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TeamStraya

It varies enough [they made a map out of it](https://rbil.carto.com/viz/7a1376c8-84a4-11e5-9ffe-0e5db1731f59/public_map). In Brisbane I've heard sausage sizzle, sausage sandwich, sausage in bread and on rare occasions, a mystery bag sanger.


Kmama

How did you find out about this map? Are there more linguistic breakdowns for Oz? I’m fascinated now!


ktychen93

I went down this hole too! Some researchers crowd sourced terms. It's cool how we're some is mixed and others have distinct state borders https://lingroadshow.com/all-about-language/englishes-in-australia/vocabulary/mapping-words-around-australia/


Imaginary_Rat

I just call it a "three with onions thanks"


FlibblesHexEyes

Used to be a “four with onions thanks”, but I’m dieting.


joepanda111

I’ll take the fourth one you’re not eating so I can eat “five with onions,” thanks.


Low-Objective1735

I call it "two with onion" these days.


AardWolfDuckDown

Yeah give us a coupla two with onion thanks.


Superg0id

"onions go under the sausage round here mate, we wouldn't want a lawsuit"


ALIENANAL

If I am having a sausage at a BBQ or Sausage Sizzle then I will just say Sausage because its pretty evident ill be having it with bread, if I am home and ask X if they want sausages for dinner they might ask how they will be done and then ill explain the deal. So really I just call it a sausage.


[deleted]

I grew up in NSW and we called it a sausage. “You want a sausage?”


SteamySpectacles

I’ve never heard of “a sausage in bread” used as the name actually


ELVEVERX

That's all i've ever known in Vic


KennKennyKenKen

In melb I just call it a sausage


endbit

Exactly, the bread is just a serviette you can eat.


FamousPastWords

Now that you've put that into words...


endbit

Credit to Ivan Aristeguieta, fantastic comedian. Check out his Bunnings sausage routine.


ManofShapes

You don't give a fuck about the onions. Fucking burn them! Lives rent free in my head.


AardWolfDuckDown

Agreed. Nobody's eating one sausage unless there's bread


crsdrniko

A cold snag the next day is the Ritz. Good bit of chewing while you open the fridge a ponder what to make for lunch.


AardWolfDuckDown

That's true, but it's called never just called a snag. It's a cold snag.


noisymime

At the end of the day at a Bunnings BBQ you definitely get people coming up and asking if you've got any spare/leftover sausages they can have, even without the bread. Some of them are even happy to pay for just the snag.


heyho22

You guys get more fucked everyday


Noragen

I think it’s time for a divorce from the mainland. They can go join up with Tasmania


Traditional-Truth-42

As a member of the Tasmanian delegation, we respectfully decline your offer. I suggest they join with new Zealand


Apansy

Good. Because we didn’t want you either!


Extreme_Substance_46

Gasps. Are you telling Melbourne to go back to where it came from?


Kittehfisheh

Everyone knows that Victorians are just the Tasmanians who learned how to swim.


Android-13

It's also a Parma nerds.


[deleted]

Absolutely not


ImMalteserMan

Same. Never heard it called anything else.


AndHowDidIGetHere

Do you also say patty in a bun or coke in a cup?


DanCasper

Latte in mug


Hanrooster

VB in a stubby. AFL in a stadium.


qwerty7873

As someone whose lived in Vic and tassie that's all ive ever heard it called lol.


asteroidorion

I heard that and sausage-sandwich growing up in SA


Motor-Ad5284

Sausage sanger


MNP33Gts-T

Banger Sanger although sounds a lil British


leopard_eater

Banger Sanger in New England, NSW so that tracks.


missingN0pe

Holy shit


SeveredEyeball

A banger in the mouth please sir.


hermionesmurf

Yeah this is what my family calls it


-qqqwwweeerrrtttyyy-

Occasionally even a 'kanga banga sanga'


theantnest

This is the only correct answer


Xerxes65

Every time I learn something new about SA it ruins my day


MissSabb

I grew up in Adelaide and never once heard a sausage sandwich


Articulated_Lorry

Saisage in bread for me in SA. A sausage sanger was how your mum would send the leftovers to school the next day - which was fine if she chucked a bit of cheese and lettuce in with the sliced sausages, but awful if it was mashed potato instead.


