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!” Snag isn't just a part of Australian vocabulary; it's part of Australian culture.
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.
A hot dog (commonly spelled hotdog) is a food consisting of a grilled or steamed sausage served in the slit of a partially sliced bun. The term hot dog can refer to the sausage itself. The sausage used is a wiener (Vienna sausage) or a frankfurter (Frankfurter Würstchen, also just called frank).
Australians finally have a hot dog they can trust. Cleaver's has launched a delicious traditional American style hot dog that is certified organic.
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.
But in Australia a snag is also one of several words for 'sausage' (others include snarler and snork). It is first recorded in 1937, and probably comes from British (mainly Scots) dialect snag meaning 'a morsel, a light meal'.
Kiwis also have frankfurters (pork and beef), but are never called hot dogs. And then, to honor the English roots, there are bangers – basically the same thing as sausage, and will generally be made from pork.
Frankfurts v cheerios
The first applies to the small, red mystery sausages that you eat a lot as a kid. In Victoria they're apparently called cocktail sausages. In NSW they're frankfurts. And in Queensland they're correctly called cheerios.
Primo Kransky | 1 each.
This version of Mexican hot dogs, also known as street dogs or Los Angeles hot dogs, is believed to be a riff on a similar recipe that originated in Sonora, Mexico.
In the mid-1800s, German immigrant butchers in the United States began selling variations of sausages, some of which were thin and long, like the dog breed dachshund. They called these dachshund sausages. Over time, the phrase may have been bastardized into hot dog.
Australians use a couple of other colloquial words for a hen's egg. The Australian English word googie or goog is an informal term that dates from the 1880s. It derives from British dialect goggy, a child's word for an egg. A closer parallel to the jocular bum nut, however, is the word cackleberry.
Brekky: the first and most important meal of the day, Aussies call breakfast 'brekky'.
Contributor's comments: We use the term in Tassie as well, you say that someone is a bush pig, or a feral. It has become quite a broad insult to females mainly, not necessarily meaning that they are unkempt.
Brocci: Broccoli, nature's little edible tree.
See also: 'Dirty Bird' (KFC). “Let's pop into Maccas after the footy.”
That being said, let's start with something most of us will probably have sitting in the fridge or pantry: ketchup. Ketchup is underrated. We call it tomato sauce in Australia. Or just “sauce”.
McDonald's Restaurants (New Zealand) Limited (also using the trading name "Macca's") is the New Zealand subsidiary of the international fast food restaurant chain McDonald's.
McDonald's introduced the McHot Dog in 1995 at certain locations. Customers weren't so hot on them, and they were later removed from menus in the U.S. The late McDonald's founder, Ray Kroc, vowed that his restaurants would never sell hot dogs, so maybe they were doomed from the start.
McHotDogs were first featured as summer menu items in 1995 at select Midwestern locations at the franchisee's discretion. Hot dogs were presented as a seasonal menu item in the summer of 2002 at venues in the UK.
Aussie Slang Words For Women:
Chick. Woman. Lady. Bird.
Australian and New Zealand English uses "chips" both for what North Americans call french fries and for what Britons call crisps. When confusion would occur between the two meanings, "hot chips" and "cold chips" are used.
This week we shine a spotlight on a quintessential piece of Aussie slang, a word famous the world over: sheila. A sheila is a woman. In use since the 1830s, sheila has its origin in a generic use of the common Irish girl's name.