Aussies Are Arguing Over What To Call A Sausage In A Piece Of Bread
State lines in Australia are never more evident than when someone brings up their local lingo. Potato cakes or potato scallops? Bathers or swimmers? These seemingly innocent questions can invoke all out war.
This brings me to the latest debate to set the internet ablaze overnight. What do you call this?!
Aussie writer and actor Nakkiah Lui tweeted that she was shook that some people refer to the above food combo as a sausage in bread, when she has always called it a sausage sandwich or sausage sanga.
Okay, so I’ve always called a sausage sizzle: a sausage sandwich or sausage sanga. But legit, apparently some people call it a ‘sausage in bread’?! WHAT?! SAUSAGE IN BREAD?! Is this a state thing? A cultural thing? Who asks for a sausage in bread?!
— Nakkiah Lui (@nakkiahlui) July 13, 2020
Now, I need to be transparent here and declare that I am very much biased as I write this. I live in Melbourne and I have always said sausage in bread. I can accept that it’s a boring descriptor but it’s what makes sense to me and I honestly thought it was what everyone ordered at Bunnings.
Some people (mostly from NSW) reckon that it’s not the most inventive way to describe, well…a sausage in bread.
Heading down to the great state of Victoria for a beer in cup and a chips in bowl.
— Michael Beveridge (@mickyb273) July 13, 2020
What else are you going to get? Just a sausage? Or just bread?
— Nakkiah Lui (@nakkiahlui) July 13, 2020
But others reckon that a sausage sandwich doesn’t accurately describe it either.
A sausage sandwich is 2 sausages sliced in half lengthways and placed between two slices of bread. A sausage in bread is one sausage swaddled in a single slice of bread.
— Tosh Greenslade (@ToshGreenslade) July 13, 2020
100% correct.
You need 2 pieces of bread to make a sandwich.
— Fitzroy to eternity (@J_B_Hanley) July 13, 2020
There were quite a few people who were team sausage sanga on Twitter.
I grew up on the mid north coast of NSW and it’s a sausage sanga. Never heard it called sausage in bread untill now.
— 2BobWatch (@2bobWatch75) July 13, 2020
Grew up in NSW, call it a sausage sanga. Have lived in VIC for the past decade and thought they were taking the piss by being so literal when I was first offered a ‘sausage in bread’. Laughed a lot and confused the poor girl who offered.
— Kylie (@kyliehams) July 13, 2020
Sanga, sausage sanga. close the boarder. Keep that sausage in bread thing out of here.
— Stephen Jones MP (@StephenJonesMP) July 13, 2020
But just as many replies were firmly in the sausage in bread camp.
You eat a sausage in bread, at a sausage sizzle. A sausage sizzle is the event, school fete, fundraiser. A sausage is bread is what you actually eat. A sausage sandwich sounds American to me. I’m from Victoria
— Emmaly Gridley (@MissEmmG) July 13, 2020
No romance – just the facts. This is our state motto.
— Graham Perrett (@GrahamPerrettMP) July 13, 2020
A 'sausage sizzle' is the activity. The 'sausage in bread' is the product of the 'sausage sizzle'
— Jason Ward (@orangemozzie) July 13, 2020
Even charming radio personality Andy Lee is flying the sausage in bread flag.
I’m with you!!
— Andy Lee (@andy_lee) July 13, 2020
I don’t need any more convincing. Please argue among yourselves in the Facebook comments.
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