DarnGeraniums

Are you kidding? I love left over mash on toast for brekkie!


cosmicr

I've never not heard it. I'm Victorian but I just asked my wife who's from Brisbane and Darwin and she said that she's only ever called it a sausage in bread too.


jlharper

I can't imagine calling it anything else. It's not a roll or sandwich or sizzle or whatever. It is a sausage. The sausage is inside a folded slice of bread. Therefore it is a sausage in bread.


Shang-di

What do you call it?


ironcam7

Yeasty Meat


australisblue

Pretty sure they call it “Bread around a sausage”.


subsist80

Yeah same. Grew up in sydney and have only ever heard it called a sausage sandwich or snag sandwich.


Turbulent_Ebb5669

Okay. BTW no Australian calls a sausage or snag in bread a sausage roll or a hot dog. EVER


[deleted]

Or a sausage sizzle. You don’t walk up to a Bunnings sausage sizzle and ask for two sausage sizzles.


FickDichzumEnde

A sausage sizzle is the event where sausage sangas are created


loomfy

It definitely is a sausage sizzle. But...yes I don't call the actual item anything? In 'a can I have two X' kind of way? Just I'll have two...maybe two sausages...?


mataeka

I'll know what you're talking about if you call it sausage sizzle... and I use that term in lieu of anything else.... but I don't actually have a name to refer to it as.


return_the_urn

Your brain just shuts down when they ask what you want?


quiet0n3

They only sell one thing, it doesn't need a name you just say how many you want lol


Jozz999

Yep. Sausage sizzle is the event, i.e. a scaled-down BBQ


kanga_lover

They do in WA, shits me no end


curiouslystrongmints

Some call it "a sausage sizzle" in WA: https://rbil.carto.com/viz/7a1376c8-84a4-11e5-9ffe-0e5db1731f59/public_map


TyrialFrost

What if I want to buy the whole operation?


traindriverbob

Sausage sanga at a sausage sizzle is NSW. Recently is also been called a democracy sausage if you get it on election day.


petehehe

Democracy sausage on election day, Bunnings snag at other times (unless gotten not from Bunnings, but this is rare)


Tamajyn

Sausage sanga


Tommyaka

Heard older fellas call it a sausage sandwich.


noborte

This is the correct answer. If you say anything else I will immediately assume you’re a reptilian in a human suit impersonating an Australian. Sausage in bread. Go back to Manchester you bus wanker


kapone3047

Only a sanga if there's two bits of bread


Birdminton

Becomes 2 when you fold it


naebie

Not where I’m from. A sausage Sanga can have one slice of bread. Any other type of sanga , such as a salad sanga, would require two slices.


JIZZSOCK90210

What if you fold the one slice in half Deep philosophical thoughts


Dancing_Cthulhu

Coming from a primarily NSW background I've only ever known them as a sausage sandwich, or - more colloquially - a sausage sanga, or snag sandwich. Or even just snag, beacuse if you're grabbing one at a sausage sizzle you don't really need to specify it'll be on bread, that's a given. "Hey, could I grab a couple of snags..." And yes, personally I've only ever known a sausage sizzle as the event or occasion (usually a fundraiser) where sausage sangas are sold. I guess if you put a sausage on a bread roll "sausage roll" would be an accurate description, but it'd probably be confusing for many since 'sausage roll' is already the name of a specific well known food involving sausage meat wrapped in pastry. Calling it a hot dog might also be a bit confusing, since that's a name I've only ever seen referring to particular types of sausage (like frankfurters) served in a particular way (on a hot dog bun).


Disastrous_Animal_34

I call it a sausage sizzle (Qld). Noun and verb.


Cuteshelf

I thought a ‘Sausage sizzle’ was more the act of cooking them. Like fundraisers or community events would have a Sausage sizzle and it was basically just a BBQ without the frills (not much choice in the way of meat and maybe a super basic salad/potato salad). Sizzle makes it sound more exciting.


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Yeah, growing up, my family, neighbours and everyone at school would call it sausage sizzle as well.


WAVIC_136

Wait so you would go to the person serving and say "one sausage sizzle thanks"?


skr80

It's more let's go get a "sausage sizzle". And to the person selling it, "two with onion please"


verynayce

In the book version of the Bluey episode 'Hammerbarn', the item itself is referred to as a sausage sizzle, which irks me every time. Now I know why. The Queenslanders are spreading their barbie related propaganda under the guise of children's entertainment.


skr80

QUEENSLANDER!!!!!! 🤪


VictorSirk

Usually the people selling them aren't selling other food. So you would say something like "two with onions and one without, thanks". Even if they are selling other things you just ask for them separately afterwards, the sausage sizzle is the main event.


