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A sausage sizzle is a community event in Australia and New Zealand [1] [2] to cook and serve sausages in bread (also referred to as sausage sandwiches or sausage sizzles) [3] [4] [5] which are grilled or barbecued sausages (most commonly beef or pork) served in sliced bread or a bun with grilled onions and various condiments, most commonly tomato sauce, barbecue sauce or mustard. [6]
The word was first derived from “yaga,” which means “work” in the Yagara language – the traditional language of the Yagara people who live in the region around what is now known as Brisbane.
The vocabulary of Australia is drawn from many sources, including various dialects of British English as well as Gaelic languages, some Indigenous Australian languages, and Polynesian languages. [2] One of the first dictionaries of Australian slang was Karl Lentzner's Dictionary of the Slang-English of Australia and of Some Mixed Languages in 1892.
Sausage roll: rhyming slang for goal, often shortened to "sausage" (also called a snag, from the Australian slang term for a sausage). Saw tooth: a team tactic of continually changing the direction of the ball as it advances down the field. Scoreboard pressure: to place pressure on an opposition team by scoring and opening up a significant lead ...
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Australian "snags" cooking on a campfire. Australian sausages have traditionally been made with beef, pork and chicken, while recently game meats such as kangaroo have been used that typically have much less fat. English style sausages, known colloquially as "snags", come in two varieties: thin, that resemble an English 'breakfast' sausage, and ...
A sausage in bread at a polling booth in front of Old Parliament House, Canberra, during the 2016 federal election Democracy sausages being barbecued at the polling booth at Kenmore State School in the electoral district of Moggill at the 2017 Queensland state election Democracy sausage (and biscuit) at the Byron Shire Council Election in Mullumbimby, 14 September 2024
While many dialects of English make use of diminutives and hypocorisms, Australian English uses them more extensively than any other. [1] [2] Diminutives may be seen as slang, but many are used widely across the whole of society. [1] Some forms have also spread outside Australia to other English-speaking countries. [3]