7/4/2023 0 Comments I am bread game tweaks![]() The conventional wisdom of placing a sausage diagonally spanning the corners of an ordinary piece of bread is fine but it’s not without its problems. I’m proud it can be made by anyone with basic motor skills and enjoyed by all (even vegans, who aren’t really known for enjoying much of anything). I’m quite proud that our national dish costs about 20c to make yourself, or $2 to charity if you want to buy one. We could try to make an argument for our national dish to be a parmy, pavlova or roast chook if we were trying to project an air of sophistication, but when the entire nation is chomping down sausages in bread every weekend at their local hardware store, backyard barbecue or polling station, there is no resiling from it. The thing with a national dish is you don’t really get to choose it. “Go back a second … you’re saying a sausage in bread is our national dish?” In Western Australia they make these with hot dog buns and, if the rest of the country ever found out about it, that would likely start a civil war. Our largest hardware store chain came under fire just last year for trying to force people to put the onions under the sausage. We are perfectly fine but we take this very seriously. How is this controversial? Are you unwell? I refer you to Tourism Australia’s current “Matesong” campaign referencing the sausage in bread as part of the Australian cultural canon. Is this real? Or is it like the drop bears thing? In some countries they dye people’s fingers after they’ve voted, but if you want to know if someone has voted in Australia you just look down and see if they have a onion and sauce stain on their shoe. What does this have to do with democracy?Įverything. Detractors of the long bread focus on what they call the 'ratio' of bread to sausage, as if there is some gold standard. However, we all agree that around election time the name changes to “democracy sausage”, like how ham just gets called “ham” all year round until December, when we call it “Christmas ham”. Here’s a geographic distribution where you can see precisely which parts of the country get it wrong. Others call it (incorrectly) a “sausage sandwich”. Is your national dish really called ‘sausage in bread’? Usually with tomato sauce and barbecued onions. If you’re reading this outside Australia and feeling confused, here are a few FAQs to bring you up to speed. Even more when you try to improve it, such is the yoke of progress. Qhr7pRjVDL- Adam Liaw December 27, 2019Ĭontroversy is to be expected when addressing an issue as culturally defining as a national dish. ![]() It produces a sausage-sized piece of bread that makes for perfect “sausage in bread”. My favourite (if controversial) summer barbecue hack is to buy a half loaf of bread and get them to run it through the slicer lengthways instead of sideways.
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