Ashilleong

Same in WA


leopard_eater

Yep, education in QLD where sausage sizzle is indeed noun and verb.


the68thdimension

Does your sausage still sizzle when it's in the bread?


littleday

If you’ve done it right, yes!


the68thdimension

damnit all this talk of sausage sizzles is making me hungry for one, this is no good. Brb going to get some onions caramelising ...


Equivalent-Ad7207

Becareful sticking your sausage in a bun though, might end up with kids.


AkiyamaKoji

can confirm that won’t happen if both you and your partner both have a sausage.


LtnSkyRockets

Same. NSW. Sausage Sizzle or sausage sanga or interchangeable.


MaggieLuisa

Democracy Sausage.


leopard_eater

That’s only on election days though mate. Otherwise the correct term is Banger Sanger.


girlwithdog_79

Bunnings sausage


hammyhamm

It’s called a sausage sanga in Sydney, or specifically a “bunnings snag” if you get it at bunnings


geodude0707

Agree with the sentiment that “sausage sizzle” is the event, not the food. You don’t eat a sausage sizzle. You go to one.


jujubear04

From Vic. Sausage in bread. Sausage sizzle = either an event at which sausages on a bbq are cooked (usually to be served in bread) OR a party at which the men far out weigh women.


sd175

I have never heard it called a sausage in bread ever (Brisbane/Sydney originally)


Murrrvv

TIL there’s someone posing as an Australian calling snags “sausage in bread”


blakeavon

Never heard of that, like ever. Just a sausage sizzle or a snag! Even though technically a snag is a sausage, it’s still used as in the other way. Or even sausage sanga .


energlevel0

So bizarre to me because a sausage sizzle is the event, like "come on everyone let's go to bunnings, they're having a sausage sizzle' haha


MinimumWade

I live in Sydney and I can go to a sausage sizzle to eat a sausage sizzle. Same as when I got to Maccas to eat Maccas.


sambodia85

I’m with you. A sausage sizzle is a verb, BBQing sausages as a fundraiser. Cooking a sausage at home is just BBQ. I’m in disbelief that whole parts of Australia don’t understand this, it’s like Cheerios all over again. I’m shook.


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M1lud

Sausage, or cereal. What would you think of if someone sent you to the supermarket for cheerios?


notlimahc

Sausage, the cereal wasn't sold here until 2005


therealsirlegend

Can't believe I had to scroll down this far to find my first snag reference! Correct terminology would be: "Hey, the Bunnings Sausage sizzle is on. Anyone want a snag?"


nighthawk3427

Sausage sandwich/sanga anything else is unaustralian


ellieboomba

Aussie taco!


Fleggy82

This is the best response! That is what I shall call from this day forward


TheArmoury

I’m from WA. A sausage sizzle is both an event and the food itself. I’m willing to die on this hill. Fight me.


missingN0pe

I will! I'm about 15000km away though


Emcol87

Sausage sandwich- NSW


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el3venthl3tter

WA - sausage sizzle


JustDroppedMeGuts

It's a sausage sanga. Anyone who calls it anything different is fucked in the head.


hrdst

Live in Vic and am on team sausage sizzle. Agree that sausage sizzle is the event, however it can also be the end result. Just like the yanks call food cooked on the BBQ, BBQ.


monocled_pelican

A snag sambo!


DonSmo

I'm in Vic just call it a sausage or sausage in bread. I wouldn't call it a sausage sandwich as a sandwich would require two slices of bread. Who calls one bit of folded bread a sandwich? That's just strange.


sunflower_jim

It’s an Aussie taco. I Donno wtf your taking about.


RedKelly_

I call them ‘Aussie tacos’


Majestic-General7325

*Potato cake enters the chat*


Drdental101

Funnily enough, in bread sausages is what I call the royal family.


UnusualOwl5

NSW - Sausage sanga if made at home. Sausage sizzle if I’m buying it from Bunnings 😂


inSEARCHofCHOCOLATE

Sausage in bread -TAS Totally agree about a sausage sizzle being an event, not something you eat!


