the hot dog sausages as Wiener, while Austrians call them Frankfurter. Both Vienna (in German: Wien) and Frankfurt claim credit for the origin of the hot dog.
Michigan hot dog – a steamed hot dog on a steamed bun topped with a meaty sauce, generally referred to as "Michigan sauce". New England-style hot dog – a steamed frankfurter on a top-cut bun that originated in the city of Boston, Massachusetts.
In German, the word wiener means Viennese. Wiener is, of course, another name for a frankfurter or hot dog. These little sausages are usually a mixture of ground pork and ground beef, stuffed inside a thin casing and parboiled or smoked.
Strangely enough us Brits call frankfurters, frankfurters. What as a slang name we call 'bangers' are one of the many varieties of British style sausage. It's not a term that is used that much really these days. About the only time we will use it is to refer to that good old fashioned British dish 'bangers & mash'.
A friend, a companion. Also used as a form of address (g'day cobber!). The word probably derives from the Yiddish word chaber 'comrade'.
Here in Australia, however, McDonald's most prevalent nickname is “Macca's”. A recent branding survey commissioned by McDonald's Australia found that 55 per cent of Australians refer to the company by its local slang name.
Definition. In Australia, chips can refer to 'hot' chips; fried strips of potato. Chips also refer to what are known in other countries as crisps.