A sausage sizzle (also referred to as 'sausage in bread' or a sausage sandwich) is a grilled or barbecued food item and community event held in Australia and New Zealand.
Aussie Word of the Week
A democracy sausage is a sausage sandwich (or a sausage in bread, or a sausage sizzle...) which a voter can obtain at a polling booth on polling day.
(Australian rules football, rhyming slang) A goal.
If you're hungry, these might come in handy: snag means sausage, barbie means barbeque, and sanga means sandwich. Used in a sentence: Throw a snag on the barbie, I want a sausage sanga!
Australian slang. What do these words mean? sausage sizzle is a snag on a slice of sandwich bread. by eating with your hands.
A cocktail sausage is a smaller version of the saveloy, about a quarter of the size; in Australia sometimes called a "baby sav", a "footy frank" or a "little boy", and in New Zealand and Queensland called a "cheerio".
Aussies love sausages and, to avoid any further confusion, it's best to know that they call them “snags” and “bangers.”
Aussies have a plethora of names for sausages and the ways and contexts in which we eat them. Snag is perhaps the most famous slang term for sausages, followed closely by banger. Many of us grab a sausage sanga down at the local hardware store.
It is usually composed of several types of pork, basic spices, and a binder. It is considered to be a cheap meat product and is sold in the deli section of supermarkets. It is usually served in a sandwich, often with tomato sauce, and can also be fried in slices.
sanga. (sang-a) sandwich: a ham and salad sanga please. Contributor's comments: Also used in South Australia. Can be used to refer to a sausage.
A Jaffle is the Australian name for a closed toasted sandwich. The name came from its creator Dr Ernest Smithers, from Bondi in NSW, who created and patented the Jaffle Iron in Australia back in the 1950's.
In the case of Australian slang, words are clipped, and then a diminutive suffix is added to the clipped word. In this case, bikkie (the colloquial Australian word for a cookie), is clipped slang for biscuit (the British English word for a type of cookie), and it uses the -ie diminutive suffix.
Interestingly, we received a surprising amount of rhyming slang. While we were familiar with dog's eye and dead horse for meat pie and sauce, we collected black horse for Worcestershire sauce, Harold Holt for salt, Greg Chappell for apple, dad and mum for rum, and dark and nasty for pasty.
“Egg, Bacon, American Cheese. A soft, toasted, buttered roll. Just a dash of hot sauce.
A Vegemite sandwich consists of two slices of buttered bread and Vegemite, but other ingredients such as cheese, lettuce, avocado or tomato may be added. Vegemite can be used as a filling for pastries, such as the cheesymite scroll, or it may be used in more exotic dishes.
MAIN INGREDIENTS
Fritz and sauce is a classic Australian sandwich that's especially beloved by children. It consists of two slices of bread, a bit of tomato sauce, and fritz. Fritz is a type of sausage made of beef, lamb, and pork trimmings, starch, flour, and seasonings.
SPORTING CLUBS
Our sausages and burger patties are 100% West Australian beef and produced fresh, daily. As a rule it is approximately 12 sausages to a kilo and we recommend around 400 sausages for a Bunnings fundraising sausage sizzle… Everyone likes a spare sausage, you can never have too many sausages. Sausage on.
2. Snag. Definition: sausage, also used to refer to sliced bread and sausage combo, Australian hot dog. Example: “Grab a few snags for the party tonight!”
Courgette & Zucchini – Basically, both are edible forms of the cucurbit plant. The word 'courgette' is used among British and New Zealand people, while that of 'zucchini' is used in North America and Australia.
Contributor's comments: In Central Qld we still call Lunch "Dinner" and Dinner "Tea". Also, morning and afternoon tea is "Smoko". Contributor's comments: This was the same for me growing up in the sixties in SW WA.
chook. A domestic fowl; a chicken. Chook comes from British dialect chuck(y) 'a chicken; a fowl' which is a variant of chick. Chook is the common term for the live bird, although chook raffles, held in Australian clubs and pubs, have ready-to-cook chooks as prizes.
In Aussie slang, a "Tucker" is a large lunch, and the Tucker Bag is the ideal bag for a large lunch, or a day out.