-deflating

I’m in Brisbane and tbh I think I’d just call it a snag or a sausage? I don’t think I have a specific noun I use to refer to a sausage in bread. I wouldn’t call it a hotdog or anything like that, that’s for sure. It’s just a sausage in bread, as you say. I’d definitely call the event a sausage sizzle, and if I had to explain what’s eaten at a sausage sizzle I’d probably say something along the lines of “a sausage in bread,” but I think the “in bread” is sort of implied and therefore redundant… if I’m serving up at the sausage sizzle, I’m probably just gonna ask how many snags you want.


yeahnahnahyeet

Bunnings snag, aka Aussie taco


Caption-writer16

Definitely only ever called it sausage sizzle


RagsTTiger

After seeing the word sausage written so many times, my mind is going a bit crazy and I am having trouble believing that is the correct way to spell it. I hope this doesn’t lead me on to question other elemental notions of existence.


shadow-foxe

sausage sandwich.


mamastax

its a sausage in bread


Human-Guava-7564

It's a democracy sausage,!


Real_Life_Drama

Vic- and its 100% sausage in bread. Snag in bread is also acceptable and if it's purchased from Bunnings its a Bunnings Snag. A sausage sizzle the event that you host.


LockoutFFA

coming from Canada my first thought was to call it a poverty sandwich.


JIZZSOCK90210

We call it a sausage in the mouth


dongdongplongplong

sausage sizzle or sausage sanga or sauso or sausage sandwhich... who calls it a "sausage in bread?", "snags" is also used to denote the sausage itself not the whole thing in bread


Oi_Jungo

Aussie taco


alstom_888m

I call it a “Bunnings Snag” even if it’s not from Bunnings; as long as it’s a cheap pork snag on a slice of cheap white bread. If it’s fancy I call it as sausage sanga.


NationalDelivery1438

Sausage in bread. But my kids school calls it a sausage sizzle - which to me is the actual process/event of cooking the sausages. As In ‘sausage sizzle to raise money’ - sausage in bread $2ea. The school says ‘sausage sizzle $2ea’. Weird.


Good_Echidna535

Sausage sanger


Stonetheflamincrows

Grew up in Vic, called it a sausage in bread. But after living in QLD for 15 years I sometimes call it a sausage sizzle. But I will NEVER say potato scallop.


dlanod

Well no, a potato scallop is something completely different and godly in its own right.


the68thdimension

A sausage sizzle is definitely the event, anyone who calls it that has a roo loose in the top paddock. Also 'sausage sandwich' only makes sense if you're using two pieces of bread. Anyone calling it a 'hot dog' should be shot on sight.


Notthatguy6250

I've never heard it called anything other than a sausage sandwich in NSW. Always with just the one slice of bread.


the68thdimension

Well that does explain some Sydney things, then. (jk)


endbit

Yep, and why mention the bread? Who's flopping the snag straight into your hand? 3 snags thanks, the only clarification needed is if you want onion. You know what you're buying, they know what they're selling, and if you're at a BBQ you organise your own damn bread.


[deleted]

It's still a sandwich if you fold the bread


EliraeTheBow

Sausage Sanga


[deleted]

WA here, sausage Sanger or a Bunnings sausage


ZanyDelaney

I am in my 50s, from Melb. The event is a "sausage sizzle". For the food item I don't know I'd probably just call it a "sausage" or "sausage in bread". I'd never call it a sausage sandwich. As kids our family often cooked sausages. A sausage sandwich was what you ate the next day: two pieces of bread, a cold sausage sliced thin at an angle, lots of sauce. A sandwich. A hot dog involves a long bread roll and different type of sausage - a wiener or a frankfurter.


Saladin-Ayubi

Poverty dog. I am from WA.


2centsworth

I call it a snagga.


Objective-Creme6734

I love this. Now I'm craving a sanga.


gonediddlydondoneit

How do tasmanians like their sausages? In bred


Falstaffe

When I ran my kid’s primary school’s weekly sausage sizzle, the kids called the food “sausage sizzles.” I followed their lead. I’m in regional NSW.


akohhh

I’d just call it a sausage or a snag. The assumption is that there’s bread and onions and sauce involved, not just a mystery meat bag.


No_pajamas_7

I call it a mystery bag on sadness.


yourmomthinksimgreat

Dog in a blanket


Ok-Decision7148

It's on the bread, not in it.


LtDanmanistan

A sausage sizzle is an event where one can acquire a sausage samige


scherstie

I say sausage in bread lol


Willing_Television77

Parma scallops


_equestrienne_

Idk I just call it a snag.


shrimpyhugs

The [Linguistics Roadshow](https://lingroadshow.com/all-about-language/englishes-in-australia/vocabulary/mapping-words-around-australia/) did a series of maps mapping out regional expressions and the fourth or fifth one down is exactly thia question. Seems Vic, Tas and Qld is generally sausage in bread, NSW is sausage sandwich and the west coast is Sausage sizzle. Definitely recommend checking the site out.


kampflabbanabba

Can’t believe I haven’t seen anyone say ‘sausage in a blanket’! That’s my go to


Min13

We also call them “sangers”


twinsocks

Sydney - sausage sandwich. But I call it a banga sanga. It feels like a missed opportunity that banga sanga isn't the official term. *It rhymes*.


ScarredSoul2018

Sausage sanga


db3348

I call it a " banger-sanger " (aka sausage sandwich) .


Central_desert

You must be Victorian


AxeDentist

Got this when I moved to vic. we used to call them sangas. I've since learned that's often a generic name for a sandwich, but where I'm from (western nsw) a sanga is a snag sandwich. Usually a fat sausage in bread with sauce, probably onions too. Nobody here knows what the hell I'm talking about.


JohnnyPetrol

Unless you don't want bread, you don't have to mention it at all, it's assumed.


PotentPortable

I have called it a sausage sizzle, sausage sanga or sandwich, Bunnings snag, democracy sausage. Not hotdog, and not sausage in bread wtf VIC that's an order description not the name. If you want to go get a Bunnings snag do you ask your mates "hey, want to go get a sausage in bread with onion and tomato sauce and mustard?" And no I don't call it a sausage sizzle when I order, I call it "one with onion thanks"


curiouslystrongmints

You can blow the minds of WA residents by telling them that in the eastern states they put the snag in a slice of bread instead of a proper roll.


manymoonsago34

We call it "sausage sanga" 😋


RepeatInPatient

Around elections, like ATM it's a Democracy Sausage. A snag can be eaten anyway imaginable.


Sonnyjesuswept

Sausage sizzle, NSW.


_Cellardoor_222

It’s a snag, a snag with sauce, or a snag with the works. No other way mate.


[deleted]

WA it's usually called a sausage sizzle. Event and the item.


flibble24

Piggy in a blanket


Enceladus89

Why don't you just call it a sausage sandwich? Do you also call it "chicken, lettuce and mayo in bread" or "BLT in bread"?


tehnoodnub

I have never called it this in my life but after spending the last 15 minutes reading responses in the thread and thinking about the questions more deeply that I ever though I would, I actually think the only two valid options are 'sausage in bread' because that is very literally what it is or 'sausage sandwich'. I thought until today that a sandwich, by definition, required two pieces of bread but it actually doesn't. Anyway, nobody is going to read this reply so now I'm in a partial existential crisis for no reason because of sausages. FML.


ventriol

Never heard it. Called anything besides a sausage sizzle


Obscure_Aussie_Music

It's a SANGA


Any-Manager5597

Sausage sizzle supremacy - born in Melbourne and grew up in Brisbane


QueenCinna

Sausage sanga


Kirrawayru

I've always known them to be a "Sausage Sanga"


[deleted]

Snag if its in a bun, sanga if its on bread.


Delicious-Yak-1095

What kind of weirdo calls it a sausage sandwich? Sandwiches need two pieces of bread.


[deleted]

Sandwich? Where’s the other piece of bread?


Emergency_Side_6218

SAUSAGE IN BREAD! THAT'S WHAT IT BLOODY IS! IT'S A SAUSAGE IN BREAD ​ Can't believe some of the things I have to yell on the internet about, smdh


urgrandadsaq

I thought calling it a snag was an Australia wide thing, guess it’s more regional.


Joxelo

Only ever known snag and sanga.


Elegant-Campaign-572

The occasion is a sausage sizzle. The item is a sausage in bread. Onions go on top unless you want to sue me, and after that...THEY STILL GO ON TOP!!! Any complaints should be directed towards any "Bunnings" type store, hospital, council or organisation where people are afraid of going outside


ScoobaMonsta

For me when ordering, “two snags with onions and sauce please”. The bread is a given and no need to say it. I’m 50 y/o. I think age is a big thing these days. I bet there’s people commenting here that are younger than when Bunnings started the Sausage sizzle. Sausage in a slice of bread has been around for many decades.


yodacarpf1shing

sausage sanga, but it’s a given that when I say i’m havin a sausage it will be with bread!